Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/U.S.M.C. Oath of Enlistment

U.S.M.C. Oath of Enlistment edit

Original - A Marine, Aaron Davies, re-enlisting in the Marine Corps for a third time. His wife is awarded a certificate of appreciation, and then he takes the Oath of enlistment.

Reason: Demonstrates the simple cermony surrounding the enlistment of a US Marine within acceptable FPC criteria.
Articles this image appears in: Oath of enlistment
Creator: Raul654

Support as nominator TomStar81 (Talk) 01:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Vehement oppose Shaky camera, bad exposure, terrible sound, easy to recreate. Beware us from "moving snapshots"! (This was "Media of the day" at Commons?!?! 24 days too late...) --Janke | Talk 08:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose due to all of the civilians walking around. If demonstrating this, I just believe it should be between the two Marines – not them and family. crassic!^[talk] 11:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes, I'm afraid I don't understand your reasons Crassic. In this case, if families are typically part of these ceremonies, they should be included. de Bivort 12:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think he means that the civilians, as positioned here, detract focus from the two marines that are the main subject of the picture. If they were off to the sides, that'd be one thing, but as it is, they're "jostling for position" as main elements and are thus distracting. Of course, it's an encyclopaedic picture, but it's not "the best" of Wikipedia's image work. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 18:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

^ Pretty much. crassic!^[talk] 22:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Yeah, this doesn't seem to be particuarly professional at all. Low quality, all sorts of irrelevent people hanging around... J Milburn (talk) 19:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose just on the sound alone. If you listen to the first 4 seconds theres some sort of distracting background noise. And I think I heard a kid screaming or something like that. -- Coasttocoast (talk) 17:26, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]