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: 57

Altar of Chaos
(Old Description: pUre AN cHaOs Of alTaR!)

New Description: An ancient temple of chaos, where only the bravest runecrafters go.

Reason: No current nominations? Fixed! Just look at the picture! The chaos altar is focused on, but is not the main point. No, that's CHAOS! Rocks, platforms, portals, pillars, torches, everywhere! It's chaotic, nobody understands it. It's mysterious, it's cut-off, it's Zamorak-tastic!.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. Elite monk of the Dagon'hai  Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  15:35, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Awesome detail, and has enough to satisfy, and not too much 22:43, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Its cool to see someone found an area where the lack of background, view distance, and lighting actually makes the image better. 11:15, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - I think that the description is great! 00:47, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Seeing as the image would be featured on the Mainpage, a certain degree of formality is necessary. The description needs to be changed to something more appropriate. 05:37, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment+Question for Evil Yanks - I changed it. Though I still prefer the old one. But if you say it... :S Any possibility of combining the two descriptions? And Evil Yanks... what are you doing on the computer at midnight? :P  Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  07:56, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * oppose - it kinda a mess with all the floating stands around it -- 09:45, March 13, 2010 (UTC)

Ice strykewyrm
Description: The deadly Ice Strykewyrm, in all its icy and wyrmy glory. Who is mighty enough to slay it?

Reason: It's a very detailed and nice shot of the Ice Strykewyrm. Please note the icy dust at the bottom of its shown body!

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. I ♥ it!  Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  17:38, March 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Neutral - I like the clean smoothness of the Strykewyrm. It highlights the icy feeling it radiates and its fierceness quite well, bravo on that! However, I'd like to see a reference to the fact that it burrows underground! The ice on the lower part of the Strykewyrm is very hard to spot and it camoflages with the Strykewyrm itself - perhaps a landscape is in order? After all, the fact that it burrows in the ice is what seperuates a Strykewyrm from another monster, is it not? Sorry for my messed up commenting, still inexperienced regarding this.
 * Comment - Yes, I understand what you mean, but I didn't take the picture. And by the way, the wyrm's habitat looks like him, so he wouldn't really stand out. But what I wanted to say is that you might want to sign your posts here. To do that, you can use the help from a welcome box on a user's talk page. You may use anyone's.  Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  15:44, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak support - It is pretty good but a bit boring. 08:30, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - This could be our chance to show the strykewyrm in action, now that could be feature worthy. 09:08, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The smoke at the bottom makes it look ugly. 15:27, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Mega Support - Hawt! Well, maybe "Cool" would be a more accurate description... But seriously, the colours are awesome, and the monster itself is epic. -- 18:12, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Question - What's 'hawt'? :P Is it pronounced the same as 'hot'? I think so, cause it's the opposite of 'cool'.
 * Notice of intent - Deadline for nomination extended by a week to 15 March 2010. 08:55, March 9, 2010 (UTC)

Mobilising Armies
Description: The splendour of Lord Marshal Brogan's office.

Reason: The main reason I like this image is because of the variety of textures, ranging from the smooth sheen of the desk and the furry bear rug to the rough surface of the walls and the scaly dragon heads. It also has a very dignified air about it.

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. 01:07, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - The reasons you give pretty much sum up anything I could say about it. -- 03:53, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak support - I like the image, but not a fan of the size. It took at least a minute to load it on my phone. 02:26, February 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Per Tien and Camo 07:08, February 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Nice image, but if someone could crop the bottom of the image where you can slightly see the wall out it would be a lot better. 00:12, February 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It's kinda boring. -- 20:12, February 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Dodgy physics if a chair can stably stand with 3 legs on the floor, one raised on a bearskin rug.  05:21, February 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - I like it! It's totally not RS style, but I feel a nice atmosphere in the room. Although I don't feel anything at all. :P Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  18:47, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Please note that today (Valentine's Day) is the last vote day. Currently, most of the people support and so do I. Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  18:47, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * We don't count votes, we look at arguments.


