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.
 * Note, however, that anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.
 * If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis.

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.
 * 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 30x30, but smaller than 200x200 pixels.
 * For larger images, use a thumbnail which is within these sizes.

How to nominate
See the following example:

Example
Description: A description for the image. Maximum 10 words long.

Reason: Provide a valid reason for nomination.

Note to nominators

 * The description should describe the image itself, and not be biased.
 * Be creative. Descriptions such as "A picture of..." and "A view of..." is not acceptable.
 * Try not to use superlatives (such as "most", "greatest", "best", etc.).
 * Please make sure the image is used in the mainspace before nominating.
 * Nominations without a valid reason and description will not be accepted.

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: 35

Neitiznot Town Center
Dexcription The center of the Fremennik village of Neitiznot.

Reason Shows some beautiful wooden arctitecture. This image is quite large, and is best appreciated in detail.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator 22:22, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - First off its in JPG, wiki images are meant to be in PNG and second of all, it doesn't show anything except a fountain and some wood houses. 08:47, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Low quality, not anti-aliased, very cramped, very static 14:16, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - JPG, low quality, bad angle, not interesting. 14:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - What's so special about Neitiznot? Alot, but the only thing there is a fountain, wooden buildings, and water around. Per All. --George10 98 22:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Dragon Forge
Description: The Dragon Forge, where lava flows from mouths of dragons.

Reason: It's a good-quality image; with good lighting, rock detail, etc. Having a player here isn't a problem, as he fits in as an adventurer discovering the Dragon Forge. Looks good to me.

Expiry:


 * Support - as nom. 09:47, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The image is not in the best quality (antialias 4x in runescape browser) ad the player kinda ruins it... i like the main outfit, but the staff is not the best.Maybe you can try to use the anvil itself :o 11:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Anti-aliasing is not necessary for an image to be of a high quality. At 200px, the image is too small to notice whether there's anti-aliasing or not. Also, I did not take this image. Besides, having a player in an image is not necessarily a bad thing (see File:Fishing_guild.Png or File:1600x1200brimmydungeon.png). A lot of users seem to keep going on and on about players ruining the image, when at times, it really isn't the case. 11:50, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Players may not ruin an image 100% of the time, but they do when they wear distracting, out of place armour like that. 16:24, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Exactly why is the armour distracting or out of place? Dagonhai robes, dragonfire shield and a staff, and the colours are quite muted, so I don't see how it can be distracting or out of place in any way. Just some thoughts. 07:23, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Dagon'hai robes alone would have been fine. But the HP cape and the Dragonfire shield puts it over the edge for me. 17:23, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * There's a shadow over the hitpoints cape, so it hardly stands out, especially as a thumbnail (imo). 07:08, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Its light gray on a dark gray background and very dark gray robes, it sticks out like a sore thumb to me. Regardless of what sticks out, when I first opened the image, the first thing my eye was drawn to, despite all the glowing hot lava, was the player and their outfit. 15:35, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * You do realise that it is shown as thumbnail on the Mainpage, right? You seem to be nitpicking about details that can only be seen at its full size. 07:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes its a thumbnail on the main page, but its the featured image and people are gonna be interested and open it up. I can see how it would not bother other people, but it bothers me, so my opposition remains. 13:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair enough then. 13:29, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - For me, it looks perfect and I like it. Angle and detail is good. 11:33, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - It's a neat picture,I like the view of lava flowing through it. -- 21:43, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Wowa, it's beautiful. . 19:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Quite a distinguished site. 05:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Jaldraocht Pyramid
Description: Exploring the top of the Jaldraocht Pyramid.

Reason: It's a nice image with a good angle showing a neat stucture.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator -- 20:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - The angle is perfect, and the detail is nice, I like that pyramid! 23:37, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Neutral - No problems with the angle, but the pyramid looks a bit plain, and not much detail can actually be seen when it's at a small size. 07:22, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 *  Neutral Support  - Its got perfect angle/detail but if the player was removed (thanksgiving emote) then it would make a wonderful image. 09:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I removed the player. -- 16:56, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per Calebchiam. The image is also way to small, you can't see much detail...
 * He should revert to the other version of the image. 17:11, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The other revision is >1 MB, that's equivilant to several dozen very long pages. -- 02:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I could possibly index it. I did a test run with as little of changing the look of areas, and got around 418k file size. The only area affected that I could see is the character, which had to be in there due to being in the large version. So, what do you all think? 19:56, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Notice on intent - Nomination extended by a week to 17 August 2009. 07:23, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Per Calebchiam. 19:49, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Way too small 14:21, 12 August 2009 (UTC)