Star Wars Fanon:Council of Seers



"With our combined efforts, perhaps, perceive the coming events we can."

- Motto of the Council of Seers

The Council of Seers is a group of elected Star Wars Fanon members that reads over, checks and reviews good article nominations and featured article nominations before determining whether or not good article or featured article status should be granted, respectively. The members review and give constructive criticism for articles until they are fixed up to meet good article or featured article standards. Once all criticisms are rectified, the members vote on whether or not the article should be featured. In order to become a good article or a featured article, a majority of the board members must support it.

Both good articles and featured articles are checked over periodically to ensure that they still warrant the honor that it was given. If the article does not warrant keeping its status, a majority vote of the Council of Seers can strip it of the status and make it a formerly good article or a formerly featured article. The article can regain its status only after the complaints of the Council members have been fixed.

History
The Council of Seers was formed in September 2008 after a merger of the High Priests and Decreton Lords which reviewed good and featured articles, respectively. The name of the Council of Seers comes from the fan fiction of Drewton, a founding member of the group. In his series, The Drewton Legacy, there is an organization called the Jedi Council of Seers that believed that with the combined efforts of its members they would be able to perceive the future and stop the return of the Sith. This is reflective of the Star Wars Fanon group, as the goal of the Council of Seers is to ensure that only quality articles that meet standards are promoted to good and featured article status, and to make sure that formerly good and formerly featured articles that the High Priests and Decreton Lords believed lacked quality are not promoted once again.

With the name and specifics decided, it was the intention of the founding members to create a board that would help to oversee the good article voting process and entirely oversee the featured article voting process. All members have the ability to vote on good article nominations alongside the Council members, but only the Council members can vote on featured article nominations. This has been the case with featured articles since the beginning of the Decreton Lords, as it was agreed upon and supported by the membership that they were in the best position to know whether or not an article was worthy of featured article status. It was also a means to take away friends voting for friends or any other backdoor dealings it took to make some articles featured while members could vote. The system was approved in Summer 2007 and it continues successfully to this day.

Members of the board
The ten members of the Council of Seers have all been chosen by a vote from the entire Star Wars Fanon community and can be removed through the same means. The ten members of the Council are as follows:


 * Brandon Rhea
 * Thomas "Darth tom" Rattim
 * Andrew "Drewton" Barton
 * Jedi Master 76
 * MPK
 * Solus
 * Victor "Squishy Vic" Dorantes
 * Unit 8311
 * Xepeyon

Currently, the only former members of the Council of Seers are Atarumaster88, who resigned from his position shortly after the foundation of the Council, and Gnosis is knowledge, who resigned on December 21, 2008.

Seer elections
Starting in October 2008, nominations and voting for positions on the Council of Seers were being held, until November 27 the same year. Results from previous nominations and elections can be found in the election archive.

Good articles
Unlike featured article nominations, all Star Wars Fanon members are able to vote on good article nominations alongside the Council of Seers. Council of Seers votes will be noted with the CoS template to distinguish them from the votes of non-Council members. Once an article becomes a good article, the entire nomination will be archived into a page in the Council name space. The archived reviews can be found below. If the majority of board members do not believe that an article is deserving of good article status, then despite the number of general members in favor of it the article will not become a good article, and vice-a-versa. If there is a long list of complaints that the author does not appear to be addressing, then regardless of the reasons the review in its entirety will be archived and will become a "rejected nomination". Those review archives can also be found below.

Featured articles
Once an article becomes a good article, it is allowed to be nominated for featured article status. Only the Council of Seers can vote on the nominations page to decide whether or not an article is to become a featured article. Once an article becomes featured, its section from the nominations page will be archived onto the Council name space. The archived reviews can be found below. If the majority of the Council members do not believe that an article is deserving of featured article status and the author does not appear to have any interest in rectifying the complaints, then the reviews will be archived for a later date. Those reviews can also be found below.

Good articles

 * 1) Cut and paste the support votes into the articles corresponding board name space page and place it above the objections that were noted. For example, if Your Mary Sue was a good article, the Council page would be CS:Your Mary Sue. Also mark the nomination as a good article nomination, as featured article nominations will be placed into the same page.
 * 2) At the top of the board page, note that the nomination was successful.
 * 3) Add good to the article. This will add the category to the page.
 * 4) Add the article to Star Wars Fanon:Good articles in its appropriate alphabetical location. Update the count. If you are unsure if your count is correct, check the category for the current count.
 * 5) Copy and paste the introduction of the article and the infobox image to a new entry on the queue, as well as the history page. The section header for the entry should be a new week, set seven days after the last entry. Left-justify the image and size it at 150px, unless it is a wider image at which case it can be a maximum of 200px. Example: === September 14, 2008 === would succeed === September 7, 2008 ===.
 * 6) Pat yourself on the back, rinse and repeat.

Featured articles

 * 1) Cut and paste the text of the article's nomination to the previously created board name space page.
 * 2) At the top of the CS page, denote it with ==FA nomination== above the pasted content. If it is a re-nomination, use ==FA nomination (second time)== or something similar. This is to keep later featured article reviews and the previous good article review(s) separate from the featured article nomination.
 * 3) Add featured to the article. This will add the category to the page.
 * 4) Add the article to Star Wars Fanon:Featured articles in its appropriate alphabetical location. Update the count. If you are unsure if your count is correct, check the category. There should be one (1) more FA in the category than on the FA page, because of the random featured article page.
 * 5) Copy and paste the introduction and the infobox image to a new entry on the queue, as well as the history page. The section header for the entry should be a new week, set seven days after the last entry. Left-justify the image and size it at 150px. Example: === September 14, 2008 === would succeed === September 7, 2008 ===.
 * 6) Copy and paste the intro and main image to random featured article, making sure to place and PAGENAME at the beginning and PAGENAME at the end.
 * 7) Pat yourself on the back, rinse and repeat.

Reviews
The following pages are archived discussions of successful good article and featured article nominations, as well as large-scale article reviews done by the Council of Seers:

Rejected nominations
The following lists are archives of rejected good article and featured article nominations. If for whatever reason the author(s) of a good article or featured article nomination become(s) inactive, or they ignore their nomination and the objections of the voting community and/or the Council members for a total of one month, the article will be removed from the nominations list and moved to the list of rejected nominations. Once the author(s) return(s) or decides to once again work on their article, they may re-nominate the article if they intend to correct the objections. A nomination may also be rejected by a vote from the Council of Seers, based on the quality of a nominee.


 * Carlisle Antilles (good article nomination)
 * Cos Decarte Palpatine (featured article nomination)
 * Dalton Wylind II‎ (good article nomination)
 * Darth Corruticus (good article nomination)
 * Dune (good article nomination)
 * CS:Force Legend I: Investigations (good article nomination)
 * Hayai Oujou (featured article nomination)
 * Holy Cilwellian Empire (good article nomination)
 * Merkory Chal'wala (featured article nomination)
 * Republic Remnant (good article nomination)
 * Sela Kerroro (featured article nomination)
 * Vilxi Okaxer (good article nomination; article rejected twice)

Status removal
If you are the author of an article and have been redirected here from said article, then the article in question has had its good article or featured article status revoked by a majority vote of the Council of Seers. If you wish to appeal the removal, then please leave a note on the talk page of one of the Council members. Once any changes have been made to rectify the short comings pointed out by the board members, please notify a Council member so that the entire Council can look over the article again.

Reviews
The following are status removal reviews conducted by the Council of Seers:


 * Good article review - February 2009 (completed)