Talk:Featured Articles

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

COMING SOON: 2006 Truthiness Awards!!!

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Talk:Featured Articles/Winners

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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=

Saginaw Spirit
Voting Ends 12 November 2006 nominated by --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 04:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC) The most comprehensive collection of guttiness on Stephen's favorite team

Yes
+1 --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 04:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Gloria Steinem
Voting Ends 12 November 2006 nominated by --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 04:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC) Everything you ever wanted to know about a feminist, ever.

Yes
+1 --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 04:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Revolving Door
Voting Ends 12 November 2006 nominated by --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 04:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC) Information about a little-known political institution.

Yes
+1 --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 04:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Jew
Voting ends: 06 November 2006  Nominated by --Lewser 01:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes
+1 --Lewser 01:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

+1 --My boss tells me that if I don't vote for Jews he will fire me and cut off my foreskin. Please send help. --Fuzzy 16:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

+1 Just get rid of that one red quote... --matty233 03:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Not Yet
+1 I was about to change my vote to yes, but then saw red links. Fix those, and you've got me! Cliftoris 23:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

+1 One red link, for some random-invented thing. but the introduction sounds so bad to me. Very tortured language. And it is more list than text.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 06:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Serge LeBlanc
Voting ends: 08 November 2006  Nominated by --Cliftoris 04:40, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes
+1 --Cliftoris - goes well with Acadian, and gosh darnit, was fun to put together. And no, I'm not Serge Leblanc.

Not Yet
+1 I think I missed something. I don't get it. I even did the google search and there are no satelitte maps of him anywhere. --Fuzzy 16:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

+1 Tipping toward a Yes, because it's funny, but I think it's an essential part of Acadian. Not quite sure it should be featured so soon after that one. -- seaRob 18:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)