Original - Retailers generally favor Daylight saving time. Here, United Cigar Stores hails a 1918 DST bill - daylight saving time is a World War I invention, started by Germany in 1916.
Reason
Topical, illustrates an FA, is of high resolution, historic.
Discussion of a documentation issue being dealt with: I suggest we vote in the good-faith assumption that it'll be fixed, as it's just a matter of saying what the restoration work involved. - Shoemaker's Holidaytalk 13:03, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Conditional Oppose: Cleanup has clearly been done, but the original is not uploaded and linked to, and the cleanup is not documented. Not entirely convinced about the colours, but this is clearly an image that should be an FPC. It just needs a little work first. Shoemaker's Holidaytalk 07:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There is both a link to the LoC source in the image description (repeated here: [1]) and an earlier, uncleaned version in the file history. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:05, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
However, it is not clearly described that this is edited, and the normal procedure is to upload the LoC version as well as its own file: Websites can change, and, while it's unlikely the LoC will shut down, most of the LoC links temporarily broke recently. Had this been permanent, it'd have removed the file's history. Ideally, a lossless vesion of each (I'd suggest PNG, which is generally half the size of the LoC's TIFFs) should be uploaded as the third and fourth files in the set.
The Featured Picture Criteria require documenting of edits, as part of Criteria 8, and states they must be explained explicitly. If this is a problem, I'll happily help out by tweaking the file myself, and documenting. =)
Thanks! Sorry to be a pain about this, but, as you can imagine, the practice and standard rules about this are something I know all too well. As I said, if you need help, ask. Shoemaker's Holidaytalk 12:21, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm inclined to support, by the way, once we can work through these issues, and would gladly help if problems arise. Shoemaker's Holidaytalk 12:24, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not quite sure what you're asking for. Of course, you should feel free to produce an edit if your opinion is that it needs more work. I feel that withdrawing is a little premature, with only one commenter so far. While I appreciate that improvements on the current version are possible, whether your particular version will be promoted at the end is up to the community. I don't have any spare time to work on this beyond minor colour edits. I'm sure if there's a general feeling that this image needs some more work, the community will find ways of getting that work done. BTW, it does look posterised in the small view, but okay at full size. I suspect over-zealous compression during resize. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:51, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
All I meant by that was that if there's difficulty in documentation, or some aspect of the restoration is challenged, I'll help. Shoemaker's Holidaytalk 13:03, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
