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First of all, I think that it would make sense if Franklin Delano Roosevelt's service in the New York state senate, as assistant secretary of the navy, and as governor of New York were put before his presidency so his life would be in chronological order.
Also, maybe the page should be renamed from "Franklin D. Roosevelt" to "Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Just a thought.2601:2C1:C003:EF7A:A1CB:CF40:7068:3225 (talk) 00:24, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Portrait change
Hello all! As you may have noticed, I changed the infobox portrait of President Roosevelt, from P1933 to P1944. This new portrait is an incredibly high quality image: High resolution, great lighting, good composition. It is in rare color, very good quality color, and adds great encyclopedic value. There aren't many high quality color images of President Roosevelt, and this is as good as any color portrait can be, but it has the qualities of a color image process from 1944. See them side-by-side:
P1933
P1944
Now what was wrong with the previous portrait? If you look through all the photos from his governorship and his presidency, in effectively none of these does the President look as young or fresh-faced as he does in P1933. P1933 has alsobeen retouched significantly, which reduces its resolution and detracts from its original appearance. I think it is important to reflect the President, in the infobox, as he appears in most photographs, his own campaign materials, and to what the readers have seen in all other period photographs. I have established why P1944 is an image of superb quality, but it also shows what he looked like during the war, and it is a physical appearance (coloration notwithstanding) that is far more reflective of how he looks in almost all photographs from 1933-1945. Now the fact that this is a formal color portrait is of great interest, because it looks period, it is a rich and interesting photograph, and I think it serves him very well. Spartan7W§ 17:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Who took the original photo and what are its copyrights? Rklawton (talk) 18:24, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
@Rklawton: Forgot to fix that! DoneSpartan7W§ 19:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! Rklawton (talk) 01:56, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
I personally prefer the 1933 one. You may think he looks too young in the 1933 one, but I think he looks too old in this one. By 1944, FDR was literally on death's doorstep. And, lest we forget, by 1933, FDR already had 51 years in the rearview mirror.pbp 13:30, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
I approve of the portrait change - the 1944 portrait truly reflects the toll which the enormous weight President Roosevelt had been carrying took upon his already-fragile body. It is important today for us to understand just what extent he was struggling with his health throughout his presidency, and especially in the final two years of his life: when so many monumental decisions of history were made.
I do not approve of the portrait change. The current portrait is a horrendously ugly picture of FDR. Choosing to use this image degrades American history.
Please revert vandalism
Please revert this vandalism. 32.218.36.236 (talk) 03:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
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