Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Savo Island

Battle of Savo Island

I respectfully self-nominate this article on a naval battle from World War II for Featured Article consideration. The article was peer reviewed, reviewed under the guidelines at WP:WTA, and was built on a solid foundation laid by Gdr and Grant65 among others. Cla68 04:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support, yet another outstanding article. Kirill Lokshin 04:28, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great article. Kyriakos 04:42, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 08:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. Nice article but I'd like to see the licencing of the images explained better. A photograph taken by a Japanese sailor is not a "work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties". Japanese war art is not work of the US Federal Government. That these images have at some point made their way into US government archives doesn't ipso facto mean that they are in the public domain. Or if it does then I'd like to see the image description pages explaining how. Haukur 09:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are a lot of images in the U.S. National Archives and other US government historical agencies that were made by the Imperial Japanese government or the Imperial Japanese Navy or Army. The U.S. government websites or other sources of the images state very clearly that they are public domain (for example: [1]) It appears that they are public domain for several reasons: (1) Japanese copyright law is "Death (termination) + 50"; the Imperial Japanese government terminated in 1945, making any of the images they produced public domain 50 years later, (2) the U.S. government believes that those images are property of the US government because the US government absorbed the Imperial Japanese government into itself during the Allied (primarily US) occupation of Japan including all of its properties, and (3) when I've looked at the files for Imperial Japanese government images on the Japanese Wikipedia, the editors there usually use the "all rights released by the author" tag for the images, if not the "US Government public domain tag", from what I can understand because upon the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese government in 1945, its images and documents were released from copyright into the public domain. Is there anything anywhere that expressly states what I've said above instead of by implication? Not that I'm aware of. However, if the U.S. Government says that those are public domain images, and they clearly state that, I think that's good enough. Cla68 10:18, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All right, that seems good enough. This information needs to be on the image description pages - maybe a specialized tag would be helpful? Haukur 10:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that would be very helpful. Cla68 12:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mild support, mild vice strong only because I find all the big quotes with the blue quote marks very distracting. Otherwise, outstanding job.Rlevse 11:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I like quotes that emphasize a certain point in the story or topic but I can understand how they might be distracting also. Cla68 12:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support Wandalstouring 21:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support Damn good article.UberCryxic 03:20, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Yannismarou 15:35, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]