Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916

Delist: Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Nov 2018 at 13:28:31 (UTC)

World War I

Reason: Short of minimum requirements on both sides (1,400 × 1,069 px) for illustrating World War I, today's POTD. Surely when it comes to such broad topics, better high-resolution alternatives exist, even in natural color.
Articles this image appears in: Cheshire Regiment, 100+ other pages
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916.jpg
Nominator: Brandmeister^talk

Delist — Brandmeister^talk 13:28, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delist yes there are surely better quality images showing a trench in WW1. Mattximus (talk) 15:28, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delist -- The NMI User (talk) 02:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delist – Per previous. Sca (talk) 14:59, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delist~~. A higher resolution scan of this photo should also be possible. MER-C 21:29, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
While this statement is true, I forgot we don't delist on resolution grounds alone. I'd like to see a replacement before delisting, hence keep. MER-C 15:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, our goal is not to feature the highest resolution images, it's to feature the best images. Unless someone has a better image of a WWI trench to offer, I think this one should stay. Kaldari (talk) 04:48, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep for now - it's all very well to say there are "surely" better WWI trench images... but are there? Happy to reconsider if there are, but this seems decent quality considering the circumstances, is evocative, historically important and irreplaceable, and no evidence has been produced that better images actually exist. TSP (talk) 15:03, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- The problem is that it's used to illustrate WWI in general, not a WWI trench. But even then I can find a higher resolution for a trench. Brandmeister^talk 10:06, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - That sounds like the opposite of a problem to me. It's being used in dozens of articles because it's a great image; but it only needs to be in one article to be featured. I'm happy to see suggestions for which are the trench images better than this one, but resolution isn't everything; encyclopedic value is just as important. (If your objection is specifically that it was Armistice Day picture of the day... that's happened, delisting it won't undo it, and I wouldn't imagine it will be picture of the day again any time soon.) TSP (talk) 13:49, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep until alternatives are found. Renata (talk) 22:43, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:50, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]