User:Ravedave/FeaturedIllustrations

A featured illustration should:

1. Be of high quality. It should be sharp and of pleasing color balance, contrast and brightness, free of compression artifacts, and other distracting factors.
2. Be in SVG format or very high resolution. TODO: explain why SVG is wicked awsome, and explain that while SVG is awesome, sometimes it just doesn't work, so images in png format > NNNN pixels are ok. Also, some illustrations may be historical images and recreating them as SVG may diminish their historical significance. However, would that make them a picture of an illustration (and therefore eligible as a FP rather than FD) or an illustration only?
3. Be Wikipedia's best work. It should be an illustration that exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work.
4. Have a free license. It should be available in the public domain or under a free license. Fair use images are not allowed. To check which category a particular image tag falls under, see the list at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags.
5. Add value to an article and help complete readers' understanding of an article in ways other media in the article does not. It is important that the encyclopedic value of the image be given priority over the artistic value. Geometric accuracy is important but only where scale is relevant.
6. Be accurate. All illustrations conveying facts must be supported by references.
7. Be pleasing to the eye. Created in a manner which best illustrates the subject of the image. The illustration should make a reader want to know more.
8. Have a good caption. The illustration should be displayed with a descriptive, informative and complete caption. The image description page should have an extended caption that is suitable for featuring the image on the Main Page.
9. Be neutral, An illustration should not put forward a particular agenda or point of view, but instead should illustrate the subject objectively. Specifically images of maps should be uncontroversial in their neutrality and factual accuracy (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view).
10. ?? Be accessable The illustration or an alternate version does not cause issues for colorblind users. ??