Wikipedia:April Fools' Main Page/Today's Featured Picture/Archive 2014

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.

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.

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.

I'm rather leaning towards the Whistler painting, although Lucky Diamond Rich is certainly a shocker. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:40, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Crisco 1492: Pinging you as there's a new one (became an FP today)
  - Hmm... any April Fools-y blurb ideas, Sven? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:58, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What's funny about the Whistler painting? I definitely like Lucky Diamond Rich, and he must be getting close to his time in the usual TFP queue so we might not have more opportunities to use him. Modest Genius ^talk 17:37, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Read how the art critics reacted. Having this painting would screw with those who insist that paintings in POTD should all be masterpieces. A blurb could probably be done too. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:54, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

'Artist falls out with critic' isn't particularly funny, although I suppose a blurb could be made to work. For AFTFP I would prefer the image itself to be amusing if possible. Modest Genius ^talk 14:06, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It depends how you word it. Read the critical reception carefully (especially the direct quotes). It would be doable. Lucky Diamond Rich would work well too, and I was actually thinking of moving the fireworks forward for New Years this year. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:47, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fireworks scheduled for New Year's Eve. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:18, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Too bad File:Ducreux1.jpg isn't featured. — Edokter (talk) — 00:45, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I will be selecting the POTD on March 20th. Please ensure that all submissions are put forth before that date. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:18, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I like the Lucky Diamond Rich image much more than the others. Royal broil 12:01, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I !vote either Lucky Diamond Rich or the Hunting of the Snark image. Both are good. Modest Genius ^talk 14:36, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
My !vote is for the Hunting of the Snark image. — Edokter (talk) — 15:02, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've chosen the blank map. Blurb available at Template:POTD/2014-04-01. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:18, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]