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.
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)
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. Denni☯ 01:06, 2004 Aug 20 (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
Self nominating. This view of the continental divide from one of the most visited and therefore most familiar part of Rocky Mountain National Park, with the headwaters of the Big Thompson River in the foreground, illustrates the article on the national park. - Kbh3rd 15:37, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Question: it's an interesting picture, but frankly it's kind of an odd colour :) Was it taken at sunrise/set, or perhaps you've done some creative lab/photoshop work? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 01:32, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It was taken at sunrise which accounts for the color cast. It's scanned, not a digital exposure, and my cheap scanner may have something to do with its appearance. But it was shot at sunrise specifically to capture this light. Kbh3rd 20:05, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. There is too much noise in the image. It is most noticable in the sky. -- Popsracer 05:03, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. I kind of like the idea to keep it around for "purple mountains' majesty... above the fruited plain..." - Allyunion 09:38, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 12:46, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Conditional support - on the basis that it surely needs a more accurate caption, eg "X Falls, Rondane National Park"? Robin Patterson 03:51, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
That can be tricky -- this fall is not large nor famous, and has only the name that we who know about it call it (which is 'the mountain shower' in no.). [[User:Sverdrup|User:Sverdrup]] 04:19, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) (added: I forgot, the stream itself has ofcourse a name that I can use.)
Support (but could you add more caption to the image page?) Chris 73Talk 03:54, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. A pretty standard snapshot. Not bad as snapshots go, but not great either. My primary objection (unfixable as it stands) is the abrupt transition from soft (sky) to hard (rock and waterfall). The photograph should also have been taken at a lightly slower shutter speed to smooth the water a bit. It is not liquid but rigid in this picture. Denni☯ 01:15, 2004 Aug 20 (UTC)
Oppose. It's out of focus. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 12:49, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
GFDL. taken by ChrisO. Beautiful scenery. The picture seems to combine all the features of the landscape --the country road, the meadows, the trees, the mountain line-- in one single photo. Simon A. 18:26, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. Sorry, I'm just not astonished by this photo. A couple of seemingly unconnected mountains, a road, and some some what, vinyards? Hard to tell. Maybe I'm jaded, living as I do at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, but this picture tells me more about where I want to be than where I am. Denni☯ 01:20, 2004 Aug 20 (UTC)
The Alpilles aren't quite on the same scale as the Rockies. :-) What you see in the image is the base of the mountains (foreground), foothills (middle distance) and the two main peaks of the eastern Alpilles (background). Calling the Alpilles mountains at all is pushing it a bit, to be honest, as the entire chain could easily fit into the Greater New York area and the highest point is 10ft lower than the Empire State Building. However... -- ChrisO 22:59, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oppose. The variety of the content is interesting, but having said that, none of the constituents in the photo is featured in any way that makes this photo a good candidate for becoming a featured picture. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 12:54, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Nominations older than 14 days, the minimum voting period, decision time!
There are two images on the Santorini page. One is a merge of four very small photos. Is it really that one that is supposed to be featured? Or was it the originals before they were merged like that? Or is it the other photo on that page? If any of these are meant to be of featurable quality, they ought to be listed separately, not just say all the images on that page are featured. I don't even know if these are the same images that were on the page when this was added to Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Angela. 22:23, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
Support removal. This entry does not fit the definition of a featured picture. - Bevo 08:23, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I agree, please remove. -- Solitude 14:28, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I agree, i uploaded the first one but i wasn't planning to set it as featured. -- Chmouel 23:54, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Exactly which images are featured here? Are all 100 photos in that collection of featured quality? Hardly any of them have even been uploaded to Wikipedia. What are we doing featuring images that are offsite? As with the Santorini page above, I suggest that if any of these are featurable, they are uploaded, added to articles and then go through the normal nomination process rather than being listed as featured as a bulk collection. Angela. 22:23, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
Support removal. This entry does not fit the definition of a featured picture. - Bevo 08:23, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Support removal, agree with Angela&Bevo -- Chris 73Talk 10:16, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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