Forum:Addition to Good and Featured article standards.

As a member of the Council of Seers, I obviously regularly check up upon the Good and Featured article nominations pages, and so see the standards required for an article to become Good or Featured regularly. After returning to Wookieepedia, after a long absence, I discovered two standards on Wookieepedia I rather feel would benefit us here. The first one is one that's been irking me for some time, after a recent nomination, and it's something I feel we definitely need. A word limit; by Brandon's own argument a while back, if an article covers every encyclopaedic angle, it can be as short as anything. Therefore, a two sentence article can, technically, become a Featured article if it covers every encyclopaedic angle. I don't feel this is right. Therefore, my first proposition is that we make one of the standards for Featured articles to read that an article must be at least a certain number of words.

My second proposition is a smaller, more niggling one that's nothing more than a striving for absolute perfection and pristine articles, and isn't something that's all that major. This is merely a proposition that all categories be alphabetized in order at the bottom of the page, so as to improve the quality of our articles. Of course, it wouldn't be particularly hard to just re-visit all the Good and Featured articles we have on the site, and fix this for them, and so wouldn't drastically change anything; just a little proposition to improve quality. As these two aren't major changes, I'll merely give a week for the voting on them, meaning voting ends this time on Friday the 28th November, 2008. -- (talk) (contributions) 20:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Minimum of 500 words

 * 1) Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 20:34, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Really, I don't think creativity should be restricted by quantity. -- Michaeldsuarez [[Image:Sabersmilygreend.jpg|20px]] ( Talk ) ( Deeds ) 20:41, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) *So you'd be happy for a tiny article to become a GA purely because it covers every encyclopaedic angle? --[[Image:Darth tom sig.png|100px]] (talk) (contributions) 20:48, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Minimum of 1000 words

 * 1) --[[Image:Darth tom sig.png|100px]] (talk) (contributions) 20:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 20:36, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) --[[Image:Darth tom sig.png|100px]] (talk) (contributions) 20:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 20:38, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) If you feel that you must fix what isn't broken, then the least you can do is not make everyone else do the same. In fact, I dare say that me not being able to put the categories in my articles in the order I want them to be in would be an imperfection. -MPK (MPK's Talk Page)|undefined 20:51, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Neutral

 * 1) -- Joe Butler (Obi Maul12)  (Chow) 20:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) I want to be able to put Category:Alternative Star Wars Saga first (in terms of the non-hidden categories) because that is my preference, regardless of whether something comes before it in ABC order. I won't support this until I have that assurance. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 20:41, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Discussion
Feel free to post any questions or comments here. -- (talk) (contributions) 20:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hidden categories won't count since they're mostly added by templates, right? -- Michaeldsuarez [[Image:Sabersmilygreend.jpg|20px]] ( Talk ) ( Deeds ) 20:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Strongly oppose any and all attempts to cram policy proposals through quickly when there is no need to do so. A bare minimum of two weeks should be afforded for policy decisions of all but the most trivial importance&mdash;which are probably common sense already&mdash;or for incredibly lopsided votes. If I wasn't so apathetic, I'd propose something similar to to help stem the flood of "rushing" CT threads.  Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 20:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * One week is usually more than enough time for everyone to vote here. There's no where near the amount of people voting as on Wookieepedia. Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 20:44, 21 November 2008 (UTC)