Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg

Image:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg, featured

•  Infoen:San Francisco lies in ruins on May 28, 1906, about six weeks after the en:1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. It was taken from a camera suspended on a captive airship 2,000 feet above the city. It is one of the most well-known photographs of en:George R. Lawrence. The tower of the en:Ferry Building can be seen at the bay end of Market Street, which can be clearly seen all the way to the foothills of Twin Peaks. The water in the foreground is en:San Francisco Bay, with the en:Golden Gate to the right, rear. Note the absence of the en:Golden Gate Bridge and the en:San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which had yet to be constructed. Original uploader was Janke at en.wikipedia.
• Nominate and  Support --Ben Aveling 11:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I am a sucker for historial photos. --Tomascastelazo 17:58, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment Not to steal your thunder, but Commons has several clearer images closer in on the same event. See Image:Sfearthquake3.jpg and Image:Sfearthquake2.jpg, for example. Durova 20:15, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support, wow. --Aqwis 21:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Stunning historical document! -- MJJR 21:42, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support We contemplated the astonishing landscape. Good, very good. --V.J.Tornet ¿Es conmigo? 22:02, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent. Calibas 04:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Great --Simonizer 14:11, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very good quality of picture --Alipho 18:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support - Amazing -- Booksworm 10:42, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral The photo is awesome, but this scan was horrendously dirty, dusty, smudged... Doodle-doo Ħ 16:05, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Historical masterpiece, but not really readable and understandable at a scale used for illustrations. --B.navez 13:11, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

This is Commons, not Wikipedia. --Aqwis 17:52, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes it is, «Thus it provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts that are useful for any Wikimedia project.» (from «What is the Wikimedia Commons?» on Commons:Welcome)--B.navez 17:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose May be valuable for its historical interest, but I'm no fan of tilted BW pictures. Lycaon 08:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

result: 9 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral => featured. Simonizer 15:10, 4 January 2008 (UTC) (other votes too late)

•  Support Illustrative of its subject definitely... it has a good historical value, too... - Noumenon _talk 04:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)