Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Birmingham Quran manuscript.jpg

Delist and replace: File:Birmingham Quran manuscript.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Apr 2025 at 01:12:55 (UTC)

Delist: This image measures 2,048 × 1,333 pixels. It's slightly cropped as to obscure the fringes of the parchment, which did have the benefit of making a crease less apparent.

Replacement: This image measures 6,246 × 4,116 pixels and has a more neutral white balance. I don't know which is reflective of actuality, it's not a huge difference but it's there.

Reason

The previous version is of much lower resolution and is ever-so-slightly cropped

Articles this image appears in

No mainspace articles use the old version. I've left the portals and whatnot alone for the moment. Where the old version was used:

• Arabic
• Muhammad
• Quran
• Āyah
• Maryam (surah)
• Historiography of early Islam
• Birmingham Quran manuscript
• Old Hijazi Arabic
• Arabic miniature
• Quranic studies

... are all replaced now.

Previous nomination/s

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Birmingham Quran manuscript

Nominator

JayCubby

• Delist and replace — JayCubby 01:12, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
• @Mattximus: Ten years later, you were right. JayCubby 01:16, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

In the first version, the crop is better. ArionStar (talk) 01:17, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Cropped lossless and tight like the last one https://files.catbox.moe/5fdjno.jpg 999real (talk) 19:37, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

• comment can we trim the black pixels on the right hand side on the basis we don't have them on the left?©Geni (talk) 16:39, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

  @Geni: do you mean "crop out"? ArionStar (talk) 00:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

  I'll see what I can do, but I'm running into some difficulties with editing the margin of images. JayCubby 14:07, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

  Doesn't crop tool handle it?©Geni (talk) 19:11, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

  Now  Done with 999real's cropped version. I was trying to fill the black region with something, but that's unnecessary I guess. JayCubby 18:22, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

• Delist and replace —UnpetitproleX (talk) 15:18, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• D&R now ArionStar (talk) 03:09, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Delisted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:12, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

• While the discussion is bellow quorum, this unused image can't retain its featured picture status and is delisted. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:12, 20 April 2025 (UTC)