Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image:Marine da nang.jpg

Marine da nang

Reason: Oddly compelling picture but it's not used in any articles and it's a bit small by featured standards.
Nominator: Guest9999 (talk)

Nomination ~~cannot proceed~~ until original uploader and/or nominator is notified (for the third time in about a week). I've even added a note to that effect to the delist template since last time, still to no effect! --jjron (talk) 06:39, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Original FPC nom here, previous delist nom here. --jjron (talk) 06:39, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I thought I had informed the original uploader[1] five minutes after I made the nomination[2], should have looked at the log. Guest9999 (talk) 18:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Must admit I missed that 'dead' edit on the original uploader anyway, I actually only checked the FPC nominator's talkpage as it wasn't created by a Wikipedian. All good now. --jjron (talk) 06:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Responding to the 'small' issue, I've gone to the source and re-uploaded the original (after cleaning up dust and scratches). Its a bit soft, but since this is the original (at least as far as the National Archives is concerned), this is as good as its going to get. My vote is for a Keep, anyway. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'd now have no problem withdrawing my nomination if the image can be placed in a suitable article. Guest9999 (talk) 18:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've left a message on the Vietnam War talk page asking one of the editors if they can find a home for the image. Lets see what happens. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delist the reason it isn't used in any articles because its encyclopedic value is limited, it's just a portrait snapshot of an unidentified person and it doesn't illustrate any particular activity of the Vietnam war (not even the 1965 landing at da nang), except maybe showing what a uniform of that period looked like, there are 1000s of images like this considering the popularity of photography among American military personnel that served in that war.Thisglad (talk) 22:09, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Added to the article Military camouflage, in the U.S. section for the vietnam war. That satisfies the needed article requirement. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Looks good. ^8thstar 00:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Resolution is good and since it is now used in an article I see no reason to delist it. As far as I can recall, when this became a FP it was used in several articles. - Darwinek (talk) 22:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly I noticed that contrary to standard procedure it was never listed which articles the image was used in in the original nom Thisglad (talk) 08:12, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to go and look at some other noms from 2005 - try the month this was originally nominated for example. Back then listing the articles was not standard procedure, that only came in later; some people mentioned it in their reason, some didn't. --jjron (talk) 03:01, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per Darwinek--CPacker (talk) 01:39, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Darwinek makes a very good point. I don't see a reason to delist. Spencer^T♦^C 16:51, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep there is nothing wrong with this picture. Clegs (talk) 21:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, good clarity. MrPrada (talk) 05:01, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept MER-C 06:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]