Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The End is Near! (1843)

Reason: Fascinating (and legible) document of religious history.
Proposed caption: A prophetic chart illustrating numerous interpretations of prophecy by the Millerite sect yielding the year 1843 as the date of the Second Advent. The failure of Christ to return to earth on the prophesized date caused many sect members to abandon the sect.
Articles this image appears in: Millerites, Great Disappointment, History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Creator: Originally published by J. V. Himes. Scanned from P. Gerard Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans (1977), p310. Uploaded

Support as nominator Spikebrennan (talk) 21:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Pictures are Grainy Teque5 (talk) 06:12, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's the halftone dot that looks grainy, something I'm sure the original illustration wouldn't have had. The copy this was scanned from looks like a particularly coarse screen, probably for newsprint, which means it'll always look awful on-screen. Undoubtedly valuable enc asset, just not a FP version of it.--mikaul^talk 19:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment You can get away with things on engravings you can't with photos: I've done an edit that partially salvages it. Still, there would be far more detail in the original, and the edit should NOT be FP. In general, I think no engraving or lithograph should be FA unless you can see the lines or speckling (as appropriate) that makes it up. Adam Cuerden ^talk 13:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 02:30, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]