Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sulfur extraction

Sulfur extraction

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Original – Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas

Reason

high quality image with EV

Articles in which this image appears

sulfur

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others

Creator

John Vachon for the US government, restored by Yann

• Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 23:17, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, high quality, VERY high resolution, excellent restoration work by Yann. — Cirt (talk) 00:28, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
• Question It says nearly exhausted, but the sulphur seems to stretch as far as the eye can see, if the colours are correct. So there seems to be a mismatch here - if the caption can state that it's nearly exhausted, this should be visible in the picture. Samsara 09:22, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
  • @Samsara: I thought it means "extracted" here, like exhaust. Can any expert explain? Regards, Yann (talk) 09:59, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
    • The caption mentions the vat as being nearly exhausted. Maybe it's referring to the container part of the machinery? --Paul_012 (talk) 16:14, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 12:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose – It's important to note that this photo was taken in 1943. While technically first-class for that period, it inevitably is shy on detail. Further, I can't see the EV unless it was being used to illustrate the history of sulfur (preferred spelling) extraction – but it doesn't appear in the article's sketchy history section. (That appears to be a steam shovel or steam-powered dragline in the distance – something that hasn't been used for 60 to 70 years.) Sca (talk) 16:32, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
  • @Sca: I don't really understand why you oppose, and more importantly, what you propose to improve its EV. Regards, Yann (talk) 20:42, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry Yann, but I have no ideas re improving its EV. My point was that the relevance of this 72-year-old photo would be mainly to the history of sulfur mining, which is not how it's used in the target article (in which I added the date to the caption). Sca (talk) 21:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

• Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:35, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose I think the colors are too wrong: too yellowish? --Alchemist-hp (talk) 12:48, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
  • I don't think so. I imported a new version with a better white balance, but it doesn't change the yellow color. Regards, Yann (talk) 10:55, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)