Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address

Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address[edit]

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Reason: High resolution image; published version of speech different than speech Lincoln gave
Articles in which this image appears: Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address
FP category for this image: USA History
Creator: The American News Company, digitized by the University of Pittsburgh

Support as nominator – Seattle (talk) 18:48, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good digitalization also. Dirt spots (?) most probably are on the original sheet of paper, even the structure of which is visible due to high resolution. --Tremonist (talk) 13:16, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I'm afraid I'm not really feeling this- the layout is extremely simple, the font is nothing to write home about, there's no illustration... The words are surely the important part, and that seems to be beyond the scope of FPC. We aren't here to feature famous/significance texts, we're here to feature valuable images. Josh Milburn (talk) 20:13, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – This little (150 words) pro forma statement is the merest footnote to the saga of Lincoln, who towers over U.S. history like no other. It isn't even mentioned in the text of Abraham Lincoln (which comprises 15,000 words!). The target article text, appropriately, is just 119 words (not counting the statement itself). Negligible EV, minimal visual interest. Sca (talk) 15:16, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, as I agree with Seattle regarding the high resolution and historic value, and I agree with Tremonist that it is a good digitalization. :) — Cirt (talk) 08:35, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - I do not see any value of having this in picture form versus just writing it out in written form. What does having an image as opposed to text add to the encyclopaedic value? Mattximus (talk) 15:34, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support-high resolution and historically credible.--m,sharaf (talk) 16:30, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How does the high resolution of this scan make it historically valuable, credible – or even interesting? There are millions of 19th-century newspaper clippings extant, some thousands of which would detail much more important aspects of Lincoln's career. Sca (talk) 16:56, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - I agree that the image is a good digitization, and that it contains text that has some EV. But it is a newspaper clipping, as such it (either the clipping itself or the subject matter) would need to have more historical significance. If it were an image of a typed draft signed by Lincoln, there would be a much higher EV (better still, the manuscript draft).--Godot13 (talk) 20:35, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:33, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]