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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Oct 2010 at 11:39:42 (UTC)

Original - Meulaboh (or Moulabouh) is the capital of West Aceh Regency, Indonesia. Meulaboh is among the hardest hit areas by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, reducing the population from 120,000 to 80,000. The scene shown includes a US Navy HH-60H Seahawk helicopter delivering relief supplies.
Edit 1 - "Roof" in bottom left cloned out.
Reason
Recent Commons FP that has been used on the English Wikipedia for some time, as a lead image.
Articles in which this image appears
Meulaboh
FP category for this image
Places/Architecture
Creator
3rd Class Benjamin D. Glass, United States Navy
If it is cloned or cropped out, I will support it as per Purpy Pupple. S Masters (talk) 09:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Historical EV lies in the helicopter providing aid to the people after the disastrous tsunami that wiped out 1/3 of the population in the region. This also makes the photo unreproducible. Although the image is not very sharp, it is sufficient to make out important details such as the people crowding around the helicopter. Furthermore, it appears to be Wikipedia's only picture that shows the Meulaboh mosque. Regarding composition, it is not stellar but acceptable, especially since there are many ugly things in the area such as various tin-roofed houses etc. Purpy Pupple (talk) 22:44, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support good quality, historical, high EV. Nergaal (talk) 22:55, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support edit The resolution, historical and unreproducible aspect, as well as high EV, makes this a good candidate in my opinion. S Masters (talk) 00:09, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Messy composition. I cannot support this for historical EV either because then why do we need to see the mosque? Surely the other image on the Meulaboh page does a far better job of illustrating the carnage and aid effort of the tsunami. Centyreplycontribs00:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Because if it weren't for the mosque, we wouldn't know this is set in Meulaboh. But seriously now, you're asking slightly strange questions. This is to illustrate Meulaboh, where the mosque is a central institution of public life. Something a little different because showing only rackety huts for developing world settlements gets rather old after a while. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:51, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 17:39, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]