Wikipedia:WikiProject Lebanon/To do List/Archive 2

Promoting Lebanon photographs in the Featured Pictures
It is useful if some pictures would be featured in Wikipedia. Suggestions:
 * Beirut Panorama, require clean-up, anyone have the experience and/or the tools to clean old photographs?
 * Beirut Panorama my first attempt to clean the photograph, would appreciate comments before submitting to vote for featured picture. --Banzoo (talk) 21:04, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * a Church and a Mosque, the resolution is somewhat low than the photographs that they get featured usually, is it possible to get a higher version one?
 * Peacekeepers after first Qana massacre.


 * Hey, I never thought of this before! thanks. BUT yes there's always a but.. there are very few pics on our WProject (totaling 140 WITH the new additions) and most are of poor resolution, composition and some are of poor taste too.

about the nominations, the only pic worth it is the old beirut panorama, it's amazing, i see it failed nomination twice why is that? are you not able to provide sources?
 * The panorama sources is the library of congress, the copyright has expired, but the issue that was raised when put to vote on the featured picture was that some were complaining about the current state of the picture, and that it should be cleaned up as some dirt and irregularities appears due to the age. For this reason, I am wondering if you know anyone who can help in cleaning the picture since I have no experience in this area (I only did the stiching to join 3 different photographs to obtain the panorama).

--Banzoo (talk) 20:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * qana picture is too pixelated and looks photoshoped somehow, it is evident that it was shot from a magazine or other paper media, look at the guy to the left!
 * The meta data shows that it has been photoshopped, but I dont think it's a problem when considering its historical relevance. --Banzoo (talk) 20:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * downtown cathedral and mosque is grainy and of small resolution
 * The picture looks great, maybe the grainy details would be filtered by image manipulating program, but the main issue is the low resolution. --Banzoo (talk) 20:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I do not see how any pic could make/ except yours Oh and remember to sign, the bot will do it for you this time i guess Eli +  23:59, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you Elie, it would be great if others would have other suggestions on nice pictures about Lebanon, the country is full of historic, natural, and cultural landmarks, yet not very visible in Wikipedia. Cheers! -- Banzoo (talk) 20:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The Qana picture is only fair use, so it can't be featured either way. I will try to fix the Beirut picture a bit. Should it be grayscale? FunkMonk (talk) 21:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Darn, had just cleaned up 90% of the Beirut image, and then Photoshop crashed. I'll start from scratch. FunkMonk (talk) 21:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Bad luck! Hope it wont take time to finish, I'm eager to see how it looks like. Grayscale is not necessary, if you think fake color would add value to it, it would be appreciated. --Banzoo (talk) 18:53, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Your cleaned version looks pretty good, you might want to take a look at the lower right corner, paint some missing stuff out there, and maybe paint out the Bonfils signatures on the roof on the lower left and on the lower right. FunkMonk (talk) 22:15, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review, I uploaded a newer version following your comment. I preferred to keep the Bonfils signatures since I believe they deserve to get the credit, even after that long time.--Banzoo (talk) 17:52, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Panorama of Beirut submitted
The historical panorama of Beirut has been now submitted to voting as a feature picture candidate. You may check the picture and vote upon your evaluation. To note, the most recent changes to the panorama may be highlighted by an addition of a forth picture making a total of 4 pictures instead of the 3 originally, you may also notice the much higher resolution.--Banzoo (talk) 00:06, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Congrats and thanks, the historical panorama of Beirut is now a featured picture in English Wikipedia :). --Banzoo (talk) 16:19, 13 October 2009 (UTC)