Forum:Reviewing and rules

This consensus track thread concerns two things: 1) The ongoing Decreton Lord review. 2) The Good Article Nomination rules.

On the first topic, some of you may be aware that the Decreton Lords are theoretically undertaking a massive review of all Featured Articles to help revise and review them according to the updated Featured Article requirements. Now, I've talked this over with Brandon Rhea and he more or less said that every Decreton Lord would have to read every Featured Article&dmash;seventy something. Let's think about this: There are currently four Decreton Lords (two more are in the election process) and this has been ongoing for over two months with little action on the matter until recently. Moreover, these FAs are huge. We're talking a sizable portion of the 50 longest pages here, including #1, #2, and #3. Those three alone have 500 KB worth of text. Tack on Shapeshifter and you add another 100 KB. Now, I think that the relative lack of activity on the page, combined with the sheer size and the lack of manpower on this review, shows that the current approach isn't working. I frankly feel it's not realistic and certainly not fair to the Decreton Lords, especially since the review was supposed to be completed in "two or three weeks" and last a month or so. To be honest, I think most of them would rather work on their own projects instead of having to devote a large percentage of their wikitime to reviewing every FA. It's been two months and the majority of them have only one review, thanks to Solus's wave of enthusiasm. This will not negate the fact that all articles must be reviewed; it makes the goal of doing so more realistic. Furthermore, by reducing the overall quota of articles that needs to be read, the DLs will have a chance to spend more time in each article, providing a more thorough critique, as they won't feel pressured to hurry through them.

My proposal on this matter is as follows: ''Instead of requiring every Decreton Lord to read every Featured Article during Reviews, a 2/3rds supermajority of DLs will be required to read a given article, though more DLs are welcome to read it if they choose. If approved, this rule will go into effect following the Decreton Lords election once any new members are added.''

The second matter deals with Good Article Nominations. Currently, 4 High Priest votes and 7 regular user votes are required. This is all very nice, except when more High Priests than necessary vote for an article, but not regular users. That's penalizing an article for having additional "qualified reviewers" read it. So, to make this less of a popularity contest, I propose changing the pertinent voting requirement to the following:


 * To be a Good Article on Star Wars Fanon, a nomination must have at least eleven votes, of which at least four must be contributed by High Priests".

This will eliminate the extra HP voting penalty that has kept certain GANs from becoming GAs for extended periods of time.

My last proposal may be a tad unnecessary, but I'm going to throw it out there anyway. It also pertains to GANs and is intended to prevent people from cramming articles through the process before thorough reviews. The High Priest organization does somewhat negate this, but a contingency plan is nice, to keep down the popularity contest potential.


 * All Good Article Nominations must spend at least one week on the nominations page.

All standard voting policy procedures apply here. The DL review section will last until the DL elections are completed; the rest will last two weeks as seems to be standard practice, since you don't have a written policy for Consensus Track threads. If said policy does exist, someone please link me to it and put it in the appropriate category since it's not there now. I will adjust the thread appropriately should that be the case. Atarumaster88  ( Talk page ) 15:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

DL review proposal (1/0/0)

 * This vote ends July 12th, following the DL election.

Support

 * 1) Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 15:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

GAN numbers proposal (1/0/0)

 * This vote ends July 17th.

Support

 * 1) Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 15:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Week long nomination rule for GAN (1/0/0)

 * This vote ends July 17th.

Support

 * 1) Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 15:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)