221:. High-quality scan, encyclopedic information, appropriate lead image for a notable subject. The opposition above enunciates clearly my reason for cutting back my participation in the FPC process: too many participants care only about pretty pictures of charismatic megafauna and postcard landscapes, pushing out the encyclopedic but non-photogenic images. If you want that, go to Commons; they have their own FPC whose rules don't focus as much on encyclopedic content. This sort of image is exactly the sort of thing we should be including here, to differentiate Knowledge (XXG) FPC from commons (or would, except that commons actually passed this image already). —
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