Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:E 003261 E Maoris in North Africa July 1941.jpg

File:E 003261 E Maoris in North Africa July 1941.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Historical
•  Info created by unidentified New Zealand official photographer - uploaded, restored, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Good quality. Supported for historical significance and as a memorable image. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:34, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Per Ikan. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:23, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 04:57, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:44, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Great expression on the face of the center person. Unfortunately, his face is less sharp than the ones around him (motion blur), which tends to divert the eye into other directions. Composition looks pretty "random" to me (simply centered on that one guy, everything else just taken as it came). The guy on the left is cut in an ugly manner, the one behind him looks as if he's just playing along without really being into it. Interesting snapshot, possibly a good VI candidate, but no FP for me. --El Grafo (talk) 13:57, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - I just want to say that your criticisms are very sound. If this were a photo without historical significance, I might well have opposed it on the basis of compositional issues. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:27, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

• However, this is one of the iconic photos of the Maori Battalion. It's not like one can go back to the 1940s to retake. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:13, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

• Exactly. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:13, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

• ... And that's of course a perfectly fine reason to support! --El Grafo (talk) 08:59, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Karelj (talk) 21:35, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 00:05, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 09:22, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 00:12, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Hubertl 04:41, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support It looks like the "kamate" haka of the AllBlacks rugby-union team. Very impressive document, I did not know that such a ceremony was used during the WWII, but it seems normal after all.--Jebulon (talk) 21:42, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 12:20, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Thennicke (talk) 01:43, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 20:17, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Historical