Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/The Great Wave off Kanagawa

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

 * Reason:A bad restoration of a copy of an iconic Japanese print. See failed Commons valued image candidacy: Commons:Commons:Valued image candidates/The Great Wave off Kanagawa.jpg, also failed Commons featured picture candidacy: Commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:The Great Wave off Kanagawa.jpg.  EV is diminished because this isn't the original; .jpg artifacting and poor digital manipulation brings this fair-to-middling copy down to subpar.
 * Previous nomination/s:Link/s to the image's original FPC nomination, and any previous delist noms
 * Nominator: Durova Charge!

with File:Great Wave off Kanagawa2.jpg --Wronkiew (talk) 05:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist and replace &mdash; Durova Charge! 20:10, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Of course it's a copy. Hokusai didn't print any himself, he just made the woodblock. See the Red Fuji print nomination for an explanation.  howcheng  {chat} 07:45, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delist and replace - Per nom -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 02:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep until someone can explain to me why we should lose detail from the background, and why we can't restore the appropriate (let's call them "over-restored") places from File:Great Wave unrestored.jpg. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 13:33, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist and replace Badly restored, poor quality. Should be delisted and replaced with the alternative. Elucidate ( light up ) 18:57, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist, do not replace - The loss of certain inks means that the new one is problematic, though far better than the original one. This is a major mass-produced artwork, in a genre with a tradition of very precise restoration. We will eventually do better than both. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 05:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist and do not replace per shoemaker. Intothewoods29 (talk) 21:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)