Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hitlermusso2 edit.jpg

Edit by CillanXC to remove white splotch from top right corner

Reason: Sharp photo of important, infamous 20th century figures.
Proposed caption: Benito Mussolini (left) and Adolf Hitler (right) send their armies to North Africa and into Egypt against the British. (This caption is borrowed from the Military history of Egypt during World War II article.)
Articles this image appears in: Benito Mussolini, Fascism, World War II, Roman salute, Axis leaders of World War II, a few others.
Creator: Image is tagged LVCE (Italian fascist propaganda news agency). This is a cleaned-up version of Image:Hitlermusso.jpg with editing thanks to User:Fcb981. (The original upload had very obvious patterning from the printing process.)

Support as nominator Spikebrennan 20:26, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment encyclopedic and historic, but I wonder if it surpasses a shot like this, which has the same people featured, but in a much larger image. Matt Deres 23:08, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Both are interesting, and I could see both as complimentary FP's. But I think this one probably works better at the scales it'll tend to be used on Wikipedia, because of its simplicity. Adam Cuerden ^talk 08:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, though I wonder if the white splotch (not sure what it is) in the top right-hand corner should be edited out? Regardless, I do think this image is better than the suggested alternative, which is pretty blurry. CillaИ X♦C [dic] 01:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support I think the white splotch is a missing piece of negative or print, but it's in an area where it'd be fairly easy to manipulate away. Adam Cuerden ^talk 08:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support good historical picture. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 15:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit. Well done on the healing, CillanXC. I'd like to see a more detailed caption if possible—what battle in North Africa, part of this? Who else was involved (Patton?)? --Peter 23:04, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit, Per Above. ^8thstar 00:25, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Question do the words LVCE in the bottom right present a copyright issue?--Hadseys 13:17, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's actually LUCE (Istituto Nazionale Luce) which was a State-run production house but according to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-ItalyGov on commons Italian government images of this age should be PD Bleh999 19:36, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Hitlermusso2 edit.jpg MER-C 09:33, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]