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== Criteria for a Featured Article == | == Criteria for a Featured Article == | ||
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*If the article contains POV content, it must be deemed insightful by a majority of the community. | *If the article contains POV content, it must be deemed insightful by a majority of the community. | ||
*The article must be properly copy-edited for grammar and style. See [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions]]. | *The article must be properly copy-edited for grammar and style. See [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions]]. | ||
*The article must be [http://validator.w3.org/ valid] [http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp XHTML 1.0 Transitional]. | |||
*The article should contain no "broken" links. | *The article should contain no "broken" links. | ||
*The article must have images pertinent to the article, whether in the form of screencaptures, graphs, charts, or diagrams, to name a few. | *The article must have images pertinent to the article, whether in the form of screencaptures, graphs, charts, or diagrams, to name a few. | ||
*The article needs to be contain at least 400 words of content. While a short article is not necessarily a stub (see below), featured articles should contain enough substance to cover at least | *The article needs to be contain at least 400 words of content. While a short article is not necessarily a stub (see below), featured articles should contain enough substance to cover at least X words. | ||
The following '''do not''' qualify as Featured Article candidates: | The following '''do not''' qualify as Featured Article candidates: | ||
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Find or fix a stub|Stubs]] | * [[Battlestar Wiki:Find or fix a stub|Stubs]] | ||
* Talk pages | * Talk pages | ||
* Anything in the Battlestar Wiki, Quotes, Sources, Template, or User namespaces. | * Anything in the Battlestar Wiki, Quotes, Sources, Template, or User namespaces. | ||
* If an image from the wanted article is | * Past, Current, or Future Featured articles that have been marked. | ||
* If an image from the wanted article is currenlty the featured picture, the article is disquilified until the image is not the featured picture. | |||
The featured article | The featured article should be decided before the 7<sup>th</sup> day of the next month, which on the 7<sup>th</sup> day the featured article should be changed. All nominations should be posted and narrowed down to '''5 articles''', within the first 6 days of the next month. | ||
== Identifying a Potential Featured Article | == Identifying a Potential Featured Article == | ||
Featured Articles should be identified as such, so that a master list can be created. If you think an article should be a featured article on the front page, submit it first as {{tl|featured article candidate}}. | Featured Articles should be identified as such, so that a master list can be created. If you think an article should be a featured article on the front page, submit it first as {{tl|featured article candidate}}. | ||
Essentially, this would be done in the following way: | Essentially, this would be done in the following way: | ||
# A contributor tags an article page with {{tl|featured article candidate}}, then adds a note to the | # A contributor tags an article page with {{tl|featured article candidate}}, then adds a note to the current debvate session explaining their reasoning. A list could also be maintained here, either manually updated or as a link to a "feature candidate" category. Only '''5 articles''' for the next month shall be in the process of becoming a feature article. | ||
# Involved members of the community will then discuss the candidate article. Typically, they should be as '''constructively''' critical as possible | # Involved members of the community will then discuss the candidate article. Typically, they should be as '''constructively''' critical as possible. | ||
# If the consensus is that the article is potentially of "feature" quality, then the discussion will evolve into modifying the article in such a way as to polish the article so as to achieve full "Featured Article" status | # If the consensus is that the article is potentially of "feature" quality, then the discussion will evolve into modifying the article in such a way as to polish the article so as to achieve full "Featured Article" status. | ||
# | # Once this is done, the article will be tagged {{tl|featured article}} and placed on the '''Main page'''. use the {{tls|fat}} template to create the new featured article at [[Battlestar Wiki:Featured articles/Archive/ARTICLENAME - MONTH YEAR]]. Then edit the '''Main page''' sub-page at [[Main_Page/Featured_Article|here]]. | ||
#Previous featured article candidates will be marked with {{tlp|featured article candidate previous|''Month Year''}} to indicate that they were previously nominated. | |||
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== List of Featured Articles == | == List of Featured Articles == | ||
* [[Gaius Baltar]] - Month of May 2006 {{fa archive|Gaius Baltar - May 2006}} | |||
* ''Unknown'' - Month of June 2006 {{fa archive| - June 2006}} | |||
*[[Gaius Baltar]] - May 2006 | |||
* | |||
== List of Featured Article Candidates for June 2006 == | |||
# [[Galactica (RDM)]] | |||
# [[Computers]] | |||
# [[Resurrection Ship]] | |||
# [[Anastasia Dualla]] | |||
# [[Language in the Twelve Colonies]] | |||
Read the [[/Current Debate|debate]] for choosing the best featured article. | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
*[[Battlestar Wiki:Featured pictures]] | *[[Battlestar Wiki:Featured pictures]] | ||