Forum:Proposal - Selection of Featured Articles

Proposal – Selection of Featured Articles

I, Squishy Vic, propose a change to the way featured articles are to be selected in the future. The reason I come up for this, is basically because the voting process for featured articles has not been going very well. For example, instead of users voting support for an article because it meets featured article requirements, they are voting because the article is their friend’s. That is not the way featured articles should be selected, because some friends realize that such articles are not featured article quality, while others do not. I got this idea mainly from our bureaucrat C3PO the Dragon Slayer. He said the following:

"What we need is a more determined way to select featured articles, not nominate them. Failed attempts to acquire featured status should provide excellent constructive criticism, which is often what many of the authors here are seeking when they put up their article. The reason every random article is being put on the Main Page is that votes are issued because "he's my friend and I owe him one," instead of "this is a great article.""

- C3PO the Dragon Slayer

So, my proposal is this; give the Decreton Lords a true and meaningful job, which would be to select the featured articles in a specific way. Here is, in a detailed fashion, how a featured article would be selected by the Decreton Lords. Please read the following very carefully before voting either way.


 * Process#1:
 * A user, who has been working on an article of his/hers for awhile and believes it to be up to featured article standards, decides he/she wants to “nominate” his article to become a featured one. What he/she does is message any of the five Decreton Lords notifying them of this. The Decreton Lord who was messaged then creates a page (such as DL:Article name) where the article will be critiqued and reviewed. The Decreton Lords will give all their suggestions and complaints about the article. Once their complaints are satisfied, the user’s article will be voted on, only by the five Decreton Lords. They must come to a unanimous decision in order for an article to become featured, which means all five of the Decreton Lords must support the article to make an article featured.


 * Process #2:
 * A Decreton Lord is closely watching an article and sees one he believes to be of featured article status. He then creates a page (such as DL:Article name) where the article will be critiqued and reviewed. The Decreton Lords will give all their suggestions and complaints about the article. They then will notify the creator of the article they wish to make their article FA, and then the creator can get to work on the article (to make it up to FA status). Once their complaints are satisfied, the user’s article will be voted on, only by the five Decreton Lords. They must come to a unanimous decision in order for an article to become featured, which means all five of the Decreton Lords must support the article to make an article featured.

Thank you for reading the proposal. Please vote on it and let me know what you believe should happen. This policy will be better than the nominating and voting process because users will all have a fair chance at getting an FA article, since no one will be cheated out of votes, whether it be due to users supporting an article simply because it’s their friend’s or whether it be because user’s are voting against someone’s article because their friend’s (or their own) article is running at the same time.

In a nutshell, the Decreton Lords will get to be one-on-one with a user and their article to put it up to FA status.

One last note; If this policy/proposal is to pass, then the voting policy will still be in tact, in case anyone was wondering. It just won't apply to FA voting anymore, since only the Decreton Lords will vote on such things. Everything else, such as UOTW or IDRIVE or PDRIVE or a proposal, the voting policy still would apply.

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Support (1)
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 * 1) Well, my reasons are above. I proposed this policy. Basically, so users can get a fair chance at getting an FA and so the voting process can be much easier. Plus, a lot more articles can be selected for FA status. Most importantly, the "one-on-one" is what is the best part.SV undefined

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