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File:Ordre de Mobilisation générale 2 août 1914.jpg, featured[edit]

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French mobilization poster, 1914,aug.1st
  •  Info created by french government - uploaded, stitched, restored and by nominated by me -- Jebulon (talk) 11:57, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Another centenial document. Exactly 100 years ago, August 1st, 1914, this poster was put everywhere on the walls in France, in order to call all the male citizens to the armies. This is a strange flyier for a terrible flashmob... This picture is visually very well known in France, and one can find many "fac simile" here or there on the web. This one is an original, from the collections of the French National Library (BnF). I don't think it needs translation, but it could be provided if necessary. High size, and high EV IMO. Restored by me.-- Jebulon (talk) 11:57, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support by all means! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:40, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Good timing! Good quality, high resolution of a historic document. Yann (talk) 15:39, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose please tell me: what will be here featured??? A simply (restored) scan. This can be as a VI, but I can't see here featured parts. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 07:14, 2 August 2014 (UTC) I strike my oppose. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 12:10, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • You are welcome, I tell you:
      • -This is not a scan, but a photograph (see original file, one can find the link on the file page)
      • -Anyway, scans are eligible for FP candidacies, even "simple". (See the POTD of today 08/02, which is indeed a "simple (restored) scan" of a photograph.)
      • -This document has obvious lot of values, which is one of the criteria for FP (but you know this very well).
      • -The upload and restoration took me ages, and the human work on this kind of pictures is far much more difficult than any photography processing. IMO, the result is not so bad.
      • -Following your opinion, no historical documents can be featured here? Of course I can not agree.
      • -In France yesterday, at 4pm, all the tocsin bells were ringing in all cities and villages, and even all the bells of Notre-Dame de Paris (this is very rare), not because of the centenary of the beginning of WWI (08/03 for France), but because of the centenary of the put of this poster on the walls, which immediately changed the life of 4 millions of men. IMO, this is why this image is a FP, and not only a VI (VIC is for comparisons with other similar images in some scopes, not for valuable images by themselves, as frequently, but wrongly, thought).--Jebulon (talk) 09:55, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • Hi Jebulon, thanks for your clarification. I strike my oppose, but I still thinking such works are not featured for me. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 12:10, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • Hi Alchemist-hp, thanks for striking your opposition, but it was not necessary ! Im not sure I understand your opinion, but disagreements are normal here. You asked me about explanations, I was happy to provide you some arguments. I accept oppositions (yes, I do !) One more argument : we already had versions of this picture here, but the (original) quality and size of this one makes it maybe useful for many projects during the four 14-18 next years (students, historians etc...). This is featurable IMO, like banknote collections, or other 'only written' documents, when they have an historical or educational sense, and if technical quality is good enough for FP, of course. It was not the case of the original (CA along letters, tears, spots, pixellated bg etc...), but that's why restoration work is interesting to me. Thanks for your feedback anyway.--Jebulon (talk) 14:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Well done and great encyclopedic value. --Cayambe (talk) 05:45, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Per Cayambe. --JLPC (talk) 16:34, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support per above -- Jiel (talk) 00:17, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support More like a WP FP. Jee 03:37, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Halavar (talk) 21:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Big but pretty blurry. As it is, it's as good to downsample to something like 2-5mpix. It will save bandwidth with zero downside. Do I miss something? - Benh (talk) 18:19, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 17:26, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic media
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