Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USS Arizona sinking

USS Arizona sinking

Reason: Companion nomination to the USS Arizona survivor image: the highest resolution image I could find of the disaster (12 megs, scanned at 1000dpi) restored from Image:USS Arizona sinking 2.jpg with scratches, fibers, stains, and other artifacts removed. Histogram adjusted. Today this sunken ship remains visible a few feet beneath the surface and is the most solemn part of the Pearl Harbor museum complex.
Articles this image appears in: USS Arizona (BB-39), Pearl Harbor
Creator: unknown (official U.S. Navy file, public domain)

Support as nominator Durova^Charge! 01:06, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wow! Very well done restore! This is one of the most famous pictures of WW2. My only gripe is that it is almost too big. Maybe downsample? (I know, I'm splitting hairs.) Even if not, though, I really like it. Clegs (talk) 03:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, the final version is 2.47 megs. Durova^Charge! 03:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support Very clear, eye catching, and a famous image from World War two. - Ohmpandya ^{We need to talk... ♦ contribs} 04:19, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Opppose While this photo is clearly very historically significant it is hard to see what it depicts due to the smoke and general confusion. It's an important photo, but not a great one. --Nick Dowling (talk) 05:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Dowling. Mario1987 (talk) 10:22, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - very historically significant, significance outweighs technical faults (slightly out of focus). Nick, if you read the article (I'm not sure if you have or not) you'll find that it would have been impossible to get a photo of the Arizona without all the smoke and confusion - the front half of the ship was completely destroyed in the explosion, and the wreck burned for days. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 11:58, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I'm familiar with the battle of Pearl Harbour, and agree that the photo is highly historically significant and adds a lot of value to the articles on this topic. However, I don't think that it's technically a good photo and it fails criteria 1 and possibly criteria 3 of the featured picture criteria. --Nick Dowling (talk) 09:05, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Are there any other pics of the Arizona from that day? --Shark face 217 01:58, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. Low quality, though, in the versions online: small files, lossy compression, and/or scanned at low resolution on dirty machines. Durova^Charge! 02:04, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose on the balance, per Nick. There's a number of burning warships already as FP, not sure how many we need. But looking at some of them, composition here is really average. --jjron (talk) 16:03, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No matter the historical significance, this is a horrible photograph in the standard of being able to see it. To me it just looks like a giant colomn of smoke. Madadude^{My Talk Page} 20:45, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus MER-C 02:25, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]