UDWiki talk:Featured Articles

Nomnomnominations

Lets get the show on the road, I guess. Anyone nominate a beautiful article for featured status?

I'll throw a few into the mix that I enjoyed reading.

• You know you've been playing Urban Dead too much when
• Groove Theory
• RNG

Maybe even First Siege of Caiger Mall - I think from a historical standpoint it is a good read. D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 02:29, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll throw in NecroWatch, because I think it's 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. ~ extropymine ^{Talk | NW | 4Corners} 02:41, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

We should probably wait 'till we have the criteria up, and the voting page before nominating things. Silly peoples! --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 03:06, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Oops? Sorry! ~ extropymine ^{Talk | NW | 4Corners} 03:59, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

No, no, no - it has to start with Om, and then you go nomnomnomnom (i.e. omnomnomnomnom)! --ZsL 05:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Certainly need some criteria, though nothing too stringent, if it's generally awesome, throw it in there. Also, this voting business, are we going to vote for articles that are of a FA quality, and then choose one each week? Or are we going to have a pool of random articles people collect, of which somebody chooses a couple to be voted on each week? Or something else, or what? We have no system goddamnit! PS: DRR, are you sure you mean RNG, or do you mean RNG (Old Testament)? Just to clarify for my benefit, as I think the current RNG page is kinda crappy TBH so it seems odd to suggest it. --  RoosterDragon  16:04, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

The old one has NPOV and it not-being-an-article kind of problem. For FAs we could:

1. Vote FAs from a pool each week, the winner being the FA article. (the Pool of articles aren't FAs yet)
2. Create a pool of FAs, then have a vote for which one will be on the ComPort/Main Page.
3. Have two votes, one to determine FAs and the other to determine which/when they get to be on the ComPort/Main Page.

Yar? --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 16:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm inclined towards method 1. People could just add to the pool at will, or just add it to a pre-pool list which then gets pooled if nobody adds any substantial objections after a week or something. --  RoosterDragon  16:58, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

1 as well. Of course, the pool will have to be set before being voted on. So Pool A is created, voting starts, but some people want some other articles in the pool. Therefore, it would go in Pool B, which would be voted on next week. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 21:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

1. But what to nominate? Do i want informative/historic/or ALIM? Peer reviewed buildings?, The Fall of Monroeville Mall, Danger Alley? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 21:13, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Main Namespace articles. If it's an information page, like a location, glossary item, suburb, historical events etc then it should be included. Groups, user pages and things like projects shouldn't be included.--  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 21:14, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

How boring! There are some pretty awesome group pages out there. --Paddy Dignam^{IS DEAD} 21:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I can understand why active groups shouldn't be featured (unfair to other groups to advertize one on the main page), but what about dead and especially historical groups? --Midianian^{¦T¦DS¦SP¦} 21:53, 18 March 2009 (UTC)