Template:UpcomingPOTD

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hello! This is to let editors know that File:W.S. Gilbert's burlesque comedy, Engaged.jpg, a featured picture that is used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for October 3, 2026. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2026-10-03. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. [Optional comments here.] If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! ~~

Engaged is a three-act farcical comic play by W. S. Gilbert. The plot involves a rich young man, his search for a wife, and the attempts – from mercenary motives – by his uncle to encourage his marriage and by his best friend to prevent it. The play opened at Haymarket Theatre on 3 October 1877 and was well received in London and then in the British provinces, the US and Australasia. Revived many times, it has been called "the finest and funniest English comedy between Bulwer-Lytton's Money [1840] and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest [1895], which it directly inspired". This poster, published by H. A. Thomas in New York, was created for the first American production of Engaged in 1879.

Artwork credit: Victor Arnold; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Usage

This template can be used to notify editors of the article that serves as the boldfaced link in a POTD blurb by placing a message at the bottom of the corresponding article talk page. 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 title. There are three unnamed parameters (two required, one optional) and two named parameters (both optional).

Example usage

Blurb layout (default):

{{ subst:UpcomingPOTD | [File:]Example.png | 2026-10-03 [| Optional comments] [| display=blurb] }}

Thumbnail layout:

{{ subst:UpcomingPOTD | [File:]Example.png | 2026-10-03 [| Optional comments] | display=thumb [| size=200px] }}

• The first 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 will then appear in the article in question.
• The second 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 third 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 |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.
  • 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

• {{NotifyPOTD}}, for user talk pages of uploaders/nominators

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