Talk:Featured Articles



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Please use this page to nominate articles for inclusion as a Featured Articles. If you tamper with anyone else's vote, you will be banned!

Pages must be on "Wikiality:Sound Advice for a week before voting.

However, if the writer of the article is a Mrs. Colbert, the Wikiality:Sound Advice step can be skipped.

There were no pages voted for in January, therefore, no page won "Feature of the Month".

Wikinazi was the only "Featured Article" for February. For March, the winners were: Gitmo North and 300.

The April, 2007, winners were Easter, Libertarian, and Hungaria.

We're getting winners earlier and earlier in the month! Keep nominating and voting citizens!

Voting records are kept here:

Talk:Featured Articles/Winners

Talk:Featured Articles/Losers

=Rules=
 * 1) Before a page can be nominated, it must first pass Wikiality:Sound Advice.  Please post your page there for pre-nominating "vetting". New pages should stay on Peer Review for at least a week before being nominated.
 * 2) Nominated Article must meet Wikiality.com standards:
 * 3) must be about Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A.
 * 4) if not directly about Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A., it must reflect "The Stephen Colbert Experience"
 * 5) 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)
 * 6) must be written by a Registered User
 * 7) must be truthy
 * 8) Criteria for "Featured" Nominees
 * 9) must not contain red links
 * 10) must not contain any Wikipedophilia
 * 11) must not contain any facts
 * 12) must not be overly random
 * 13) spelling, punctuation, grammatical and formatting errors kept to a minimum.
 * 14) When Nominating:
 * 15) Include the title of the article as a link
 * 16) "sign" the nomination
 * 17) provide some kind of explanation as to "Why You Nominated It"
 * 18) create space to vote "Yes", "Not Yet" and "No"
 * 19) Vote for your article! Your nomination doesn't count as a vote.
 * 20) Only Registered Users Who Have Contributed Positively to Wikiality.com Are Allowed to:
 * 21) Nominate an article for "Featured" status
 * 22) Vote for "Featured Articles"
 * 23) And, yes, you may nominate and vote for your own article
 * 24) Number of Articles to be Featured at Any Given Time
 * 25) Only 10 articles will be "Featured" at any given time.
 * 26) When a new article is added, the oldest one is dropped off the list.
 * 27) Articles stay on the "Featured" section of the Main Page until they are dropped off by a new addition.
 * 28) Voting
 * 29) a User may only have one vote per nomination.
 * 30) a User may vote for as many nominees as they choose.
 * 31) Judging Nominations
 * 32) An Article will be featured if it receives five votes of "Yes"
 * 33) An Article will be removed from nomination, if it receives five votes of "No"
 * 34) An Article that has been voted "Not Yet" will be left on the list until it either improves and is voted in, or degrades in quality, and is voted off.
 * 35) 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.
 * 36) Editing an Article
 * 37) Articles that are "Nominated" will be blocked for anon users.
 * 38) Articles that are "Featured" will be blocked from any edits for a period of one month, then an "Archive" version will be made as a sub-page of the main article so that it may be viewed in all its Featured glory for future generations of Wikiality.com editors.

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.

Trouble Voting?
If you can't edit this page, and you are logged in, comment on the Talk:Main_Page, if there is a syscop around, they will come and help you.

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=2008 Nominees=

Global Warming
nominated by Bi 05:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes
+1--Bi 05:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC) :) +1--GlennBecksAT**l (talk) 05:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Joe Wilson's War
nominated by --Careax 05:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes
+1--thisniss 01:10, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

+1--GlennBecksAT**l (talk) 05:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Not Yet
=2007 Nominees=

FU School of Media Relations
nominated by--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 05:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes
+1 --Careax 05:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

+1 --Sneakers 07:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

+1--GlennBecksAT**l (talk) 05:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

+1--Bi 08:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes
+1 --Chives 00:39, 8 December 2007 (UTC) What a great article, I couldn't have written it better myself! +1 --User:leoberacai 12 December 2007 Funny stuff. +1 --Careax 16:45, 19 December 2007 (UTC) +1 --GlennBecksAT**l (talk) 17:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC) +1 --Sneakers 07:43, 13 January 2008 (UTC) +1--thisniss 01:10, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes
+1 --Eviltwin 03:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Shameless self nomination :) +1 --Chives 03:57, 13 December 2007 (UTC) Really nice. The quotation of his mad skillz sealed the deal for me! +1 --Sneakers 07:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

No


Not Yet
Nice article which is nearly there. Great pics and captions, nice layout, good content, nice footnotes. But needs a reference to MC Rove, and more Wikiality tube links. Also the text under "Dealing with Applicants" could benefit from being broken into 2 or 3 paragraphs. --Careax 16:26, 13 January 2008 (UTC) 