Forum:Good Articles and Featured Articles, as well as a new appointment of users

On IRC, several community members have discussed policies to be implemented concerning the Featured Articles, Good Articles, and Decretion Lords. This is our conclusion:


 * 1) The first step to making an article featured is to nominate it in the Good Articles nominations page. You CANNOT nominate it to be featured until it is labeled as a "good article."
 * 2) The community votes on the nominations, and whether they can be considered "good." The general user populace will be informed and enlightened by a Good Article board, similar to the Decretion Lords, but in the end, it is the votes of the community that determine whether the article is a "good" one.
 * 3) Please note that the Good Article board does not have the final say in the promotion of the article. Its task is to provide constructive criticism and praise for every article to better help typical voters in the community to decide how well the article complies with standards.
 * 4) Once the article is considered "good," the Decretion Lords can review the article. If the Decretion Lords vote on the article and the result includes all five members voting, with no oppositions, the article is approved to be featured and moved onto the queue.

Additional amendments to this policy may be included in the future, but not without consensus.

The Good Article board needs a name, so I suppose we can propose names here.

If anyone heartily disagrees with this new policy, a vote may be set up to reject this new rule.

Thank you for reading this. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication 19:18, 28 May 2007 (UTC)