Forum:Quote of the Week

OFFICIAL Proposal: --Victor (talk) 03:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) All users may nominate a quote from any article, although only users who meet the requirements of the voting policy may vote.
 * 2) Voting will carry on every week, and winning quotes will be placed into an "upcoming quotes" queue. One quote per week. (Quote of the Week)
 * 3) Winning quotes will be determined by the community. Once a quote reaches five (5) net votes (which is determined after adding the Support/Oppose votes), it will be added to the queue.
 * 4) Quotes may not contain profanity that exceeds a PG-13 rating.
 * 5) Users may use any reason they desire, such as "I don't like the quote" or "Too unbelievable" or "The quote is too long," to oppose a nomination. All reasons are acceptable, as long as civility is kept in check.

It has come to my attention that we do not have a Quote of the Day. SWF has an enormous amount of quotes, some of which would be great for this award. I believe that, although we are not here to directly mimic Wookieepedia, we should have a QOTD, and that we should allow users to nominate and vote for quotes. We could work out the details later, for example how many votes would be needed to feature a quote. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 00:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Per Vic, I'll propose a voting system. I believe that a quote should receive a total of four votes to be featured on the main page. One one hand, we can prevent the friends of the quote's author from successfully nominating a quote simply because it is their friend's. On the other hand, we won't be going overboard on a matter which isn't incredibly important. Plus, with the number of members we currently have here that are both active and can vote, going any higher on the required number of votes would make nominations likely drag on, meaning it would take a long time to successfully nominate a quote, simply because of a lack of steady users here. The voting proposal is subject to change, if the need arises. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 03:14, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Current standings

 * Support (2)
 * Neutral (1)
 * Oppose (0)

Support

 * 1) Maybe if there's only a new one every week, and if it's voted on. Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 02:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) --Victor (talk) 03:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Might as well give it a go. We can always put this on the CUSFWN if it doesn't work as a main page thing. Unit 8311 14:02, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Neutral

 * 1) You're right, SWF does have a large amount of quotes. What you've neglected to mention is that most of them are garbage. Until I see a very compelling argument from either side, though, I'm staying neutral. I also need to stay neutral because you, Joe, have given really no reasons for anyone to support this. All I see up there is yet another "Wookieepedia has this, so we should too" proposal. - President Brandon Rhea  [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom) (Record) 01:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) * While I agree that most quotes are garbage, there are quite a few that would be great great for this. And, I do have a reason to support this, though I didn't really state it above: it would help to serve as another reminder/promotion of the possibilities on SWFanon to new users. If we added some of your quotes, for example, they would show new users that they, too, could create compelling and interesting content. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 01:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) **But until that compelling and interesting content is created, how are we supposed to continue this? If there was a quote of the day, how long is this going to last? Two months? If there's a quote of the week, will it last a few months? A year? Basically, there's not enough good quotes, in my opinion, to sustain something like this, despite the fact that I do like the concept of having this. - President Brandon Rhea  [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom) (Record) 01:34, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) ***Then we could have...a Quote Drive? I personally believe that we have enough quotes to last, at least for Quote of the Week. If we as a community feel we are running short, and come to a point where there isn't a single quote nominated, we could have some sort of drive requesting the creation of creative quotes, or something along that line. Besides, I could give you links to many excellent quotes which would be suitable for this. I myself will be creating quite a few in the coming weeks and months (Quotes and articles that I won't blast.) --  Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 01:46, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) ****Please keep in mind Brandon, I'm not the kind of person that would be vouching for quotes like the ones in here. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 02:04, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) I'm staying neutral. 'I is teh awsoemst Jedi eva' only works once. [[Image:Darthtomsig.png|163px]] My page iChat What I've done 05:49, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

 * I could set up the pages necessary to make this happen. I am in support. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 00:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I have brought this up before with Brandon. I am in full support. As Obi has said we have many quotes and I think we should share that with the SWFanon community. Hey, there really is no down side to this. Obi is willing to set up the pages for it and we have many quotes. I say quote of the week because it is good to find really good quality ones, insead of rushing every day for 365 days a year for a quote. 52 quotes a year is better. Instead of voting for a quote a day then just list a quote and do that one each day if you want it a Quote of the Day. For a week, that requires voting, I think. I cant vote but i am in full support for a Quote of the Week.--  Arav the Undersith ( Talk Page ). 01:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know how many quotes we have which are worth reading, but I'm just going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that we'd run out of them in short order. -MPK 02:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't necessarily think so, at least, if we're talking about Quote of the Week. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 02:05, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Well I'll support this, as long as a system (for voting and the like) is proposed first. --Victor (talk) 02:56, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposal: --Victor (talk) 03:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) All users may nominate a quote from any article, although only users who meet the requirements of the voting policy may vote.
 * 2) Voting will carry on every week, and winning quotes will be placed into an "upcoming quotes" queue. One quote per week. (Quote of the Week)
 * 3) Winning quotes will be determined by the community. Once a quote reaches five (5) net votes (which is determined after adding the Support/Oppose votes), it will be added to the queue.
 * 4) Quotes may not contain profanity that exceeds a PG-13 rating.
 * 5) Users may use any reason they desire, such as "I don't like the quote" or "Too unbelievable" or "The quote is too long," to oppose a nomination. All reasons are acceptable, as long as civility is kept in check.

Sounds perfect to me. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 03:26, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Shall that be the "Official" proposal then? --Victor (talk) 03:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure. -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)   talk 03:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)