Wikipedia:April Fools' Main Page/Today's Featured Picture/Archive 2010

Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of "Today's Featured Picture" for April Fool's day 2010

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

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

What picture? We need to nominate some and vote on them.
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).
If we choose to use a WikiWorld cartoon - maybe we want Greg to draw us one especially for the day?
We have to usher it through the nomination process and make sure it actually does get onto the front page on April 1st.
Rule: Pictures appear on the main page only once, so they cannot have been used on the main page before.

Proposed Images

Gallery of proposed images that are already featured pictures and that have not already appeared on the main page:

Alt 1: Missing square
Alt 2: Get Fat
Alt 3: Spirograph
Alt 4: Galveston
Alt 5: Josh Blue
Alt 6: Circus clowns

Votes:

Alt2 Spikebrennan (talk) 18:45, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Alt 4, enjoy 2,5,6. Royal broil 00:43, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, Durova. My second choice is Alt 2 because it's so unbelievable. Royal broil 02:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alt 4, with a caption something like "we are not in Kansas anymore". Also enjoy 2, and 6.--Found5dollar (talk) 15:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Alt 4 is from the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which was costlier than Hurricane Katrina (adjusting for inflation) and caused between 6000 and 12,000 deaths. The people of the nineteenth century had no means of predicting the risk; if there's folly in the depiction it's that the city on a barrier island was rebuilt. See Effects of Hurricane Ike in Texas, also "Hurricane Ike (pronounced /ˈaɪk/) was the third costliest hurricane to ever make landfall in the United States." Considering that Hurricane Ike made landfall directly over Galveston in 2008, this isn't likely to go over well with residents of that region. "In the United States, 112 people were killed, and over 300 are still missing." Let's run the circus clowns instead. Durova⁴¹² 16:03, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- No objection to Alt 2. :) Durova⁴¹² 23:54, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm all for Alt2. It seems hard to believe, wheras the clowns are simply funny. —innotata 22:20, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alt 2 it is. howcheng {chat} 16:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Older discussion appears below

Missing square puzzle

I don't know why I didn't think of this one for this past year, not that I'm unhappy with the science fiction house. howcheng {chat} 20:57, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's clearer if a bit larger. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 21:28, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A few

Here are a few i found today while i was bored.

A mathamatic Spirograph
May be in bad taste, but they are definatly not in Kansas
Flaming Cocktails.... need i say more? (damn... already been used but i still think it is funny)
If we want to go with the "this has to be a joke" this 6 fingered hand works perfectly.

Be a clown

Circus clowns, poster from 1900

This was the one I specifically restored with an eye toward April 1. Opinions? Durova³⁶² 16:22, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copenhagen's new subway April fool's prank

An April fool's day prank in Denmark, regarding Copenhagen's new subway. Apparently, one of her cars accidentally had surfaced on the square in front of the town hall. In reality, it was a retired subway car from the subway of Stockholm cut obliquely, with the front end placed onto the tiling and loose tiles scattered around it. Calmer Waters 11:45, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hillarious picture, but will it make Featured Picture in time for April Fools? Is it Featured Picture quality?--Found5dollar (talk) 14:07, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, because it's cut off and there's a person in the middle of the picture. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 03:27, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]