UESPWiki:Archive/CP Featured Image

This is a suggestion that comes up from time to time on IRC, but it's never made it to a proper discussion on the site: What do people think of the idea of having a Featured Image to go on the front page in addition to the Featured Article and DYK sections?

One objection has been that it would lead to people taking loads and loads of beauty shots rather than concentrating on more important work, but I think the simple solution to that problem is to limit the featured images to ones used on articles. That should stop random images being uploaded and featured just because they look nice. The trick will be to get nice-looking images that have some purpose.

If approved, I'd suggest putting the new section below the "Did You Know..." part of the main page, which would mean keeping an extra news article on the left to maintain (rough) balance. In case anybody thinks this is just a way to get my images on the front page, I'd point out my list of Particularly Good Images that I wish I'd taken.

I think there are enough good images to keep this going for a long time, but hopefully with a bit more effort we can get even better images on the site. rpeh  20:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

:I've always said I would support the promotion of featured images.  I think it would brighten up the main page, especially since most of our featured articles don't/didn't have images to go along with them on the main page.  For the same reason, I'd actually suggest the featured image go above the DYK section, so that it would be more likely to be visible without scrolling.  Is the suggestion to implement it the same way as Featured Articles (nomination, voting process, etc.)?  --GK  15:25, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

:: I'm fine with the different location - it would definitely brighten things up a little above DYK.
:: Yes, I thought the same voting rules should apply, along with the length of time for which something should be featured - a month seems ideal. rpeh  18:34, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

::: I have been thinking about this suggestion for a while, and it is basically a very good idea and a more than welcome way to spice up the main page. It may also spawn a bit of healthy competition and some additional contributors, which would be nice. Not that the 3(?) current contributors are bad or anything, but it gets a bit embarrassing when you have to ask the same busy people for images over and over again. But how do we handle the nomination procedure? While the FA’s are kind of “easy” to nominate due to the fact that FA-material isn’t created on a daily basis, how to deal with images? As of now, we have TONS of cool images, and they all deserve a spot on the main page – but the nomination can (and will) end in chaos (a bit like when we had three articles up for FA recently, and nobody could make up their mind), so I’d suggest a nomination limit of three images per month. 
::: Rpeh’s suggestion is a good one; only images featured on articles can be nominated; GKs suggestion about location on the main page makes sense as well – no need to hide our featured image underneath the long list of “Did you know”-info. So, I’m for it – provided that the nomination and voting processes can be controlled, which should be no problem if we decide how to do it now. --Krusty 07:26, 9 April 2011 (UTC)