Template talk:FeaturedPicture
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Shouldn't the image on the tag actually be a featured picture? The Mona Lisa image is too small to be featured as of now. BrokenSegue 03:05, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I added the Mona Lisa image because that painting is widely regarded as a masterpiece—people automatically think of fine artwork when they see it, and so it's a natural choice for Wikipedia's finest images. By contrast, I don't think any of our featured pictures have quite that level of universal recognition and admiration. --bdesham 04:39, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Conflicts with metadata box
You will notice on images like Image:Praying_mantis_india_2.jpg that the featured picture template overlaps with the box. The problem also occurs with Template:Wallpaper, Template:cc-by-sa-2.5 and probably others... However, Template:GFDL seems to scale properly to fit with the box instead of conflicting with it. I tried to fix it, however, I failed. So, if anyone could make it it work properly that would be great. The best example is here, which is Image:Wfm stata center.jpg before I added Template:Clear to avoid the problem... only the GFDL notice doesn't conflict... any help in resolving this for (all) template would be great. gren グレン 09:11, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Link to archive
I think the template should link to the archive of the image's FPC discussion, like the FA template does. Borisblue 03:06, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
- I second this. Every time I see one of these things, I'd like to be able to see what people said and how consensus emerged. This is very helpful with featured articles, since someone contemplating an FA nomination of their own can get an idea what the standards are. Shouldn't be any different with FPs. Daniel Case 05:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Former featured picture
Should we have a "former" template for pictures, too, as a courtesy to the creators? I ask because there is currently an active period of de-listing FPs. --Janke | Talk 07:04, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
- This sounds like a pretty good idea to me. What about this:
subst of {{FormerFeaturedPicture}}
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—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dschwen (talk • contribs).
Copied the section to Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates please continue discussing there :-) --Dschwen 08:31, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Linking to the nomination discussion
I've always thought this would be useful. I just tried to add some code to the template to allow a link to an image's nomination, using an optional parameter which if omitted will mean the template displays as it does now, so that all the current tags won't suddenly break. However, although I managed to get a similar sort of thing to work on {{featured}}, for some reason it won't work for me here. Maybe someone familiar with m:ParserFunctions could have a look? Worldtraveller 16:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- Think I've fixed it, let me know if it still doesn't work. I'm going to try nesting the #if condition inside of #ifexist to check whether the FPC subpage already exists where it should, at /{{{PAGENAME}}}. Wish me luck! -- Visviva 12:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Someday someone will have to explain to me why FPC subpages are given random made-up titles, rather than following the actual image name. Bargle. I guess the #ifexist stuff could be taken out, unless there actually are some FPC subpages with sensible titles.
- In any case, the parameter seems to be working fine now, see Image:Robal.png. -- Visviva 12:47, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't think the test for a candidate page that has the same name as {{{PAGENAME}}} works right. I'm not sure MediaWiki can even do that. howcheng {chat} 23:11, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- For example, Image:Schlossvaduz.jpg, whose FPC page is Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Schlossvaduz.jpg. Still had to add the parameter. howcheng {chat} 23:23, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
