Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/16-in 45 caliber gun

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Apr 2011 at 07:29:53 (UTC)

Original - USS South Dakota at Scapa Flow with her 16"/45 caliber guns trained out.

Reason: I find this to be an interesting picture of the 16 in 45 caliber guns used aboard the South Dakota-class battleships of World War II. The depiction of the guns in multiple positions demonstrates the principle of a "three gun" turret in which each gun can be independently raised or lowered as opposed to a "triple turret" where every gun is raised and lowered without the option for individual control.
Articles in which this image appears: South Dakota class battleship (1939), 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Weaponry
Creator: United States Navy

Support as nominator --TomStar81 (Talk) 07:29, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Eye-catching, but needs some spots cleaning I think. Brandmeister t 02:02, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
JPEG artefacts? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 10:18, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Indeed. I don't think this can be cleaned up from this version. It's been overcompressed. Can someone find a .tif file out there somewhere? Chick Bowen 21:15, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Until then, oppose. While looking for a better quality image, I found lots of "similar" images (taken of the same ship at the same time, probably by the same person), and I'm not sure if this particular picture is really so outstanding. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 07:18, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Yes, I had the same experience as you. I oppose this as well for now. Chick Bowen 19:23, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Per Chick Bowen; the quality suffers from being too compressed. —mc10 (t/c) 05:37, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 08:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]