 * Oppose - The cut-off walls make it look like something is missing. 19:39, February 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose + Comment - Good detail, but it's boring. A featured image is not just the detail, it has to be appealing. . . + (Comment) @ Fswe1, people can lookfor themselves, you don't have to keep a scoreboard. [And the nomination can be extended...] 20:58, February 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Notice of intent Nomination deadline is extended one week to 21 February 2010. 01:54, February 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Support - It's hard to understand how it can be "boring", as we have TzHaar City and Elf Musician featured image, which I don't think there's a lot of action in it. Really, this image is very colorful, taken at a good angle, and is interesting (Flag, bear rug). As it is a very good image, I think it would be a very good FIMG.--Yojeez 02:06, February 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The bear skin just doesn't look right IMO. It's too cartoonish or something like that. 20:37, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Support - Very good picture, intresting and bright 02:44, February 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Notice thing - Extended again until 28 February 2010. -- 00:48, February 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - It's ugly, boring, and it was changed during the nomination anyways, + it's just not good in my eyes. (And whoever keeps deleting my oppose. . . STOP IT) [[File:Astral Rune.PNG]] Jhanely  [[File:Soul Rune.PNG]] 20:50, February 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Extended again until 8 March 2010. -- 21:21, March 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support- With the variety of detail and the human perspective, it makes for a very eye-catching piece. Skel X 17:50, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Love the rug  06:00, March 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Notice of intent - Deadline for nomination extended by a week to 15 March 2010. 08:55, March 9, 2010 (UTC)

Commander Zilyana
Description: Commander Zilyana, commanding every movement.

Reason:: Very neat clean image, nice angle and overall very nicly done..

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. 22:46, February 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support 22:55, February 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Week support - The body= yes; the face= no 02:33, February 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Week Oppose - it is just a bit boring 08:05, February 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The feet, face and wingslooks really dodgy. And she just doesn't have 'human' features very much. There needs to be a new descrip. 15:35, February 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - she is an Icyene, not a human 22:30, February 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * I said human features, if you bothered to read the rest. 14:48, February 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * but what makes you think she should have human features? should toads, birds, and insects have human features also? 16:06, February 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * They should, and it would be fantastical, but that's not going to happen is it? End of discussion :]. 04:11, February 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I had to do a cleanup on this image a while ago and because it had a bold black outline for some reason; a good portion of the edges had to be edited and as a result are really fuzzy (wings mostly). In fact I may even go and take another one after votes close because of this. Damnads 08:51, February 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Notice - Nomination extended by a week to 6 March. 03:58, February 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Looks epic. 20:37, February 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Neutral - The light colours seem to symbolize a bit about Saradomin. She is a good idol of what he stands for. The soft lighting and darkness is very nice and a great touch and her pose is awesome. However, there is something about her that I don't like, and I feel that a landscape could've made it even better.
 * Support - Per the person above me. -- 18:12, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Notice of intent - Deadline of nomination extended by a week to 12 March 2010. 02:55, March 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak support - It's a nice image, but it looks like Zilyana is just floating in the air. Why not showing her and her bodyguards in action?  Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  09:04, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Notice of intent - Deadline of nomination extended by a week to 19 March 2010. 05:39, March 13, 2010 (UTC)

Ancient Cavern
Original image: File:Ancient cavern hd.png

Expiry:


 * Support - As nominator. I think the old image is cluttered and small, as well as not being very detailed. The new image is bigger, more colorful, and generally more much more vibrant while still showing off the actual cavern itself. 17:28, March 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Strong oppose - It is a huge image, there is a player, the waterfall behind the player looks like some glass pillars, the logs is cut off, the log looks like a big floating piece of excrement, the pond the log is in is polygonical, the stalagmites under player are triangular, and the polygon pond's waterfall is unnaturally straight. 17:36, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Criticizing a picture in Runescape for being unnaturally straight or polygonal is like criticizing water for being wet. Those setbacks are because of the game engine, if you take a look at the old image it is plagued with them. 18:29, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not criticizing the engine, I am criticizing the nomination to one of the best images of the game. I am pointing out why this shouldn't be a featured image, since there are better images. 20:06, March 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Please clear this up for me. You are calling parts of the image too straight (like the water splash), which are generated by the game. If I cannot control those things, like the creator of the original image, then how can someone fix them? Every featured image has this problem. So I understand if you do not prefer the image, but using a reason that the game engine creates while at the same time ignoring the faults of the first image confuses me. 00:34, March 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * How about a different camera angle. Nephilim RetiredGuthix stole.png 19:07, March 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak support - The old image is a bit messy due the fact the player in it fights (yes, Porp1, the previous image has two players XD), but the good thing is that it shows the higly dangerous monsters of the dungeon. And Porp1 is right, the things are cut-off pretty weird. If you could make a nice image without a player, with some monsters and a nice scenery like this one, I'll fully support you. ;) Zaros symbol.svg Fswe1  Bandos_symbol.svg  18:03, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - the ancient cavern is the most beautifull place on rs- however, the player ruins it- as kuradal did. 19:22, March 7, 2010 (UTC)