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!

Green Shell Artwork
Nominated by: Subject: Green Shell

Support

 * 1) Wow! Look at that quality! It's big, and an awesome scene overall.
 * 2) Was about to put this one up... Anyways, Per BPK497...
 * 3) Love it - he's coming right out at us!
 * 4) this was my favorite scene EVER from Partners in Time
 * 5) love it
 * 6) Per BPK497. This is awesome and has a perfect mixture of action and quality. But when you think of it LGM and MT sort of have a point.
 * 7) - Okay, my vote was partly based off of Baby Mario in the picture, but it is very detailed and epic that has the right to be a FI.
 * 8) This looks funful!
 * 9) Not bad, not bad at all
 * 10) I love Baby Mario

Oppose

 * 1) This picture is kind of meh compared to the other Mal pits. I know it's great quality and all, but...
 * 2) It looks rather strange to me. I mean look at luigi's foot.
 * 3) I'm not saying that it is a bad pic but the background being all scratched up like that makes the overall pic (excluding the characters) to look rather odd.
 * 4) Looks rather choppy in my opinion and it doesn't seem to hold on its own.
 * 5) Per MT.
 * 6) Per LeftyGreenMario. It isn't that great.
 * 7) It's a good picture but Baby Luigi and Luigi in the background are blurred and the erasing on the sides is distracting. Plus, there's a blank background.

Comments
You know what? This image should be on a 3DS. O.O

That would be so awesome BLOF. This is really one of the first images I supported.

Why does Baby Mario have a HAMMER while on that shell? That doesn't make any sense.


 * Yah, I agree with that. He NEVER carried that hammer while on a shell in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Crime. Maybe there's an enemy out there he REALLY doesn't like.

Lol Blof. Partners in crime?

Let's just hope Baby Mario doesn't slip!

Its probably beta. I remember a beta attack thats a Spiny Shell that the babies used that needed hammers...

Thousand-Year Picture
Nominated by: Subject: Title Screen artwork from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Support

 * 1) Exceptional quality picture!
 * 2) It's better than the other nominations and it looks right on the main page. Besides, I uploaded it, AND I was about to nominate it.
 * 3) The sky is pretty.
 * 4) It looks so... epic.
 * 5) best paper mario pic yet!
 * 6) Great.
 * 7) stunning.
 * 8) Per all.
 * 9) Amazing quality. Per all.
 * 10) It's so cute and the background is so pretty!
 * 11) A colourful picture that has great quality.
 * 12) Per all.

Oppose

 * 1) It's a nice image but the characters seem to be rather small. The background seems too big for the characters (ie the sky).
 * 2) The shading seems to be off and per Propeller Toad. Also that one odd section of some characters having a brighter light upon them seems odd (check from peach to the right to some characters).
 * 3) No offence but we already had two paper mario artworks similar to this one already featured (SPM and PM)..
 * 4) This is stupid, its EXACTLY the main title screen except photoshopped into some kind of weird blue sky. The main title screen is better looking. The characters are much too small.
 * 5) Ugly, and hard to see.
 * 6) - The quality of the characters are great, but it is too unbalance with the sky. I think it would be better with the title than without it.
 * 7) I am Zero! Per BMB. Zero signing out.
 * 8) even though I love paper mario as much as I do, this thing needs a title. the sky's becoming to much of an issue, and it looked better with the title in the first place
 * 9) per all
 * 10) To small. Per all

Comments
Propeller Toad: Well, this image originally came from the title screen, so that's where the title was supposed to go.

Ah I see! The title would definately complete the pic though I still don't completely support it with the big blotch in the sky (no title) though it is still a rather colourful and nice piece of art.

This isn't photoshopped; it is ripped.

However, when this image has a title, people are going to complain and say that the title looks ugly! points to Mario Party 6 artwork.
 * I complained about the Mario Party 6 artwork because it didn't need a title. It had characters in a good spot. Also, the title covered much of the characters that it blocked a lot of the interesting stuff. The title with be above the main stuff, filling in the sky that has nothing in it.
 * I like the sky. It's pretty. 0.0
 * Its pretty much the main thing about the picture.
 * The New Super Mario Bros. Wii has a lot of ground in the picture, yet barely anyone opposed.
 * I never saw that one.

