Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters

Set: Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2014 at 17:50:27 (UTC)

Image 1 – On 19th February, during the February 2014 Euromaidan riots, the police attacked protestors, claiming they were arming themselves, and the headquarters of the Euromaidan side was set on fire. This image shows the aftermath of this confrontation.

Image 2: The building burns.

Reason

We're lucky to have some excellent photojournalism coming out of the Ukraine just now. This deserves recognition, and, while there are numerous photographs deserving consideration, I think this would make a good start. Any imperfections can be waived as they're irreplaceable.

Articles in which this image appears

Both are in February 2014 Euromaidan riots. Image 1 additionally appears in 2014 in Ukraine and 2014 in Europe

FP category for this image

Not quite sure. One of the History subcategories, certainly, either Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/War or Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/Others

Creator

User:Amakuha

Just a little background: this building witnessed all the recent major fights for independence of Ukraine: Revolution on Granite, Orange Revolution and Euromaidan. So seeing this building burnt down marks new age in history of Ukraine.

The photos were shot when it was unclear whether there would be shooting on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. Luckily, it was mostly quiet at that time.

On the other hand, I don't consider these pictures to be of high quality neither. But thanks for nomination! --ΑΜακυχα Θ 22:40, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

• Support both (set) as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:50, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support as timely & dramatic. Sca (talk) 18:34, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support both - I have some reservations, of course, but unless something better comes out I doubt there's gonna be much we can do about the quality. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:51, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
• Weak support image 1, Oppose image 2 Both of them have quality issues, but while the first one has merits in depicting the event, the second one, I feel, does not. It's just a burning building, and there's not enough else in the image to serve as proper context. I will say that I wish File:Protesters throwing pieces of paving during and metal tubes at riot police during clashes at Bankova str, Kiev, Ukraine. December 1, 2013.jpg was of better quality, because as an image I feel it has impact. Sᴠᴇɴ Mᴀɴɢᴜᴀʀᴅ Wha? 01:03, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
• weak support both This is a bit recent so maybe we should wait for it to settle.--Theparties (talk) 10:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support both as noted above, almost irreplaceable --Երևանցի ^talk 17:07, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support top, Oppose bottom. The latter really doesn't add much and loses much of the context, would end up being rather confusing if separated from the first. Not a good standalone Featured picture. Mattximus (talk) 21:29, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support both - I prefer the top one more. ///EuroCarGT 03:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support Image 1, gives a wider perspective on what's going on and how it looks like. Brandmeister^talk 21:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Euromaidan_in_Kiev_2014-02-19_12-06.jpg Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:51, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Promoted File:Euromaidan_in_Kiev_2014-02-19_10-22.jpg Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:51, 3 March 2014 (UTC)