Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Boot Monument

Boot Monument

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Original – Monument to Benedict Arnold's injured foot at Saratoga National Historical Park

Reason

This is a unique war memorial commemorating a proverbial "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named" in American society: Benedict Arnold. The monument takes its name from various version of the following story: When Benedict Arnold was leading the forces of the King against his former compatriots in Virginia, among his prisoners was a certain plucky and witty officer, who, in answer to Arnold's question, "What will the Americans do with me if they catch me?" replied, "They will cut off the leg which was wounded when you were fighting so gloriously for the cause of liberty, and bury it with the honors of war, and hang the rest of your body on a gibbet." As a unique memorial to a war hero I thought I would nominate this here and see if anyone else thought it would make a good FP.

Articles in which this image appears

Boot Monument, Benedict Arnold ,Battles of Saratoga

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History

Creator

Americasroof

• Support as nominator --TomStar81 (Talk) 04:01, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
• Comment -- I believe the photo subject matter is worthy of FP status. The photo, I believe, would be improved under better lighting and that the base was cleaned off. Cmguy777 (talk) 22:45, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose Poor image quality (sharpness/detail) and poor composition (framed from standard head height (snapshotty) and camera is not properly centred resulting in non-symmetrical/skewed verticals) --Fir0002 03:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. Pine^✉ 07:17, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose -- Its a lazy shot. I expect the photographer to lower himself to the level of the memorial and also position himself symmetrically in front of it. Sanyambahga (talk) 11:11, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose per Sanyambahga. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 11:17, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 15:46, 24 June 2012 (UTC)