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are unaltered from the National Gallery of Art (albeit each scan is from a different part of their website), and that's at a stalemate now: we know that one of the two is more accurate than the other, but we don't know which. Then there's the Yorck project scans, which were originally taken at face
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My point is not that you are incorrect. My point is that you do not have a source for the changes specific to this image other than your own understanding of what the image should look like according to other, different images. My reading is that adding colour where there is none is different to
504:– In general I agree with Wolftick's point. In this particular case, the color addition is subtle, not excessive, it is based on similar images by the same photographer which is a guide or template, even though it is not a reliable source. In this particular case I don't see any harm. 414:
is very much part of Knowledge's core content policy. However the source image in question is not "wrong". It is instead lacking information, namely colour. As far as I know there is no additional colour source for this image, so any addition of colour is against
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after all, which cannot store tone, greyscale has no information but lightness and darkness of each pixel, there's no tone information - is more correct of a guide than images that actually contain the information, by the same photographer.
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value as reliable but are now so infamously inaccurate that they have been widely replaced. If sources are known to have issues, even if they are ostensibly accurate in some cases, we have the right to exercise editorial discretion. —
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The original is a very light scan from a source (the LoC) known to have poor colour fidelity and contrast. Further, it's a monochrome file, meaning that the subtle shades even black and white film has are lost.
272:...Show me one non-monochrome file of Van Vechten's that isn't slightly yellow, and you have a point. Otherwise, you're basically stating this should be considered an exception. Here's the complete set! 191: 172:. That is just adding yellow to a perfectly acceptable greyscale image that is most likely and to the extent that it can be verified a fairly accurate depiction of the original. - 567: 88: 126:
I prefer the original monochrome version. It doesn't look odd to me and it seems like it is a matter of personal preference where the original should be favoured per
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suitable guide that doesn't require original research and lack verifiability. The original, while lacking colour information, is at least from a reliable source -
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The file is explicitly a monochrome file. It ain't a source for nothin' colour-balance-wise; It literally can't be. The information's been stripped.
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That may be, but unless you have a verifiable source in this specific case the monochrome version should be favoured per
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I am not opposed to sympathetic restoration of source where it is clearly lacking, but I cannot support going from this:
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Again, this may be true, but I don't think this means you can just add it back in without any additional source. -
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Every roughly 1950s-era photo I've looked at in full colour has had a warm colour balance. Compare:
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It is not unthinkable for what we'd consider to be "reliable" sources to be wrong. Both scans of
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A fine photograph, by a notable photographer, of an important African-American classical composer
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So... you're saying almost certainly wrong is preferable to... never mind, I'm done here.
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known to have no information as to warmness or coolness of the greys
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Using editorial discretion to weight conflicting sources per
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Promoted File:William Grant Still by Carl Van Vechten.jpg
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File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner - Original.tif
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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.
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Knowledge:Featured picture candidates
William Grant Still

William Grant Still
Carl Van Vechten
William Grant Still
Knowledge:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Carl Van Vechten
Adam Cuerden
Adam Cuerden
18:22, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
WP:VERIFY
Wolftick
talk
19:22, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Adam Cuerden
19:30, 12 January 2016 (UTC)


Wolftick
talk
20:06, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner - Original.tif
File:Red_Skelton_1960_-_original_scan.tiff
Adam Cuerden
20:14, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
WP:VERIFY
Wolftick
talk
20:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

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