Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Map of the Falaise Pocket

Map of the Falaise Pocket[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Jun 2012 at 22:21:33 (UTC)

Reason: SVG version of a well sourced map; newly reinvigorated to use standard colours and for other aesthetics. Clear EV in illustrating the battle; good (but not exceptional) level of detail.
Articles in which this image appears: Falaise pocket
FP category for this image: Diagrams, drawings, and maps
Creator: US DoD; User:Jarry1250 (notified); User:Grandiose.

Support as nominator --Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 22:21, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
questions What country is this? And is it possible to spell "ST LO" in full? Matthewedwards (talk · contribs) 23:25, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Northern France (assuming that wasn't a rhetorical question?). I've spelled out SAINT-LO in full, not because of the abbreviation per se but the fact our article hyphenates it. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 09:17, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Sorry Grandiose, but I don't think that this is a FP-standard map. My concerns are: a) the lack of front lines at the northern end of the front is a significant limitation b) only the names of Allied corps are marked on the map, and there's no information about the movements of German units c) the only German unit named is the Seventh Army. For some reason the boundaries of the Allied armies aren't included d) the US Army corps are correctly named using roman numerals, but the British/Canadian corps are named with numbers, which is incorrect (the '30th Corps' is well-known as XXX Corps, for instance). I'd also suggest using different colours to differentiate the British/Canadian/Polish forces (aka the 21st Army Group) and the American forces (12th Army Group) as the poor coordination between the British and American commands was important to this battle, as it prevented the German force from being entirely encircled. I recognise that these limitations are attributable to the original map, and are not of your making. Nick-D (talk) 23:33, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I assume the difference in numerals is the mapmaker's may of differentiating nationality. Hardly ideal, though. I was looking to see if I could merely append extra information to this map, but the maps I've found contradict each other making this very difficult. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 09:41, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I imagine that's the case (it may have even been the convention in the US Army WW2 official history series from which this is sourced). Using different colours would help get around this problem. Nick-D (talk) 09:59, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by nominator. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 09:41, 19 June 2012 (UTC) Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 12:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by nominator. Makeemlighter (talk) 12:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]