Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:La Cosmographie de Claude Ptolemée.djvu
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File:La Cosmographie de Claude Ptolemée.djvu, not featured
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Info created by Ptolemy, DJVU file created, uploaded and nominated by Yann (talk) 22:05, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Info I think this is an exceptionel document (manuscript of 454 pages). This book was the reference of the known world in the Roman Empire. Its rediscovery in Florence around 1400 lead to a new interest about geography, finally leading to the travels of Colombus and Magellan. This copy of the Latin translation by Jacobus Angelus was commissioned by Guillaume Fillastre, cardinal of Saint Marc, and the book bears his arms. This unique examplar includes 27 maps by a Danish cartographer, Claudius Claussøn Swart. IMHO, the Cosmography by Claudius Ptolemy is one of the book who has the most influence over the whole human History.
Info This should be considered like a set, and judged on the merit of the whole document, not only of the tumbnail.
Support -- Yann (talk) 22:05, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Support High historical value, imho. St1995 11:18, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Support though resolution could be better --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 19:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Comment Ambiguous nomination IMO. I agree in assessing this front picture, but not the whole book "as a book", because here is the "Featured "pictures" candidates page". I think we should have a discussion about the .djvu files.--Jebulon (talk) 10:02, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
- Well, not only pictures, there have been quite a number of drawings too. Yann (talk) 15:43, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
- Drawings are picture ! This is not.--Jebulon (talk) 20:52, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
- Well, not only pictures, there have been quite a number of drawings too. Yann (talk) 15:43, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Support imho ok --Steinsplitter (talk) 21:19, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Support But we need fix a lot of things in FPC. Eg: Currently pictures from set nominations are not going to the Commons:Featured pictures/chronological/current month and will not appear for POTY. (?) JKadavoor Jee 16:08, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Support Michael Barera (talk) 01:31, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
OpposeBecause of above (not convinced by all Yann's arguments), because I don't know what I should support (this page, the book ?), because it is here featured "PICTURES" candidates pages (.gif, and drawings or designs are pictures too, this is not), because this page (sorry, I can judge only this one), has a very bad quality. Please nominate this as a set of pages. Page 447 is not featurable for me. Please restore, and nominate this as a set of pages.--Jebulon (talk) 20:52, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
- This argument seems also weird to me. You are not supposed to judge a FPC only on the thumbnail, and you can access the whole document here: File:La Cosmographie de Claude Ptolemée.djvu. This could also be considered a set of pictures, which is accepted. But it obviously won't be practical to display the whole set at once. Yann (talk) 07:30, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Oppose a bad (unsharp) scan isn't featured for me. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 01:27, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
- I agree that the resolution could be higher, but this document is unique and not publicly available. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:04, 3 December 2013 (UTC)