Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Unused
This is a page of featured pictures that have been skipped from appearing as picture of the day for various reasons. Some of these are mainly blocked by their articles or usage (for example, a very short article, or insufficient context), whereas others have more fundamental problems and will probably never appear on the main page. This is not a policy page or archive of discussions; with the exception of the first category, things may be removed from here without any further discussion. Note that some headings may be empty at any particular time. This is fine, it's better to have a framework for new images to be added to than to lack that framework.
Pictures added to this page should also be manually added to :Category:Picture of the day/Unused.
For pictures that have not appeared yet, see :Category:Featured pictures that have not appeared on the Main Page.
=Least likely to appear=
Major problems or cases where we simply did not act in a timely enough manner, and Wikipedia has moved on from the images too much. Largely a mixture of "We can't put that on the main page!" and "...Should this still be a featured picture?"
==Could cause harm==
THESE MUST NOT APPEAR WITHOUT FURTHER DISCUSSION
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| File:Image Hidden.svg | Lynching | Voted against appearing in a discussion May 2022. Undocumented image with photographic decisions that lessen the victim's humanity, e.g. the hat put over the face. We don't know who or where this is, making this of very low value to historians. Also, it's on MediaWiki:Bad image list, which means we should be extra careful as we know that this image (or ones like it) have been used disruptively. |
| File:Image Hidden.svg | Hermaphrodite (Nadar) | Voted against appearing in a discussion May 2022. Risk of harm to intersex people due to it being too clinical, too potentially exploitative, too likely to cause people to object to the nudity then jump straight to attacking intersex people if not properly contextualised. Nominator and restorer of the image requests it not appear. |
| File:Image Hidden.svg | September Morn | Voted against appearing per discussion at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/September Morn. A mixture of issues with article's creator and issues with the painting's model being under eighteen. |
==Licensing issues==
Non-free material must not appear on the main page. As such, anything with unclear status cannot appear.
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| 180px | Me at the Zoo | See Talk:Me at the zoo, including the DYK nomination. From the discussions there, there's significant doubt that this is legitimately released under a Creative Commons licence. It was briefly designated as such on YouTube in around 2013, but we believe that the copyright holder is Yakov Lapitsky (who filmed the video) rather than its subject, Jawed Karim, who released it on YouTube. Absent some indication from Lapitsky that he released the rights to Karim, we cannot be certain that he authorised its publication.
As with the Churchill image this has not (yet) been deleted from Commons, but under the precautionary principle we should not feature it on Wikipedia's main page. |
==Probably not actually a featured picture anymore==
Images with no significant usage, and unlikely to gain any, or just really bad quality. These should probably be delisted.
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| 180px | Cosmic Microwave Background | We used to block images from the main page if a different variant had appeared (in this case, :File:WMAP 2008.png). We haven't for years at time of writing this, but it's a bit too late to put it on the main page: It's now only used as an infobox icon and has no substantial usage. |
=Ones primarily blocked by articles=
There's nothing inherently wrong with these images, but their articles are either too short or too problematic to put on the main page. If someone was willing to put in the work, most of these are potentially main page worthy.
