Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/File:Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg
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File:Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 10 Mar 2013 at 08:39:19
Info I am nominating this picture for delisting and replacement (current replacement options nominated above) because an image that is 2.89 times larger and much sharper is available. Origin of the image is still the same as the replacement: the US Air Force. The sources are slightly different, as the current FP is from dfrc.nasa.gov and the replacement source is from the nasa.gov Dryden Image Gallery. The uploader at the time the image was nominated for Commons FP was User:Aka. (Larger images were later uploaded over.) (Original nomination)
Delist 
Keep The original is higher quality (less compression and indicated colour space). The source of the newer images is highly compressed so low quality, is missing the colour space tag and has been simply enlarged 1.7x (not 2.89 times) without any extra detail. The new images should be deleted as inferior copies. Colin (talk) 19:10, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination – Got excited for nuthin'. Thanks Colin for digging into this. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 20:09, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Withdraw my withdrawal. I have a bad habit of taking one opinion and going with it. I'd like to still consider the alternate image above for possible replacement. I should give hear/read several opinions before making quick decisions. I look at my uploaded image and I just don't see how it's an enlargement. Noisy, yes, but still a viable option. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 00:08, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- I stand by my assessment that the "larger" picture is actually the smaller picture blown up and saved with a very high degree of compression. The "noise" is JPG artefacts, not noise from the original photograph. I'll discuss more on the FP for the new image. Colin (talk) 11:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Withdraw my withdrawal of my withdrawal. Colin makes a good case and besides, again like he says, the original uncompressed scan of the original negative or print would be the best and sure source. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 22:19, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
