Forum:Minor vote on GA and FA icons

This is just a small matter regarding the icons for good articles and featured articles. It could be left up to the Council of Seers to decide, saving the time that this consensus will take, but in the end it doesn’t just concern the Seers. This has something to do with articles from numerous community members, and I know that there are differing opinions amongst Seers about it, so I just wanted to have a proper consensus on this matter.

Essentially, the question I’m posing is this: when a good article becomes a featured article, should the good article icon be removed in favor of the “gfa” icon? The “gfa” icon, which you can see in use on Squishy Vic Series, is the featured article star, but it adds both Category:Good articles and Category:Featured articles to the article in order to acknowledge that it's both a GA and an FA while at the same time only showing the FA icon.

Some of you may be saying this is no longer a big deal, considering an article doesn’t have to be a GA before being a FA anymore, but there are still GAs that can and will be promoted to FA status. This also applies to all current articles that are both a GA and a FA.

Tl;dr version - should we remove GA icons from articles that have both good and featured status, leaving only the “gfa” (good and featured article) icon to denote both statuses?

This consensus will last for one week, until October 13, 2009, unless more or less time is required. All matters of the voting policy apply. Please be civil.

Use GFA icon
To recap, this means that if a GA is promoted to FA status, the GA icon will be removed in favor of the “gfa” icon, acknowledging that it’s both a GA and a FA by placing it in both categories.


 * 1) Much better, and it removes the clutter while keeping the article in both categories. There are merits to letting individuals choose whether to use both icons or the "gfa" icon, but in the end I think it's better to have a blanket way of doing this in order to avoid any potential confuse. It also goes towards a "manual of style" on GAs and FAs. - Brandon Rhea Rebel symbol Blue.png (talk) 03:21, October 7, 2009 (UTC)

Leave it as personal preference
Voting here means that you think individual users should be able to choose how it looks on their own article as opposed to having a blanket format/“manual of style” on all good/featured articles.

Do I look like I care?
This means you’re neutral, or you think this is an irrelevant matter and you’re wondering why we’re even bothering to have a consensus vote on it.

Discussion
The “Do I look like I care?” section is a humorous take on the fact that this is a rather minor consensus. That said, up until recently, I preferred having both icons on my articles. Since some people might feel that same way, I just wanted to have this vote to establish whether we’ll use the “gfa” icon or just let users decide whether to use that or both. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 03:21, October 7, 2009 (UTC)