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: 43

Waterfall
Description: Image of the waterfall dungeon after Roving Elves is completed.

Reason: Nice widescreen shot, a very elegant image.

Expiry:

-- 15:54, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - As nominator. User:Lewis06593 22:55, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
 * Extreme oppose - MY GOD, that is a horrible image; First the lighting is awful; second, it is stretched, so good luck with the main page; third, it is completely random: A trophy flying above a staircase? -- 00:15, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose - That, sorry, is a horrible picture, and agreeing to Porp, absolutely random. It doesn't deserve to be featured, and I don't think it's elegant.
 * Slight oppose - Personally, it's a nice image. The problem is the size, as it can't be resized well to fit the main page. It really is a nice image. 00:21, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Slight oppose - It's a bit small, and the angle is too low. -- 00:27, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Link does not send us to the image's page
 * Oppose - It's too dark ; nothing to see. -- 03:09, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I removed the description. Please provide a better one... 04:18, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Porp. 23:45, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not used in the mainspace, btw. 03:26, December 1, 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose - I don't like it at all. 22:04, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Muzzy 22:09, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Porp. 22:30, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It is just too wide to be easily viewable. 02:50, November 29, 2009 (UTC)

Al Kharid Palace
Description: The impressive palace in all its finery.

Reason: It shows an excellent view of the palce, the colours have a wonderful appearance, and there isn't a player in sight.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nom. -- 03:09, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - It has nice details and colors in it. I have never saw that tent in the corner before, either. 03:12, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * I've never seen it either... -- 03:16, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Wonderful lighting and angle -- 17:51, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Again, per porp. Shows great Kharidian culture   23:45, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - I think my support was erased. But I don't want to write my reason again -.- Well, my reason is, it's a good palace, and I love Al Kharid :].
 * Support - But Change the description to "Al Kharid's impressive palace in all its splendor", since finery refers to clothing, not buildings, and since the previous description didn't say what palace it was. 02:31, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - I like the detail of the image. 22:05, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Per Muzzy 22:10, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - I love this image! Nice textures, lightning and all. 22:31, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I don't like it, it's just ... I can't explain but it's okay, but not like wow. -- 03:29, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Nice shot. 09:06, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - A new, awesome shot of a well known area. 20:11, November 30, 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)

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)

Sorceress' Garden
Description: The Sorceress' Garden Central Fountain Piece.

Reason: It's a beautiful fountain of the Sorceress' garden.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator.
 * Support - Looks great, and it's cool. Nice to have a fountain in a garden! -- 01:49, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Great angle and colors -- 02:02, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support - The headless Del-Monty kinda looks bad. -- 13:27, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Slight Support - But give the cat its head back. 22:08, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It just doesn't do it for me. I think people are starting to think that HD+AntiAliased means featured image. No, it damn well doesn't  09:40, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Its so unattractively tilted, and it can't be fixed without ruining the image's quality. 02:38, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - This image doesn't represent the articles content very well. And besides that, its boring. 09:06, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It's tiny! I can't see anything other than a high-quality image of a fountain! Why should we feature this? -- 19:35, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

Pest Control
Description: A shielded portal from Pest Control.

Reason: It is a nice image of a portal from a minigame.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator.
 * Oppose - It looks like an exploding vein -- 02:01, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I wasn't 100% on this picture, because it's a shielded portal, but it's a little mixed up with Pest Control, so just a notice
 * Oppose - It's just so boring and plain. 22:08, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - HD+Antialised does not mean featured image, if that's what you were going for. It's plain and boring. 09:40, November 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Kind of boring, and I couldn't tell what it was at first. -- 02:31, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - This image makes a pc portal look weird. And I don't see much of pest control in it. 09:06, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Diriz. Just because it's high-quality doesn't mean it's worthy of featuring. Nothing to see... -- 19:35, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

Green Dragon
Description: A Green Dragon (monster) A vicious Green Dragon ready to fight.

Reason: I like the colours, and texture.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator.
 * Pending/oppose - Although I do like this image, Jagex promised to give dragons a graphic update, so lets wait for the new version -- 15:51, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Source, please? 22:37, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Forum code 16-17-84-59588333, http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_(Unstable_Foundations) -- 02:33, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks! 03:01, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Thread no longer exists :( 03:03, November 29, 2009 (UTC)

(UTC)
 * Slight Support - I like the image a lot. I do think a better description is needed. 22:11, November 28, 2009
 * Weak Oppose - I don't know... The left wing looks... weird... 22:38, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose - 'Tis a great image, but we already have a featured image of a dragon, and the new dragon models are coming soon. 09:40, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - New dragon models are under development. 09:06, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Ehh... -- 19:35, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

Well
Description: The Edgeville well, the town's main water source

Reason: Well zoomed and detailed, also showing a road, which shows that the well is important

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator -- 02:14, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It's boring. -- 23:59, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It's just a well. I see a lot of those, in a lot of places. It's kind of boring.
 * Oppose + LOL - Are you kidding me, right? 02:57, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Gragon, but also... it's a well and... urgh.. -- 03:30, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I can't think of any other word to describe this than just... fail . 09:45, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It's a well. I don't want to be rude, but watching my nails grow is less boring than this image is. 06:44, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - This is not featured image worthy. 09:06, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Epic Oppose - No! It's a well! It's not even worthy of Meh! There's nothing!  -- 19:35, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose+LOL+ROFL - Please, don't insult us. >.< 20:07, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ahem - This may not be the most dramatic image ever nominated, but that's no excuse for belittling the nominator. 20:10, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Then why do you do it yourself? Quote: the most dramatic image ever nominated. 21:25, November 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * EPICALLY OPPOSE -nothing striking, or interesting about it, no offence porp, I just dont like it. 03:16, December 1, 2009 (UTC)

