Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Crossing the T

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Reason: It caught my eye and illistrates the concept of Crossing the T rather well
Proposed caption: Crossing the T was a tactic in naval warfare, in which a line of warships crosses in front of a line of enemy ships, allowing them to bring all their guns to bear while receiving fire from only the forward guns of the enemy. It became possible in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the advent of steam-powered battleships with rotating gun turrets, but became obsolete when missiles and aircraft allowed long-range strikes..
Articles this image appears in: Crossing the T
Creator: Anynobody

Support as nominator TomStar81 (Talk) 03:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose Graphic not very impressive, and it looks like all the ones in line shoot anyway, wasting ammo... ;-) No, a featured animated gif needs to be more impressive than this. --Janke | Talk 07:41, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- Just an FYI: The guns on both lines of ships do fire, but note that the bottom row has no triangles eminating from the rear turrets, while the top line does. Thats the point being made (or trying to be made, anyway :) TomStar81 (Talk) 08:39, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
  - OK got it. Actually, words are better than the gif, this time! --Janke | Talk 14:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose. The color of the sea is too dark -- it tends to hide the ships. The splash of red on the ships is of no value, but it is distracting. The ships are too small to see well (yes, I realize that this drawing is probably to scale, but sometimes the drawings need to transcend (or ignore!) scale to be visually appealing. MapMaster 10:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 04:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)