Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/1960-07-21 First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat

Delist: 1960-07-21 First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat
Voting period ends on 29 Jul 2018  at 21:19:28 (UTC)
 * Reason:I opposed the original nomination in 2015. It is embarrassing that Wikipedia decided to feature an Ogg-Theora encoded video in 2015, despite the format having never been widely adopted, and already obselete by 2014.


 * I'd have left it as another embarrassing FPC artifact, but saw that very recently, another 2015 video which I opposed for the same reasons (but passed anyway), was delisted for using a low quality, obsolete format - Featured picture candidates/delist/PWR Nuclear Power Plant Maybe Wikipedians understand the argument now.


 * Taking the source video and re-encoding it as VP9 would create an unambiguously better video than the one featured, just as it would have been in 2015. Any Theora file fails criteria #1.


 * Articles this image appears in:UGM-27 Polaris, USS George Washington (SSBN-598), Post-presidency of George Washington
 * Previous nomination/s:Featured picture candidates/Launch of the first UGM-27 Polaris Ballistic Missile from the ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598) 20 July 1960
 * Nominator: hahnch e n


 * Delist &mdash; hahnch e n 21:19, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Pinging as this file is due to be front paged in a few hours. - hahnch e n 21:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think this nomination affects the main page featuring. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:08, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep pending a replacement. As far as I understand, the format is still one of those accepted here, even if not preferred. Given webm is preferred, when we have a webm version of this we can delist one and replace it with the other. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:05, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Among other things, it's quite odd to refer to a U.S. submarine as a U-boat, which of course is a German term (for Untersee Boot). Sca (talk) 21:27, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 14:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No consensus to delist and the video is still used in 3 articles. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)