Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A-10 moving for attack

Image:A-10A Thunderbolt II Desert Storm.jpg

 * Reason:When I first saw this picture, I was breathtaken. A stunning example of U.S. Air Power. The sun shining brightly on this Godly Warbird, the dark shadows on the wide, the mist over the ground, it's just stunning to me.
 * Proposed caption:An A-10 Warthog flies above cropfields, moving to attack Iraqi ground forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
 * Articles this image appears in:Gulf War
 * Creator:User:Bwithh


 * Support as nominator Cheers, Je tL ov e r  (talk) 00:14, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * support--Mbz1 01:06, 31 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
 * Oppose I agree, the image is very dramatic, and well-crafted. I really enjoy the image and think that its artistic value is top-notch, but I see the encyclopedic value is lacking. The image doesn't portray the whole aircraft, so it doesn't really do the job of helping readers understand the subject in the A-10 Warthog article. And in the context of the article Gulf War, which already has so many shots of D.S. airfighters (many of which show more planes and a heavier emphasis on environment), I don't know that it adds a substantial amount. Per FPC 5, I unfortunately can't support this particular candidate. SingCal 02:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * oppose Stunning, Godly subject is cut off, inky shadows obscure detail and are noisy. Debivort 02:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * oppose It would be a cool picture if so much of the plane wasn't cut off. I think that many of the images on the Warthog page are much better, for instance [[Image:A-10_firing_AGM-65.JPEG|60px]], [[Image:A10Thunderbolt2_990422-F-7910D-517.jpg|60px]], [[Image:An A-10 from the 81st Fighter Squadron flies over central Germany.jpg|60px]], and even more on Commons [[Image:A-10 Thunderbolt II 1.jpg|60px]], [[Image:A-10 Thunderbolt II 2.jpg|60px]].  Cacophony 04:06, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That third image there is just totally bad-ass. I mean, technically speaking, of course.  Spikebrennan 17:20, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That third image there is just totally bad-ass. I mean, technically speaking, of course.  Spikebrennan 17:20, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Ruefully oppose - Per above. I can't believe they're retiring these things.  Their absolute bad-ass-ness puts my pinko commie pacifism to the test.  --TotoBaggins 13:42, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 09:32, 6 August 2007 (UTC)