Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of Kamehameha I

Portrait of Kamehameha I

King Kamehameha I "the Great" (c. 1758-1819) unified the Hawaiian Islands and established the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810.

Reason

Very hi-res, good scan of portrait of an important non-Western figure. The other images of him in Wikipedia are not as good.

Articles this image appears in

Kamehameha I

Creator

unknown artist, painted during the life of Kamehameha (who died in 1819, so this is public domain). Scanned from a book and enhanced by User:Makthorpe

• Support as nominator — Spikebrennan 16:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Support It's not a very good painting (in my opinion), but the subject matter is important enough to trump that, since I don't think that any better contemporary images exist. Adam Cuerden ^talk 21:07, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Change to Weak oppose - there appears to be a better painting available, even if e don't have it at high enough resolution for FP. Adam Cuerden ^talk 01:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

(Not for voting) - a better portrait of the subject, though a low-resolution scan. Could we find this one in a better scan for FP?

• Weak oppose Not a very good painting IMO. not much detail. Maddie was here 01:03, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the other image is better, but I selected the nominated one based on the scan. Spikebrennan 02:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose - I won't support a picture that should get replaced as soon as we find a good scan of a different image. This may be unfair, but the original image is not good enough for me to support it with the information a better painted portrait is out there; it is good, but not amazing. Zakolantern 03:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose, Per Maddie. ^8thstar 23:35, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
• Nomination withdrawn. Perhaps some day we'll get a better scan of the better portrait. Spikebrennan 16:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 02:51, 22 July 2007 (UTC)