Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/MGL-140 (loading)

Original - A U.S. marine soldier feeding the Milkor MGL-140 grenade launcher with 40mm grenades by twisting the cylinder section clockwise

Reason: It has a good resolution, it´s very explanatory and is very original
Articles this image appears in: Milkor MGL-140, 40mm grenade
Creator: Koalorka (talk)

Support as nominator --☩Damërung ☩. -- 02:31, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose heavy JPEG artifacting. MER-C 02:54, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and Speedy Close per MER-C. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose limited appeal to general users of Wikipedia--Millrick (talk) 17:02, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you clarify your reasoning? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 23:47, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support I don't really know what JPEG artifacting is since I am still new to this but I think its a good image. By the way its just US Marine not marine soldier. Its kinda like saying US sailor soldier or soldier soldier. --Kumioko (talk) 17:34, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- JPEG artefacts Ksempac (talk) 09:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks, so basically a jpeg format picture isn't going to pass this if I am understanding correctly? --Kumioko (talk) 11:14, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - False, but images with visible artifacts at 100% generally don't succeed. MER-C 11:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Most of our FP are JPEG. What is important is how the original file was converted to compressed JPEG. Sometimes FPC with lot of JPEG artefacts can be recompressed from the original uncompressed file to suppress JPEG artefacts. Things like which software you used (forget MSPaint), and compression rate influence heavily the quality of the final image. Ksempac (talk) 12:29, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - ☩Damërung ☩. -- 09:01, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]