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!

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!
 * 16) Mario looks horrified.
 * 17) Awesome! Don't see pics like that often!

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?
 * 5) Much too plain. It's not visually appealing.

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.

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!
 * 9) I wonder what would happen if Wario was actually skinny?...... Can't see that happening!

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.
 * 6) I'm generally against having boxart as FI. It just makes it seem like we're running out of ideas.

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.
 * 10) Beautiful, colorful and dynamic, much like the game itself. Good quality, too.
 * 1) Beautiful, colorful and dynamic, much like the game itself. Good quality, too.

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
 * 8) See the Wario picture comment. I'm generally against boxart at FI.

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.
 * 3) This is a really cool pic, but what game is that? I think it should be a featured image.

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.
 * 6) Per all opposers. Exactly. Waaay too small.
 * 7) Per all. Size is a problem.
 * 8) Lu-igi board I don't like it at all.
 * 9) This image looks weird. The bullet bill in the background is orange, Lemmy looks like he saw a ghost, and Wendy looks like she's practicing for a Mixed Martial Arts fight......for the spoiled.
 * 10) Not only all that but it doesn't look official at all.
 * 11) Per all.

Comments
Dry dry Bones: This image comes from Mario is Missing!

Ice Mario

 * Subject: Ice Mario Power-up from Super Mario Galaxy
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) I didn't nominate this previously taken down image because it's exciting or it's a scene. It has beautiful detail and resolution. You can see the reflection on the ice and the transparency of ice Mario. If Fire Mario and Mario Power Tennis Mario got featured, why not this? Besides, the black background contrasts well with the ice.
 * 2) - I love it
 * 3) I couldn't find anything wrong with it even though I really wanted to
 * 4) Every SMG artwork is great (exept spring mario, shoot me if i ever support it) so i'll support.
 * 5) It's a shame Nintendo didn't put this in SMG2, but then I look at the Cloud Flower and Rock Mushroom and forget about it... I support.
 * 6) I voted for this last time it was up. It's simplistic, sure, but it illustrates a concept quite nicely.
 * 7) Beautiful detail and it's blue, so it's perfect. Per all.

Comments
I'd swear this was already proposed and voted against. Or is my memory messed up ? Koopalmier 23:51, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * By this, I mean that if it was already taken down once, I doubt it'd be nominated this time. Koopalmier 23:56, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't worry about your memory; it's fine. I even said that it was nominated before in the vote. The volley-ball image and the Super Princess Peach image were taken down once, but are now featured. Just because it was passed down before doesn't mean it can't be featured.