Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/72nd Shinbu Squadron members

72nd Shinbu Squadron members
Voting period ends on 30 Dec 2010 at 00:01:50 (UTC)
 * Reason:A quite unusual portrait of young kamikaze pilots, all of whom have died. The photo became iconic to some extent in Japan, appearing in several local museums and in a number of Japanese books. I didn't crop the thin top/bottom frames because it would eat some photo space as the frames aren't straight, the original low-res framing is here.
 * Articles in which this image appears:72nd Shinbu Squadron, Kamikaze
 * FP category for this image:History/World War II
 * Creator:Asahi Shimbun cameraman


 * Support as nominator -- Twilight chill t   00:01, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Support There was an interesting documentary about Kamikaze pilots on the TV a while ago. It had interviews with some trained, but still living ones. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:09, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the contrast can be increased a bit. Nergaal (talk) 15:16, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now. It's not adding a great amount to Kamikaze, and I don't feel the squandron article is well developed enough. It doesn't mention they're Kamikaze-ready, and at the end it mentions that there were 12 members- does this picture show most of the squadron? J Milburn (talk) 17:24, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I couldn't figure out how many members the squadron had, but 5 seems enough representative, especially with all of their fates known. The word "shinbu", linked in the squadron page, already implies that they were kamikaze. Twilight chill  t   21:09, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I quite get what this photo shows. Would we be promoting a modern photo of five people petting a small animal if all five people happened to belong to the same military group? J Milburn (talk) 23:14, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * If you think a featureable kamikaze should be in/in front of his aircraft or somewhere else - that's another issue, wouldn't argue :) Twilight chill  t   01:39, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment The photo has some EV in that it shows that the Kamikaze pilots weren't all fanatics (most of them seem to have been not very enthusiastic conscripts). However, I don't think that this EV or the technical standards of the photo are sufficient for FP status. Nick-D (talk) 00:38, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 09:13, 30 December 2010 (UTC)