Take a look. Not a very good featured image. The resolution can be much bigger, but anyway, there is so much GROUND!
 * Ew, how did that become featured image? Anyways at least thats actual artwork from the cover. The Paper Mario ttyd thing appears to be fanwork.
 * it's not fanwork!! someone just removed the title, that's all.
 * Yes, someone ELSE other than the official nintendo removed the title thus its not official or fanwork.

Bowser Attack



 * Subject: Bowser attacking Mario.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) High quality and great. Go Bowser!
 * 2) I am Zero! Nice quality and a big image, nice, but what is that ball on the bottom-right corner. Zero signing out.
 * 3) - Ahhh. Familiar, funny, awesome memories, and the quality as it was when it was the generation of the Nintendo 64. Every time I see this, I think of the final battle against Bowser, and how challenging he was on that last toss. I Love it.
 * 4) I like classic stuff like this.
 * 5) I've been wanting to nominate this one for a while. I love it.
 * 6) I like it, and it has high resolution for its age.
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) Its an awesome action shot, and it has the classic orange skin Bowser! My favorite! Bowser wins again!

Oppose

 * 1) Not low quality, but Mario looks like hes 10 years old. Plus, it looks like both of them are dolls. And actually Super Mario 64's ingame sprite is better than this picture.
 * 2) Mario looks coo-coo.
 * 3) Is it just me, or did Bowser get a haircut? Good quality but it... Wow. Everybody already said everything.
 * 4) I would rather have 14 game overs than have this featured.
 * 5) I would agree with Booderdash if Mario didn't have a moustache. I don't think this picture would be FI quality if it were nominated the first day the pic was completed.
 * 6) Me personally don't like 64 animation
 * 7) - The image would be good, if it wasn't so crowded and/or cut off.

Comments
Why is Mario putting his hands in his pants?
 * Because his overalls burn, and it's hot? Also, about "dolls", the image simply shows what 3D models in the Mario series looked like back then. --
 * I don't know how this isn't high quality. And how does Mario look 10? I don't know of any 10 year olds with mustaches.
 * Ok, how is this low quality? I really want to know why. Just because they look like dulls doesn't mean its low quality, that's just how it's drawn.
 * Well, if you look close up, you can see some of the pixels. At least I can see it. And remove the mustache and he looks ten. The angle of his lower left mouth isn't with the rest of his face. My 12 year old friend can draw better than that. Off topic, but I had a little mustache when I was 10.
 * You can see some of the pixels in just about any image if you look really close to it. So that doesn't really call this image low quality.
 * The image is made up of pixels, so of course one can see them. And you could remove Mario's moustache from any artwork to make him look "younger." --

Sorry for asking, but what game is this? And Booderdash has a good point.
 * Super Mario 64, of course. --

Donkey and Diddy Feeling the Beat!
Nominated by: Subject: Donkey and Diddy enjoying fun on the beach.

Support

 * 1) High quality and it great.
 * 2) Awesome
 * 3) Feel the beat!! This image is unique and colorful.
 * 4) I am Zero! Feel the beat, nice big, colorful image. Zero signing out.
 * 5) Feel the awesomeness!
 * 6) I can't say no to this! It looks like the cover of a brochure! It's hilarious!
 * 7) Very colorful
 * 8) It's...different, but it catches my eye. Colorful, and unique, to say the least. I like it.
 * 9) Thats cool, its colorful and creative.
 * 10) I think this is the perfect picture for summer. The picture is also nice and colorful.

Oppose

 * 1) Lu-igi board MY EYES! THEY BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * 2) Per Lu-igi board
 * 3) Look at it in highest resolution. The words are way too distracting, DK's left (his left, your right) fist is way to big you can see the straight lines, and the right palm tree looks akward compared to the rest of the picture.
 * 4) Dk and diddy look like they've been copy and pasted in there. Did the Dk and diddy drawing even debut there?
 * 5) too bright
 * 6) This looks like a cartoon drawing!!
 * 7) - I like the art style, but the words make it look unofficial.

Comments
LOL, feel the beat on the main page? That's funny.

Nominated by: Subject:The Koopa Troop

Support

 * 1) I like the twilight look. It also shows a nice cast of the Koopa Troop