Template:Voterules


 * 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.