Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Vinland Map HiRes.jpg

Image:Vinland Map HiRes.jpg, featured

•  Info created by Yale University (PD-art) - uploaded by Jeff Dahl - nominated by Jeff Dahl --Jeff Dahl 03:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Jeff Dahl 03:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose with regret, since this is a very important historical map. But the size is not large enough to read all the legends. Alvesgaspar 11:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

 Comment I agree some of the legends are not easy to read, but a big part of that is due to the fading of the document and the type of handwriting; making it even higher res may not make it any easier to read. Compare for example Image:USA declaration independence.jpg, which, although very big, is so badly faded in many places as to be illegible under standard lighting conditions. Scholars fluent in Latin and viewing the map under UV light can read it more easily. Jeff Dahl 17:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

•  Comment I would have liked this better if the edges of the document had not been cropped and if the parts of the image which are not the documents had been cleaner. I don't know how I would feel about seeing this image as the Picture of the Day. Did you consider the Quality images? -- carol 22:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

 Comment Indeed, the image is slightly cropped, but other featured historical maps have similar cropping, such as on Image:World Map 1689.JPG, especially the left edge about 2/3 the way up. The map is closely guarded and not available for anyone to just take a picture of. I think it is a quality image that, because of its history/content, has a special quality to be featured. Jeff Dahl 20:37, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

•  Neutral It's an important image, but not FP. Poromiami 05:40, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support important image > High value & good quality> FP --Beyond silence 09:35, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Until a larger res is uploaded (at which point this can be delisted). Dori - Talk 19:54, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I think the quality of the map is very bad, I mean just look at the shape of world, I can draw a better map in 5 minutes :) Seriously though, I think it has both value and quality. /Daniel78 21:41, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support it is readable if you know (medieval) Latin Tbc 23:15, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Map itself is OK (even the legends), but crop and background have to be fixed. Lycaon 12:45, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support For historical value --Thermos 15:25, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose it's very historically important I'm sure, but not FP material --Ben^chat 06:19, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support "Value - our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others", pretty pictures are nice, but FP is about value - it is good to see support for valuable pictures that may not satisfy arbitrary 'technical' demands --Tony Wills 10:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

• "Value" is undefined and as such not the "main" goal. For the type of "value" you refer to, try to get it featured on en:FP. Technical demands are well defined and as such not arbitrary. Lycaon 09:52, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

result: 7 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral => featured. Simonizer 15:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)