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| 180px | Art and engraving on United States banknotes | Kind of hard to make anything out of a single entry in a list. Could maybe run it alongside :File:US-Fractional (5th Issue)-$0.10-Fr.1265.jpg? |
| 180px | Vienna Diptych | Article way too short. |
| 180px | Hippasa | Article consists of one sentence and a list, and the image is one species in the genus. |
| 180px 180px | Half union (in theory) | Not used. |
| 180px | Fuscous honeyeater | Article way too short, and the most relevant text is uncited. |
| 180px | Wonga pigeon | Article basically uncited. |
| 180px | Nanpu Bridge | Article is an uncited stub |
| 180px | Python brongersmai | Might be okay to run this, but article stops being cited half-way through. |
| 180px | Marburger Schloss | article a stub |
| 180px | Yellow-billed cardinal | article is a stub |
| 180px | Yellow-billed cardinal Paroaria | both articles are stubs |
| 180px | Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps | article is a stub |
| 180px | Peucetia | article is a stub |
| 180px | Château de Luynes | article is a stub |
| 180px | Hortus Haren | both this and the other article, moon gate, are stubs |
| 180px | Dichroic prism | article is entirely uncited, and also not entirely clear what the picture is, per Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2023 January 30 |
| 180px | Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia | no usable cited material in the article |
| 180px | Portrait of Adeline Ravoux | no usable cited material really pertaining to the painting |
| 180px | Hemimorphite | no inline cites |
| 180px | Aeshna affinis | no inline cites |
| 180px | Lavender waxbill | Stub, and not well referenced |
| 180px | Not currently in any article, and doubt about which turtle it is | |
| 180px | Nassau grouper | Not enough usable cited material in the article |
| 180px | Black-fronted dotterel | No inline cites |
| 180px | St. Gilgen | Article largely uncited |
| 180px | Desert rose (crystal) | Article largely cited to unreliable sources |
| 180px | Northern_masked_weaver | Article a short stub and largely uncited |
| 180px | Silver-washed fritillary | Article largely uncited |
| 180px | Brilliant emerald | Article is a stub and not enough usable material in it |
| 180px | Kentish glory | Article largely uncited |
| 180px | Libythea celtis | Article stubby, and not certain how much is cited |
| 180px | Cucullia lucifuga | Article is a stub without any inline citations |
| 180px | Saturnia pavonia | Article is a stub without any inline citations |
| 180px | Mercury switch | Article doesn't have enough cited usable material |
| 180px | Chalarodon madagascariensis | Both Chalarodon madagascariensis and Chalarodon are poorly referenced stubs |
| 180px | Rusty-margined flycatcher | Other than a detailed taxonomy, article has no other cited content |
| 180px | David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio, Vienna) | not sufficiently referenced to write a blurb |
| 180px | Lion of Babylon | very short stub with almost no refs |
| 180px | Kungur Ice Cave | almost no refs |
| 180px | Lycaena phlaeas | no inline refs |
| 180px | Wu Yong | no inline refs |
| 180px | Landscape with the Good Samaritan | no inline refs |
| 180px | Spur-winged lapwing | most sections unreferenced and not enough material to generate meaningful blurb |
| 180px | Chesterton Windmill | mostly unreferenced |
| 180px | River tern | no inline refs |
| 180px | Sella group | no inline refs |
| 180px | Small red damselfly | no inline refs |
| 180px | Small red damselfly | no inline refs |
| 180px | Batalha Monastery | no inline refs |
| 180px | Melitaea phoebe | article needs a major copyedit, not in a coherent enough state to construct a blurb right now |
| 180px | Common darter | no inline cites |
| 180px | Ringlet | no inline cites |
| 180px | Charleston in the American Civil War | not really enough cited material to form a sensible blurb |
| 180px | Santa Maria delle Grazie, Brescia | no inline cites |
| 180px | Roma (opera) | no inline cites |
| 180px | White-faced storm petrel | only the disease section has inline cites, and that's not enough to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Graphosoma italicum | only the taxonomy section has inline cites, and that's not enough to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Katabatic wind | neither the article nor the image caption sufficiently cited to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Porta Nigra | not enough cited material to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Black bittern | not enough cited material to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Château de Saint-Ulrich | not enough cited material to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Foden Trucks | not enough cited material to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Famiclone | not enough cited material to construct a blurb |
