RuneScape:Featured images

Featured images are images that add significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article. Taking the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words," the images featured on the Main Page should illustrate a Wiki article in such a way as to add significantly to that article, according to the featured image criteria. All currently featured images can be found in the featured images gallery.

Nominating

 * If you believe an image should be featured, please add it below to the "Current nominations" section.
 * Conversely, if you believe that an image should be "unfeatured", add it to the "Nominations for delisting" section.
 * For promotion, if an image is listed here for about seven days with three or more reviewers in support (excluding the nominator(s)) and the consensus is in its favour, it can be added to the list.
 * If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis.
 * If you are nominating a previously nominated image, make sure you add link(s) to previous nominations. A historical list of nominations is stored in the archives.

Image criteria

 * The image is used in an article.
 * Unless the image is used elsewhere in the wiki, it will not be accepted. This is to prevent "orphaned images".
 * The image is taken from RuneScape game client, by wiki users.
 * Non-free images used under the "Fair use" condition should not be nominated.
 * The image file size is less than 100kb.
 * This is to facilitate users with slower connections, and to reduce lag.
 * Larger images may be used, provided the thumbnails are within this limit.
 * The image is moderately sized.
 * The size is recommended to be larger than 75x75, but smaller than 250x250 pixels.
 * For larger images, use a thumbnail which is within these sizes.
 * The image is in compliance with the Images and media policy.

How to nominate
See the following example:

Example
Description: Sample description.

Reason: Sample reason.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. ~

Note to nominators (READ THIS BEFORE NOMINATING)

 * Describe the image. The description should describe the image itself, and not anything else.  Note that the description appears on the Main Page. 
 * Be neutral. The description should not be biased, and avoid superlatives, such as "most", "greatest", "best", etc.
 * Be creative. Descriptions beginning with "A picture of..." and "A view of..." are not appropriate and should be avoided.
 * Avoid redundancy. Do not repeat the "title" of the image in the description. Try reading the title and the description together to see how it sounds. For example,  Kharidian Desert, a shimmering oasis  sounds better than  Kharidian Desert, a shimmering oasis in the Kharidian Desert .
 * Use it first. Please make sure the image is used in the mainspace before nominating.

How to vote

 * Support as nominator
 * Support/Oppose/Neutral - with reasons
 * Weak support/oppose - with reasons
 * Comment - to provide comments

Statistics
What type of images do you think should be featured more? NPCs Monsters Locations Scenery Others

Total images: 47

Vyrewatch
Description: An elegantly hovering Vyrewatch.

Reason: Very detailed image, and a very close up shot.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. 01:25, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Sorry, but everything is very angular and the skin (which is the most prominent thing in the shot) is untextured. 01:35, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Yanks, and it looks SD. -- 02:09, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Looks weird that up close a better chose would of been This one 02:32, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Just looks...off. More like a giant bug than anything else.   16:16, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Epic-Mega-King-OMG Oppose - OMG! It's Tetris graphics! Honestly, you think that is detailed? It could poke someone's eye out with those unrounded, pointy edges. 19:57, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It looks terrible, worse than SD. I'm sorry, but it's horrible. 17:29, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per.. all...  01:15, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - You can hardly understand what's on the picture... -.- 08:07, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - What are we supposed to be looking at?? -- 19:03, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Sometimes detail ruins the image. In this case, it just looks awful. 15:06, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

Tool leprechaun
Description: A little Leprechaun.

Reason: Poor forgonten little things (HD)

Expiry
 * Support - As nominator. 18:41, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - He looks like he's afraid of something, and the transparency is rough. -- 18:43, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - XD 18:45, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It's good quality, as all of Elf's images are imo, but ... it's just a leprechaun  01:16, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - I love the little guys. -- 19:03, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Corrected Description - It said An little Leprechaun, when it should be A little leprechaun. 13:14, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It doesn't look very interesting. Plus, it's in an odd angle. 14:10, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - No, just no. The Leprechaun looks "happily afraid" of something and the transparency looks horrible. 15:20, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

Port Sarim
Description: A ship docking the reknown docks of Port Sarim.

Reason: The image has great quality, and the ship looksamazing in the docks.

Expiry
 * Support - As nominator. -- 19:03, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose - As much as I love RSHD's water effects... there isn't much to see... 19:14, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * OPPOSE!!!!! - Ew, puke brown and blue? I personally did not like the place when playing and it is ugly!!!!-- 22:19, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Port Sarim docks? Not really worth a Featured image, especially with brown on blue. 15:19, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

Fremennik Spiritual Realm
Description: I've seen it... Yet, returned to tell about it...

Reason: It's just awesome. :P

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. 21:07, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

Red dragon
Description: A red dragon roaring on red dragon isle, beautiful view.

Reason: It's beautiful, a dragon roaring, interesting.

