UDWiki:Featured Articles/Good Articles

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Good Article Voting
Here, we determine which articles are deemed to be "Good" Articles. These are seen as some of the best the wiki has to offer and can include virtually any page on the wiki.

Articles which have been given good article status, become eligible to become Featured Articles with a new Good Article being voted to receive that honour every week.

Criteria

  • NPOV - The article must be from a neutral point of view and not show significant bias. Possible exceptions may be made, depending on the article and community opinion.
  • Complete - It neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context.
  • Well Written - The article uses good English, such as proper grammar and spelling and is written in a clear and highly readable style.
  • Generally Awesome - Here at the wiki, we're after stuff that's awesome.

Any main namespace article (also including user pages and journal pages if they are thought to fulfil the above criteria) can be nominated for good article status. The nomination will be discussed and if there are no major issues raised at the end of 7 days, the article is promoted to Good status and will be added to the Featured Article Pool for the coming week.

Articles that are deemed "good" will be placed in the Good Article Category for easy findage.

Example

Good Article candidate

Good Article candidate has recently undergone a lot of improvement from various editors. It's NPOV, it's concise and informative. I also believe it to be generally awesome, just take a look at the talk page discussion, people love it! --GA Suggester 20:29, 3 April 2009 (BST)

Yes

  1. Yes - I see only a few minor issues, but those seem to be fixed readily. Otherwise it's good. --OptimistBob 20:29, 3 April 2009 (BST)
  2. Love it! --Few Words Joe 20:29, 3 April 2009 (BST)
  3. Yes - Maintains good article balance, strong intro, accurate information, good grammar and spelling. Well wikified. --Overly Technical Jim 20:29, 3 April 2009 (BST)
  4. Yes - Much better than all the other candidates. --BetterMuch Ralph 20:29, 3 April 2009 (BST)
  5. Yes - I like this part here. --Specific Jen 20:29, 3 April 2009 (BST)

Please add {{GoodArticleNom}} to any page that has been nominated.

New Nominations

Place new Nominations under this header.

Rat Tactics

Developed independently of the similarly themed, if more well known, Hiding in Plain Sight page. Rat Tactics predates that -- just barely. These are the tactics that helped us survive, even sometimes almost thrive, during the March of the Dead. And anyone who says it was because of Kevan boosting syringe rates just wasn't there, surviving... rat style. --WanYao 20:08, 30 April 2009 (BST)

Yes

Place votes of support here with reasons

  1. c.f. my nomination, above --WanYao 20:08, 30 April 2009 (BST)

No

Place votes against here with reasons

User:Grim s/Grims guide to staying alive

Controversial, influential and mostly dead on the money -- if a bit, uh, overly cynical and at times quite over the top. Kinda like good ole Grim himself.... --WanYao 20:08, 30 April 2009 (BST)

Yes

Place votes of support here with reasons

  1. I nominated the gorram thing --WanYao 19:58, 30 April 2009 (BST)

No

Place votes against here with reasons

First Siege of Caiger Mall

Pretty well written article, it's got plenty of information in it and it's pretty interesting to read. Particularly since Caiger has a lot of history and this was the first major siege that occurred in front of it. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)

Yes

Place votes of support here with reasons

  1. As per reasoning above. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)
  2. Although can we not replace those pesky red links with simple bolded text? --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 20:03, 29 April 2009 (BST)
  3. This is arguably the most important allusion to UD's past, and a very popular one. I agree with Rosslessness- if this does get chosen, we should simply bold the dead links. -- Lorddragonfang  Talk 00:04, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  4. Yes - but kill those red links with bolded text or undelete the pages. Also - as above. Linkthewindow  Talk  09:51, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  5. Yuh. Some history is dead, but we can still record it ;) --WanYao 19:53, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  6. I like this page, I suggested this on UDWiki_talk:Featured_Articles. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:18, 1 May 2009 (BST)

No

Place votes against here with reasons

RNG

Pretty interesting and gives background on something that is at the core of our Urban Dead experience. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)

