Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Funeral of Y. Saitō

Funeral of Y. Saitō
Voting period ends on 31 May 2013 at 13:24:47 (UTC)
 * Reason:Quite an unusual historic event, where a Japanese WWII commander is being honorably buried by his American counterparts. During the Battle of Saipan, where Saitō was in command of the Japanese, 3,426 Americans and 24,000 Japanese were killed.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Yoshitsugu Saitō
 * FP category for this image:History/World War II
 * Creator:uncredited


 * Support as nominator --Brandmeistertalk  13:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Support unless there's some technical problem that I'm not seeing. The size passes our criteria; it's highly significant for Saitō's article; it does a good job of showing what's going on; it obviously can't be retaken to overcome minor problems; and it would be quite useful as an illustration in the Battle of Saipan article as well.  Nyttend (talk) 01:23, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose This is an interesting photo, but the unusually formal funeral isn't mentioned in the article at all, which greatly reduces the image's EV (the Battle of Saipan was an unusually hard-fought and bitter affair, even for the Pacific War, so it's surprising there was such a formal funeral for the man responsible for much futile fighting and the deaths of civilians). Also, the permission details at Commons are wrong - this image obviously wasn't created "under jurisdiction of the Government of Japan" given that the US Military had captured Saipan from Japan. This is likely PD as being a US government-created image, or being an old US image, but its creator isn't identified on the source website, and it could also be a still copyright-protected image created by a journalist. Nick-D (talk) 10:02, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed, although I don't know whether the US law applies to Saipan retroactively (formally the Northern Mariana Islands became a US unincorporated territory in 1975, according to our article). The original source of the photo is most likely Pacific War Museum. Brandmeistertalk  15:37, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * How do you know that the image was published prior to 1977 without a copyright notice? The source website appears to provide no details at all on where this image came from, though I may be missing something. Nick-D (talk) 23:40, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Nick-D in regards to EV. -- WingtipvorteX  PTT   ∅  21:00, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:39, 31 May 2013 (UTC)