Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:American officer and French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city. - NARA - 531322 - restored by Buidhe.jpg

File:American officer and French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city. - NARA - 531322 - restored by Buidhe.jpg, not featured

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Featured picture candidates/File:American officer and French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city. - NARA - 531322 - restored by Buidhe.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:American officer and French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city. - NARA - 531322 - restored by Buidhe.jpg

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•  Info created by unknown US Army Signal Corps photographer - uploaded by National Archives bot - restored and nominated by Buidhe. High historical value as it is used as the lead image of the article on the French Resistance on wikidata and in several Wikipedia languages (English, Spanish, Czech at minimum), and also the cover of a book (a different version of the image). I have benefitted from Adam Cuerden's helpful comments at the enwiki FPC. -- Buidhe (talk) 20:41, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Buidhe (talk) 20:41, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Indeed a striking photograph, and on a somewhat less grim subject than Nazi propaganda. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:28, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 10:42, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Unfortunately the whole world is currently checked into the Hotel Corona. Cmao20 (talk) 14:45, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose This is obviously a posed photo. As per Nick-D's argument here. --Gnosis (talk) 06:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
  • I disagree that a staged photograph necessarily lacks EV. This one is widely used, so many people clearly think it is valuable. This painting does not accurately depict the Battle of Austerlitz, rather it is a staged composition, but it is used as the lead image because we have no better images to use. We already have at least one featured picture of staged World War II fighting. I submit that this case is much the same, as it is dangerous to take photographs when combat is actually occurring. Should we delist Adam Cuerden's opera posters because they are promotional, not particularly realistic, and don't necessarily offer an accurate representation of the opera in progress? (t · c) buidhe 21:57, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

  A staged photo doesn't have any historic significant, can't compare to a painting! sorry --Gnosis (talk) 17:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Regretful oppose. The posing photo can be beautiful and very convincing. However, here is the posing, which i can immediately see only the fake. People in the background ruined this shot, sorry -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:56, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Andrei (talk) 09:26, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Looking back years, decades or centuries later a staged picture can tell more about the times than regular photos. This one definitely does. -- KennyOMG (talk) 10:30, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

A high proportion of combat photos from World War II were posed, but usually not as blatantly as this one. --Gnosis (talk) 17:56, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

This is not Wikipedia Featured Pictures but Commons Featured Pictures. Whether an image carries any EV or historical significance, or even accuracy, should quite frankly be irrelevant (unless it adds to the image's value ofc). Having said that I'd actually argue that this image carries significant historical value as it represents how the allies tried/wanted to portray this part of WWII. -- KennyOMG (talk) 22:32, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose per George Chernilevsky, sorry. --Ivar (talk) 16:17, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose Nice restoration but the posing makes the photo not at all convincing in what it is trying to portray. Sorry. --StellarHalo (talk) 23:06, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--S. DÉNIEL (talk) 12:32, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose, posing becomes something you can't unsee and in fact makes you laugh. Daniel Case (talk) 05:58, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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Result: 7 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Mdaniels5757 (talk) 21:26, 14 July 2020 (UTC)