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Reason

High EV and good scan quality. Happy Public Domain Day, Popeye!

Articles in which this image appears

Popeye

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment

Creator

E. C. Segar

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 21:04, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Only one vote per participant. -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Good quality scan? It's covered in horizontal lines and is in high-contrast greyscale, and isn't even 1500 px high - which I might waive in the absence of other issues, but makes it very hard to fix those issues. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 07:43, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Considering it as a 1919 strip? ArionStar (talk) 11:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  There are much better scans of it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 18:42, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I notify other voters that the nominator has been banned on Commons and has been insulting on this page towards another user (see previous nominations below) Charlesjsharp (talk) 19:19, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Dismal quality, this is from a copy from a microfilm (hence the scratches). --Janke | Talk 19:33, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I wondered if that was the case. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 00:52, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support ALT - Looks darn good, and resolution is more than 4k on the long side. Pinging Charlesjsharp, Janke, Adam Cuerden, and ArionStar. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:41, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  "1-17", in the lower right corner, is missing. ArionStar (talk) 02:09, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Not in the version published in Liverpool, but there are traces where it was. Will borrow from the Washington Times copy. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:13, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Done. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:23, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Support ALT Good work, thank you so much! ArionStar (talk) 03:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose both versions. Only 1,140 pixels height on the edited version, and even at this size, it's not sharp enough. Low level of detail if you compare for example the strokes on the boat, frame 1 or 4, with File:The Thimble Theatre (January 17, 1929) "'Gobs'" of Work).jpg. Concerning the grey version, it was nominated last week on Commons by The American Person, invalid sockpuppet of blocked user ArionStar and it is clearly a very poor scan. -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Basile Morin: maybe due to time (a 1929 strip), wouldn't it be a little difficult to get strictly faithful scans? ArionStar (talk) 04:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Info For the record, the hereby nominator is harassing me with crosswiki messages left by abusive sockpuppet accounts. See for example this edit on Commons left by blocked vandal SquarePortrait 10 minutes before that one here above on Wikipedia. -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:34, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• • (ec)Unfortunately, The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye (1984) removes the copyright notice that was in the original work - it also arranges the panels in a 2-2-1 format, which was found in some newspapers and would allow the existing digital copies to be more than 1500px. I'll keep an eye out for a better scan. As for the behavioural issues... while concerning, I don't think Popeye should suffer for it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:59, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Unsharp mask helped quite a bit. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:46, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I'd Support Alt Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 04:50, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And I don't want to suffer for Popeye. Regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:34, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:37, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]