Zelda Wiki talk:Featured Article Nomination

Opposition Votes
So, with the new "introduction" of opposing votes... how does this affect the maximum monthly vote? Is it still one per month? Maybe one support and one oppose per month? One support and no maximum opposition? Thoughts? --Ando (Talk) 20:10, 29 February 2008 (EST)


 * Same as with supporting votes, it's a maximum of one opposition per article/picture, and you cannot oppose content which you nominated yourself. And just like support, opposition can be retracted at the user's discretion.
 * Given these constraints, a monthly limit on opposition would seem unfair; support is about picking which article/picture you like best, but opposition isn't about picking your least favourite. It's intended to allow users to voice their concerns over content which, in their view, doesn't meet the required standards. At any given time, that may be none of the nominated article, or all of them. So I'd say there needs to be free reign to voice opposition. However, the requirements for a valid opposition are more specific; statements which equate to "I don't like ___." are not sufficient and will be discounted unless the users substantiates them. —Adam (talk) 02:47, 1 March 2008 (EST)

Alright, I figured as much; that was what I was hoping for. --Ando (Talk) 13:30, 1 March 2008 (EST)

Could someone put the exact opposition vote rules on the project page? Just so all voters understand the process.--Matt 14:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Done as requested :) Adamcox82 18:11, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Featured Article, or Featured Boss?
Bear in mind that already, four of our Featured Articles are bosses (Dark Link, Zant, Ganon, Dodongo). Now look at the current nominees (Majora's Mask, Gohma, Helmaroc King, Darknut, Volvagia); more bosses. Yes, they're cool, but are they great articles? Some don't even meet the minimum requirements... Couple the boss-heavy focus with the enemies nominated/featured (Stalfos, Moblin, ReDead, Octorok) and bingo, 60% are bosses or enemies. What about places, people, items, events etc. ? —Adam (talk) 17:02, 7 March 2008 (EST)


 * "Yes, they're cool"
 * That, sir, is exactly why all those articles are there. Of the seven currently nominated articles, only one nominator actually gave a reason for the article to be featured that wasn't "its a cool boss so it should be featured". People don't really seem to get what makes a featured article. It's a shame, really (and only made worse by half of the voters only echoing "yep, cool boss"). What can we really do about this, though (you'd think that listing the criteria for a featured article at the top of the page would be enough, but...)? --Ando (Talk) 21:21, 9 March 2008 (EDT)


 * Glad I'm not alone! If you're with me on any of those which I opposed, then adding your name to mine will help clear out some of the poorer articles (then we'd just need one more like-minded person!) —Adam (talk) 15:19, 10 March 2008 (EDT)

How about instead of clearing out the unpopular articles we give them a chance to shine by putting it on the Featured Article Nomination page? If a small article (in need of work or detailing) is put on the project page perhaps more people will work on it. It's just a thought but I think it might work. ZeldaGirl96 00:24, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not really sure what you mean? Putting poor articles up for nomination? As for people working on something, well, we have the Articles in need of attention category where anyone can see any articles that need some serious working. 02:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I didn't realize we had a page like that! (you guys already thought about everything!) Thanks for getting back to me Ando. ZeldaGirl96 01:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Featured Article Nomination Template
Could someone make a template to place in articles that have been nominated to become a featured article? I think this is a little too important to make myself. I have not been here that long.--Matt 01:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hm, and interesting idea. So a sort of "Hey, this article has been nominated to be a featured article! GO VOTE ON IT OR SOMETHING" sort of deal? I could see this working. In fact, I like the idea. Anyone disapprove? --Ando (T) 16:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. --Guy (T 22:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I see that it is done. Looks great.--Matt 13:17, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Opposing Approved Articles
The Zelda series is ongoing, and articles need to be updated and changed as their subject matter evolves and more information becomes available, but new edits might hurt the article as much as they help it. New standards of the wiki make once feature-worthy articles obsolete as well, so I suggest there be a way to "de-feature" featured articles, if only until they're improved. Some featured articles lack decent organization in some areas and proper cities in others... Though there aren't any strong examples for it now, there should also be a way to get a failed nomination nominated again; it's more likely that an article will be improved than become worse or stay at its current level for an eternity.

