Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Japanesesuicide.jpg

 
Original - Two Japanese Imperial Marines who committed hari-kari by shooting themselves rather than surrender to a U.S. Marine, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands in the Pacific
Reason
This does an excelent, if somewhat disturbing, job of conveying death by suicide during World War II.
Articles this image appears in
Suicide, Seppuku, Death and culture
Creator
United States Marine Corps

Comment The blurry foreground object in the bottom is distracting-- I think that the photo could be improved by cropping it out. Spikebrennan (talk) 02:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to Support because the blurry thing has been removed. --Sharkface217 00:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please crop out the foreground before I close this. Thanks. MER-C 02:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done - I didn't think it was worth making a seperate "edit" so I just overwrite the original --Fir0002 04:10, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Fir0002, I appreciate your editting the image. TomStar81 (Talk) 09:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Quality low, and in no way a unique picture. There probably are lots of shots of suicided soldiers. The Burningmonk.jpg on the suicide page is much more iconic. Find a large scan of that, and I'll support it. --Janke | Talk 10:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC) (PS: Sorry for being late here, I somehow missed this candidate earlier - holidays...)[reply]
    It's fair use, so it would be ineligible. MER-C 04:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Japanesesuicide.jpg MER-C 04:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]