Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/HMCS Saskatoon with CH-149 Cormorant

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Jun 2018 at 22:22:35 (UTC)

Reason: Lede image for the article HMCS Saskatoon (MM 709) with interesting action. The image is used in seven articles.
Articles in which this image appears: HMCS Saskatoon (MM 709), Royal Canadian Navy, Kingston-class coastal defence vessel, AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant, and four more.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Water
Creator: Rayzlens

Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 22:22, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. --Gnosis (talk) 16:01, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'll eat my hat if this is the work of a random Wikimedia Commons contributor, who only ever uploaded this photo in this 2010 before never posting again. It's an aerial shot of a military exercise, and so highly unlikely to have been taken by a member of the public. I note that the image also lacks metadata. This is almost certainly a Canadian Government photo uploaded under a false claim. Nick-D (talk) 11:19, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nick-D while it had crossed my mind that this could be a Canadian government photo, my quick Google search does not show this in top results which would be surprising if this is an official Canadian government photo. There are alternative explanations that would make sense, such as the photographer being a Canadian Armed Forces person or the employee of a government contractor who took this photo in a personal capacity. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I think that AGF should apply here. --Pine^✉ 18:28, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how anyone could take this image in a personal capacity, and the pattern of a single-use account posting a professional-grade image on Commons which has no metadata is almost always associated with a copyright violation. Nick-D (talk) 22:21, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(That said, if it can be established that this is PD - for instance a US military image - then I'd definitely support it, as it's an excellent photo). Nick-D (talk) 23:12, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose must surely be military or military-authorized press image. Charlesjsharp (talk) 07:16, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment See c:Commons:Deletion requests/. Yann (talk) 15:23, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:46, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]