Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:My Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota - NARA - 530621 edit.jpg

File:My Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota - NARA - 530621 edit.jpg, featured

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•  Info created by an unknown photographer - restored, uploaded, and nominated by PETER WEIS TALK 21:06, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Comment Charlie don't surf!
•  Support They had to burn it in order to save it... --Tomascastelazo (talk) 23:31, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support --MyCanon (talk) 03:01, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 07:05, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support Chromatic aberration and noise, but I assume you cannot get a better version without ruining it. And it is very valuable for the historic significance. Tomer T (talk) 23:32, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Oppose As Tomer T. พ.s. 05:54, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Question Where do you see chromatic aberration? Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 09:59, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
  • I see terrible noise and heavy posterization. พ.s. 10:17, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
  •  Question Where do you see "terrible noise" and "heavy posterization"? Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 01:41, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Comment This is a restoration of either a negative, slide or print. It really does not matter, for in any case it is a well done restoration. From the photographic perspective, it mainatins a decent dynamic range and more than adequate detail of the objects present. But more importantly, it is a restoration of an image that is so iconic of an event that convoluted the world at the time. As a visual document it brings down the tragedy to a simple level, to the one soldier cassually passing by what must have truly represented a tragedy to the owners of that home. The Zippo lighter and the Winston cigarretes add a strange intimacy to the image, a strange familiarity, a contrast of worldy comforts and the tragedy of war. It is foolish to reduce this image to expectations of what would be possible today with digital technologies. This image is an elocuent and social document of incredible value, both historically and as a photograph standng by itself.--Tomascastelazo (talk) 13:58, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
  • An image that needs a thousand words to explain why it should be featured, may not be worth it in the end... พ.s. 14:07, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
    • Maybe I could agree with such a patronizing sentence, if I were sure that all reviews were careful enough ...--Jebulon (talk) 14:15, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
      • Plenty of images need explaining, for not all images contain all the necessary information for the viewer to understand. Many images need to be understood within a certain context, and it it capital cultural, or the lack of, that leads to different degrees of understanding. If we were to reduce pictures in Commons only to those that have a universal message or understanding by the general population, then we would really be in a sorry state. We would be reduced to liking pretty pictures of sunsets, flowers and cute animals, without necessarily even knowing of the relevance of such subjects in the real world outside their aesthetic characteristics, and even then, aesthetics are not necessesarily universal. So, yes, many pictures need explaining in order to realize their importance. A picture is worth a thousand words is a partially true statement, but more than anything, it is a cliché applied to a very small segment of the photograph population.--Tomascastelazo (talk) 14:37, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support full ack Tomascastelazo --Wladyslaw (talk) 14:03, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support As photo in action -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 17:25, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support Good restauration, historical significance. Popo le Chien ^ouah 13:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
•  Support Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 01:20, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
•  Support I like it, not least because it differs from many other FPs. --Ximonic (talk) 19:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:09, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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