Template talk:Featured Article
A quick guide on how to pick the Featured Article
- Pick something with a wiki article that needs fleshing out. This is the primary purpose of the Featured Article.
- Pick something that has been running long enough to write at least a couple of words about, at least a character roster or something.
- Pick something up and coming by a new-ish author, or a well-known work that's nearing completion.
DON'T feature a quest just because it's holiday-relevant, because they can and will die moments after you hit 'Save Page'. except on April 1st. But only for one day.
In the Summary field: say what quest you're featuring!
Once a new feature is up, it stays up until either:
- The wiki article is written AND more than a week has passed. This started as a weekly feature, believe it or not!
- About a month has passed.
- Someone actually remembers to update the Featured Article.
Actually working on the Featured Article
The ideal wiki page looks something like June Quest. Some categories won't apply to every quest, but the major/minor characters, per-thread plot summary and an image gallery should be fairly universal. Also, try to use the Fanart template for images instead of uploading to the wiki when possible.
Talk
Personally, I'd say bullet 3 is the primary purpose of the feature: to draw reader attention to a quest that needs it. Highlighting articles that need fleshing out seems futile endeavor as the vast majority of articles do! I also wouldn't encourage a weekly-feature loophole. Some people seem to take the feature pretty seriously (certainly more seriously than the wiki staff does), and we don't need accusations of people getting a turn to soon or turns being cut short added into that.
Well, after some contention was raised over what to feature next, I looked back at the thread where the feature was originally created (link) and saw that it's... strayed, a little, from how it started out. Treating it like a popularity contest isn't the way to go. Ultimately, due to just how many stubs exist now, I figure a combination of the two is best: Catch quests on the way in and get those articles written before they graveyard. A quest either gets a full article, or a month on the featured page (or both). Sounds like a win-win to me.
Seriously, I don't think we even have enough people editing the wiki for there to start being regular drama over the feature...
- -Hatticus Finch (talk) 19:50, 29 April 2018 (EDT)
