Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/AntonovA40

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Original – Designer's model of the Antonov A-40

Reason: Eye-catching, has historical significance as it is the only known existing photo of the Antonov A-40.
Articles in which this image appears: Antonov A-40, Flying tank
FP category for this image: Vehicles
Creator: Soviet Tupolev plant employees

Support as nominator --Hallows AG^(talk) 18:22, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This may be a valuable and unique image (and the child in me is telling me that it's an AWESOME image), but it is very small and low quality. This is the sort of image that the valued pictures project should have been recognising, but wasn't. I strongly suspect that a larger version of the image does or could exist- this particular version looks to have been scanned from a book or something, rather than reproduced from original prints. Larger versions have been dug up in the past- a small reproduction of an aged photograph was replaced with a far larger version after the small version was delisted (see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bison Skull Pile). However, if this genuinely is the largest possible image, I'm still not certain I'm convinced- the quality is just too low, short of extremely mitigating circumstances (if, for instance, historians knew of the project only because of this photo, or something). I'd also want to see far stronger sourcing information- who originally took this? When? Was it published? The current source link is dead, and so that provides no information, even if you can read Slovakian. J Milburn (talk) 19:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per J Milburn, and also because the subject is cut-off. Spencer^T♦C 01:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:48, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]