Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sputnik 1 News Report

Sputnik 1 Newsreel

Voting period ends on 14 Nov 2024 at 01:41:58 (UTC)

Original – First report of Sputnik on October 7, 1957 by Universal Newsreel - animations of rocket used same animations as done for earlier report on the Vanguard story

Reason: Reports the launch of the first artificial satellite, historical
Articles in which this image appears: Space Race, Sputnik 1
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: Universal Newsreel

Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 01:41, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not entirely sure as to the quality of this digitization. It's jittery, and the title screen seems corrupted somehow. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:29, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, for several separate reasons. The first is that this has analog artifacting that suggests it was transferred to (and later from) a tape; the second is digital artifacting, such as excess compression and combing. The third is more nuanced: I'm worried about the accuracy of this, given that it's an American artist's conception of an event that was known exclusively through reports by the Soviet Union, an entity with both the motive and habit of lying. To present this as a featured picture would, I think, be tantamount to endorsing it as factual, something we can't verify. I think it's a neat piece of history, but I don't think it makes the grade for featured picture. Moonreach (talk) 15:31, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]