Wikipedia:April Fools' Main Page/Today's Featured Picture/Archive 2008

Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of "Today's Featured Picture" for April Fool's day 2008

Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:


 * April Fool's Main Page/Featured Article
 * April Fool's Main Page/Today's Featured Picture
 * April Fool's Main Page/On This Day
 * April Fool's Main Page/In The News
 * April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know

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

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

Action Items

 * 1) What picture?  We need to nominate some and vote on them.
 * 2) 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).
 * 3) If we choose to use a WikiWorld cartoon - maybe we want Greg to draw us one especially for the day?
 * 4) We have to usher it through the nomination process and make sure it actually does get onto the front page on April 1st.

I want to point out that this image of a ridiculously complex coat-of-arms (which had been designed for the equally ridiculously-named Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, a 19th century British aristocrat and politician), is already a featured picture, as of this past week. Spikebrennan 05:08, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That would be an awesome picture, maybe the article can be expanded a little bit before April 1st so it can be on the Main Page TWICE in one day. The Placebo Effect 05:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * An insane coat of arms-- it's perfect! Royal broil  05:29, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Perfect! Y zm o  talk  21:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * How do we reserve the FP for that day? Royal broil  21:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've already left a notice at User talk:Howcheng (Howcheng generally runs Today's Featured Picture).--Pharos 22:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * How about this? It's still a FPC nom but it looks like it's very likely to pass. --antilivedT 07:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I prefer this new second image. It's perfect for April Fool's Day, and it could be considered poor taste for other days. Royal broil  11:57, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * If we find a better candidate, I may save that for Halloween next year. :)  howcheng  {chat} 16:22, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * While perhaps not quite as insane as the coat of arms, I quite like this image from the bizarre world of lawnmower racing, so I'm tossing it in for consideration. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 17:35, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I love the coat of arms one. It's truthful but at the same time quite ridiculous. Ideal April Foolsy. Escape Artist Swyer Talk to me Articles touched by my noodly appendage 22:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Another picture I'd like to submit for consideration: Image:Globe panorama03.jpg. I find it quite unusual. Korg (talk) 16:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As the main page FA will be Ima Hogg, I was thinking about Image:Wild Boar Habbitat 3.jpg, but it may not be really funny. Korg (talk) 15:06, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Speed limit sign
Certainly not a featured picture by any standard, but I can't help pointing it out here: See the article on speed limit. :) Shalom (Hello • Peace) 15:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but nominees have to be Featured Pictures. If they currently aren't FPs, then they will need to be promoted some time before April 1.  howcheng  {chat} 21:58, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Four days left
So which one do we like? It looks like the leading candidate is the coat of arms...  howcheng  {chat} 23:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The coat of arms is the best, a close second is image with the head in the "vice". It is a nice image to save for Halloween, as Howcheng has pointed out. I don't think that the lawnmower racing image is funny at all. Royal broil  03:54, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As the FPC nominator of the coat of arms, I'd like to vote for it again here. Spikebrennan (talk) 20:30, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Are we wiki-linking the correct Richard Temple-Grenville article? All the FP nomination pages point to the 2nd Duke, but if the image description page is correct on "between 1822 and 1839", that would actually be the 1st Duke. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I misread the caption. It does specifically say "the son of the first Duke". Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:06, 31 March 2008 (UTC)