Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Naked men and misleading nomination names.

1730 Homann map of Scandinavia, Finland, and the Baltics edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Jul 2014 at 16:59:54 (UTC)

 
Original – 1730 Johann Homann Map of Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics
Reason
A fine map, useful, and, well, I do think we have some very good SVG creators, but old maps just say history a bit more, y'know?
Articles in which this image appears
History of Scandinavia, History of Sweden, Johann Homann +1
FP category for this image
For once, an obvious choice: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Diagrams,_drawings,_and_maps/Maps
Creator
Johann Homann, courtesy of Geographicus.
  • Support as nominatorAdam Cuerden (talk) 16:59, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I haven't done any cleaning up on this, but if that's desireable, I'd be delighted to. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:59, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – a very nice old Homann map. Hafspajen (talk) 17:47, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - the funny thing is that Johan Homan - with 1 n - s, is a kind of Sherlock Holmes figure in a long series of rather interesting detective stories written by a Swedish diplomat Jan Mårtenson. Hafspajen (talk) 00:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - (had a hard time getting here). Coat of Many Colours (talk) 17:55, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Yann (talk) 20:04, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support — Gotta admit my only reason is I love old maps. This one would seem appropriate also as a cartographic artifact for Scandinavian Peninsula — of interest partly because Sweden appears somewhat bloated. (Too much lutefisk, Hafs?) Sca (talk) 21:33, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - No need to restore this one, looks fine. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:43, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as is, a restoration might remove some of the authenticity. --Janke | Talk 09:30, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Great image--Godot13 (talk) 04:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:1730 Homann Map of Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Baltics - Geographicus - Scandinavia-homann-1730.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:09, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]