Yes

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  1. As per reasoning above. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)
  2. Although I preferred my old testament RNG. Linkthewindow  Talk  09:51, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  3. I suggested this on UDWiki_talk:Featured_Articles. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:18, 1 May 2009 (BST)

No

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  1. I'm not a fan of this article, and I wrote most of it's current content. Apart from that fact it could very well be wrong in some parts due to my limited knowledge of such functions, the main thing is that I think it reads a bit poorly in some places. Doesn't flow right. A second set of eyes could probably improve it a lot just with some restructure and reordering. -- User:The Rooster RoosterDragon User talk:The Rooster 17:39, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  2. Meh --WanYao 19:51, 30 April 2009 (BST) To elaborate, it just doesn't excite me. <_< --WanYao 20:00, 30 April 2009 (BST)

NecroWatch

Main page for the NecroWatch project which is a good mix of fluff, encourages survivors to take risks and be proactive, and in its mission tries to get more people to contribute to the Wiki. Quote from extropymine during original discussion about Featured Articles. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)

Yes

Place votes of support here with reasons

  1. As per reasoning above. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)
  2. One day I will get the cake. I always like A.L.I.C.E. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 20:08, 29 April 2009 (BST)
  3. *coughthecakeisaliecough* Excellently written, creative, well formatted, and useful to boot. Certainly seems like feature material to me. - X:/LorddragonfangCursorBlink.gif [ Talk ]  00:11, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  4. I love the Necrowatch stuff. I am not only saying this because A.L.I.C.E. will open to the doors to the NecroTech facility in which my character is sleeping if I don't. --Cpl Adrian Shephard 00:56, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  5. Very useful service, and should be plugged at every change. Like now. Linkthewindow  Talk  09:51, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  6. The cake is very hard to get down...there's no milk! Other than that, I absolutely agree--Dr Mycroft Chris 14:22, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  7. I heartily endorse this nomination. -- User:The Rooster RoosterDragon User talk:The Rooster 17:32, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  8. Who the hell is ALICE?? ;) --WanYao 19:53, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  9. For the cause! CITIZEN VI 23:14, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  10. For great justice! --N00bert foxhound DA NW 01:38, 1 May 2009 (BST)

No

Place votes against here with reasons

Trenchcoater

Need I say more? This page is very funny to read and is overall awesome. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)

Yes

Place votes of support here with reasons

  1. As per reasoning above. -- Cheese 19:53, 29 April 2009 (BST)
  2. Does anyone need to say more? -- Lorddragonfang  Talk 00:09, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  3. GLORY TO THE TRENCHCOAT! --Orange Talk 00:30, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  4. I'll need guns. Lots of guns. --WanYao 19:55, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  5. Weak Yes - It's a hilarious page as it is, but it definitely could be improved, as Link said in the No section. It deserves to be featured, but maybe cleaned up a little first. --Pestolence(talk) 20:21, 30 April 2009 (BST)
  6. I like this page, I suggested this on UDWiki_talk:Featured_Articles. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:18, 1 May 2009 (BST)


No

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  1. But reluctantly. It's funny, but it's little more then a piss-take at trenchcoaters, without examining common trenchie mistakes, etc. The current page (which is mostly quotes) should be moved off to a subpage and a new page built in it's ashes. Linkthewindow  Talk  12:17, 30 April 2009 (BST)

New user template

This page provides helpful information for new users that can allow them to easily customize their own user page. All of the info they need it right in front of them, in a copy-pastable format. All they need to do is decide where to put it and fill in the gaps.--The Shoemaker Talk Red FactionDinosaur.gif 01:47, 1 May 2009 (BST)

Yes

I support the page because I believe it could really help all of the new users that come in all day every day. With customized pages, they can feel free to then get active within the wiki without worrying about their page all the time. --The Shoemaker Talk Red FactionDinosaur.gif 01:50, 1 May 2009 (BST)

No

  1. I don't support teaching newbies with HTML. This is a wiki. It also has no formatting, hence why it is difficult to read. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:20, 1 May 2009 (BST)

Recent Nominations

Nomination discussion that have concluded in the past 7 days should be placed here. For older nominations, see the Archive.

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