Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Willa Beatrice Player

Willa Beatrice Player[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Mar 2024 at 04:55:34 (UTC)

Reason: It's a little undersized, but I think it has pretty much all the actual detail, and it's about like, 585dpi or so, which really isn't bad. A bit zoomed in, but that does help justify the size: Her face probably occupies more pixels than a lot of images we've promoted that technically have much larger dimensions. Undeniably the best available photo of her.
Articles in which this image appears: Willa Beatrice Player
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political if we're classifying her as a civil rights activist - which she was, but she did so as an educator, which might make it better to classify her as an educator, hence Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others.
Creator: Unknown photographer, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 04:55, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Xcllnt capture of an expressive face. High EV for her multiple career activities. – Sca (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – The Herald (Benison) (talk) 18:36, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. What a beautiful photograph. And yes, educator is a much better classification, since that's clearly what she considered herself to be and how she would have wanted to be remembered. It's a shame that educators are lumped into the miscellaneous "Others" category along with carpenters, haberdashers, and cod fishermen, rather than having a category of their own. Maybe there should be a general "Academic" category for teachers, scholars, educational reformers, etc.? Choliamb (talk) 19:22, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aye. I think we split "Others" whenever we have enough. Think we do? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 20:31, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Probably not. I suppose I should put my money where my mouth is and search for more academic images to nominate. But to do that I'd have to overcome my profound laziness, which doesn't seem likely to happen. Choliamb (talk) 22:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some of them might be elsewhere, of course, as there is a tendency to classify someone anywhere that's better than "Others" Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 02:26, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here are a few educators currently outside "others": in "artists and writers," Adrianne Wadewitz; in "politics," Mary Church Terrell, Angela Davis, and Booker T. Washington. Plus, yes, there are a few in "others" also. blameless 16:30, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca, The Herald, and Choliamb: Made a couple more fixes: There were a couple scratches I hesitated with, but, after reviewing other photos, they're clearly damage. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 07:03, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks better to me. Vote remains unchanged :) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:19, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reaffirm support. Choliamb (talk) 11:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I too. -- Sca (talk) 14:17, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 23:32, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Too bad we don't have a picture this good from the height of her career (oy), but thems the breaks. blameless 16:30, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aye. Luckily, we can always add photos if they come up. Don't think this is going to leave the article, just might move to second photo if we get a good one from a later period. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 16:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And luckily, it's an utterly charming photo (despite DOF issue at lower right). -- Sca (talk) 16:08, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think they got a bit better at having a wider depth of field in the time after File:Blanche Roosevelt by Napoleon Sarony.jpg, but I don't think it was much larger, since the aperture likely still needed to be fairly large to have enough light get in within a reasonable timeframe. The chemistry improved by 1930, but this was primarily used to reduce the time of exposure. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 21:10, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca:. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 21:10, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wonder what sort of camera was used in 1930. Graflex? Leica?-- Sca (talk) 12:59, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Willa Beatrice Player - From the archives of The Crisis.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:43, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]