The featured articles of the wiki are articles that represent the best DJBWiki has to offer. This is not a way to showcase the articles of your favorite characters, spaceships, or the like.
So just what makes a featured article? Well, we've prepared a list just in case someone should ask that, and it is as follows.
An article must…
- …be well written and detailed
- …be unbiased, non-point of view
- …not be the object of any ongoing edit wars
- …not be tagged with any sort of improvement tags (i.e. more sources, expand, etc)
- …have a succinct proper lead that can be used for the front page featured box
- …have a reasonable amount of red links; use common sense
- …have a complete, detailed biography if it's a character article
- …not have been previously featured
For more information on what makes a featured article, see Wikipedia:What is a featured article.
How to nominate:
- First, nominate an article you find is worthy of featured status, putting it at the bottom of the list below; see criteria above.
- Others will object to the nomination if they disagree that the article is good enough; they will then supply reasons for doing so, and ways to improve the article (errors, style, organization, images, notability, sources).
- Supporters adjust the article until the objectors (with reasonable objections) are satisfied.
- The article is placed on the featured article list and added to the front page queue.
- Also, if, at least a week after the article's nomination, that article has 5 supports and no objections, it will be added the queue, and will be officially known as a "featured article".
How to vote:
- Before doing anything, be sure to read the article completely, keeping a sharp eye out for mistakes.
- Afterwards, compare the article to the criteria listed above, and then either support or object the article's nomination.
- If you object, please supply concrete reasons for doing so, and how it can be improved.
- As stated above, any objections will be looked upon by the nominator, supporters, and anyone willing to improve the article, and action will be taken to please the objectors.
- Once all objectors' complaints have been solved (or the article has 5 supports and no objections after at least a week), the article will be added to the queue and be officially known as a "featured article".
Also remember to add {{Nominated}} at the top of the article you are nominating.
Every month the next article in the queue will be highlighted on the Main Page as featured, marked with a Featured icon and removed from the list of nominations. The beginning of the article then appears on the Main Page via the {{Featured article}} template. Nominees that are inactive for a month will be eliminated from the nominations list.
Featured article nominations
List an article and leave your signature (--~~~~) for the nomination(s). Please use the format below for your nominations/showing support or objection.
Nominating:
=== [[Article Name]] ===
[[File:Infobox-Picture.jpg|thumb|left|150px]] '''Nominated by:''' --~~~~
Showing support or objecting:
* '''Strong Support''' - A comment/reasoning behind why you are showing strong support --~~~~
* '''Support''' - A comment/reasoning behind why you are showing support --~~~~
* '''Weak Support''' - A comment/reasoning behind why you are showing weak support --~~~~
* '''Strong Object''' - A comment/reasoning behind why you are strongly objecting --~~~~
* '''Object''' - A comment/reasoning behind why you are objecting --~~~~
* '''Weak Object''' - A comment/reasoning behind why you are weakly objecting --~~~~
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Nominated by: Wuntila Zratian Entar
- Strong Support- This article is one of the best written character articles in the DBWiki community and offers an indepth and rich history of the character, organization of the character's DB career, and rich images to compliment it. Talos Erinos
- Strong Support- I've always thought this is what character articles should strive to be. - Solus Gar 20:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Weak Objection- Far too few images throughout the history portion of the wiki. Adding about six would make it more appealing. Still, very well written. - Archangel 03:31, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Weak Objection- Like Archangel says, but the use of the == is a bit excessive, you could just bold the text instead, which will help out with overall look and feel. Fremoc, Fist of the Brotherhood 14:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
- Weak Objection- I agree with the past few comments that a few more images would make this perfect. Just too much text without anything to break it up --Halcyon 18:33, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Comment- I've left this article in the queue for a while because it's close to featured article status, but no improvements have been made in that time (and we just haven't had a wide selection here...). Is anyone interested in finding a few images to push it to featured article? --Benevolent Whiner (talk - dossier) 19:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Nominated by: Keirdagh Taldrya Cantor
- Strong Support- Very detailed article. Interesting to read! --Howlader 17:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Weak Objection- As Howie said, a very detailed article, concise and to the point. However, I found that there were too few images and the images that were there were far too small. Nice work though, Teu. --Wuntila 18:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Weak Objection- As with the Sashar article, this requires a few more images to make it a Featured Article. Well-written by the DJB portion of your history really needs a few images to round it out --Halcyon 18:33, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Weak Objection- Needs a good proof read and perhaps dividing up a little better, but otherwise pretty good. Andrelious 19:54, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Comment- Images have been added to the article since Dec 6th comments, as well as a round of spell checking. Thoughts objectors? --Benevolent Whiner (talk - dossier) 19:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Comment- Most of the existing errors were fixed, yes, but some new ones were introduced ('these were' being changed to 'these was', 'defend herself' changed to 'defend her'). Sorry to be harsh, Teu, but I think the spelling and grammar needs to be near perfect for an FA! Andrelious 22:18, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Nominated by: Halcyon Taldrya
- Support - Nicely written, with a generally coherent story and well divided sections.
- Weak Support - Good article, though it would be nice if more of the images were thumbed down to the standard size and set within the image thumb frames with captions. Never been a fan of the floating images. - Solus Gar 08:34, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Weak Support - Seems like a good article, though I find the images seem to group together too much, instead of acting as a balancer for the text. prigden@gmail.com 16:03, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Support - Thrust. --Shadow Taldrya 22:51, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- Comment - There are only two non-captioned images, plus two captioned images that seem a bit large at first glace, this should be an easy fix. Yacks' comment about image "clumping" remains, options include adding more images (probably ideal) and spreading existing images around a bit (depends on the context). --Benevolent Whiner (talk - dossier) 19:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)