Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/W. E. B. Du Bois
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- Reason
- Quite a good photo; passed Commons easily. Carte-de-visite mount, which we generally keep. And, of course, Du Bois is very, very notable.
- Articles in which this image appears
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political (given his activism)
- Creator
- James E. Purdy, restored by Adam Cuerden
- Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 14:32, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Support – I was initially a bit concerned about the top border, which looks like someone went overboard with the clone tool, but it's present on the original as well so it must just be an artifact of the process of how the card was made. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:38, 30 June 2022 (UTC) - Support example(s) of his work should be in his Wikipedia article. The size of the original Carte de visite would be useful too. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:11, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
- Didn't I add the dimensions? Well, I did now. He did do photography. Will see what I can find. Or did you mean Purdy? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 11:52, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
- Probably Purdy. I'll add a gallery to his article Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 02:35, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 12:08, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 14:31, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Promoted File:W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:07, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
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