Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nomination Procedure
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[edit] Nomination procedure
[edit] Step 1 - Evaluate
The submissions will be evaluated using the criteria listed on Wikipedia:What is a featured picture?. It is asked that you, the submitter, read the criteria before posting to help cut down on the number of candidates that have a low chance of making it. If you are unsure if your picture will fulfill the criteria, you can add it to Wikipedia:Picture peer review for review. If you feel the submitting process is complicated, you can add it with the following syntax: [[Image:YourImageName.jpg|thumbnail|200px]] to the peer review page (but please do not use this syntax on the Featured Pictures candidate page itself!).
[edit] Step 2 - Create subpage
Create a page to place the article on, this page needs to be a subpage of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. A subpage is created by adding a / after the main page's name. An example: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/ExampleName . To create your own subpage click on the link, replace ExampleName in the bar with your page name. Once on the page click 'Start the ... page' to create your own page
[edit] Step 3 - Fill in subpage
Add the following text to the subpage editing area, replace 'ExampleName' with your items. However, do not change this portion of text at all: {{subst:PAGENAME}}
===[[Wikipedia:{{subst:PAGENAME}}|ExampleName]]===
[[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|200px|Caption goes here]]
Add your reasons for nominating it here;
What article it appears in
Who created the image
*Nominate and '''support'''. - ~~~~
*
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{{-}}
[edit] Step 4 - Add to FPC
Use templating to add your page to the top of the current nominations section on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Here is an edit link. This is easily done using curly braces like so:
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/ExampleName}}
[edit] Step 5 - Update image
On the nominated image's page use the 'Edit page' button to add the fpc template like so: {{FPC}}. This inserts the featured pictures candidate template, to let the original contributor and other interested parties know that the image is up for voting.
[edit] Too complicated?
If you are unable to follow the above procedure, add your image to Wikipedia:Picture peer review with the following syntax: [[Image:YourImageName.jpg|thumbnail|200px]], and mention that you would like to submit it, but that you don't know how. If someone else likes it, they will add it to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Again, please do not add images directly to FPC using this syntax.
