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 nine-member group of elected users on Star Wars Fanon, the Star Wars wiki of fan invention, 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.

Founding
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 Andrew Barton, a founding member of the group. In his photonovel 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. At the time of the creation of the board, only Seers had the right to vote on featured article nominations, while both Seers and non-Seers could vote on good article nominations. This was the case with featured articles ever since the beginning of the Decreton Lords, and it was a means to take away friends from voting for friends or any other backdoor dealings it took to make subpar articles featured articles.

Present day
Currently, there are nine (9) members of the Council of Seers. In order for an article to become a good article, it must receive four (4) votes from Seers and four (4) votes from anyone else who meets the requirements of the voting policy, requiring a total of eight (8) votes. A featured article requires four (4) Seer votes and five (5) votes from anyone else who meets the requirements of the voting policy, requiring a total of nine (9) votes. As of January 30, 2009, any user who meets the requirements of the voting policy may vote on featured article nominations. This was done to allow for more user participation in the featured article process, and to add to the number of upcoming featured articles.

Members
The nine (9) 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 nine members of the Council are as follows:


 * Bluethunder213
 * Brandon Rhea
 * Darth Wylind
 * Drewton
 * JediCommando
 * Nacen
 * Solus
 * Trak Nar
 * Unit 8311

Former members

 * Atarumaster88
 * Darth tom
 * Gnosis is knowledge
 * Jedi Master 76
 * MPK
 * Joe "Obi maul12" Butler
 * Victor "Squishy Vic" Dorantes
 * Xepeyon

Seer elections
Should any user wish to nominate another user or themselves for a position on the Council of Seers, they may do so on the request for Seership page. Results from previous nominations and elections can be found in the election archive.

Good articles
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
All Star Wars Fanon members are able to 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 history page. The section header should be the date on which an article became a good article. For example, if the article became a good article on December 11, 2009, the section header would be === December 11, 2009 ===.
 * 6) Place a link to the article on Star Wars Fanon:Good articles/Random in the appropriate order.
 * 7) 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/removed 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, and the nominator may also pull the nomination if they so choose.

Featured articles

 * Anakin Skywalker (TFM)
 * Cos Decarte Palpatine
 * Darth Kaos
 * Dax Olesa
 * Jaden Korr (Obi-Wan Kenobody)
 * Merkory Chal'wala
 * Project Jedimca0
 * Sela Kerroro
 * Sith Order of Decreto
 * Vel Orset

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)

IRC meetings
The Council of Seers has a private Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel, #swfanon-seers, for discussions on Seer-related matters. The Seers use this channel for pre-announced meetings, where they will discuss Seer affairs such as potentially stripping articles of their good or featured article status if said articles fall below their respective sets of requirements. This channel is private and can only be accessed by members of the Council of Seers.