Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gi Gi the Sea Lion

Gi Gi the Sea Lion

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Original – From Commons: "GiGi, a trained sea lion, nuzzles Capt. Arne Willehag of the USNS Sioux, a Military Sealift Command ocean tugboat in 1983. Gigi and other seals at the time of this photo were being trained to recover underwater anti-submarine rockets as part of the Navy's Quick Find program."

Reason: On technical merits, I think this is a good digitization of a well-composed source image. It's been on the English Wikipedia's page for sea lion for years, and is also used on nine other Wikipedias. (I also think it's kind of charming, personally.) I should be candid in saying that it's 1300px on the short axis, which I know is below the target cutoff. The guidelines said there could by case-by-case exceptions for historical images. Nobody responded when I asked about it on the FPC talk page a month ago, so I guess we'll just have it out here.
Articles in which this image appears: Sea lion
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator: Original photo taken by Bob Borden of Military Sealift Command in the 1980s. (The source caption says only "1983"; the file name says 1984.) Uploaded by Fishdecoy to Wikipedia in March 2008 and then by Mousse to Commons in July 2008.

Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 19:22, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose For EV this would have to be in some military article. Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:17, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – The subpar resolution and unsharp features doesn't make a good FP impression. Passable EV but the lack of a proper source really bothers me. I couldn't find any original source of the image. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Snapshot-style pic. fails to illustrate gist of story re recovering rockets. – Sca (talk) 14:33, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's something I woild feature if there was an article on it. Underwater photography was not much of a thing back then. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 19:32, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:59, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]