Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alphonse Bertillon

Alphonse Bertillon edit

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Original – "Anthropometric data sheet (both sides) of Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), a pioneer of the Scientific Police, inventor of anthropometry, first head of the Forensic Identification Service of the Prefecture de Police in Paris (1893)."

Reason: Very good quality, high EV both for the individual and his findings
Articles in which this image appears: Alphonse Bertillon, Anthropological criminology
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: Alphonse Bertillon

Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fascinating: Inventor using his invention on himself... ;-) --Janke | Talk 08:37, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Neat, but why such a strange crop of this image as the lead in Alphonse Bertillon? Mattximus (talk) 22:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- You'd have to ask the editor who added it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:19, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - For the life of me I don't know... Thanks for correcting it.--Godot13 (talk) 14:24, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Janke. Test drive on himself...-The Herald (Benison) • ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 16:37, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - EV, and it's just way too cool...--Godot13 (talk) 14:26, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Yep, cool indeed - I first read about him and his system in 1970, in the fascinating book Das Jahrhudert der Detektive by Jürgen Thorwald, strongly recommended if you can find it (or a translation - I read it in Swedish.) --Janke | Talk 09:34, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 00:17, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Bertillon, Alphonse, fiche anthropométrique recto-verso.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:54, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]