Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Battle at La Hogue

The Battle at La Hogue (1781)

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Original - William Woollett's The Battle at La Hogue (1781), after a painting by Benjamin West. Zoom in with an interactive browser

Reason: A fine, high-quality copy of a large steel engraving. ~~Somewhat screwed over by Wikipedia's thumbnailing system, mind ye. This is evidently due to recent changes, and will hopefully be fixed soon, as it's likely to be a problem with ALL engravings.~~ Bug 24857 fixed.
Articles in which this image appears: William Woollett, Action at La Hogue (1692)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/War
Creator: William Woollett and Benjamin West

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:51, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again. --I'ḏ♥One 18:16, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- This place is annoyingly hard to stay away from. A bad thing, as it's probably not good for me to deal with half the stuff I do here. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:43, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support Eh, 'salright. Meanwhile this is another very well-restored engraving. --I'ḏ ♥One 03:25, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Magnificent details, on par with the Jane Austen engraving. Welcome back :) P. S. Burton (talk) 23:54, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support I think the technical solution for the proposed thumbnail/fullsize duality already exists. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:50, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Could you clarify what the difference between the first and the second image is? Is the second image an alt? Sorry if I'm being a little moronic here. J Milburn (talk) 22:57, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, pretty much because the full-size image is so very large, and because the thumbnailer isn't really optimised to deal with copperplate engravings, the full-sized image doesn't look that great as a thumbnail. However, changes to make it look good as a tiny thumbnail would destroy the appearance and value of the full size image. Hence, I created a workaround: The second image is a modified, smaller version of the big one, shrunk down, contrast upped, sharpened, and so on. This does a better job at bringing out some of the details of this very large image at the very small size it's used in articles.

I thought that we could tag the small one with {{FPlowres}}, with the full-sized image being the actual FP. This seems like a better option than ruining the full-size image to make it look good at article size. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC) Bug 24857 fixed Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:13, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds dangerously like an overuse of {{FPlowres}} to me- it should be very much the exception, rather than the norm, in my eyes. J Milburn (talk) 11:06, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, no longer necessary - they fixed the thumbnailer. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:31, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support the thumbnailer one, excellent! --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 11:21, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support now this thumbnail stuff has been sorted. EV very solid in both usages, so I don't mind whether this goes into art or history. J Milburn (talk) 12:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Benjamin_West_-_William_Woollett_-_The_Battle_at_La_Hogue.jpg —Maedin\^talk 16:34, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]