Wikipedia:April Fools' Main Page/Today's Featured Picture/Archive 2013

Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of "Today's Featured Picture" for April Fool's day 2012

Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:

Ground rules for this activity along with a list or participants may be found on the Main talk page.

The Mission[edit]

In order to get a funny/unusual Featured picture onto the front page, it must be both a great picture and be used in a Wikipedia article.

Action Items[edit]

What picture? We need to nominate some and vote on them.
Whatever we choose has to be used in an actual Wikipedia article. Can we write an article that NEEDS a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe Greg Williams (who draws them for us) is sufficiently notable that we could write a short Bio article on him and illustrate it with a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe WikiWorld in itself is notable (it's a bit of a self-ref...but maybe that's OK considering that we only need it to get the image accepted).
If we choose to use a WikiWorld cartoon - maybe we want Greg to draw us one especially for the day?
We have to usher it through the nomination process and make sure it actually does get onto the front page on April 1st.

Rules[edit]

The images must be a Featured Picture
Pictures appear on the main page only once, so they cannot have been used on the Main Page before. Note that because Featured Pictures has a long backlog, there is a gap of over a year between a picture being promoted and it appearing on the Main Page, from which the April Fool's image can be selected.
It is not too risqué (more so than any other picture that would be used on the front page). Any image which would be skipped over for TFP in the usual course of affairs cannot be used for April Fool's. So File:DefecatingSeagull.jpg and File:Indecency2.jpg (for example) are not eligible.

Proposed Images[edit]

Flat Earth Map. suggested by Found5dollar.
Hadji Ali demonstrating controlled regurgitation, suggested by Crisco 1492.
The Pig-faced Lady and the Spanish Mule
Just saw this was a featured pic. Hilarious.suggested by Found5dollar.
Nice ass. Suggested by user:Delicious carbuncle
Lucky Diamond Rich, the world's most tattooed man. Great name, great fact, brilliant photo! (Particularly his expression!) Suggested by User:CountdownCrispy.

Prefer Hadji Ali, per last year. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:51, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Removed File:Randolph Caldecott illustration2.jpg, Suggested by User:Delicious carbuncle. Reason: "This one has a big cock in it." Per Rule #2, POTDs cannot have been used before. No comment on the cock illustrating John Gilpin. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:42, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed File:Big&Small edit 1.jpg, as it's already been POTD. —howcheng {chat} 22:38, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was a suggestion to use Pig faced women for TFA, although I don't know how much support it has. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:45, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, forgot to check Big & Small for whether it had been featured already. The 1882 print of the pig-faced lady is stronger than the image in the gallery above, in my opinion. Because there is only the one frame it has greater impact. -- CountdownCrispy 23:20, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Greater impact, but the image is way too small to be featured — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:03, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, I'm for the Flat-earth picture. I find particularly hilarious the serious and respectable looking of Mr. Orlando Ferguson, on the left. Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'd !vote for Zoe Lyons, although I must disclose that I was the one who nominated that image at FPC. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 15:37, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Same as my opinion last year: the Flat Earth image could have a good blurb. None of the others stand out. Let's use that one. Modest Genius ^talk 00:26, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In fact here's a quick attempt, which could be improved or expanded:

A map of the Earth drawn by Professor Orlando Ferguson in 1893. Ferguson identified numerous errors in the then-prevailing globe theory of the Earth, some of which are pointed out in the margin of the map. By careful examination of 400 pieces of evidence, Ferguson realised that the Earth is square and stationary, as illustrated in the map. A companion book explaining the new theory was also produced, and sold for 25 US cents.

Modest Genius ^talk 00:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My only problem with that is that some of the links aren't particularly intuitive: Biblical literalism doesn't mention Ferguson's 400 pieces of evidence at all, and I'd expect "map of the Earth" to link to something like, say, world map. Per WP:EGG, I'd suggest either linking them to something different, removing the links altogether, or maybe rewriting certains parts of the blurb (e.g. "A map of a Flat Earth drawn by..."). A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 23:57, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:EGG goes out the window during April Fools... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:04, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The whole point in the April Fools Main Page is that the stories are true, but misleading. Quoth Wikipedia_talk:April_Fool's_Main_Page#The_Ground_Rules: 'the Main Page be composed of facts and articles that are true, but either unusual or manipulated in a way as to sound unbelievable'. Modest Genius ^talk 00:13, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. This is still rather tame compared to the Featured List or the Featured Article. And we all know DYK will be full of eggs. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:15, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough then, I was just interested to know what Ferguson's 400 examples were, and was a bit disappointed that the linked article didn't explain anything about them. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 00:24, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]