Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Broad-billed Parrot

Broad-billed Parrot[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 May 2013 at 09:19:24 (UTC)

**Original** – Restoration of the Broad-billed Parrot by Henrik Grönvold, 1907, based on a tracing of the *Gelderland* sketch, showing the bird as entirely blue.

Reason: Very high EV, nice quality
Articles in which this image appears: Broad-billed Parrot
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Henrik Grönvold, 1907

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 09:19, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Do we know for a fact that the bird was blue? If yes, then this image should be lead and I'd support FP. If not, then I'd oppose on the basis that the picture may be inaccurate. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 16:25, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- From the lead section: "The exact colouration is unknown, but a contemporary description indicates that it had a blue head, a greyish or blackish body, and perhaps a red beak". Tomer T (talk) 18:15, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In which case I'll Oppose, as this image doesn't depict even the contemporary description. I'd much rather the current lead image be an FP, its EV being very high. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 21:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The sketch, according to the article, is the chief source of information on this bird and obviously has much higher EV than the 1907 tracing. Unfortunately our version is halftoned and must have been scanned from a book, but I'm sure a better version of it would be promoted easily. Chick Bowen 00:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:42, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]