Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/IJM suicide

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[edit] Suicide of two Imperial Japanese Marines

Original - Two Japanese Imperial Marines who committed hari-kari by shooting themselves rather than surrender to a U.S. Marine, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands in the Pacific
Original - Two Japanese Imperial Marines who committed hari-kari by shooting themselves rather than surrender to a U.S. Marine, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands in the Pacific
Reason
This does an excelent, if somewhat disturbing, job of conveying death by suicide during World War II.
Articles this image appears in
Suicide, Seppuku, Death and culture
Creator
United States Marine Corps
  • Support as nominator TomStar81 (Talk) 10:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I've removed the photo from seppuku. Seppuku is suicide by slicing the abdomen. It is not a synonym for "suicide." The photo illustrates suicide, but not seppuku. This comment is not about the photograph but about its use. Fg2 (talk) 11:32, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Support The same as here. —αἰτίας •discussion• 17:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Spikebrennan (talk) 22:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment The blurry foreground object in the bottom is distracting-- I think that the photo could be improved by cropping it out. Spikebrennan (talk) 02:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Support Chilling image and the quality is fair --Abdominator (talk) 23:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Support The rarity and encyclopedic value of such a photograph outweighs the technical flaws. Thisglad (talk) 18:44, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Regretful Oppose Blurry thing in the bottom is really distracting. --Sharkface217 23:49, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Changed to Support because the blurry thing has been removed. --Sharkface217 00:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose Doesn't illustrate suicide per se. The soldiers might have been killed as well (I am not doubting they committed suicide though).--Svetovid (talk) 16:12, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Please crop out the foreground before I close this. Thanks. MER-C 02:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Done - I didn't think it was worth making a seperate "edit" so I just overwrite the original --Fir0002 04:10, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, Fir0002, I appreciate your editting the image. TomStar81 (Talk) 09:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose Quality low, and in no way a unique picture. There probably are lots of shots of suicided soldiers. The Burningmonk.jpg on the suicide page is much more iconic. Find a large scan of that, and I'll support it. --Janke | Talk 10:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC) (PS: Sorry for being late here, I somehow missed this candidate earlier - holidays...)
    It's fair use, so it would be ineligible. MER-C 04:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Japanesesuicide.jpg MER-C 04:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)