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Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of "Today's Featured Picture" for April Fool's day 2025


Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:

Ground rules for this activity along with a list or participants may be found on the Main talk page.


The Mission

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In order to get a funny/unusual Featured picture onto the front page, it must be both a great picture and be used in a Wikipedia article.

Action Items

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  1. What picture? We need to nominate some and vote on them.
  2. Whatever we choose has to be used in an actual Wikipedia article. Can we write an article that NEEDS a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe Greg Williams (who draws them for us) is sufficiently notable that we could write a short Bio article on him and illustrate it with a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe WikiWorld in itself is notable (it's a bit of a self-ref...but maybe that's OK considering that we only need it to get the image accepted).
  3. If we choose to use a WikiWorld cartoon - maybe we want Greg to draw us one especially for the day?
  4. We have to usher it through the nomination process and make sure it actually does get onto the front page on April 1st.

Rules

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  1. The images must be a Featured Picture
  2. Pictures appear on the main page only once, so they cannot have been used on the Main Page before. Note that because Featured Pictures has a long backlog, there is a gap of over a year between a picture being promoted and it appearing on the Main Page, from which the April Fool's image can be selected.
  3. It is not too risqué (more so than any other picture that would be used on the front page). Any image which would be skipped over for TFP in the usual course of affairs cannot be used for April Fool's. So File:DefecatingSeagull.jpg and File:Indecency2.jpg (for example) are not eligible.

Proposed Images

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2015 (The Mystery of the Leaping Fish)

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Mystery of the Leaping Fish… It has cocaine use in it.

I'm not saying that the film using cocaine as a joke would be the primary reason for using it for April Fools. The movie overall is ridiculous and is a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Maybe using that would make a pretty funny caption for people to see. GamerPro64 02:09, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He would have been a possible candidate...--The Herald : here I am 12:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016

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My Wife's Lovers by Austrian artist Carl Kahler (1855-1906) depicting forty two of American millionairess Kate Birdsall Johnson's 350 cats.

--Found5dollar (talk) 04:49, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2017

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Found5dollar (talk) 19:48, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2019

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I think for 2019 we should disappoint millions by saying it is the greatest funny ever and that we have had to keep it secret to not ruin the joke. Then we use a potato or some ground vegetable. BMO4744 (talk) 23:55, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]