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Original – From Commons: "GiGi, a trained sea lion, nuzzles Capt. Arne Willehag of the USNS Sioux, a Military Sealift Command ocean tugboat in 1983. Gigi and other seals at the time of this photo were being trained to recover underwater anti-submarine rockets as part of the Navy's Quick Find program."
Reason
On technical merits, I think this is a good digitization of a well-composed source image. It's been on the English Wikipedia's page for sea lion for years, and is also used on nine other Wikipedias. (I also think it's kind of charming, personally.) I should be candid in saying that it's 1300px on the short axis, which I know is below the target cutoff. The guidelines said there could by case-by-case exceptions for historical images. Nobody responded when I asked about it on the FPC talk page a month ago, so I guess we'll just have it out here.
Articles in which this image appears
Sea lion
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator
Original photo taken by Bob Borden of Military Sealift Command in the 1980s. (The source caption says only "1983"; the file name says 1984.) Uploaded by Fishdecoy to Wikipedia in March 2008 and then by Mousse to Commons in July 2008.

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:59, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]