MarioWiki:Featured images

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At the Super Mario Wiki, Featured Images are those quality, intriguing, witty, provocative, rare, important, and otherwise simply interesting images that can be found throughout the site's articles. Users are encouraged to submit and vote on nominations for the Featured Image displayed on the Main Page. Every week (on Thursdays at 17:00 GMT), a new image is selected to be featured. This is done by subtracting the number of oppose votes from the number of support votes in each nomination - the image with the most "points" at the end of the week will be featured. Any image with a negative amount of points at the end of a week (that is a nomination with a majority of opposes) is removed from the selection process. The only condition for nominated images is that they must be in an actual mainspace article on the wiki. No personal images or images from non-mainspace pages are allowed. New image nominations can be added to the Featured Image Nominations section below.

Archived nominations of images that were featured in the past are found here.

A gallery of all Featured Images can be found here.

This page follows the No-Signature Policy.

Description of Image (Ex: 1-Up Mushroom from New Super Mario Bros.)

 * Subject: Main subject of image; include a link to the article it is included in. (Example: 1-Up Mushroom)
 * Nominated by: If you nominate the image, place your name here.

Comments
Place some comments here if you want to explain why you think this image should or should not be featured. Note: it is very important to include   at the end of the comments section!

Krem Quay

 * Subject: Artwork of Krem Quay from ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) Awesome picture! Nice size, and a lot of detail. I LOVE this picture!
 * 2) Interesting, high quality, good colouring... need I say more?
 * 3) I am Zero! Not bad, it's a nice big image. Zero signing out.
 * 4) Per everyone. Dixie looks adorable btw. ;D
 * 5) Panchito It's good, despite the fact it's yet another DK image.
 * 6) Very excellent picture. Truly unique!
 * 7) DKC images are a rarity. This one's rather interesting.
 * 8) Looking at the image again, the picture doesn't look faded at all, and the characters don't look weird.
 * 9) I change my vote. It's a good pic. BUt why is Diddu wearing a fur sweater?
 * 10) Great image, very good use of backdrop and I am a fan of donkey kong.
 * 11) Per all.

Oppose

 * 1) - I just don't like it.
 * 2) - Per McQueenMario...
 * 3) I agree with McQueenMario, The animations are just real bad. they both look like demented muppets!!
 * 4) - Per LGM (in the support section). I don't realize why people support if they can see any problem with the image. These images are no different from FAs - they are to be the best on the wiki . If you can find a single problem with the image, oppose as it will not properly represent the wiki's quality and that will defeat the entire purpose of having an FI system in the first place. For example, in this image, the colors are faded and it basically represents no action! Why feature it? It has problems and does not properly represent the images of the wiki. There are many other votes like this strewn across the page (and the archives) that support just because a certain character is in it or because everyone else supports. That is not a good thing to do and I hope people stop doing it.
 * 5) I felt a sudden urge to vomit
 * 6) Not good quality... That's just one in the list
 * 7) I could nominate a picture of my poop and I bet it would do better! It looks so strange.
 * 8) Diddy is to fat.
 * 9) It's a bit too faded. I also don't like the general color composition; the green hue around Dixie Kong's face is bad, and the right seems more saturated in color than the left. In addition, the two seem to be standing in or close to water, though there seems to be no reaction from it.
 * 10) It just feels to sad and gloomy to put on the main page.
 * 11) It's time this was deleted. Lu-igi board
 * 12) i don't know... there's just something i don't like about this
 * 13) Not very interesting.
 * 14) This image is here for too long. It ceases to appeal me. Good bye!

Comments
I don't know what to say about this picture. It's good quality and a nice size, but it's faded and IMO looks boring. Plus, why are Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong always have the same expression, no matter what the situation?

@Raphealraven497 - Umm... It actually has many dark colors and shades of green to fit into the swampy theme. Brown isn't really the main color of this picture.

Hmm, can't decide. I don't like the color scheme, but the quality is good.

MG1: Woah, calm down. I think these people think that the flaws are too minor to be considered, and it still looks great on the main page. Maybe other people won't see it as faded. Maybe they will. But still, no one is forced to add a reason why they like it. I don't know why, but rules are rules.
 * Sorry, I just have seen so many votes where the reason gives a bad point and for some reason, people think that these are any different than FAs. FIs represent the best images, FAs represent the best articles. In the FAs, people won't let an article be featured because there is a tag on it, here they're letting something with a logo go by. In the FAs, people won't let an article with no images be featured, here they'll let an image with no background be featured. Those are both practically the same thing yet people think of it differently because of the rules. IMO, if they can't put a good reason - don't vote (like I did for the hand-drawn one)

I don't understand what's so bad in this image. It doesn't look faded at all to me either.
 * Go here and look for a slight mist all over the picture - that's not mist, it's fading.

