Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Live Fire Exercise

Live Fire Exercise[edit]

Soldiers practice with their rifles during a live fire exercise

Three soldiers armed with assault rifles engage in target practice during a two-day live-fire exercise. PD picture, currently used in the article live fire exercise.

Nominate and support. - TomStar81 (Talk) 22:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. No "wow" factor, not especially "pleasing to the eye" either. --Janke | Talk 23:10, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's a high-quality encyclopedic picture. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 00:16, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support I don't see what you could use it for but it is an excellent picture none the less. --¿Why1991 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 05:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Why is it excellent? wwicki
Oppose Agree with Janke. Also, the man in first plan is unfocused. Alvesgaspar 11:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It does not illustrate its content in-depth and it wouldn't influence a user to read the rest of the article. This picture could just as well be troops competing in a summer biathlon. It could also be an action movie. This picture could be many things snd one can find similar-looking pictures on any search engine. I agree that it is is of high quality. This simply isn't enough however, as there are many other criterions. wwicki 19:09 , 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Oppose, looks like a typical firing-line shot. Image:Casing.jpg has something special that this doesn't. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 17:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support. This is good, but is that the bullet coming out of the rifle, on the right side? Maybe it would be better if that was taken out if its a casing or explained that its a bullet. Ilikefood 18:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- It can't be the bullet, the speed is to high. With a typical initial speed of 500 m/s, the bullet displacement during 1/500s (the time the objective was open in the present case) will be 1 meter! So, the object must be the empty shell. Alvesgaspar 23:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - For the M16, it's more like 800-900 m/s. The thing doesn't even look like a bullet either. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 23:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Oppose Yeah, looks like a casing. Unfortunate composition! As NightGyr said, there are better images and this one doesn't have a wow factor. --Dschwen 09:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Noclip 05:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Could you provide a reason for opposing? TomStar81 (Talk) 08:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - It isn't very encyclopedic. Noclip 14:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose - the current featured picture of an M4A1 is better in my opinion. How ironic that I nominated it... ;) —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 10:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Encyclopic value anyone? Wikipediarul e s 2221 02:36, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 01:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]