Star Wars Fanon:Featured articles/Nominations

The featured articles of the wiki are articles that represent the best the Star Wars Fanon Wiki has to offer.

What makes a featured article or what article should you nominate to feature? To answer that, we've prepared a list just in case someone should ask that, and it is as follows.

An article must&hellip;


 * 1) &hellip; be a Good Article.
 * 2) &hellip; be identified with proper era icons.
 * 3) &hellip; be well written, comprehensive and detailed; well written meaning that the prose is engaging and of a professional standard and comprehensive and detailed meaning it does not neglect major facts and plot points.
 * 4) &hellip; have at least one internal link to Star Wars Fanon besides years, eras, and canon elements
 * 5) &hellip; acknowledge and explore all aspects of the subject, covering every encyclopedic angle.
 * 6) &hellip; be of an appropriate length, long enough to provide sufficient information, depth and analysis of the subject without including unnecessary information that could be made into a sub-article.
 * 7) &hellip; be clear, using a logical structure written in plan language.
 * 8) &hellip; follow standard writing conventions of modern English, ie correct grammar, punctuation and spelling.
 * 9) &hellip; be written from a neutral standpoint that presents the information fairly and without bias (ie, do not make articles Mary Sues, Gary Stus or character-gushers).
 * 10) &hellip; follow the Manual of Style and Layout Guide.
 * 11) &hellip; contain images where appropriate.
 * 12) &hellip; have all images properly captioned.
 * 13) &hellip; be correctly categorized.
 * 14) &hellip; not be tagged with improvement tags or any other templates at the time of nomination.
 * 15) &hellip; have an introduction of at least 200 words that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the greater detail in the subsequent sections.
 * 16) &hellip; have no red links, as they must be filled by stubs or not linked to.
 * 17) &hellip; have a complete and detailed “History” section, including a Post-mortem and a Legacy section for a character that has died.
 * 18) &hellip; have a “Personality and traits” and “Talents” section for a character and “Characteristics” section if it is about a vehicle or technology.
 * 19) &hellip; have a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents
 * 20) &hellip; be stable, meaning that it is not the subject of any edit wars and that the content does not change significantly from day to day, reversions of vandalism and improvements based on suggestions not applying.

For more information on what makes a featured article, see What is a featured article?.

Nomination:


 * 1) First, all Good articles will be added to the nominations automatically.

Voting:


 * 1) Second, the Decreton Lords, and they alone, will vote on each good article. They will review by adding comments, critique, and feedback on the articles up for nomination. They will vote to whether or not the article is of featured article status or not, and once at least five of the seven Decreton Lords approve of the article, the article will become a featured one.

After the win:
 * 1) If an article is voted in by the Decreton Lords, it will be added to the list of featured articles, the upcoming article queue, and to the history of featured articles.

The nominated template will be added at the top of the good articles that are nominated.

Current standings

 * 1) Chapek IX (1/4)
 * 2) Battle of Nar Shaddaa (GDE/Legion) (0/4)
 * 3) Darth Malum (0/4)
 * 4) Ferd Swqaru (0/4)
 * 5) Second Battle of Providence (0/4)
 * 6) Ussej Padric Bac (0/4)

Nominations
Remember, only the Decreton Lords will vote below.

Approve

 * 1) Some of the paragraphs could use some expansion, but it's not enough, imo, to prevent this from becoming an FA. [[Image:NKsig.png|70px]] Jesus Freak NK says NK's 'mazin' articles [[Image:sabersmilygreend.jpg]] 20:06, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Disapprove/complaints

 * 1) Lacks society & culture section. -- Don Victor, Sr.  [[Image:Coat of arms of Mexico.png|20px]] ( contact ) 05:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Per Vic. Changing Landscape and Important Areas also require a good deal of expansion or combination. - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:24, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Per Vic. - Solus (Bird of Prey)  12:48, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Same as above. Darth Abeonis Sith Council Sith Campaign 20:31, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Disapprove/complaints

