Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Armenian mother

Armenian mother and dead child

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Original – Caption provided by the U.S. Government: "A common sight among the Armenian refugees in Syria. An Armenian child dead in the fields within sight of help and safety at Aleppo."

Reason

In my humble opinion, one of the most dramatic photographs of the Armenian Genocide. An Armenian woman is trying to help her/a child as she lays dead in the middle of the Syrian desert. What is most interesting is that the child is dead within sight of help and safety of other people seen in the background. I presume that they are purposely neglecting the child so that she can die or that death was just so common that it was a normal sight. Over all, great EV and good quality for such an old photograph.

Articles in which this image appears

Armenian Genocide

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Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/Others

Creator

Proudbolsahye

• Support as nominator --Proudbolsahye (talk) 20:16, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
• Comment So to summarize your description: you have absolutely no idea what is going on in this photo. How do you know that this child is dead? -- mcshadypl ^TC 04:48, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

The death of the child and other details are provided by the United States government. Please see the link in the caption of the photo. Proudbolsahye (talk) 05:46, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

• Comment the scan appears to be rather poor, and some restoration work would be welcome. That said, the image has a lot of EV and would likely get my support if in good condition. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 18:54, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support I could say the EV is great. The scan and photograph is pretty good quality considering the fact that it was shot in 1915. Chauahuasachca (talk) 08:14, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose I'm getting an image size of 1500, which is fine, but this seems to have been increased in size, only making a soft image slightly softer. First source link doesn't link to anything. (LC # link works fine.) Date is 1915 on image description page, but where did this date come from? LOC states unknown date. I'm on the fence about the image. Needs work done to it for sure though. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 23:12, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:53, 5 August 2013 (UTC)