Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Darwan Sing Negi

Darwan Sing[h] Negi[edit]

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Reason: A high-quality scan of what I presume is some sort of photogravure-like reproduction of an image for the Illustrated War News. While not great for identifying his face, I think a candid action shot of a Victoria Cross winner being taken for treatment is still highly encyclopedic. Also, I think that there's a tendency to sanitize war; these sorts of candid images do a lot against that.

As for whether a higher-resolution copy is available: I showed this to a friend who is part of a group actively researching Darwan Sing[h] Negi (the World War I era spelling and modern transliterations vary), and she said she hadn't seen it before. Indeed, most of the images in the Illustrated War News, outside of the occasional formal portrait of nobility, seem to be very obscure. I'm sure we'll be seeing more. If nothing else, it almost seems my duty to. The number of poorly-illustrated events and personages that I can use it to help with...

This was scanned at 600 dpi, and has the expected graininess that will produce.

Edited to add: This is apparently only the second known photograph of Negi...

Articles in which this image appears: Darwan Singh Negi
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Military. I suppose you could go with Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War I if you consider it more of an "action shot" featuring Negi.
Creator: L.N.C., restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:45, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very useful. Dare I say that the book came in? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:41, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Ayup! There'll be lots of it coming in. If nothing else, my February talk means I should prepare that week in advance. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:49, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hafspajen (talk) 20:56, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support- High EV --DUCK404 a (talk) 19:00, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rreagan007 (talk) 20:26, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support National Names 2000 (talk) 03:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)National Names 2000[reply]
Support. ^BE _CK ^Y _SA ^{Y L}E _S 05:47, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jobas (talk) 16:02, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Illustrated War News, Dec. 23, 1914, page 38, left side - Darwan Sing Negi.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:46, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]