John Henry Turpin (redux)

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Reason

As said last time: While I don't think the photo is perfect - it looks to me like his head moved very slightly - it's also a fairly iconic image of him, compare, say, [1], and his grave here, or this set of exhibition photos. I think the historic merit, the quality, and the paucity of images of him excuses some things. I'm also not entirely sure the issues aren't just down to him being African-American: I could totally see "darker skin, so longer exposure so the facial details come out". There also appears to be no better options.
I've done some additional work, applying a little sharpening to the face.

Articles in which this image appears

John Henry Turpin

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military

Creator

Unknown photographer, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600^th FP!} 03:03, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – for the EV. Active career in uniform and tried to serve in WW2 at age 60+. The sharpness is bad (guessing it's scanned from a small print, plus motion blur) but it's a historic photo, so taking an exception on technical quality. Bammesk (talk) 03:53, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Good restoration, high EV. Yann (talk) 19:55, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Adam, what is that one tiny bright white spot between his lower right arm and his right leg? I'm guessing it's the edge of one of the stripes on the sleeve, but so little of it is visible that at first glance I thought it was a defect in the image. Now I see that it's not, but it's sufficiently distracting that I wonder if it would be better to just remove it? Not a big deal, and you may not want to go that far. I support it either way. Choliamb (talk) 15:36, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Rather not remove things that were there. Seems misleading. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600^th FP!} 18:43, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. MER-C 20:03, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support -- Nythar (💬-❄️) 02:33, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:John Henry Turpin, Chief Gunner's Mate, U.S. Navy, circa in the 1940s (NH 89471).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:47, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]