Too bad Featured Images cannot be improved easily, unlike articles. One has to find a better picture and reupload that. Otherwise, no one can really improve an image.
 * The best thing to do here is just not nominate the imperfect image. I've seen several images with large problems that people have nominated anyways.

I still don't see where it fades. I don't know where else to get a better version or anything either.
 * I don't see any fading either. Only the ray Diddy is pointing at.

@MarioGuy1: There is no such thing as a "Perfect Image". People are allowed to nominate whatever they want.
 * First off, "Perfect Image" was theoretical - it wasn't meant to mean a perfect image. I meant it should be a very good image with almost no visible problems, good size, no logo, not blurry or misty, a nice background, lots of color and action, etc. And Secondly, I never said they weren't. I asked them to look at the images before they nominate them to make sure that they really think the pictures are as perfect as they can get them and not just do it because they like the image. I agree liking the image is a nice thing but chances are, if there's a problem but you like it, other users won't.

Don't know if it helps the nomination, but I've uploaded a bigger version of the image.

This may be my first comment, but the image I checked actually came from press.nintendo.com. The actual piece of it. I don't know how this affects your guys' opinions, but I just said it -- like a messenger. Who uploads images. When opportunities open up. :p

Lu-igi board is right. This dismal image has been lurking at the top of this page for too long. It's time it was removed.

Blooper Squirting Luigi

 * Subject: Blooper squirting Luigi in Mario Kart DS.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) - I love this image for a few reasons. One, it's funny. Two, you don't see it very often. And Three, it's just plain awesome!
 * 2) - I like it, colorful, funny and high quality.
 * 3) - Per all.
 * 4) I am Zero! Nice image though I never saw this one it's awesome. Zero signing out.
 * 5) This is a great picture! Perfect picture, good resolution, no logo, not boxart, etc. Lol luigi - he is getting squirted by a blooper.
 * 6) Luigi, living up to what he's made for: getting the short end of the stick.
 * 7) I dont know why, i just like it
 * 8) I think the white background just works. It's also got that 'Luigi comedy' that Nintendo have been doing a lot in the last few years...
 * 9) Per all.
 * 10) This is Funny!Good AND detailed.
 * 11) HaHaHaHaHa(etc.)!It's funny and it pwns!A little plain with the white bkgd,but still awesome.
 * 12) I love this picture!!! It is soo funny.When you actually look at what is going on, you don't even notice the white background!!!!
 * 13) This Pic Is So Cool AND Funny.Ya It Has To Win.It PWNS!
 * 14) I'm changing my vote beacuse there have been white backround FIs before
 * 15) Funny is this good, and Blooper pees on Luigi!

Oppose

 * 1) Its just too... plain.
 * 2) I would like this picture if (1) there was a scenery, (2) it is a JPG file instead of a PNG so you can have more resolution, and (3) if Luigi didn't look crazy and get blinded by super glue from that Blooper.
 * 3) White background... and I think Mario, not Luigi, looks weird in this.
 * 4) there should at least be scenery
 * 5) Lu-igi board at first I couldn't even make out blooper
 * 6) Per all.
 * 7) Poor me...
 * Really boring.
 * 1) - I dislike the Blooper in this image for various reasons, and therefore I oppose.
 * 2) This is technically incorrect. Squids' mouths aren't located in the front, but rather on the bottom and it is a beak. Per all.
 * 3) Why is it always Luigi? This is just an image for Luigi-haters.
 * 4) Let's see what those racers are driving on. White paper? Hardened milk? White ceiling? An eyeball? White Kirby? Vanilla à la mode? Yoshi's butt? Waluigi's big pink barbie dress that accidentally fell in bleach? Or all of the above? What do you think?

Comments
*rolls eyes* About how many pictures nominated are there now that has Luigi getting beaten up, looking stupid, or the like? There's that avalanche one, Luigi's mansion, the Mario Party beach image, Sweet Basket, the Melee picture (IMO), and now this one. I think Nintendo maybe just likes seeing Luigi having all the bad luck.


 * Says the user, named 'BabyLuigiOnFire'!.


 * What "Melee picture"? Also, the reason why Luigi is like that in all the pictures is because that's the sort of character Luigi is. Cowardly, weak, etc. Even in the Mario Kart Wii intro, he's seen getting hit by a blue shell right as he gains first place. He isn't what you would really call "Glorified".

I had wanted to nominate this picture, but I had a feeling it would be put down because of "a lack of background" and some variation of "luigi has bad luck." (And BiscuitLagoonOnFire, Luigi didn't look stupid in the Melee group art. He just looked like a wacko. But not stupid.)
 * ^That's just IMO, genius. GM: I don't think Luigi's that weak. Even if he was weak and cowardly, I really don't think he deserves it.

