Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/1960-07-21 First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat

Delist: 1960-07-21 First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat[edit]

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An Ogg-Theora Video

Reason: I opposed the original nomination in 2015. It is embarrassing that Wikipedia decided to feature an Ogg-Theora encoded video in 2015, despite the format having never been widely adopted, and already obselete by 2014.

I'd have left it as another embarrassing FPC artifact, but saw that very recently, another 2015 video which I opposed for the same reasons (but passed anyway), was delisted for using a low quality, obsolete format - Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/PWR Nuclear Power Plant Maybe Wikipedians understand the argument now.

Taking the source video and re-encoding it as VP9 would create an unambiguously better video than the one featured, just as it would have been in 2015. Any Theora file fails criteria #1.
Articles this image appears in: UGM-27 Polaris, USS George Washington (SSBN-598), Post-presidency of George Washington
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Launch of the first UGM-27 Polaris Ballistic Missile from the ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598) 20 July 1960
Nominator: hahnch e n

Delist — hahnchen 21:19, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Pinging Crisco 1492 as this file is due to be front paged in a few hours. - hahnchen 21:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - I don't think this nomination affects the main page featuring. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:08, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep pending a replacement. As far as I understand, the format is still one of those accepted here, even if not preferred. Given webm is preferred, when we have a webm version of this we can delist one and replace it with the other. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:05, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Among other things, it's quite odd to refer to a U.S. submarine as a U-boat, which of course is a German term (for Untersee Boot). Sca (talk) 21:27, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus to delist and the video is still used in 3 articles. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]