Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Supressive Fire

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Supressive Fire[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 Oct 2015 at 11:21:40 (UTC)

Original – Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen use a Gatling gun to lay down suppressing fire during a practice hot extraction of forces on the beach.
Reason
An interesting photograph of US Navy's Special Warfare Combat Craft crew laying down suppressive fire during a live fire exercise simulating a retrieval from from a beach whose landing site for the craft is under attack from enemy forces.
Articles in which this image appears
Equipment of the United States Armed Forces, Multiple barrel firearm, Rotary cannon, Suppressive fire
FP category for this image
War or equipment, probably
Creator
Shane T. McCoy
  • Support as nominatorTomStar81 (Talk) 11:21, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Nothing in this picture tells me that this is suppressive fire. All we see is a soldier operating a Gatling. Really doesn't work for me - the framing is too tight, even the blast is cut off. It is also too small by the usual FP criteria. Samsara 11:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose – Too small, no special reasons to promote. Yann (talk) 12:24, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Yann. --Tremonist (talk) 12:32, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose because of size (1500x1500 minimum). Otherwise good. SkywalkerPL (talk) 20:26, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • ...Right, I keep forgetting its length and height now, not length or height. In that case I submit that this should be closed on grounds that it is ineligible for FP status (and frankly wouldn't get it at this point anyway). TomStar81 (Talk) 06:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:46, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]