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Added image to talk page so that it doesnt show in the [[:Special:Unusedimages|Unused images]] page. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] 05:59, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | Added image to talk page so that it doesnt show in the [[:Special:Unusedimages|Unused images]] page. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] 05:59, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | ||
:What?--[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/The Merovingian|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/The Merovingian|E]])</sup> 15:38, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | :What?--[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/The Merovingian|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/The Merovingian|E]])</sup> 15:38, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | ||
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::::I think v1.6 of mediawiki will allow some of the Portal-like features they have on their main page with out all the ugly html. Although, honestly, if we could get it to look like memory-alpha WITH ugly hacks and html (even without v1.6) I'd be up for it. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:07, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | ::::I think v1.6 of mediawiki will allow some of the Portal-like features they have on their main page with out all the ugly html. Although, honestly, if we could get it to look like memory-alpha WITH ugly hacks and html (even without v1.6) I'd be up for it. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:07, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | ||
:::::I don't understand computers at all. Just scifi shows. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/The Merovingian|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/The Merovingian|E]])</sup> 16:09, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | :::::I don't understand computers at all. Just scifi shows. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/The Merovingian|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/The Merovingian|E]])</sup> 16:09, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | ||
== What should be the Standards? == | |||
Me and Silverviper talked about it for a short while (See below) and came up with those ideas. Now I know we been discussion [[Battlestar_Wiki:Quality_Articles]], but there is a difference. QA are articles that are good enough to be a QA, but not enough to be Featured on the Main Page of the site. Some of the same Criteria for QA can also be established for FA, but FA most go through a more different process for it to be posted on the Main Page. That's all I can think of now. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 20:46, 19 March 2006 (CST) | |||
:I don't know, they seem like exactly the same thing to me. I prefer the "featured article" name in any case. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:29, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | |||
::I really think "Quality Articles" is redundant. "Featured Article" makes sense. Memory Alpha just uses "Featured Articles". --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/The Merovingian|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/The Merovingian|E]])</sup> 19:52, 4 April 2006 (CDT) | |||
== Google Chat Discussions == | |||
=== Mar 17: Me (Shane) and Matt (Steelviper) === | |||
<pre> | |||
Matt: I'd lean towards deletion | |||
in its stated form, it's pretty redundant with featured article | |||
1:37 PM in order to be a featured article, an article must possess a certain standard of quality | |||
(wow... you can quote me on that) | |||
1:38 PM me: (saved! looved google talk) | |||
Matt: maybe list out some criteria... | |||
no broken links | |||
no spelling/grammar issues | |||
me: Some images | |||
Matt: citations for all info | |||
yeah | |||
images are a must | |||
me: More than one | |||
1:39 PM Size | |||
Matt: at least one | |||
me: To large | |||
hard to read | |||
to small.. not enough content | |||
Matt: I wouldn't hold size against a page | |||
that would have dq'd the miniseries article | |||
1:40 PM stubs are definitely out | |||
me: aye | |||
Matt: it'd be good to quantify a minimum size | |||
</pre> | |||
:Just a note: Matt==Steelviper. Sylverviper is a far more artistic soul on the skiffy boards. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 20:58, 19 March 2006 (CST) | |||
== Featured Candidate Requirements == | == Featured Candidate Requirements == | ||
I swiped most of the text from the "quality articles" project, and added a few other requirements as a potential springboard for what a featured article might need. Feel free to hack and slash at it, or discuss it on this talk page. There wasn't much activity on this, so I hoped this would help get the ball rolling. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:23, 2 May 2006 (CDT) | I swiped most of the text from the "quality articles" project, and added a few other requirements as a potential springboard for what a featured article might need. Feel free to hack and slash at it, or discuss it on this talk page. There wasn't much activity on this, so I hoped this would help get the ball rolling. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:23, 2 May 2006 (CDT) | ||
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::I don't think that anybody is questioning their quality. If anything, silly pages are held to a higher standard of quality than normal articles, as only the really good ones are kept. There are no [[Greenback]]'s of silly pages. They're well conceived, well executed, or they're [[toaster|toast]]. However, that being said, I think one of the reasons some of the contributors are leery of having them featured is because they don't really represent the main mission of the wiki. If some Ferrari engineers put together some awesome go-karts or bumper cars just to have some fun and blow off some steam, they might go the whole nine yards. Put the prancing horse logo on it, all kinds of detail work, etc. And it'd be a blast. However, you wouldn't see those on a showroom floor. Because the company would want to be sure that when you see Ferrari, you think of incredibly powerful, performance racing machines. Not go-karts or bumper cars. Likewise there are contributors that want people to see the wiki as a source for incredibly detailed, well cited information regarding the ''Battlestar Galactica'' sagas. Which is not to say that the silly pages in any way take away from that, or that some of them aren't incredibly detailed and well cited. Just that they represent the (less than) 1% of the articles, rather than the 99% that everyone is contributing to. I'd support a silly page that was 100% grounded in canon citations, but I think at that point it'd be hard to make it silly. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:24, 9 January 2007 (CST) | ::I don't think that anybody is questioning their quality. If anything, silly pages are held to a higher standard of quality than normal articles, as only the really good ones are kept. There are no [[Greenback]]'s of silly pages. They're well conceived, well executed, or they're [[toaster|toast]]. However, that being said, I think one of the reasons some of the contributors are leery of having them featured is because they don't really represent the main mission of the wiki. If some Ferrari engineers put together some awesome go-karts or bumper cars just to have some fun and blow off some steam, they might go the whole nine yards. Put the prancing horse logo on it, all kinds of detail work, etc. And it'd be a blast. However, you wouldn't see those on a showroom floor. Because the company would want to be sure that when you see Ferrari, you think of incredibly powerful, performance racing machines. Not go-karts or bumper cars. Likewise there are contributors that want people to see the wiki as a source for incredibly detailed, well cited information regarding the ''Battlestar Galactica'' sagas. Which is not to say that the silly pages in any way take away from that, or that some of them aren't incredibly detailed and well cited. Just that they represent the (less than) 1% of the articles, rather than the 99% that everyone is contributing to. I'd support a silly page that was 100% grounded in canon citations, but I think at that point it'd be hard to make it silly. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:24, 9 January 2007 (CST) | ||
:::Hmm... You make a damned good point. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 13:59, 9 January 2007 (CST) | :::Hmm... You make a damned good point. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 13:59, 9 January 2007 (CST) | ||
::I can't argue with any of the above, you're right. I expected other articles besides Silly ones to be nominated, as they had been in previous months. The month is still young, I suppose. When I'm [[Special:Random|rolling the dice]], I'll look for some. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 08:31, 9 January 2007 (CST) | ::I can't argue with any of the above, you're right. I expected other articles besides Silly ones to be nominated, as they had been in previous months. The month is still young, I suppose. When I'm [[Special:Random|rolling the dice]], I'll look for some. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 08:31, 9 January 2007 (CST) | ||