Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/R.V.C. Bodley

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Jul 2013 at 17:07:36 (UTC)

Original – R. V. C. Bodley, approximately 1914

Alt 1 restored and levels slightly tweaked.

Reason: Has lots of pixels and the man is handsome. If you read the Flickr page, there is a very interesting effort by the IWM to release photos and get the public to research the histories of some of the men from WWI. This guy is not just some person in people's families, but a fellow that we have a Wiki article on. And his one book that I have read (Wind in the Sahara) is very cool: imagine Richard Halliburton crossed with T. E. Lawrence.
Articles in which this image appears: R. V. C. Bodley
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator: unknown, placed on flickr by IWM, uploaded to Wiki by TCO.

Support as nominator --TCO (talk) 17:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support handsomeness :) Could be cleaned up, but this is a nice find as-is. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 20:30, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I was figuring on suckering one of you bitchez (tm Russavia), err...I mean fine upstanding graphic artists, to do the image improvement for me. ;) TCO (talk) 22:05, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nev1 (talk) 18:35, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to ~~Oppose~~ on the grounds that is is not the best WP has to offer, as it could be greatly improved with some restoration done to it. I agree it is a great image though, and would really like to see it become featured. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 23:20, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Alt 1. Looks good Adam, thanks! --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 23:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Alt 1 uploaded. Support alt. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:46, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Adam, he looks even prettier now.TCO (talk) 22:56, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:R. V. C. Bodley restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]