Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fireworks over USS North Carolina (BB-55)

Fireworks over USS North Carolina (BB-55)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Jul 2010 at 22:41:42 (UTC)

Original - Fireworks illuminate the skies over Battleship North Carolina (BB-55) capping week long celebrations surrounding the commissioning the newest Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine North Carolina (SSN-777) on 3 May 2009.

Reason: I just like this image. Figured I'd put it up for FPC just so that the pages that use this image field would include an FPC nom.
Articles in which this image appears: North Carolina class battleship, National Register of Historic Places listings in New Hanover County, North Carolina
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator: Mass Communication Specialist 2ND Class Roadell Hickman (USN)

Support as nominator --TomStar81 (Talk) 22:41, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The quality is lacking, and I'm really not seeing any real encyclopedic value. J Milburn (talk) 23:30, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Gee, I like the image, and clicked on it to look at the full zoom. It is certainly very *nice* and I don’t think the quality is lacking. But like J Milburn, I’m not seeing the EV. Greg L (talk) 02:11, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- How about patriotism? That's encyclopedic, right? From an anthropological perspective, it could also be considered a study into the significance placed in the honor of a commissioning ceremony for a naval ship. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:39, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - This doesn't really illustrate patriotism, and though there is some of the other, the ceremony itself is hardly wildly important, and this doesn't actually illustrate the ceremony that well. We just have some blurry fireworks behind a blurry, dark ship. Sorry. J Milburn (talk) 10:28, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the fireworks aren't sharp, they are cut off, as is the ship... There is also no way of knowing from this picture what type of ship it is - it's just a ship with guns, so is not a good example of North Carolina class Battleship sorry. Nice enough picture, but nowhere near FP... And may I also say that nom'ing a picture purely so a page has an FP nom on it is a very poor reason to create the nom... You should be creating nom's based on quality pictures, not just to make an article look better... Gazhiley (talk) 09:55, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Interesting composition, but minimal encyclopedic value. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:36, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - EV isn't there. There was a reason I nominated it for FP at Commons and not here when I uploaded it... :/ —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 17:34, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:40, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]