 * 1) Expand Background, Prelude and either expand all of the sections in “The battle” or combine them into one, because as it stands their not detailed enough for individual sections. Also remove some of the images, because as it stands there are too many in too little a space. If you put a lot more detail into the article, the images would work, but as it is now it doesn’t. - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:12, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Per Brandon. - Solus (Bird of Prey)  19:34, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Per the above. [[Image:NKsig.png|70px]] Jesus Freak NK says NK's 'mazin' articles [[Image:sabersmilygreend.jpg]] 22:36, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

"A freaky Sith droid who can use the force, at that." is also a pretty bad one, imo. I also saw MPKs comment, and I agree with it. I was simply referring here to the fact at how strong Tyler is always shown to be. - President Brandon Rhea  (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  17:25, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Even though it's not against standards, I do have to point out that the quotes on there are pretty bad. Featured articles are supposed to represent the best of Star Wars Fanon, and those quotes make this seem like a joke article, or at the very least one that's not to be taken seriously. I'm not knocking your work or the effort you put into this, to be sure, because I know how hard you guys worked on it. I just wanted to say that. Also, and this is more a beef with the end of the story, I really don’t understand how a “Force sensitive battle droid” would actually have a lengthy duel with a Super battle droid. Tyler is always portrayed as being so incredibly strong, and we’re talking about the Force and a lightsaber versus a droid with guns. Let’s try to be realistic here, shall we? - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:12, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll discuss the quotes with Tyler when he comes back. Personally the only quote that I think needs reworking is the one at the duel section. Well, me and Tyler tried to make the duel bit balanced so it didn't seem biased to either of our namesakes. And not everyone thinks Tyler would win, Rhea--check the article's talk page. Unit 8311 17:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've been expanding the sections a bit, but the image placements look perfectly fine on my browser. Unit 8311 14:43, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Disapprove/complaints

 * 1) Intro is too short. Early life, Clone Wars, Vong War, Post-Vong, Death, Post Mortem (should be spelled postmortem) and Legacy, and Personality all need expansion, especially Death and the Postmortem section. The article also lacks a Talents and abilities sections. - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Per Brandon. Also, I always thought it was spelled "Post-mortem", but according to my spell check, postmortem is correct. I learn something new everyday. -- Victor, Sr. HoloNet 209 05:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought that same thing, but then my spell check told me otherwise as well. - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:16, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Disapprove/complaints

 * 1) Intro is too short. Lacks a talents section. Other than that, this is good. - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll work on those later tonight. -- Victor, Sr. HoloNet 209 05:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Disapprove/complaints

 * 1) Prelude, all the sections of Main Battle and Droid Confederacy need expansion. One thing that might help with the Main Battle section is splitting parts of them into multiple paragraphs and then expanding them a little bit, because as it stands we really can’t have one-paragraph sections on a Featured Article. - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, please expand it in most sections. Needs detail throughout and short sections aren't always good. -- Victor, Sr. HoloNet 209 05:12, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Disapprove/complaints

 * Lacks a Talents and abilities section as of the time of this nomination, but I’m not voting against it since I’m in the middle of writing it. - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Since you're writing it, I'll wait to review it. By the way, you can't oppose/vote against FAs. You can disapprove of them, but complaints/comments can be made in the same section. -- Victor, Sr. HoloNet 209 05:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * You can vote against them, it's just that your votes aren't deducted from, for example, 0 to make it -1. And in the future, if I'd like to make something a comment rather than a complaint, since I wasn't complaining or disapproving but rather making a statement, do not remove the comments section. You didn't remove the comments section on Battle of Nar Shaddaa until just now, but I guess that's because what you thought I said in that one was funny? - President Brandon Rhea [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  05:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

No, because we've never had comments section. Chapek IX never had comments. I never even noticed the Battle of Nar Shaddaa had comments. But that's what I meant about the whole deduction. And your "Lacks talents and abilities section" is technically a complaint. -- Victor, Sr. HoloNet 209 05:17, 16 December 2007 (UTC)