Template:Featured picture

This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English-language wiki, adding significantly to its accompanying article. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it.

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This template is transcluded on the file description pages of featured pictures.

Usage

Basic usage

{{featured picture|FPC subpage}}

All parameters

{{featured picture|FPC subpage|type=filetype|category=category}}

Parameters

• 1 - the subpage of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates for the image. This parameter is optional.
• type - the filetype. Can be "picture", "video", or "animation" (the default is "picture").
• category - a custom category to use additionally to Category:Featured pictures.

Categories

This template adds pages to Category:Featured pictures by default. An additional category can be added by using the |category= parameter as documented above. It also adds pages to Category:Featured pictures promoted through delist if the subpage parameter begins with "delist".

Examples

• {{featured picture}}

This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English-language wiki, adding significantly to its accompanying article. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it.

• {{featured picture|Tower of Hanoi}}

This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English-language wiki, adding significantly to its accompanying article. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Featured picture in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Featured picture

This template is transcluded on the file description pages of featured pictures.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template has custom formatting.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
subpage	1	The subpage of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates for the image Example Tower of Hanoi	Line	optional
filetype	type	no description Suggested values picture video animation Default picture	Line	optional
custom category	category	A custom category to use additionally to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Featured_pictures	Line	optional

See also

• Wikimedia Commons version