Is this going to turn into a war just like Avalanche!?
 * No. Avalanche! only has one vote.
 * Very funny. Stop replying to old comments already when referring to a situation that didn't even exist when the comment was made.
 * Yeah right, that was a few hours ago when I nominated the Avalanche one again as a new fresh start, but everyone is voting oppose. If people actually come to the support side, it might come as a war again.

@Gamefreak75: Such an "incorrect" mouth for squids and especially octopi is very common in Japanese popular culture. Look at Gooper Blooper, Gunion or, for example. --


 * LOL, Grandy, I already knew that, I just wanted to sound "scientific". The added info was for the lulz as one might say.

Gangplank Galleon

 * Subject: Gangplank Galleon artwork from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) i love it!!!!!!! Big, colorful, great all-around DK image, and it is NOT FADED!!!!!! DK images are running out, and this one is great!!!!
 * Wow. Awesome quality. I support despite the fact that all the characters are on the right side of the picture.
 * 1) Per Raphaelraven497.
 * 2) I was thinking of nominating this, but I actually thought that other people wouldn't like it. But whatever, its a nice pic.
 * 3) Lu-igi board yay
 * 4) I like it.
 * 5) I am Zero! Kremlings are well detailed, nice image. Zero signing out.
 * 6) Per all.
 * 7) It looks like Planet Of The Apes mixed with Pirates Of The Carribean (although I have never seen either of those movies) and it looks epic!
 * 8) Per all.
 * 9) A scene with some action as it's main subject. And to anyone that opposes because of the "bleeding" Klomp in the front: First at all, he is NOT bleeding, but (heavily) scarred. And there do exist scars which don't bleed at all. Second, it's not the main subject. One freaking texture of one freaking character isn't a good reason to oppose. If there were more Klomps, then it would be a better reason. Focus more on, for example, Diddy and Dixie.

Oppose

 * 1) -- Hard to tell what's going on. All the colors seem to blend into each other and difficult to distinguish outlines.
 * 2) I just don't like this picture, and why is the kremling all bloody? Do you realy want little children seeing this???
 * 3) I think the image focuses waayy too much on that Kremling and though detail is nice, I think it's WAAYY too detailed. Besides, why the heck are Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong smiling? Do they want to be the new Toad or something?
 * 4) - Per all.
 * 5) Everytime i see a donkey kong picture i feel sick. The color of the Kremlings doesn't help either.
 * 6) The kremling LOOKS like he's bleeding. It's kind of disturbing to me and my eyes. It also makes me want to barf.
 * 7) The smaller Kremling looks far too bright
 * 8) Per LeftyGreenMario. The kremling does look like it is bleeding!!!
 * 9) I just dont think small childeren would want to see the bloodish kremling...
 * 10) Kritter looks bloody.I don't like this pic.
 * 11) Per Mr. Bones. He does look bloody...
 * 12) umm... i have no idea what's even supposed to be going on in this pic

Comments
@KS3: YOu dont know what the green things are? then you clearly have never played a game that stars Donkey Kong before. They are Kremlings, the main enimies of Donkey Kong.
 * The one on the bottom left of the pic is Klomp and the Kremling next to him is Kutlass.

@Waluigi Guy: That Kremling isn't bloody, that's just part of his hat.


 * I think he's talking about the big one in the center, which really does quite disturbing.

Oh I see. But he's not bleeding, its just the texture on his skin.

Ugh, another title mishap. It's called Diddy's Kong Quest. Not Diddy Kong's Quest. Three people I know (including me) already made that mistake.

@walugi Guy: The youngest user on this website is 9. No "little children" will see this

He's not bleeding!


 * Of course he's not bleeding. Any fool can see that. It just LOOKS like he is bleeding, according to other users.

@MATELABACON: Why'd you change your vote? it IS better than the N64 one...
 * Because I was thinking about that red background, and I was thinking that it would look werid in the main page.

@Commander Code-8: usually images are opposed for being too dark.
 * Do you have a problem with that? I think it's too bright

Look guys, he's not bleeding. How would Diddy Kong do that?

Some of you haven't read the opposers' votes properly. Some other people and I said the kremling LOOKS like he's bleeding, but he's NOT bleeding. It doesn't matter, since this picture won't get featured anyway.

