Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/War Veteran

War Veteran


I saw this picture just now, and it struck a cord with me. The photo is credited as a U.S. Census Bureau image uploaded by User:Petaholmes and currently appearing in the article Veterans Day.

Note this page only appeared today. Raven4x4x 03:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - TomStar81 00:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support --Rogerd 03:53, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support 100%.- Dak ota     t     e  ''' 09:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Far too small - it's barely larger than the thumbnail. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 11:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. JDH Owenstalk 20:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * , astonishing. Halibutt 02:56, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Halibutt, I know you hate us doing this, but I had to put nowiki tags around your thing otherwise it doesn't show. Enochlau 05:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Waaaay too small!!!! Enochlau 05:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * and hence oppose. Enochlau 07:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Far too small. —DO'&#1048;eil 10:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Image is too small for FP, and frankly, I have trouble supporting a image when we dont know for sure what war he is a veteran of. -Lanoitarus 19:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * We do know, if the metadata on the image page is correct:
 * Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He is holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in the Korean War. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 21:07, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, I didnt see that the first time, and the original nomination said the war was unknown. My mistake. I rescind that part of my objection, however i still object based on image size. - Lanoitarus 22:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Good picture, even if small. Borisblue 07:58, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Very poignant; would be preferable if the image was bigger, though. SoLando (Talk) 10:25, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support: so striking and poignant, it doesn't matter that it is small. CDThieme 00:29, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I am aware that some of you wish to have an enlarged version of this picture, so I have been searching for one for the past few days; however, as the fall finals aproach more and more of my time has been spent studying so that I can aviod another semester of academic probation. I, too, would like to see a larger version of the picture, but right now I can't spare the hours needed to roam the web in search of a bigger photo. TomStar81 00:35, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Absurdly small.--Deglr6328 03:43, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I had some free time today, and went looking for a larger version of the picture. I stumbled across this site, which has the picture credited as a USAF photo by Mickey Sanborn taken in 1982, but I can't find a hi-res version. Did we even have high resolution images in 1982? TomStar81 20:09, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * With the Thanksgiving weekend break upon us I took the time to do a really thourgh search fo a larger version of this picture; however, having spent most of today looking I can now say with some certinty that this is most likely as large as it is going to get. Sorry. TomStar81 06:24, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh well, thanks for searching anyway. Enochlau 23:05, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 05:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

