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
 * 11) Best Nominated Picture this time around
 * 12) All M&L2 artwork is worth featuring.
 * 13) This picture is in a great style, has great content and action, and generally looks great!

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.
 * 8) - It's depicted rather dull and dry.

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.
 * 13) Cute art style ;) 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.
 * No, where I got it from, it is pieced together. It's like ripping textures.
 * It's ripped, what BowserLicksOnlyFish said.

Ripped by who?
 * By someone in the The Spriter's Resource, which is a sprite website.

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!
 * 9) It's pretty funny to see Mario's rear end on fire, Bowser owns!

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.
 * 8) Per all.

Comments
LOL, feel the beat on the main page? That's funny.
 * Who said the wiki can't have a main page summer dance party DK thing? Might look good...
 * It can remind all those who enter the Wiki to feel the beat. :p

Bowser's Inside Story Character artwork


Nominated by: Subject: Main characters of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

Support

 * 1) LoL! Toad (who is totally checking out Peach) is about to trip on Toadbert and spill syrup all over unsuspecting Toadsworth who is worried about being eaten by Broggy! I thought it was a good image with good quality and... man, I bet that a syrup coverd Toadsworth would look appetizing to Broggy.
 * 2) - I like the very casual style that this picture gives.

Oppose

 * 1) I am Zero! Too elongated and if I could remember this was nominated in the past. Zero signing out.
 * 2) - Yeah, it is good, but it is very wide. Along with that, where are that one Goomba that that one Shy Guy? I remembered that they were in the old picture before it got that new background.
 * 3) Wow you really want this featured?
 * 4) Lu-igi board characters misssing
 * 5) Even though your descriptions for the characters are hysterical, This would be HORRIBLE on the main page. One, the characters are much too small, and second, the backround is terribly dull, and third they're standing in midair.
 * 6) There's something I don't like about it (but Toad is checking out Peach - bound to happen eventually!)
 * 7) It is simply common character artwork of the game in a row.
 * 8) Does everyone have to keep nominating character artwork?
 * 9) This picture is kinda boring (IMHO), but when you really think about it it's kinda funny. Also, the background is just tedious. if they're going to make a background, make it an actual background. They just threw in the blue to not make it hava a pure white background.
 * 10) Nothing is overly brilliant about this image.
 * 11) Nothing Special. It's just official artwork stuck on a fridge like magnets.

Comments
What? Haven't you heard that Toadsworth is the most boring person on this planet? He'll taste completely bland! Fawful, on the other hand. Mmmmmm. And Starlow. And that French Block Man with a phony French accent. Mmmm. Deeelicious!

Broggy has never tasted Toadsworth. He will eat him, spit him out, and then beat him up for tasting bad! Croporal Paraplonk looks like he as never seen a star sprite before. And Bwser is about to be either shocked or burnt by the "Fawfulmobile" as I like to call it. Well I wasn't about to use the old picture with no backround and if they put Sergeant Guy and Private Goomp it would be even more large.

Leave it to you guys to discuss the taste of Toadsworth on the FI page! :)

Super Mario Kart boxart


Nominated by: Subject: All of the playable characters, as seen on the box art

Support

 * 1) great game, great image, a very worthy FI in my opinion.
 * 2) Colorful and Vivid.

Oppose

 * 1) It's crowded, and it looks like Bowser is trying to eat Peach. In crowded images something stupid or just wrong always happens.
 * 2) Low quality. Although this image is exciting, it doesn't have to have 8 characters crammed into the same place.
 * 3) I am Zero! Artwork is rather outdatted and the colors are dull. Zero signing out.
 * 4) Bad quality ruins everything.
 * 5) Quality of this image = Failure
 * 6) Peaches taste good, that's why Bowser is trying eat Peach
 * 7) - This image is a wreck... In more ways than one.
 * 8) ISB922HO the only problem is too crowded.

Comments
I would support if the image was less blurry. --

This definitely looks faded. The colors are so dull.

You know, this isn't technically the boxart for the European or the American versions of the game. I think it's the Japanese boxart.