Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Book of Fixed Stars Orion
Book of Fixed Stars Orion[edit]
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- Reason
- High quality image of medieval muslim illustration of the Orion constellation from the Book of Fixed Stars.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Orion (constellation), Constellation, Rigel
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding
- Creator
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
- Support as nominator – — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum. 11:22, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose – Visual content not readily intelligible to most English-speaking readers/viewers. The pic's only usage is on Arabic Wikipedia. – Sca (talk) 12:56, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- The language concern strikes me as inappropriate. We have a history of promoting non-English texts, such as File:1581 Bunting clover leaf map.jpg, File:Poster by Anna Soós Korànyi for the Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.jpg, File:Sesshu - Haboku-Sansui - complete.jpg, and File:Tugra Mahmuds II.gif. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:02, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support Disagree with Sca. For anyone interested even a little in astronomy, the constellation is immediately apparent. I added the image to Book of Fixed Stars. It has also been in other en:WP articles for some time. --Janke | Talk 13:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support, but with caveat - do we know if the skew of the text is in the manuscript or is it due to an issue with the scan? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:57, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- Look at the file page, there's an uncropped scan there... --Janke | Talk 13:32, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- The skew is in the manuscript. If it was in the scan, then the skew would've been equally present in the bleed through of lines on the opposite side of the paper. Bammesk (talk) 00:52, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
- You're right. Thank you. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:26, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
- The skew is in the manuscript. If it was in the scan, then the skew would've been equally present in the bleed through of lines on the opposite side of the paper. Bammesk (talk) 00:52, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
- Look at the file page, there's an uncropped scan there... --Janke | Talk 13:32, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 00:52, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support – Lion-hearted85 (talk) 10:50, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 18:06, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Promoted File:Book of the Fixed Stars Auv0333 Orion.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:44, 8 April 2023 (UTC)