| 180px | Small skipper | no inline cites |
| 180px | Opaon varicolor | Article is a stub. |
| 180px | Paramo ground tyrant | Article is a stub. |
| 180px | Juncus compressus | Article is a stub. |
| 180px | NGC 2014, NGC 2020 | Both articles are stubs. |
| 180px | Yeongjo of Joseon | not enough cited material to construct a blurb (earlier unreferenced blurb can be found at Talk:Yeongjo of Joseon/POTD) |
| 180px | Banz Abbey | no inline citations |
| 180px | Asilidae | article is largely unsourced |
| 180px | Point Arena Light | article is largerly unsourced |
| 180px | Yellow-bellied flyrobin | only taxonomy section is sourced, other sections are not |
| 180px | Large yellow underwing | article is largely unsourced |
| 180px | Coenonympha glycerion | not enough usable prose |
| 180px | Argynnis pandora | not enough usable prose |
| 180px | Juma Mosque, Shamakhi | not enough cited prose |
| 180px | Hermann Castle | article entirely uncited |
| 180px | Kyelang | no significant aspects of the topic are cited |
| 180px | Vanemuine | article largely unsourced |
| 180px | Hope (whale) | article has general list of references but no inline citations |
| 180px | Eriogaster arbusculae | article has no inline citations |
| 180px | Nelson's sparrow | little more than a stub, and not enough cited material |
| 180px | Biological membrane? | Unclear which article I should be linking this to. There were many articles listed at the FPC nomination, but none of them seem to cover the contents of the image in its totality. For example, the first article listed on the FPC - Biological membrane - does not mention "micelles" anywhere, despite those being part of this image. |
| 180px | Naria poraria | Not enough cited material to form a blurb |
| 180px | Mandelbulb | Heavily unsourced |
| 180px | Pycnocline | Whatever the phenomenon shown in the picture is, involving jellyfish, the article prose doesn't seem to mention it (and also no sourcing in the image caption). The biology section only discusses plankton. |
| 180px | Gustave III (Auber) or Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri | The Gustave III article doesn't have enough cited information or even information to construct a blurb. Heavily unsourced in artist article. |
| 180px | Great Sphinx of Tanis | Not enough sourced information |
| 180px | Abbey of the Dormition | Article largely unsourced |
| 180px | Synesthesia in art, Giuseppe Arcimboldo | One article uses a deprecated sourcing style and one is largely unsourced. Sources exist and could be made into a separate article. |
| 180px | Bastei | Article lacks inline citations |
| 180px | Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque | Mostly uncited |
| 180px | Northrop HL-10 | Article has copyvio issues |
| 180px | Alicudi | Not enough cited material to construct a blurb |
| 180px | National Maps of Switzerland | Article largely uncited |
| 180px | Pepper No. 30 | Although the blurb now at Talk:Pepper No. 30/POTD has some material, it also contains a {{tl|citation needed}} tag, not to mention that the first part about illumination is uncited, and the part about the aperture is hazy even in the article. Overall I don't see sufficient cited material for this to run at present |
| 180px | Jules Barbier | stub article |
| 180px | Jorge Amado | most of the article is uncited, and those bits that are cited aren't relevant enough to construct a blurb from |
| 180px | Woodbury Langdon | lacking inline citations |
| 180px | Hemiolaus cobaltina | article is a stub |
| 180px | Leptomyrina phidias | article is a stub |
| 180px | Cymothoe fumana | article is a stub |
=Doubts as to whether this is the preferred version=
Images that may or may not have some usage, but have another version of some prominence that should probably be talked about before we put this on the main page.
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| 180px | Theoretically Wheatfield with Crows | Replaced in Wheatfield with Crows by :File:Vincent Van Gogh - Wheatfield with Crows.jpg |
| 180px | Theoretically Gibson's albatross | Doesn't appear in Gibson's albatross and doesn't exactly look like the birds pictured there. It is in Great albatross but not certain what exactly it is |
Holding areas
These images may be about to leave POTD/Unused, by one means or another. Things are unlikely to stay in these categories all that long, so they might be empty at any one time, but should be kept around to encourage proper classification.
=Under discussion=
These images are temporarily being delayed to allow a discussion or delist vote to take place.
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=Potentially ready for Main Page?=
Images held back at one point, but which might be fine now. If they are obviously fine, just remove :Category:Picture of the day/Unused from the image, and it should be scheduled shortly (possibly by you).
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