Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/C-17 carrying passengers out of Afghanistan

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Original – A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transporting 823 people out of Afghanistan during the 2021 Taliban offensive.
Reason
This is a high quality, public domain photo of a historical event that adds significant value to at least three articles.
Articles in which this image appears
Operation Allies Refuge, Fall of Kabul (2021), 2021 Taliban offensive
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War
Creator
Zoozaz1 (uploader)
  • I'm not "expecting" them to do anything but their jobs. We're judging this picture's FP qualities, not USAF professionalism. It just doesn't have the composition that I would consider to be FP-quality. -- Veggies (talk) 17:43, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Good photo with excellent EV. I really don't understand the comments regarding composition above: this photo depicts an absolutely packed military transport aircraft during an historic flight undertaken in emergency conditions, so the obstructions are to be expected. The sheeting was likely screening the toilet facilities, which are located in that part of C-17 aircraft, so it's odd to suggest that it shouldn't have been there. In short, the photo accurately depicts what this event looked like, and in a pretty striking way. Nick-D (talk) 05:28, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Janke & Charles. —kallerna 12:48, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Per Nick-D this is a live action, documentary photo. It shows the chaotic, unplanned, unusual circumstance well. The messiness of the composition complements the messiness of the whole operation. In this case EV takes priority over artistic value IMO (criterion 5). On a sidenote: it's already used in 7 articles. Bammesk (talk) 03:04, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 16:22, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Janke. MER-C 10:05, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - that's a historic photo, and even if the composition is not perfect, it's the case where subject is more important that quality. - Artem.G (talk) 07:37, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]