Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lutheran-Mission Central-School in Sirkazhi.jpg

Image:Lutheran-Mission Central-School in Sirkazhi.jpg, not featured

•  Info created by Michael Gäbler| - uploaded by Michael Gäbler| - nominated by Michael Gäbler -- Michael Gäbler (talk) 00:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- Michael Gäbler (talk) 00:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support an interesting picture. Where do you have that picture from? --AngMoKio (talk) 09:20, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
  •  InfoMy grandfather Hermann Gäbler had a senior missionary position in the Evangelisch-Lutherische Mission zu Leipzig – die Leipziger Mission. He was the person in charge of the project „Lutheran-Mission Central-School“ in Sirkazhi. The image has been in his estate. It’s possible, that he took this image with his own camera.--Michael Gäbler (talk) 21:27, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Neutral I don't think if this picture has some commons value... --Aktron (talk) 21:40, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
  •  InfoThe image has a high ethnological value. See the image in the full resolution and look at the faces of the schoolchildren with the different signs, clothes, turbans and so on. In this school are schoolchildren of many religions and social strata in the caste system of India together in one school and in one school class – over one hundred years ago in Sirkazhi, Tamil Nadu, India.
    • Very true...this is also what fascinates me about that picture. --AngMoKio (talk) 07:19, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support you are so right. and for a picture that old quality is more than ok. --Jeses (talk) 09:34, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Needs a serious cleaning up to remove scratches and dust spots and to balance exposure. I doubt whether the overexposure on the right can be fixed, though, as the whites seem totally burned out. Also, it is only sharp in the centre. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:00, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
  •  InfoThis is a scan without any change from the original photo made in the year 1896. The original photo is a used and scarred document. You can see the technology and the possibility of the used wide-angle lens in a full-length foto from the nineteenth century. I think: the Wikimedia needs documents – not nice pictures. What’s the rule of the game in the Wikimedia? --Michael Gäbler (talk) 15:03, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Overexposure and little wow. Crapload (talk) 05:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment To oppose a wide-angle photo that was made over 110 years ago bcs of overexposure and non-exsiting sharpness at the borders is a bit unfair imho. Considering the age of the photo it is actually very sharp...apart of the borders. --AngMoKio (talk) 09:02, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Alvaro qc (talk) 15:00, 13 September 2008

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•  Oppose - The picture needs to be restored. Maybe the overexposure can also be partially corrected. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:35, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

result: 4 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral => not featured. Simonizer (talk) 14:42, 19 September 2008 (UTC)