Wario Land Shake It!! Cover Art

 * Subject: Cover art for Wario Land Shake it.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) Ugh. Where to start. The quality and resolution of this picture is very stunning (if viewed on the highest resolution.) If anyone is going to oppose this for boxart, well, this is the full image. The boxart cuts some of it.
 * 2) Dunno what to say. I'll support anyhow.
 * 3) Great pic with great resolution and great quality.
 * 4) - Colorful, Why Not :P?
 * 5) Lu-igi board lol at Wario
 * 6) YES! Now that's an image. I actually think the waves give it a unique look. Per all.
 * 7) I'm glad the thing Wario is shaking repeatidly looks better than Mario's legs in the saw picture.
 * 8) Nice!

Oppose

 * 1) Awful picture. The background "waves" are too distracting. The characters seem to be in a different art style than the background. The eye is pulled to the top right corner (due to the aforementioned "waves") and then just falls down into the negative space by the garlic. The colors are oversaturated, and not in a way that works for it. The shading on the chest looks strange to me, more when compared to the shading on the coins in the pile (creating an impossible scenario, as the chest does match Wario, unless light has different properties in the Mushroom Kingdom). Also the blur effect with the enemy looks wonky to me. Not sure why. Picture is "Stunning" in a bad way.
 * 2) Per Turkishcoffee.
 * 3) Wario is one fat man.
 * 4) Per all.
 * 5) I'd like to add something but theres nothing left to be said. Per Turkishcoffee.

Comments
@Turkishcoffee too distracting? until you pointed it out i didn't even notice them.

SMG2 Artwork

 * Subject: Artwork of Super Mario Galaxy 2.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) I was right! I said to wait just in case we get a better more awesome picture of that SMG2 thing. But we had it featured, and now a better version of it came. Well, I'm about done with that. More detailed than the last one, has a great quality, etc and etc...
 * 2) A better picture came, but it came too late. If it gets less than a difference of 8, then it won't be featured (There is a proposal about removing the FI, it's already 8-nothing, and it's going to pass next sunday.).
 * 3) Thats a BIG yes.
 * 4) I am Zero! I guess so since it will be released in a week. Zero signing out.
 * 5) What's better than soaring through the skies with yoshi? Seeing Mario doing it.
 * 6) Too bad we put up that other one...
 * 7) Awesome! This is much better than the last one. I'm super exited for this, it comes out in six days!
 * 8) beastly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
 * 9) I agree with anyone supporting.
 * 1) I agree with anyone supporting.

Oppose

 * Seriously, we can't feature another image that looks almost exactly like an already featured one.
 * 1) Now that's just sad. We already featured a cruddier version of it and I bet people who visit the site are sick of that image already.
 * 2) shakes head sadly
 * 3) I wasn't even a user then and I know a similar image was Featured.
 * 4) Per all. (Except Commander Code-8 because I was a user back then.)
 * 5) Oh come on!This was already featured!It's not the same image but it looks like the other one!
 * 6) If this is the better image, just replace the other version.
 * 7) Lu-igi board I agree with homestar runner

Comments
This is so going in BJAODN.

Can we just come to a consensus agreement to unfeature the currently featured SMG2 picture and feature this in its place? I was afraid we would encounter this exact situation when new artwork would be released, and I think it would be much easier and as long as nobody's against it, it seems like the best way to go about things. EDIT: Now that I check more closely, the currently featured image is literally a cropped version of this one. Nothing would be lost if we featured this one instead.--


 * I totally agree with you, Marcelagus. People are so impatient these days.


 * Only problem, the FI would be no more because of the proposal here by next week, so it's pretty much useless.

@Homestar Runner: I disagree with your oppose for one simple thing: The smaller one is a JPG. However, THIS one is a PNG.
 * Don't you know PNGs are preferred. --
 * Hey! Sysops! Overhere!!!!!!!!!!! Can I just replace the older image with this image now?


 * What's the point, though? There is no process of recycling images (so far), so I don't understand this whole "unfeaturing" and "replacing" thing. Tsk. If some of you guys read my (and other people's) comment previously on "waiting until a better one arrives", we wouldn't have this problem.
 * Exactly! They could of been patient and listen to the users that agreed with me and waited for a better version to come. But no, they had to be impatient and feature that image. Now I just waited to be proven right and a better image to come forth. It did, and now it bit back at them and that is what caused this whole mess to start. I just want to replace that other image with this one, but I don't want to get in trouble with the sysops.

Mario's Capture

 * Subject: Mario is captured by Bowser, Lemmy and Wendy
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) I think this image is great. It does look like it's drawn but that's one of the things I like about it.
 * 2) This is a great classic image. The only issue is the size. It probably won't get featured but i'll support.

Oppose

 * 1) By far too small.
 * 2) It's small and like you said, it looks like it's drawn.
 * 3) I am Zero! Too small. Zero signing out.
 * 4) I would love to support, but it's way too small...
 * 5) Awfully plain, low quality, and low resolution.