Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Falaise pocket (2)
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- Reason
- I'm pitching this as a late-in-the-day alternative to the file I withdrew the nomination for earlier, File:Falaise Pocket map.svg. It would replace that file in Falaise pocket if promoted. It includes further details that NickD flagged up as necessary earlier; the numerals are now consistent and different (arbitrary) colours used for constituent parts of the Allied force.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Would be Falaise pocket
- FP category for this image
- Diagrams, drawings, and maps
- Creator
- User:Grandiose, User:Jarry1250 (intermediate), US military (data)
- Support as nominator --Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:17, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
- Comments While this is a further improvement, I don't think that my comments on the previous nomination are all addressed, I'm afraid. My comments on this version are: a) the map I mentioned on my talk page (which I think you've drawn on - it's map 17 here for the benefit of other editors) should allow you to extend the Allied front line to the coast b) The names of the British and Canadian corps remains inconsistent - during the initial set of arrows they're in roman numerals, while in the second set they're back to numbers c) the US Army corps should have 'US' added to their titles much as the nationalities of the British and Canadian units are marked - this is a hangover from the original source, and it's not NPOV (especially as the not-US force in Normandy at this time was about the same size as the US force) d) what's the 'group army' on the northern/coastal edge of the German front? e) 21st Army Group appears to be shown as 20th Army Group on the dividing line between the two allied army groups f) map 15 in the US Army official history linked above should allow you to fill in the German unit locations at the start of this operation, which are currently missing. That said, this is both a significant improvement over the previous version which was nominated and a huge improvement over the original map. Nick-D (talk) 08:22, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
- On further consideration, I'd also suggest that you change the colour of the line dividing the First Canadian and Second British Army to blue - I see what you were aiming at with using the different colour, but I think that it adds complexity. It might also be possible to mark the 17 August Allied front line to the left margin using the maps in the above reference, though things seem to have become pretty fluid by this time (the US Army was advancing east at top speed, and not worrying much about maintaining a cohesive front line). Nick-D (talk) 11:47, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:24, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
