Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Qantas Suva to Sydney Flight
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- Reason
- This image is worthy of being on Wikipedia's featured pictures because it is the only image on Wikimedia Commons that is a picture of a commercial flight onboard the Catalina Aircraft. It is also one of the only images of a male flight attendant in the late 1940s, and hence is quite a rare image to come by. The focus of the image is quite intriguing, with a young passenger (a little girl, only about four or five) helping the flight attendant do the dishes during a commercial flight. Not only is this quite unusual (you don't see passengers helping cabin crew with their tasks), but it's also a reminder of how far flying has gone, as nowadays there is no need for cabin crew to do the dishes - everything is disposable plastic, and the cabin crew don't have to use a sink for cleaning up after in-flight meals. In regards to the other criterion, it has an image size of 1,168 × 1,836, it has a complete description including the people involved, where it is (onboard a Qantas aircraft flying from Suva, Fiji to Sydney), its source (an airline newsletter from March 1949) and is in the public domain according to the Wikimedia Commons page. It is used on the articles for the Catalina Aircraft (see below) as well as the article on Flight Attendants in multiple language Wikipedia's. The photo is also quite clear and there are no elements in the image that are distracting or obstructive. There is no digital manipulation and the image provided is verifiable with its source.
Regarding the source: Wikipedia user @Janke: has raised the fact that the image could have been taken anywhere. Thank you for raising that concern, however the girl (Jennifer Grey) has her name in one of the references of the article in the Qantas Empire Airways newsletter (titled "Jennifer Grey Goes by Air") on the PBY Catalina on reference number 23, which is referenced in a sentence about how long it took to fly from Suva to Sydney. I did an internet search for the newsletter; however, it seems that the originals are only available physically through the State Library of NSW (based in Sydney). Since @Whiteghost.ink: has been involved with the State Library of NSW in bringing their content over to Wikipedia, they may have obtained the image from their archives. Whiteghost may be able to verify this for us too. For reference, the Wikimedia Commons page is here. Edit: Several libraries host this, however it seems they are in storage or need to be physically requested. See Trove for information.
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- Articles in which this image appears
- Flight attendant, Consolidated PBY Catalina, [1]https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina, [2]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugbegleiter, [3]https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegazkineko_laguntzaile, Powerhouse Museum
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
- Creator
- Whiteghost.ink
- Support as nominator – Jh15s (talk) 10:09, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose - there's no real and apparent EV in this photo, it could have been shot anywhere. Awkward composition, head touches top edge. Fails criterion #3 IMO. --Janke | Talk 14:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose. I feel I am missing something that is obvious to the nominator, but I can't see how this "Adds significant encyclopedic value to an article and helps readers to understand an article" or "illustrates the subject in a compelling way, making the viewer want to know more". Josh Milburn (talk) 15:48, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Request withdrawn Nominator asked for this to no longer be considered at their user talk page. No opinion on FP criteria. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 17:15, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:17, 3 August 2020 (UTC)