Forum:Good articles on the Main Page change

What’s this? Brandon Rhea with another proposal? =P Yes, I do have quite a lot, so forgive me for continuing to pile stuff on you over and over again. This proposal is about good articles on the Main Page. As you know, we currently “feature” good articles on the Main Page, and I put that in quotes since it’s not technically featuring. At one point we did full on feature them, with introductions and everything, right next to the featured article of the week, but since that takes away from the meaning of featured articles we decided to get rid of that and replace it with the current system.

The current system, as you know, is just putting a link to the weekly good article. What I’m proposing is that we get rid of the weekly good article system and instead replace that part of Template:Featured article with a random good article feature that links to a random good article. It would rotate through good articles, giving you a link to a random, hence the name, good article every time you see the Main Page. This allows for us to show some good articles on the main page without “featuring” them, and thereby giving the featured articles even more meaning then they currently have and better distinguishing the two types of honors.

If you’d like an example of what I’m talking about, go to the Wookieepedia Main Page. On the right hand side, you’ll see a random good article feature, and it will rotate around as you continue to go back to the Main Page. They also have a random featured article thing, but for our purposes that’s, in my opinion, very redundant when we have a link to the featured article archive. Let me just say that our random good article feature would go where the currently weekly good article goes instead of off on the right somewhere.

So I’m presenting you with three options: the first is leave it as it is, the second is change it to a random good article feature now, and the third and final is changing it to a random good article feature AFTER the current list of upcoming good articles runs out (essentially making it something out of fairness). There will be no “support” and “oppose” for each one. We’re not going to be voting for one and trying to screw the other one over by opposing it. I hate when we do that. Whichever one has more votes wins.

This vote will last until Friday, September 18, 2009, unless more or less time is required. All matters of the voting policy apply. Please be civil. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 05:14, September 11, 2009 (UTC)

Option 1 (0)
Voting for this option affirms that you want to leave good articles on the Main Page as they are now, meaning that each week a different good article is showcased via a link beneath that week’s featured article.

Option 2 (+1)
Voting for this option affirms that you want to change to a random good article feature immediately upon the conclusion of this vote, should it pass.


 * 1) There are 13 articles on the upcoming list, going into December. Eight of them are mine, four of them are Jedi Master 76’s, and one of them is Trak Nar’s. I can’t speak for Trak, but JM and I both said last night that we don’t to see the 12 articles that we have between us linked to on the Main Page for a week in order to feel good about ourselves. My vote goes to ignoring the list and doing this immediately, assuming this option passes. - Brandon Rhea Rebel symbol Blue.png (talk) 05:14, September 11, 2009 (UTC)

Option 3 (0)
Voting for this option affirms that you want to change to a random good article feature after the current list of upcoming good articles runs out, essentially out of fairness for the articles that were assigned a week before this proposal.