Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/The Great Wave off Kanagawa

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

A copy of a nineteenth century Japanese print.

Detail Loss of texture and tile-like effect is caused by repetitive use of healing brush at too large a pixel setting without resampling. Significant areas of this image have been damaged by hasty/ineffective attempt at restoration, while large numbers of dirt specks remain.

Suggested replacement 37MB file restored from File:Great Wave off Kanagawa.jpg.

Reason

A bad restoration of a copy of an iconic Japanese print. See failed Commons valued image candidacy: Commons:Commons:Valued image candidates/The Great Wave off Kanagawa.jpg, also failed Commons featured picture candidacy: Commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:The Great Wave off Kanagawa.jpg. EV is diminished because this isn't the original; .jpg artifacting and poor digital manipulation brings this fair-to-middling copy down to subpar.

Previous nomination/s

Link/s to the image's original FPC nomination, and any previous delist noms

Nominator

Durova^Charge!

• Delist and replace — Durova^Charge! 20:10, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: Of course it's a copy. Hokusai didn't print any himself, he just made the woodblock. See the Red Fuji print nomination for an explanation. howcheng {chat} 07:45, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
• Delist and replace - Per nom -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 02:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
• Keep until someone can explain to me why we should lose detail from the background, and why we can't restore the appropriate (let's call them "over-restored") places from File:Great Wave unrestored.jpg. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:33, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
• Delist and replace Badly restored, poor quality. Should be delisted and replaced with the alternative. Elucidate ^{(light up)} 18:57, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
• Delist, do not replace - The loss of certain inks means that the new one is problematic, though far better than the original one. This is a major mass-produced artwork, in a genre with a tradition of very precise restoration. We will eventually do better than both. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
• Delist and do not replace per shoemaker. Intothewoods29 (talk) 21:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Replaced with File:Great Wave off Kanagawa2.jpg --Wronkiew (talk) 05:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)