Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dressing the Wounded during a Gas Attack
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Austin O. Spare's pastel drawing of a wounded soldier during a WWI gas attack. Used to illustrate existing articles on chemical warfare.
A powerful painting and excellent illustration of the effects of poison gas. It's also not an image that's been widely seen by everyone already. - Night Gyr 01:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Nominate and support. We could use more artworks, instead of just photographs - Night Gyr 01:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose. Primarily because pictures of art are a slippery slope: next we'll have the complete works of Manet nominated, and people will vote on whether or not they fancy impressionists. Secondarily, the drawing actually seems to give very little information about the effects of gas- I don't know who's suffering from what, and even if the drawing showed that I wouldn't know how much was artistic licence. Mark1 04:10, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose. I am inclined to agree... BrokenSegue 23:44, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose. We should encourage illustrations for many more art works, but for a Featured Picture I would prefer them to be the most representative of a particular style or movement. For a war artist, Paul Nash would be a good choice, but his Totes Meer [1] is presumably copyright. In illustrating chemical warfare, this drawing works quite well but is also confusing - the leg wound presumably isn't caused by the gas. -- Solipsist 11:00, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Comment I scanned and uploaded the image. It has been pointed out to me that my assumption on the copyright of Imperial War Museum WWI artwork is flawed and this image may not be in the public domain. I don't know for certain whether it is or isn't so it should probably be deleted rather than featured. Sorry for my mistake. Geoff/Gsl 01:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Not promoted +1/-3 and copyright and concerns BrokenSegue 12:41, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)