Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Government red tape

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Original – A sample of Civil War-era government "Red Tape" used to bind redeemed CSA bond coupons.

ALT.1

Reason: EV, good quality (and off the beaten path)
Articles in which this image appears: Red tape +1 (Economy of the Confederate States of America)
FP category for this image: Featured pictures/History/American Civil War OR Featured pictures/Other
Creator: Confederate States of America (bond coupons), Federal government of the United States ("Red Tape"), (Image by Godot13)
From the National Numismatic Collection, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution.

Support as nominator --Godot13 (talk) 10:05, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think it would benefit from some crop of the background. Brandmeister^talk 22:45, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion. The cropped version has overwritten the prior version.-Godot13 (talk) 23:30, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment (tentative oppose) Based on the article, I'm not totally sure that this is the type of red tape that the expression "red tape" comes from. ("All American Civil War veterans' records were bound in red tape, and the difficulty in accessing them led to the modern American use of the term.") So I'm not sure of the EV. Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:35, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

All of the (slightly larger) documents in the same collection bear this identifying stamp.-Godot13 (talk) 15:15, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose That background just ruins it for me. It almost looks like they're on black sand or something and parts of them are buried and in full size the texture of the background is incredibly distracting. Cat-five t c ---- 02:36, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Alternate Cat-five t c ---- 22:38, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Great EV, but the background could use some work, maybe more solid. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 20:29, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Alternate version added.-Godot13 (talk) 23:57, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support either version Overall, the subject is somewhat boring, particularly compared to two-side digitizations of paper money, but EV is there. Brandmeister^talk 09:49, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support ALT.1 J Kadavoor J e e 02:11, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:50, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]