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Here, users can nominate and vote for Zelda Wiki's next featured article. Any article worthy of being featured exemplifies the Wiki's quality standards, and goes above and beyond what is expected in a normal encyclopedia entry. Featured articles should:

1. Have exceptionally fluid American English grammar and spelling.
2. Be lengthy, yet detailed.
3. Be well organized (as in subdivisions).
4. Cite sources, and cite them properly.
5. Be properly categorized.
6. Contain the most up-to-date information possible.
7. 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.
8. NOT be copied from Wikipedia, or from any site that does not run the Wiki, under any circumstances!

For help on the correct format used to add nominations or votes, see the Featured Content Help.

Rules:
Scoring and conditions for passing a nomination:

1. All nominations start with an initial score of zero.
2. A supporting vote adds 1 to the score.
3. An opposing vote subtracts 1 from the score.
4. An article needs to achieve a score of +5 within 4 months of the nomination date in order to be featured.
5. A nomination automatically fails if the score drops to -3.

Voting:

1. You may only vote once on any particular article.
2. You may not vote on any articles you have nominated.
3. Votes should be added beneath the relevant header (either support or opposition), with # at the beginning of the line. The current score must be updated to reflect this new vote.
4. Supporting votes should include a brief message stating why the article should be featured.
5. Opposing votes must specify how the article fails to meet one or more of the qualifying criteria described above.
6. All votes MUST be signed using ~~~~ If you do not sign, your vote WILL NOT be counted!

Currently Nominated

Kafei

At first, mysterious, masked child. Possessing the strength of a man(see manga). Way faster than Normal Link. Tragic story and a main part of the best side-quest ever. Features of a Shiekah. A subtle cameo in Animal Crossing. A playable character!!!

Kafei needs to be featured, he is, while small to the Zelda universe in general, a large part of Majora's Mask. Zapdemon 01:24, 5 November 2008 (UTC) @

Support

1. Amazing side-quest with romantic and courageous storyline(Unsigned vote by Dekuta — see rule 6 above.)
2. Kafei is a less-known character, so reading about him would interest visitors. On the other hand, any Zelda player who has picked up a controller already knows at least enough about the temple of time to at least search for it.--Claire 22:50, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
3. The article meets the criteria -- it is lengthy, yet detailed, containing all information available on Kafei from the one game in which he was found. There is nothing wrong with the article itself. Ancblue52 15:53, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
4. In a word, yes. This character is not only little known about, but the page has a lot of information. I'm all for making this the featured article. --Prince Deity 21:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
5. Yes, this is definitely good content to feature. He is home to one of Zelda's greatest sidequests, so many people would read it for the sake of nostalgia. And the actual article is very nice, even if there are a few slightly weak areas. Twilight Wolfo 13:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
6. It is just a great side-quset, and I think it deserves notoriety.TheOracle 18:49, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Opposition

1. Though the character would make a great featured article, I find the content lacking. Some sections are only a sentence long, such as the Sun Mask says see Couples Mask. I think the page needs to be elaborated on before obtaining featured status. It should be almost complete within itself, and though giving links to other pages, it should give details to suffice in relation to Kafei. I don't see this yet! User:Melchizedek/sig 11:12, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
2. i) The article is actually really quite short, just with a lot of padding. ii) Most of the sections are stubs, other than the intro and "Daily Schedule" (which overlaps too much with the content in Reuniting Kafei and Anju) iii) NO REFERENCES - seriously, we cannot feature something without a single reference (I'd say this makes vote 3 above invalid) iv) Another invalid, subject-based nomination - seriously, we need to get some detailed guidelines up at Help:Featured Content. User:Adam/sig 09:18, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
3. Too short, no references (unless you count those two sites as references). This article needs much more work before it's worthy of being featured. --Felicia's Champion 08:57, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Neutral Comments

Goron

And the prize for most improved article goes to...
The improvement in this article, even in as little as the last 3 months, is admirable and a credit to the hard work of all who've contributed. It's gone from a stub with an article about Gorons in TP sandwiched in the middle, to a well-rounded article which meets all of the above criteria. A fine example of what we can all achieve! User:Adam/sig 20:00, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Support

1. One or two more references couldn't hurt this article, but I have to agree with Adam on this article. Each and every section of this article is very detailed and lengthy. Now to fix the Zora article... --Felicia's Champion 23:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
2. This article has been in the fixing for awhile, and I believe it now has enough information to be featured. I do agree with Felicia's Champion, it could use a few more references, though.User:Steven/sig 23:39, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
3. With the new reference work done to this article, I'd love to see this thing become featured. Do it! User:Ando/sig 01:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
4. I dare say that it has enough references to become a featured articles. Few sections could use a few more references, but all is good. The Goron Moron 04:36, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
5. I have long pushed for the improvement of this article. Almost since I joined. I'm very happy to see it finally get to this level. It really shows what we can do when we work together. The article is nice and detailed. An amazing accomplishment.User:Matt/sig 21:55, January 31, 2009 (UTC)
6. Appears to be a detailed and well-written article. As previously stated, a few more citations wouldn't hurt, but this page is already more than worthy. —Alter  ^{{T C B H }} 05:50, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
7. This article is definitely worth being featured. Nice amount of references, good quality, and totally feature worthy.User:Mandi/sig 06:47, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Opposition

Neutral Comments

• With more references, I'd be glad to vote for this -- as it is now, though, I just can't bring myself to. However, it's still excellent so I can't oppose. User:Ando/sig 20:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Vote withdrawn by voter. User:Ando/sig 01:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

1. Well written is a joke. It sounds like an 8 yr old on a rant. 'they can walk through lava and roll in balls and have strenght and power.' Stuff like that is all over the page. But it is shaping up and I want to support it. I worked on it a little but I have no more aspirins.User:Axiomist/sig 02:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Previously Featured Articles

(Voting Archive) (Failed Nominations)
The featured articles are listed in this format:

• Name of Article (Date it became featured)

Articles that have been disqualified are in the format:

• Name of Article (Date it became featured) (Date disqualified)

Here are the featured articles:

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (N/A) (May 27, 2008)

• Zelda Timeline (N/A) (May 27, 2008)

• Ganon (N/A)

• Boomerang (N/A) (October 14, 2008)

• Stalfos (July 7, 2007)

• ZeldaInformer (August 1, 2007) (June 12, 2008)

• Lake Hylia (October 2, 2007) (November 24, 2008)

• Zant (October 16, 2007)

• Dark Link (November 5, 2007)

• Link (December 15, 2007)

• Princess Zelda (January 28, 2008)

• Link's Crossbow Training (February 13, 2008)

• Dodongo (February 15, 2008)

• Moblin (February 18, 2008)

• Majora's Mask (Boss) (March 8, 2008)

• Pedestal of Time (April 6, 2008)

• Triforce (May 17, 2008)

• Midna (June 12, 2008)

• Master Sword (June 17, 2008)

• Gerudo (July 21, 2008)

• Darknut (August 30, 2008)

• The Golden Goddesses (October 15, 2008)

• Veran (November 24, 2008)