I assumed this would be added with oppositions, but I couldn't find it specifically mentioned anywhere. Sorry if I just didn't look hard enough. --Guy (T 22:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * As for point number 2 (re-nominating a previously failed article or picture), it states on the Failed Nominations page, I believe, that "three signed votes in opposition of a nomination temporarily bar it from being featured" (paraphrasing).
 * Point 1... is a good one. I've thought about this before. Maybe we should set some kind of "Featured Article review team" to look over all of the featured articles and see if they're still up to snuff. Maybe? --Ando (T) 02:27, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Categorizing Feature-Related Pages
There's a category for featured content, but with the new addition of many pages dedicated to the voting of featured content, maybe there should be a category just for those types of pages. It would make it easier for people (like me) who want to look for a certain one of these pages but are either too lazy to type out the full name or don't know the full name, and it just seems like it could be convenient to have a list of them all (including the Featured Content category, of course). --Guy (T 22:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, another good idea. I'll get on it right away. --Ando (T) 02:27, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Reminder
I have just made reminder templates. They are used to remind users that they have already voted. See Template: Article Reminder and Template: Picture Reminder. Also look on my talk page to see how they are to be placed on user talk pages.--Matt 20:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

So...
10 votes for the Master Sword...so how long is it going to be before it's featured? I notice that it's been here for at least two days, even with 10 votes. --Mr. Mystery, 24 June 2008 (EST)


 * The current method we have for displaying featured articles is simplistic and limits the number we may have. This requires another article to be disqualified. A much better script to display featured articles has already been written. The script would let us have a maximum of 182 featured articles providing they are changed every two days. The script has yet to be implemented. 04:37, June 24, 2008 (UTC)


 * Right, I typically let Adam handle this (he's better at it than I am) and the staff hasn't actually discussed your idea in detail, Matt... Alright, Matt, if you notice that we're both on at the same time, drop me a line. I'm thinking about implementing your idea (I don't think that the staff seemed too against it). 12:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Right now we have 31 templates for featured articles. Since each article gets two templates, we should put this new featured article on template 31 and make another one numbered 32. I'll do the updating to the script once that is done. 15:50, June 24, 2008 (UTC)

Removed opposition vote for The Golden Goddesses
FRIGGIN' HITTING THE ENTER BUTTON WHILE TRYING TO EDIT THE SUMMARY AND IT SAVES THE PAGE BEFORE YOU CAN FINISH ARGGHSDFODIOSMLKNH Anyway, so, Felicia's Champion: I re-added your opposition vote to The Golden Goddesses, but with a note stating that the problem is resolved and that you'd withdrawn your vote (with proof so I'm not accused of poll-altering later on). I believe it to be more "historically accurate" this way, that way we know exactly how the votes went down (plus, a year from now, Sea's "It's got a picture of Nayru now" might seem a little random without knowing the story behind it, don't you think?). I figure that any moved votes for featured content should follow this. 01:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright, I see. Yep, that makes sense. --Felicia&#39;s Champion 02:08, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well it does. Apparantly Ando was thinking the same thing while editing as I was looking for the picture "WHERE IS THIS F****** PICTURE THERE A GOD D*** FARORE AND DIN ALL OVER THE PLACE WHY CAN'T THERE BE A NAYRU D*****!"


 * Excuse the language, but it gets old when you can't find the Nayru picture. 12:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I can understand the F-word being censored, but why "Damn"? You even used "Friggin', Ando which seems to be a lot worse than plain old "Damn". 15:27, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Making a nomination
how do i make a nomination?Dragonstetraforce 22:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It's quite simple, really. Simply copy this text:
 * == article ==
 * description






 * Just replace "article" with the name of the article you want to nominate, replace "description" with the reason that you're nominating it, and leave everything else untouched. Put all that underneath all of the current nominees and you've just nominated an article! ;) 01:44, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

thanksDragonstetraforce 23:04, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

so um... how long does it take for people to vote?Dragonstetraforce 21:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Basically however long it takes for them to decide to check the nomination pages and see what they want to vote for. Heck, there hasn't actually been a vote in almost half a month; remember, these are regular people just like you, most of whom probably don't come to the wiki daily; sometimes maybe not even weekly. As such, it could take a while for votes to start showing up, but as the month passes you should start to see something happen. ;) 00:55, 9 September 2008 (UTC)