Wikipedia:Featured pictures is a list of images and diagrams that are beautiful, striking, shocking, impressive, titillating, fascinating, or in short just brilliant (see also Wikipedia:Featured articles). Taking the common saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words", the images featured on Wikipedia:Featured pictures should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article. If you believe that you have found or created an image that matches these expectations then please add it below into the Current nominations section. Conversely, if you believe that an image that currently exists in the Wikipedia:Featured pictures gallery should not be there, the Nomination for removal section of this page can be used to nominate it for delisting.
For listing, it is the other way around: If an image is listed here for fourteen days with four or more supporting votes including the nominator if it was not a self-nomination, and the general consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. Here are some guidelines to consider (decisions are made on a case-by-case basis):
Picture A. 7 in favour, none against. This deserves to be a featured picture.
Picture B. 4 in favour, 2 against. This one doesn't seem to have a consensus.
Also, be sure to sign (with date/time) your nomination ("~~~~" in the editor).
If you have problems formatting your nomination, someone else will fix it, don't worry! However, you may find it useful to copy this form and paste it in the edit box:
===[[Media:name.jpg|Name of image]]===
{|
|[[Image:name.jpg|thumb|left|Name of image]]
| Add your reasons for nominating it here,
say what article it is used on and who created the image. - ~~~~
* Votes go here - ~~~~
* And here - ~~~~
|}
Current nominations
Please add all nominations and self-nominations to the top of this list.
(Self nomination) Diagrams illustrating the phases of the Menstrual cycle based on different online references. Turned out well, I think. - Chris 73Talk 06:21, Aug 29, 2004 (UTC)
Comments: what's the license? It also seems a little small. Lupin 12:37, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
it was painted (apparently) in 1872, so that makes it PD. I'll see if I can dig up a larger version. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 13:14, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. Horizon is clearly leaning - Adrian Pingstone 10:27, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Rotated to fix the problem. →Raul654 15:25, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. It's a bit too muted (due, I guess, to martime fug). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:17, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. Not enough color, contrast, or action. JediMaster16 22:44, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC):
Oppose. Grey birds on grey sand with a grey ocean under a grey sky -- too much grey -- Chris 73Talk 14:58, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)
Pah. You're not British, I can tell. ;-) James F.(talk) 04:27, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Comment. The picture as it is at this moment has too much extra stuff that distracts from the best thing in it (that exact arrangement and body position of that set of birds). I'd crop out the ocean entitely, lose that beachcomber, and create a panorama of just the birds. Alternatively, cropping just that group of six birds on the left makes a neat picture because of the almost perfect line up of four of them. This is one good characteristic that high-resolution pictures like this one have; that one can crop out great looking subsets. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 14:21, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I gave it a shot, also performed some color balancing. Let me know what you think. -- Solitude 14:57, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose in its present form. Why are some pics put up unprocessed when very minor processing can vastly improve them? Ten seconds in Photoshop (or any graphics program) produced this improvement to contrast. (Adjust/Auto levels) Adrian Pingstone 10:46, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I did this a while ago, enhancing for colour too -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:04, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. Raul's, Adrian's, mine: they're all good. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:18, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Comment. Is the original photo in focus? It looks blurred to me. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 14:31, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Processed for increased contrast and colour (finlay)File:Stata Center2.proc.jpgProcessed for increased contrast (adrian)
Object (and it's not nice to delete people's comments, whoever you are). The picture is good except for the large, ungainly shape growing out of this person's left arm. Take that away, and you =might= have a featured picture candidate. Denni☯ 03:09, 2004 Aug 29 (UTC)
Removed the 'large, ungainly shape'. (That was the window in the background; shallow depth of field caused by low lighting allows for neato emphasis technique, but makes the background an untintelligible blur in the meantime.) (And who deleted whose comment? I don't see anything in the history.) grendel|khan 05:25, 2004 Aug 29 (UTC)
GFDL, Self nomination for the Glass article by Chmouel 14:45, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. Part of the ball on the right is missing and part of the base is missing, not what would be expected of a brilliant picture - Adrian Pingstone 16:02, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
is this version would be better ? or the one found here (they are all taken by me and GFDL) Chmouel 21:13, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. I added explicit text to the image info text that indeed the article Clownfish includes this image (the way it does so within a table somehow precludes noting that fact via the usual automated "What links here" mechanisms.) - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 20:11, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support - Top left corner is a little over exposed, but generally very good (but I'm biased - I'm a Queenslander) - Gaz 12:49, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Great photo, great caption. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 01:42, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 01:42, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Is there a high-resolution version of this image? If there is, a link should be provided. Fredrik | talk 11:04, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. Murky, with only one clear feature (the Potomac). White box and crosshairs artificial and distracting. Would support its inclusion at Wikipedia:Featured caption candidatesGWO 15:32, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Erm. Please don't write whole featured articles in the captions. :-) [[User:Sverdrup|User:Sverdrup]] 20:22, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose - Apart from its significance to Americans and its obvious use for terrorist training, I see nothing to feature here. - Gaz 12:45, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. Lacks the proper us-gov licence tag, and a source URL (so one can't be sure it is us-gov-pd). Anyway, it's not very clear (it's hard to see the urban form from the land) and not very pretty anyway. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:59, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. It's a lovely picture, and is a valuable addition to the Seoul article. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:17, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Comment: just a little bit of cropping would make this an even more spectacular picture. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 12:41, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. 640x480 is a little too small for my liking. If (s)he uploaded a bigger version (1024x.. at least) I'd definately reconsider. ed g2s • talk 18:07, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. Nice. -- Infrogmation 18:12, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support, but a larger image would be so much better, yes. James F.(talk) 20:55, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose (for now). I agree with Bevo that a little cropping and sharpening would help. I would like to see a larger version of this mod. - Gaz 07:41, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. The photo shows good composition (the pavilion in the middle, the reflection below it, the mountain behind it, and a bit of tree in the foreground), and is pretty to boot. --Sewing 08:34, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support (with enthusiasm!) the alternative image provided by Gaz. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 14:13, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Self nomination. It is a beautiful view of the Onsen at the ocean in Nachikatsuura. There are lots of different colored bodies of water, a lot of green shades, and a beautiful sky. I think this image represents what Onsen in Japan are all about. -- Chris 73Talk 03:50, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. The weird windowframe cropping detracts attention from what should be the subtle color variations in this picture. A little Photoshopping could also be done to remove the whatever it is from the top of the hill, and take out the car in the parking lot across the bay. Support. All my objections have been answered. Denni☯ 22:37, 2004 Aug 22 (UTC)
Cropped the image and removed the car & powerlines. Is this better now?. -- Chris 73Talk 09:01, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I was going to lodge the same complaint, but it's been fixed now. I like it a lot. Support. →Raul654