Monastery
Description:The tranquil holy monastery of Saradomin

Reason:Is relaxing to look at

Expiry:


 * Support - As Nominator -- 02:14, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I don't like the roofless building 02:58, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Opppse - I just don't think it could be featured, and also as Gragon said, it doesn't look good roofless.
 * Oppose - Per Gragon, doesn't seem centered or angled right. 09:40, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Gragon 09:06, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Ehh, I don't know. The Rooftops cut off don'treally work for me... -- 19:35, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Scizor, the cut off rooftops look strange.  20:08, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Maybe if you can stick some roofs on it, it would be very nice, but without them it looks very strange. 21:26, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

Bandos's throne room
Description: The Bandos throne room, guarded by its everlasting army.

Reason: No player, and the statues and portal look cool.

Expiry:


 * Supprott - As nominator. -- 02:41, December 1, 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - Its a very dramatic scene 02:46, December 1, 2009 (UTC)


 * Support -Dramatic effect, and is from one of the most *in my opinion* epic and memorable quests 03:14, December 1, 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - That portal has some kind of unexplainable property... the statues just wait silently for an intruder to come through  03:24, December 1, 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - YES!! it gotz preety kolors and color are teh awsomeness!!!! -- 10:42, December 1, 2009 (UTC)

Avatar of creation
Description: The avatar at peace.

Reason: The previous has health bars, player, and the angle makes it look like it is falling backwards, while this one shows it standing upright.

Previous nomination: RuneScape:Featured images/archive0

Expiry:


 * Support As nominator -- 02:55, November 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Support Cool. He's at peace now. . . but in my opinion it would be better with a transparent background, but that's just me--216.175.117.212 06:18, November 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * Slight Support It looks much better now, but he looks too cut off, but still pretty good!----Verr 16:59, November 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Support -It's better than the last one, but as MG said. . . he looks sliced off.
 * Comment - This image must be replaced due to the fact that the old image is orphaned, and a decision was made on http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape:Featured_images/archive0#Avatar_of_Creation to replace it. -- 01:02, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * Porp, no decision was made to replace it. If you see the link provided above, the nomination for replacement was unsuccessful. 02:04, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * Based on my understanding of the image policy, the currently featured image should be de-listed immediately because it is no longer used in the mainspace... right? 02:07, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * This is kind of an unforeseen circumstance, it should simply be readded to an article rather than delisted because of something like this. 02:10, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * Caleb, here is a quote: "Closed - Image has been nominated for replacement. [Az] 09:22, 27 April 2009 (UTC)"; it says that it is for replacement. Furthermore, the old one is orphaned; here is a list of pages that it links to:
 * RuneScape:Featured images
 * RuneScape:Featured images/archive1
 * RuneScape:Featured images/archive0
 * Forum:New Main Page and pagetitle"
 * It does not state a valid page that is linked to, therefore, it does not qualify to remain a featured image. -- 02:09, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I had already checked that out, thank you very much... I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me with the quote, all it says is that the image has been nominated for replacement. I don't think that you are viewing the correct nomination, you should be looking at RuneScape:Featured images/archive0, which was the unsuccessful nomination for replacement. It was previously linked to in an article, so to rectify the situation, we simply need to link to it in an article. 02:14, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * After observing the link for a while, I noticed somethng: there was only one vote, other than the nominator, and the rest were comments, so this one has a good chance of replacing that other image (yes I am aware that this is irrelevant, I'm changing the subject) -- 02:20, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist both - I don't feel I need to say much. Both are not the greatest images in the world. 03:56, November 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * Only one of them is currently a featured image, btw. 04:06, November 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't thinking when I wrote that. I meant don't make either a featured article. 04:11, November 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * Lol, featured image, not article. 04:23, November 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I have a transparent version of File:CREATION AVATAR.png. Should I upload it? -- 22:45, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I honestly like the one with a background more, but ok, I guess -- 22:53, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Lol, when I first saw the transparent avatar, I first though of uncle Sam, saying "I want YOU to play soul wars" -- 00:09, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * -- 00:12, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Change to Support - It looks much better to me now. Less grassy, but now I am used to seeing the avatar with a background. o.o
 * Comment - The image has been changed during the nomination. The new image should be re-nominated. This is to avoid any confusions during the nomination process. 04:00, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Slight Oppose - I absolutely love the old one. The old one is much more natural, with the people fighting and the Avatar dodging/turning, while the new one simply shows a weird monster staring at a camera ready to take it's picture. The first one would be great for Infobox Monster, but the second one is the one worth featured image. 23:45, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per what Diriz said. It shows the chaotic nature of the minigame. 22:14, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Notice of banana - I don't feel as if consensus has been achieved, so I'm letting it run another week. 22:18, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Neutral - I'm a little confused with all of the changes, but now I think I like the old one, per Lil diriz, because the new one looks a bit odd, and... the old one is more normal. 00:17, November 29, 2009 (UTC)