File talk:Al-Farabi.jpg
What's with the picture?
editI find it rather odd that this is the picture used officially (or as officially as Wikipedia can get) in pretty much all entries about Al-Farabi - and from there, of course, elsewhere on the web. The picture was added back in 2009, and sourced to a website that no longer even exists; having looked for it on the Wayback Machine, it turned out to be an old website dedicated to Uyghur music, with just a short paragraph about Al-Farabi (in regards to his connection to music). The picture itself is badly attributed; the description just says "Old picture" and "Unknown date". It looks like it has been cropped from something like a textbook (there are remnants of a caption below, and some text on the side) - perhaps the original source is some manuscript, but who knows. And since this is essentially a picture of a picture, it's pretty bad quality.
Perhaps it is time to retire it? There is a variety of other pictures online (there is even a pretty neat one here on Wiki Commons, of Al-Farabi as featured on a Kazakhi bank note), which I think would be better used instead. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 109.66.93.75 (talk) 13:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC)