General Comments

None of these articles are currently in good enough shape to be featured by tomorrow. A featured article should, in my opinion, be as perfect as we can make it before we confer that status. --Peter Farago 01:24, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

No aritcle is "perfect". Even previous FA's on other sites are worked on and updated after they have been FAs. Wikipieda is a good example. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 08:40, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

If the standard is "perfect", is it realistic to perfect an article per month to stay ahead of being featured? Should we perhaps "lower the bar" to "best articles that we have right now" if we don't have any perfect articles? Also... maybe we should pick out articles for future "featured" status ahead of time, that there might be time to perfect them ahead of their featured status? It would allow us to collaborate to clean up and perfect the Wiki one article at a time. --Steelviper 08:57, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

What I said was "as perfect as we can make it" - of course perfect is impossible, but we should strive for the best quality we can possibly achieve. --Peter Farago 10:36, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

My suggestions on time were out of my head. If there is some other time frame we should pick, that is fine. But I still suggest the last week we narrow it down. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 09:11, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

Logically, if we have one featured article per month, that gives us a month each to work on the next one, which should be adequate. The vetting process for featured articles on Wikipedia results in some very high quality work, and I'd like to see that carry over to here. --Peter Farago 10:36, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

I have reverted Shane's archival of this debate, as I do not consider it over. The June 7th deadline was declared by fiat, and has not, in my opinion, been adequately defended. Please reply to the points I have raised above before formally declaring "Galactica (RDM)" a featured article. --Peter Farago 22:34, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

We have. The only thing you asked was the standards. They been sitting on the main page for over a month and you didn't vent them now. I suggest you re-revert your latest revert, and countinue this debate for the next month and just close this as it is. You want to list your points now because I just re-read this and I can not find any. If you stop a process just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean you shut the site down, you move on to the next time it happens. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 22:41, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

We should not debate this just so your article is selected pet. It isnot perfect. It contains no images. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 22:48, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

Candidates

Galactica (RDM)

A good article succsessfully rescued from the abyss by group effort several month ago. Could currently use some minor reformatting - the "running tallies" probably belong in their own article, rather than in the footnotes, and the "fleet details" section seems a little precious. --Peter Farago 15:08, 3 June 2006 (CDT)
- Well jeez I thought the running tallies are what made it so good.--The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 15:43, 3 June 2006 (CDT)
- This one has my final vote. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 09:20, 6 June 2006 (CDT)
This article has had to fight for its own identity as well as getting the information just so. In combination with the ship data templates and some recent additions, I'd say this is a worthy article. --Spencerian 12:38, 6 June 2006 (CDT)
Voting for this. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 08:40, 7 June 2006 (CDT)
vote for this. --gougef 15:52, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

Computers

~~Very detailed about the information given about the computer systems. A+ article.~~ Changed vote to Galactica (RDM). --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 14:58, 3 June 2006 (CDT)
- I'm not sure if people would be very interested in this. Compared to like "Number Six" "Adama" or "Galactica"--The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 15:44, 3 June 2006 (CDT)
- A+++!!!!!1!1!!!!!11!!!11onethree WOULD ATICKLE AGN11!! *wink* --Day ^{(Talk - Admin)} 23:54, 3 June 2006 (CDT)
I can see where Merv is coming from on this. It's a very tech-centric piece, for a show that's not supposed to be as much about the tech. The article is definitely sharp (I like the new table layout of the pics with the text), and appeals to me as a computer scientist, but I realize that not everbody is interested in computers. That being said, I can't think of any "character" articles off the top of my head that stand out. --Steelviper 09:12, 6 June 2006 (CDT)

Resurrection Ship

Anastasia Dualla

Probably not for a few months, there are more exciting articles. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 15:43, 3 June 2006 (CDT)

Language in the Twelve Colonies

This was originally one of mine from last August, when I was more active on the content side. I've always been proud of it for being both comprehensive and concise, and have defended both aspects of the article vigorously. The article currently needs a link to a credible online source of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and would also be a good place to discuss ship names in the colonial fleet, as I recently proposed on the Quorum. --Peter Farago 15:08, 3 June 2006 (CDT)
This is an artful piece, although it lacks something I can't put my finger on. I won't give it my vote for this month, but I may another time. --Spencerian 12:38, 6 June 2006 (CDT)