Talk:Featured Articles

Please use this page to nominate articles for inclusions. If you tamper with anyone else's vote, you will be banned!

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=Rules=
 * 1) Nominated Article must meet Wikiality.com standards:
 * 2) must be about Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A.
 * 3) if not directly about Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A., it must reflect "The Stephen Colbert Experience"
 * 4) must be funny (actually, its more imporant to be satirical, but that's a wordonista word and what we really want is somebody nailed that we can laugh at)
 * 5) must be written by a Registered User
 * 6) must be truthy
 * 7) Criteria for "Featured" Nominees
 * 8) must not contain red links
 * 9) must not contain any Wikipedophilia
 * 10) must not contain any facts
 * 11) must not be overly random
 * 12) spelling, punctuation, grammatical and formatting errors kept to a minimum.
 * 13) When Nominating:
 * 14) Include the title of the article as a link
 * 15) "sign" the nomination
 * 16) provide some kind of explanation as to "Why You Nominated It"
 * 17) create space to vote "Yes", "Not Yet" and "No"
 * 18) Vote for your article! Your nomination doesn't count as a vote.
 * 19) Only Registered Users Who Have Contributed Positively to Wikiality.com Are Allowed to:
 * 20) Nominate an article for "Featured" status
 * 21) Vote for "Featured Articles"
 * 22) And, yes, you may nominate and vote for your own article
 * 23) Number of Articles to be Featured at Any Given Time
 * 24) Only 10 articles will be "Featured" at any given time.
 * 25) When a new article is added, the oldest one is dropped off the list.
 * 26) Articles stay on the "Featured" section of the Main Page until they are dropped off by a new addition.
 * 27) Voting
 * 28) a User may only have one vote per nomination.
 * 29) a User may vote for as many nominees as they choose.
 * 30) Judging Nominations
 * 31) An Article will be featured if it receives five votes of "Yes"
 * 32) An Article will be removed from nomination, if it receives five votes of "No"
 * 33) An Article that has been voted "Not Yet" will be left on the list untill it either improves and is voted in, or degrades in quality, and is voted off.
 * 34) If your vote is "No", please give a brief explanation of your position. This page is designed for voting only.  Please direct conversations to the associated "talk Page" for the specific article.
 * 35) Editing an Article
 * 36) Articles that are "Nominated" will be blocked for anon users.
 * 37) Articles that are "Featured" will be blocked from any edits.

Winning, Losing and Scoring

 * An article will become featured if it gets 5 "Yes" votes.
 * An article will get sent to the loser's bin if it gets 5 "No" votes or has not received a sufficient amount of votes within 7 days of being nominated.
 * "Not Yet" votes do not count for or against the article. They are null votes used to straddle the fence until the article is fixed.
 * You may change your vote by using the tag to encompass your old vote so that we can readily see change.  BE WARNED: Do not change another person's vote or you WILL be banned.
 * Note: A "Yes" vote will not cancel out a "No" and vice versa. If five "No" votes are cast before 5 "Yes" votes then the article will not receive a featured status.

How To Vote

 * Just write "+1" under "Yes", "No", or "Not Yet" followed by 2 of these "-", then 4 of these "~", with no spaces in between.
 * The "+1" notes your choice, and the "--~" leaves your signature.

So, for those of you who still don't get it: "+1 --~ " under your choice. Without the quotes, dummy.

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=Nominees=

Glory to North Korea and Kim Jong Il!
Nomination ends 15 December 2006 nominated by--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 05:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes
+ 1--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 05:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

+ 1--Esteban Colberto 17:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

+1--Skitchonthedrums 04:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Not Yet
+1 --Skitchonthedrums 04:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC) bulgogi is red

Sharks
Nomination ends 17 December 2006 nominated by--Chief Reefer 22:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes
+1 --Chief Reefer 22:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Not Yet
+1 is so close to a "Yes" all it needs is maybe a bit about the shark anatomy and take that "Under Construction" tag too...--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 03:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Bearism
Nomination ends 18 December 2006 nominated by --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 22:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes
+1--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 22:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

+1--seaRob 02:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC) (I'm surprised it hadn't been nominated before.)

+1 --Esteban Colberto 02:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)