Template:Featured picture/sandbox

This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, 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 Wikipedia, 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 Wikipedia, 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

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Featured picture/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.