Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Philippe Chaperon - Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots Act I (1896).jpg

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•  Info created by Philippe Chaperon - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:26, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Info (Since I'm aware that it will be mentioned otherwise:) With en:Template:CSS image crop and its local variants, I don't see any need to crop out parts of an image presentation. That's a hand-painted brown and gold border that was created by the artist, so why remove it? (And it'll give something to crop out if trying to print it:5x4.4 is hardly a common aspect ratio, but you can get it to a few sensible ratios if you have a border to crop.) Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:26, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

• Would you mind offering a crop version as an alternative? --Yann (talk) 19:57, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

• I'd prefer not to. The main image is not absolutely rectangular in shape, so either a small amount of the edge of the painting would need cropped out, or I'd have to restore outwards the edge of the painting, when, as I said, there's a perfectly good way to make arbitrary crops for thumbnails. And I really don't like changing artistic intent for relatively capricious reasons. Plus, it would be inconsistent with File:Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act4 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1880 Paris.jpg, and other future potential images. And it's not like Chaperon does this with every image he makes; it's actually relatively rare, and may indicate something specific, like them being intended for display (the ones they're done on tend to be particularly visually impressive). Oh, and I literally spent 16 hours restoring that fucking border. If I didn't feel strongly about it before - well, I wouldn't have done it in the first place, but afterwards...

In any case, we're not just a place to make thumbnails for Wikipedia (Hell, a number of our featured images here are not and will not ever be used on any Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikiversity, or any other related project). It would be silly to create a situation where a number of possible reuses are made more difficult because we concealed the one most useful for printing. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:14, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Also, we can literally just do this with CSS image crop and some surprisingly annoying maths:

{{CSS image crop |Image=Philippe Chaperon - Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots Act I (1896).jpg |bSize= 466|cWidth=370 |cHeight=311 |oTop= 51|oLeft= 47}}

...I am thinking of doing a template to take the equations - which are slightly complex. For example, for a crop of this image, with width X, here's the values you need bSize = X*5084/4035 | cWidth=X | cHeight=X* 3388/4035 | oTop= X*551/4035| oLeft=X*508/4035 - It feels like we can simplify the CSS crop interface by using numbers auto-generated by crop tool (which I used to figure out what numbers to use to form those equations) and plugging them in instead. They're much more readily available. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:09, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

•  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:26, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support, but please delete the image without the border, because the bot will treat that as an alternate. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:01, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
  • I gave the code instead. Adam Cuerden (talk) 05:06, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Tozina (talk) 10:05, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 21:58, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:08, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:31, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose the border --S. DÉNIEL (talk) 15:29, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:43, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing job Adam. --Podzemnik (talk) 19:43, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 22:15, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic media