Help:Featured Content

This page is designed to give a better understanding on how the Featured Content section of the Wiki works, including how to properly nominate, approve, or oppose articles and images.

Approving Featured Pictures

 * 1) A picture needs the approval of ten users in its favor in order to be marked as featured.
 * 2) You may make a maximum of one approval per calendar month.
 * 3) You may not approve of a picture which you have nominated, or for which you have already previously approved.
 * 4) Approvals should be added in order, with # at the beginning of the line.
 * 5) A maximum of six Currently Nominated images are allowed at any given time. Please do not nominate a new image if there are already six nominees.
 * 6) All approvals MUST be signed using ~ . If you do not sign your opinion or second, your comments WILL NOT be counted!
 * 7) Be sure to include a brief message stating why you agree that an image should be featured. "Stub" votes (e.g. "I like this image", or "  is great") may be deemed invalid and discounted.

Proper Opposition Guidelines

 * 1) You may make a single vote opposing any nominated picture (with no monthly restrictions). These should be reasoned oppositions based upon the qualifying criteria detailed.
 * 2) Your personal like or dislike of the subject being depicted is NOT grounds for opposition.
 * 3) Oppositions to images should only be used for reasons such as the following:
 * a. Low-resolution
 * b. Poor quality images (e.g. blurry, visible compression artifacts etc.)
 * c. Poorly cropped/rendered
 * d. An image depicting a similar subject is already featured
 * e. The image is just one in a series of many images of similar nature

Qualification Criteria
Featured articles should:


 * Have exceptionally fluid American English grammar and spelling.
 * Be lengthy, yet detailed.
 * Be well organized (as in subdivisions).
 * Cite sources, and cite them properly.
 * Be properly categorized.
 * Contain the most up-to-date information possible.
 * Have no template requesting improvement, merging, deletion, or any template that may in some way state the article is not of excellent quality. In this respect, there should be no duplicate of the nominated article, nor should the article be a duplicate of another page.
 * NOT be copied from Wikipedia, or from any site that does not run the Wiki, under any circumstances!

Approving Featured Articles

 * 1) An article needs the approval of ten users in its favor in order to be marked as featured.
 * 2) You may make a maximum of one approval per calendar month.
 * 3) You may not vote for any article which you have nominated, or for which you have already voted previously.
 * 4) Votes (in support or opposition) should be added in order beneath the respective relevant header (either    or   ), with # at the beginning of the line.
 * 5) All approvals MUST be signed using ~ . If you do not sign your opinion or second, your comments WILL NOT be counted!
 * 6) Be sure to include a brief message stating why you agree that an article should be featured.

Proper Opposition Guidelines

 * 1) You may make a single vote opposing any nominated picture (with no monthly restrictions). These should be reasoned oppositions based upon the qualifying criteria detailed.
 * 2) Your personal like or dislike of the subject being described is NOT grounds for opposition.
 * 3) Oppositions to articles should only be used where the article fails to meet one or more of the criteria described above.