Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Imperial Japanese expansion

Map of Imperial Japanese expansion, December 1941 — April 1942

 * Reason:The best detailed, accurate, and comprehensive map that I've found depicting the Imperial Japanese conquest of Allied colonial possessions in the four-plus months following the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The image appears to be a very clean and large scan of the map from the source document.  One issue, however, is that the text from the reverse side of the page can be faintly seen bleeding through under magnification.  Also, the map does not show the Japanese attack on Wake Island or the planned operation to seize Nauru and Ocean Islands.
 * Articles this image appears in:Battle of the Coral Sea
 * Creator: United States Army Center of Military History. (1994) The Campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific, Volume I. Reports of General MacArthur., p. 24   Uploaded by Cla68 on February 10, 2009.  Image file contains link.


 * Support as nominator --Cla68 (talk) 01:02, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose not the best compression, could be larger, better as SVG or PNG. Also, is it me or is BURMA missing its 'R'? gren グレン 02:34, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, doggone it, Burma is missing an "R". If the image gets a couple more opposes, I'll probably withdraw it.  I think it's a beautiful and highly-educational map, but it may not be up to featured standards. Cla68 (talk) 02:38, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Putting a piece of black paper behind the page to be scanned helps to eliminate the ghost text. Help:Scanning contains good advice on how to produce potentially featurable reproductions. MER-C 06:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't the one who scanned the image. The image was scanned by whoever put the source book onto the web for he US Army's military history center, but they should have followed your advice. Cla68 (talk) 07:23, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * With the ghost text, and as the source is apparently not particularly notable in and of itself, it may be worth going to WP:GL/IMPROVE and asking them to make an SVG of it. They're usually quite happy to help, and the extra details could be added at that time. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 16:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose due to the ghost text. Spikebrennan (talk) 23:14, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Question: Can the slight tilt be fixed?  Spencer T♦C 00:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Like the rest of MacArthur's reports, the maps in the books are useful, but contain annoying inaccuracies. For instance, the map wrongly shows that the Japanese posed a 'potential threat' of invading northern Australia: MacArthur knew that this wasn't true in 1942 (thanks to code-breaking) and this was confirmed in interviews with Japanese officials shortly after the war. The placement of the 'Malay Barrier' is wrong as it encompassed Ambon and Timor and the use of a large line like those assocated with fortifications in military maps is misleading given how feeble the Allied forces defending the NEI actually were. Placing a symbol on Townsville showing that it was bombed is also odd given that the city was subjected to three tiny air raids and the only casualty on either side was a palm tree. I also don't understand why the heights of mountains is only included for Australia, and the choice of towns in Australia and New Zealand which are included on the map is eccentric (why isn't Auckland there for instance?) and some cities wrongly placed (most notably, Brisbane, which was MacArthur's headquarters for about two years, is shown where Toowoomba is - Brisbane is on the coastal plain, not in the hills as shown). In short, this is a useful image (I've used a different upload of the same map in Military history of Australia during World War II), but it was sloppily designed and is not suitable for a FP. Nick-D (talk) 09:12, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 01:41, 17 February 2009 (UTC)