Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation

Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation
Voting period ends on 1 Jan 2017  at 23:40:13 (UTC)
 * Reason:Decent quality. A similar photo won 1963 World Press Photo of the year. Malcolm Browne went on to win the Pulitzer Prize the next year. Provides significant encylopedic value by illustrating Thích Quảng Đức's protest that resulted in his death, and compels the reader to learn more.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Thích Quảng Đức, Malcolm Browne, Buddhist crisis, Self-immolation, 1963
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/History/Others
 * Creator:Malcolm Browne for the Associated Press


 * Support as nominator – Ramaksoud2000 (Talk to me) 23:40, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support - Absolutely iconic. GamerPro64  00:52, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support  lNeverCry   02:26, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support. I hope we can find an appropriate date to run this on the main page. Josh Milburn (talk) 03:21, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per above - iconic image.--Godot13 (talk) 06:19, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support -- LivioAndronico (talk) 10:13, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support Reminds me on a Napalm girl from Vietnam. But this one is free now. Other Pulitzers will have to wait. --PetarM (talk) 12:29, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support of course. And kudos for noticing the copyright nonrenewal :) &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 23:59, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support - -- Marvellous Spider-Man  06:34, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support -- One of the best nominees this year. Extremely high EV, extremely shocking -- but important -- subject matter. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:34, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed, and it looks like this will be the first image promoted next year. Worth trying to get in the Signpost, maybe. Josh Milburn (talk) 03:36, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support -- as others. Yann (talk) 19:38, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support – Jobas (talk) 20:52, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support - Good catch on that copyright, this is one of those photos that appears in the history books, so I'm pleased to see its on the verge of obtaining an FP Star. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:12, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 00:21, 2 January 2017 (UTC)