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".

So far, only Wikinazi has been "Featured" for February.

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 Peer Review.  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 untill 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.

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?
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=2007 Nominees=

Arab
nominated by: Tourskin 02:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes
+1--Tourskin 02:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

+1--Factinator 23:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Hilarious! AWESOME! Offensive? What isn't?

No
-1 (Grammar could use some work, and it's maybe a tad too offensive.) --Aaronak 03:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Easter
nominated by: --OHeL 23:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes
+1-- I know I'm going to regret doing this, but Alethic Logic oops, sorry Alethic Logic should have back-to-back featured articles -- 300 and Easter... (I can feel the air we breathe compressing from his head swelling as I pen this). We should get Easter up as the Featured Article in time for Easter. --OHeL 23:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

+1 I suppose I could live with that... --Alethic Logic 00:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

+ 1 Looks not too bad. --Muchoman 17:59, 2 April 2007 (UTC)