Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Sep 2013 at 07:11:20 (UTC)

Original – French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur made important developments in pasteurization and vaccination.

ALT – Slight restoration

Reason: Important person in the history of medicine, surprisingly good quality photo. I just replaced the previous lead image in Louis Pasteur with this one because the image size is much larger and I think the composition is better. This image was already in the article but further down.
Articles in which this image appears: Louis Pasteur, Social history of viruses, Scientist, Université Lille Nord de France
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator: Nadar

Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 07:11, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Should be restored. Is there a lossless format on Commons? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:10, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did a restoration based on the JPG. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:36, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Prefer alt thanks. Those little spots didn't bother me but I like what you did. --Pine^✉ 05:34, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is going to sound strange, but where did his buttonhole go on his lapel in the restoration? Mattximus (talk) 20:34, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's not strange. Reinserted (I had mistaken it for a chalk line). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:46, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support alt. Mattximus (talk) 03:48, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support alt; although at thumbnail size the original is very similar, I prefer the alt as it also helps reusers. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support both — Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 06:42, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I hate to say this, but... the restored version really doesn't go far enough. The top of his hairline has a brown spot, which can't be part of the original photograph, and there's dust marks in the lower left area, as well as right and left of the head. I'd rather not promote a partial restoration, when a little more work would get us there, but it is better than the original, so I can't support that either. It's a JPEG, too, or I'd just edit Crisco's myself - but, sadly, I know that editing JPEGs repeatedly rapidly leads to unusable files. 'Reluctant oppose for the moment' Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:22, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the input (yeah, I know... a JPG...). Am looking. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:29, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, before restoring I saved as a PSD, so I have a somewhat lossless version. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:35, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Adam Cuerden, I take all the blame for this: my original upload had that dust removed, but when I reinserted the button hole it seems I was working off a partially restored version instead of the wholly restored version. Fixed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:01, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Still spots right at the hairline and just right of the ear. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:14, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think I got those, but I'm not seeing very much of anything near the hairline. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:50, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I am now delighted to Support alt, and hope that me reviewing my conditional slightly after the time won't be held against this image. Firefox was messing up. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:26, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Don't think it should. Thanks for reviewing! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:42, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Louis Pasteur, foto av Paul Nadar, Crisco edit.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:02, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]