Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Flares over Fort Lee - Best Warrior 2010.jpg

File:Flares over Fort Lee - Best Warrior 2010.jpg, not featured

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•  Info created by Spc. Venessa Hernandez - uploaded and nominated by Marcus Qwertyus -- Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 20:27, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 20:27, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose Looks like a glorification of war - "annual Best Warrior Competition" --Tuxyso (talk) 21:04, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- However, this should have a personality rights template added. Saffron Blaze (talk) 21:48, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose - no comment -. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 01:22, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose as Tuxyso. Yann (talk) 08:07, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose  Comment style is advertising, subject is war ... --P e z i (talk) 08:11, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
  • We do have quite a few actual advertisements/wartime propaganda that are Featured, you know. This is neither. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 08:25, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
• Nice to see people making political statements instead of judging the merits of the image. 131.137.245.209 13:09, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Comment So, every time an image comes up where I don't like the topic I should oppose it? Saffron Blaze (talk) 02:54, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

  Your point. Changed to comment. --P e z i (talk) 08:23, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• The subject / object of a photo is always part of assesments on FPC (impressive landscape vs. boring landscape). Beneath light and composition a lot of wow comes from the subject itself. If a subject is in no way appealing for me I surely oppose - as it was the case here. There is a red line for me when photo glorify the usage of weapons and war - as it is undoubtlessly the case here. Saffron Blaze, the diversity of opinions of users with different culturual backgrounds should not be condemned but appreciated with regard to the international orientation of Commons. For some people nudity is a red line, for others (like me) the glorification of war and so called Best Warriors --Tuxyso (talk) 08:36, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• I have been in a war. Nothing glorious about it. Still, I can see the merits in the photograph. Saffron Blaze (talk) 11:37, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

•  Oppose If I take a very high quality image or video of a murder or a rape, will it be featured only for my photographers' talents? I don't think, subject of a featured picture is important IMO. In more I am not against war photos or the those of military trainings, but here the soldiers looks to strike the pose for a good image in the purpose of glorification of war and warriors. Christian Ferrer (talk) 12:25, 26 November 2013 (UTC) Christian Ferrer

• Pulitzer: http://media.philly.com/images/600*450/20131010_inq_dm1pulitzer10-a.JPG
• Pulitzer: http://3zgehi1uaxi23dphbrgqa50r6z.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/0120110417-EddieAdams.jpg

131.137.245.208 13:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• yes exatly, a good photo is reality, not a strike : at the war you do not have time to strike the pose, this nomination is not a good photo of war Christian Ferrer (talk) 14:07, 26 November 2013 (UTC) Christian Ferrer

• Looks like a good photo of the training that goes into preparing for war. It seems you hate war (as any rational person should) so you will oppose anything military, unless of course it shows them doing something horrific. I think that is an awkward position to make when we are supposed to celebrate excellence in photography as opposed to making political statements. 131.137.245.206 14:48, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• Nothing against war and soldiers, I've been a soldier and now I'm part of the military reserve force of my country. But if we learn to the "Best Warriors" to stay on a point heightened in the middle of the night under a projector, what we teach to the worst soldiers : to dance the lambada on battlefields. It is not a real war scene, it is a direction and it is not credible. Nothing againts the photographer but I see nothing captivating in the composition and absolutely no encyclopaedic interest. Christian Ferrer (talk) 17:11, 26 November 2013 (UTC) Christian Ferrer

• Oups, I'm totaly wrong, it's not a war scene : it's a shooting range. A reason in more to not promote it, without the description, I shall have had difficulty in guessing. Christian Ferrer (talk) 17:35, 26 November 2013 (UTC) Christian Ferrer

•  Oppose Poor quality, nothing featurable. I'm surprised that it needs to be discussed that long. --A.Savin 16:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• Except people aren't discussing the tecnical merits of the photo. If they were then perhaps you would have a point. 131.137.245.209 18:57, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

•  Oppose Sorry, I talk too fast and too much, per A.Savin --Christian Ferrer 19:23, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose Quality is not sufficient imo. — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 19:48, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /JKadavoor Jee 03:10, 4 December 2013 (UTC)