Template:NotifyPOTD/sandbox

File:Michael Mullen,_CJCS,_official_photo_portrait,_2007.jpg scheduled for POTD

Hi Example,

This is to let you know that the featured picture File:Michael Mullen,_CJCS,_official_photo_portrait,_2007.jpg, which you uploaded or nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for October 4, 2026. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2026-10-04. [Optional comments here.] If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! ~~

Michael Mullen (born 4 October 1946) is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he commanded three ships and the U.S. Second Fleet before becoming vice chief of naval operations in 2003 and chief of naval operations in 2005. As chairman, Mullen was the highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces. He was present in the White House Situation Room during the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. This 2007 official photograph shows Mullen in his role as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Photograph credit: United States Department of Defense

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Usage

This template can be used to notify uploaders and nominators of a featured picture scheduled for POTD by placing a message at the bottom of their user talk pages. This is most easily done by employing the "New section" link at the top of the page and substituting the template using the code below, leaving the subject field blank since the template already generates a heading. There are four unnamed parameters (three required, one optional) and two named parameters (both optional).

Example usage

Blurb layout (default):

{{ subst:NotifyPOTD | [Salutation] | [File:]Example.png | 2026-10-04 [| Optional comments] [| action=uploaded] [| display=blurb] }}

Thumbnail layout:

{{ subst:NotifyPOTD | [Salutation] | [File:]Example.png | 2026-10-04 [| Optional comments] [| action=uploaded] | display=thumb [| size=200px] }}

• The first parameter (required) provides a customizable salutation, which defaults to "Hi [username]," if left blank (this is done by retaining the pipe character so that it will still be passed as the first parameter).
• The second parameter (required) is the file name of the featured picture. The prefix File: can either be included or omitted. If this is a multiple POTD (involving a random selection of more than one related image), providing the input multiple in place of a file name will generate a slightly different wording to reflect this. All featured pictures that form part of a multiple POTD normally have the same uploader or nominator (possibly the same user).
• The third parameter (required) is the date of the scheduled POTD appearance, which can be given in any valid format, but YYYY-MM-DD is preferred, as above.
• The fourth parameter (optional) provides a space for additional comments about the POTD selection. No text is added if the parameter is undefined or left blank.
• The parameter |action= (optional) replaces the default phrase "uploaded or nominated".
• The parameter |display= (optional) takes two possible values: blurb, which displays the standard layout of the POTD with the blurb as seen on the Main Page underneath the message, and thumb, which displays the POTD image as a thumbnail floating on the right with the article name as the caption. The blurb layout is displayed by default if this parameter is undefined. An example of these two layouts can be seen on the testcases page.
  • The parameter |size= (optional) can further be used to control the dimensions of the image in the thumbnail layout; if undefined, the default thumbnail size as set in the user preferences is used.

See also

• {{UpcomingPOTD}}, for talk pages of boldfaced articles

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