Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Finnish Bofors crew

Finnish artillery crew

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Original – A group of Finnish soldiers operating a Bofors gun during the Continuation War, Suulajärvi.

Reason: The picture is a high resolution, colour photograph from the Continuation War.
Articles in which this image appears: Bofors
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator: Unknown

Support as nominator – Catlemur (talk) 18:29, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Watermarked.©Geni (talk) 02:11, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- There is a non watermarked version I can upload, the resolution is a bit lower though.--Catlemur (talk) 08:11, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Lot of grain. A bit less resolution would be okay. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:10, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Turns out the non watermarked version's resolution is too low for FP.--Catlemur (talk) 15:29, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I oppose a watermarked version, but maybe someone would be able to digitally remove the watermark without doing any damage to the picture? J Milburn (talk) 19:34, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The sourcing details on the Commons record are currently pretty sparse. It appears that the photo comes from this website, but more details are needed. Nick-D (talk) 08:02, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I included all the info made available by source.I linked source, all that is left is identifying the model of the Bofors.--Catlemur (talk) 16:20, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment — Shouldn't be hard to fudge the watermark, and this is fairly clear for a WWII color shot, but I'm not sure about its EV or significance FP-wise. Minor interest in the mix of German- and Soviet (?)-style helmets. Sca (talk) 15:13, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- That ammo looks like 40mm, in which case the gun would be significant since the 40mm was widely considered one of the best AA guns of WWII, and in the pacific accounted for nearly 50% of Imperial Japan's aircraft losses in that theatre at one point. The 40mm is also one of the enduring weapons of war to come out of WWII, as a the gun is still in service in parts of the world. That having been said, a better image of the gun may have greater odds of getting through here, since the EV of a weapon in war is sometimes not as a good as the EV of a photo of the war weapon before or after the battle. 67.10.109.105 (talk) 08:14, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - for watermark and contrast. ^BE _CK ^Y _SA ^{Y L}E _S 17:00, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:38, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]