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Original – American anarchist and feminist campaigner Voltairine de Cleyre (circa 1900, retouched by User:Centpacrr and User:Hohum)
Reason
An image easily on par with the one of the same subject probably about to be featured. Multiple featuring of the same subject is not without precedent, such as the two we have of Ronald Reagan.
Articles in which this image appears
Voltairine de Cleyre
FP category for this image
People/political
Creator
Unknown
  • Support as nominator --JJARichardson (talk) 16:36, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Multiple featured pictures of the same subject should really show something very different about the same subject. I'm not convinced that there's much to be said in favour of multiple portraits of the same person unless the portraits themselves are notable, they show the subject at different times in their lives or some such. I'm not convinced that this is the case here. At some point, a decision has been made to use the other image rather than this one to lead the article- that says a lot. J Milburn (talk) 18:58, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as the (almost certain to pass) image below is considerably more interesting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:41, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Frankly, some better documentation would help with this. For example, File:Cleyere.jpg - clearly the same image - gives the year of this as 1891 (as does the caption at Voltairine de Cleyre, which, frankly, is quite a bit more believable than 1900: she does look quite a bit more than a mere one year younger in this than in the other image. It also explains the photography a bit, this is a pretty good and typical photo style for the early 1890s. Probably meant either for a book or as a calling card. If we knew how this image was used, that documentation would probably be enough to distinguish it a bit. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:16, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:39, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]