Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:ANA soldier with RPG-7 in 2013-cropped.jpg

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•  Info Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier firing an RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launcher during a training exercise
•  Info created by Staff Sgt. Ezekiel Kitandwe - uploaded by Brandmeister - nominated by Thennicke -- Thennicke (talk) 06:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support For timing and general technical merit as well as image value -- Thennicke (talk) 06:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support excellent! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:29, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Minimal purple chromatic aberration --The Photographer (talk) 12:58, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Sakhalinio (talk) 13:36, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support in spite of large totally blown area. --Tremonist (talk) 14:53, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

•  Question It'd surely look blown in real life, no? Are there cameras that can capture such extreme dynamic range?? -- Thennicke (talk) 06:36, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

No, most probably there aren't any cameras capable to do this. Still, we commonly don't tend to support photos with large blown areas, but there are exceptions. --Tremonist (talk) 14:03, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

•  Support Boooooooom! 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 15:39, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- KTC (talk) 17:01, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support A good hint why one should never stand behind a rocket launcher. :) --Ximonic (talk) 19:30, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose BOOOOOOM, a military fake, not more. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 07:14, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

• A set up shot sure, but fake as in the RPG is not real, or it was photoshoped in or something, seriously? <_<

•  Support, I only dislike the obligatory military vignette. Still, a very good (and interesting) depiction of an RPG being launched. — Julian H.^✈ 15:34, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Hockei (talk) 16:54, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 17:27, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Kadellar (talk) 17:50, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose For Alchemist--Σπάρτακος (talk) 07:02, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Info and the main question: need we a "glorification of war" perhaps at our main page as a PotD? --94.134.228.185 09:16, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

• That's a valid concern, but there are plenty of military images that have been promoted on commons. Why do you see this one as more supportive of such activity than the rest? I nominated it for image quality, independent of subject. Would you have the same concern with images like [1], [2] and [3]? -- Thennicke (talk) 10:07, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

•  Oppose As Alchemist. I don´t want to support any of this kind of pictures. --Hubertl 11:31, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment If an image support the war or not, this is an interpretation of the observer. The role of Wikipedia is not achieve world peace, the function is to provide free knowledge no matter how crude that is. --The Photographer (talk) 11:34, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment @The Photographer: you are wrong! This is or can be a similar Wikipedia-Commons political decision, how our guideline about the GFDL 1.2 only license! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 13:27, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 17:24, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Golden Bosnian Lily (talk) 18:08, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

 Request @Golden Bosnian Lily: Your reason? --Hockei (talk) 18:18, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

I hate war and people who support such a crap! --Golden Bosnian Lily (talk) 18:36, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

And because you hate the war you can hide every free and encoclopedyc information about the war. --The Photographer (talk) 18:58, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

 Comment @Golden Bosnian Lily: I hate war too. But photography is not all about the good things in life. It can show how horrible people can be to each other too. Besides, this image is at a firing range, as it says in the description. And you should address my point that other war photos have been promoted before opposing, or you are being irrational and having a kneejerk reaction to what is otherwise a very high-quality and encyclopaedic image. -- Thennicke (talk) 01:14, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

•  Oppose Per Alche LivioAndronico ^(talk) 18:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support - Benh (talk) 11:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mile (talk) 21:25, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

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