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Original – Captain Ernest Cotton Deane, RAMC, MC, killed in action 25 September 1915
Reason
Quality image depicting British RAMC officer of Irish descent in the Indian Expeditionary Force in his formal uniform.
Articles in which this image appears
Ernest Deane
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator
FunkyCanute
  • Support as nominatorFunkyCanute (talk) 19:55, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Although the EV is there, the technical quality is lacking. There appears to be an attempt to mitigate halftoning which has led to specking throughout the image, and there is a brown stain along the bottom. If we could scan this from a negative (like our other FPs from the era) the technical quality would be much better. Also, we can't claim PD-70 on an image for which we don't list the author's lifespan. If the photographer lived until 1950, say, this would still be in copyright in the UK until 2021. This may be PD-anon, but I'm not familiar enough with the studio to say for sure (was Chidley Studios run by a lone photographer, or were there many people, or...) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:21, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, some mitigating manipulation has been done but there is no brown stain. There are other FPs from the early 1900s that are not scans from negatives. The image is by a single person studio: I have been unable to trace them, although it is likely that the person died in 1932. FunkyCanute (talk) 14:04, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:56, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]