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File:Forecasting D-Day.jpeg

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•  Info Western Normandy, France. As the name implies, you could see Omaha Beach just northwest of Bayeux. created by NASA - uploaded by StellarHalo - nominated by StellarHalo -- StellarHalo (talk) 03:28, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- StellarHalo (talk) 03:28, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose This is a satellite image that maybe somehow approximates how an aerial reconnaissance photograph for D-Day could have looked like, had they used color film for that instead of the much emore common b&w. Not much wow in that for me. What's worse: It takes 7 paragraphs of history until the description finally mentions what is actually shown in this image. I think NASA is over-selling their shot quite a bit here. --El Grafo (talk) 09:15, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Support because the details are so beautiful even if there's no amazing composition, but per El Grafo, the name of the photo needs to be changed and a clear description of what we're actually looking at should be added in the beginning of the file description. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Support per Ikan. Cmao20 (talk) 14:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose no wow for me compared to other satellite photos; also, I don't foresee encyclopedic uses for this, as we have plenty of genuine wwii aerial photographs which have higher EV for actual D-Day related uses. Buidhe (talk) 18:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Don't be too unimaginative about encyclopedic uses - not that FPC is close to exclusively about that (that's more VIC's purview). This could easily be useful in an article about Normandy, its land use, Landsat 8 images, the Operational Land Imager and doubtless any number of articles neither you nor I would think of. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:07, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Maybe, but this image only shows parts of Normandy, significantly reducing its encyclopedic uses. Buidhe (talk) 07:00, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

• • Sure, but for that it would need a proper neutral description rather than piles of pathos we copied from NASA. --El Grafo (talk) 09:29, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

• That isn't difficult to do. "Landsat 8 photograph of parts of Normandy, showing land use", etc. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:23, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

•  Oppose per El Grafo. Daniel Case (talk) 00:01, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose per El Grafo RolfHill (talk) 18:22, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose per El Grafo. -- Karelj (talk) 14:08, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination --StellarHalo (talk) 03:15, 12 April 2021 (UTC)