Expiry:

07:38, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - As nominator. Bahjy1 14:54, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Standard detail, outdated, in combat, doesn't really show anything of aesthetic value. 15:15, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Epic-Mega-King-OMG Oppose - That's a clip... It's called Featured IMAGES for a reason. 16:29, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Even if animations were allowed, you would not get my support, this is ugly!!!! -- 22:53, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Simply put, its an animation, SD, ugly... And it's of an old dragon soon to be updated anyhow. There isn't really anything worthy about this image... -- 02:12, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Maybe if it was in HD, maybe if it had 4x anti-aliasing, maybe if it didn't have that... err... black thing in the background. But that's maybe... :P

Coffin of Count Draynor
Description: A solemn setting, expressive of one of life's greatest mysteries.

Reason: High quality, light & darkness contrasting, shadows embody the lamp in the corner, highly outreaching to one of life's most peculiar phenomenons - death. Gets a person thinking.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. 05:18, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Epic 05:21, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Almost Support - I like it, but there's something missing... I don't know what... 07:40, December 17, 2009 (UTC)

Kharidian Desert
Description: A shimmering oasis.

Reason: The oasis almost shimmers with colours, showing a good side to the Khardian desert.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nom. -- 03:09, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Slight support - It has nice detail, but isn't all that well centered. 03:12, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, I never noticed that before! -- 03:16, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - But the camel ruins it a bit. . 16:26, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Slight Support - Looks nice, but as Hapi's said, the camel just... it gets in the way maybe if it was facing a different direction while standing in the background, not the foreground.  09:26, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Support - Again, I believe my support was deleted by someone... anyhow, it isn't a very good picture, as Muzzy said, it isn't well centered, and Hapi said, camel ruins it.
 * Oppose - I just think it's not good enough to be on the main page, no. -- 01:48, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Its not balanced well. All the action and visual interest is crammed on the left side. 02:32, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It is very unbalanced. 22:06, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Per Hapi 22:35, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Update - I updated the image; feel free to reconsider your votes -- 21:10, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Why isn't the new one appearing? :( -- 22:10, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Can't change images during nominations. -- 19:35, November 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * Change To Oppose - Sorry, now I think it looks kind of weird, and in my opinion, not to be featured.
 * Reverted Changing images mid-nomination just confuses everyone. 00:46, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - When I think about the desert, I don't think about water. 09:06, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * What does that has to do with anything?? It is called an Oasis in the description for a reason. 10:18, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * Check the image name itself, Kharidian desert.. Al Kharid.. Article name, Kharidian desert.. It's about Kharidian desert for a reason. Heck I now even notice that this Al Kharid image is not even from Al Kharid anymore! 19:10, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * Kharadian desert is a general term for the whole region, with Al Kharid being in the region. I see nothing wrong with the name since the oasis is north of Al Kharid, so a tag of "Al Kharid" would be misleading since it implies that it is in Al Kharid. 06:44, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh sorry I confused it with the oasis near Uzer. (Still opposing because the picture is unbalanced.) 08:25, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - The sand merges into the background quiet well, creating an illusion of the image stretching further then it goes. 10:18, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * Notice of intent - Deadline for nomination extended by a week to 11 December 2009. 07:15, December 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Love it just love it! 07:13, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose - It's a beautiful scenery, but the camel just ruins it completely. If someone could retake it without the camel I would support it. --Mortyst 23:13, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Scenic photos or images should NOT be "balanced" dead centre, and should be taken off-centre. The rule of thirds is applied very well in this image. 10:06, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Could an administrator close this? It's been more than two weeks since nomination. -- 16:19, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * Notice of tent - The vote is still pretty much even... so Imma let it run another week. 22:15, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Oh come on! Most people will probly hate seeing this image so much now that they don't want it on the main page! 13:12, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * Only a tiny amount of players who visit the main page would go here. There are currently 9 support to 5 opposition. The popular opinion went from support at the start, to oppose in the middle, then back to support now. If I hadn't participated in this conversation, then I would be happy to say that the general consensus was for it to be included. 00:33, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

Elvarg (dead)
Description: The death of Elvarg.

Reason: Great angle, nice background, the lighting is great too.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. -- 11:02, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - Kinda dark, and the colors of the dragon, ground, and adamant armour blend into each other. -- 13:07, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The dragon and player blend into the ground too much, and it's not fantastic. It's just another HD AA screenshot of a scene. 06:12, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I just see black with some red and green spots. Not at all worth the featured image status. 21:01, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - No offence, but the Adamant armour looks slightly noobish IMO. 01:05, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * How is that a good reason to oppose? 17:33, December 13, 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Sorry, but an ugly dead dragon isn't something I want to feature on the Main Page. -- 16:37, December 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * Strong Support - Perfect picture moment. I find this picture really nice. I like how the adamant armour matches with the dragon. :) --KoHeLeS 07:04, December 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Per Koheles 18:44, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * No clear consensus, so another week in the racks for you! 22:16, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - All the colours merge together in the small image, making it hard to pick out what it is an image of. 02:53, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Evil Yanks. Couldn't have put it better myself. 15:17, December 16, 2009 (UTC)