Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Featured pages

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The goal of this project is to nominate pages to be featured on the Main Page, to process these nominations and to keep track of previously featured articles.
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The aspects
The Featured pages project has been divided into four pieces.
 * 1) Nominating new articles to be featured on the Main Page.
 * 2) Maintaining the text of the article preview for the Main Page.
 * 3) Maintaining the quality of the featured article line-up and removing those which fall out of quality.
 * 4) Determining the line up of articles whenever a new article is accepted.

Nominating articles
To nominate a page to be featured on the Main Page, add it to the nominated pages section on this page. When nominating pages, please consider if the page you are nominating is good enough to be featured on the Main Page. When nominating a page please put this: feature tag at the top of the page so people visiting the page know. If you do not believe the article is good enough, please refrain from nominating it and work on improving it instead. Nominated articles should be discussed on this page. When consensus has been reached in favor of the article, the section with the discussion about that article should be moved to the accepted pages section, and a time stamp displaying when the article has been accepted should be added. If an article has been rejected by the community, it should be placed into Rejected pages. Articles should be moved into their respective sections (accepted/rejected) when there has not been comments about it for a month or longer.

Discussions of articles rejected should be moved to the latest or a new rejected pages archive (listed at the top of the Rejected pages section) after one week from being rejected. When articles are featured, the discussion of the article should be stamped with a new time stamp and moved to the latest or a new featured article archive (listed at the top of the Accepted articles section).

Accepted articles will be featured (in order of earliest acceptances) when the current article's feature time has run out, unless otherwise noted. Featured articles will remain on the main page for two weeks and are to be changed out on Mondays. When articles are featured for the first time, they are to be tagged with Featured article.

There is only one requirement for featured pages, and that is no maintenance tags (that includes and is not limited to: dispute, merge, move, stubs, cleanup, rewrite, deletion, or any other tag that requires work on the article). Once all maintenance tags are dealt with and removed, the article can be considered for being featured. Whether an article will be featured or not, is based solely on consensus in the discussion on this page.

Note: Pages nominated prior to April 29, 2009, have been moved to this archive. If you wish to nominate one of these pages, please move them out of the archive back to this page.

Choosing the order
The order of the featured articles are important as placing too many like-minded articles together can become boring for readers. As such, deciding the order of articles is necessary, even if a small task. When an article is accepted, its placement is needed to be decided. There's no need for a discussion on this, as long as the placement isn't near too many like-minded articles it'll be fine.

Festival themed articles are to be kept out of the normal ordering and replace whatever article is being featured when the main page becomes decorated with the festival theme. When the decorations are removed, the order shall resume.

Proposing text and Removing articles
When an article is to be featured for the first time, the preview text is needed to be created. This will happen at Main Page/featured article/next, not here. Preview text is usually the first two non-quotation paragraphs of an article, but this is not always the case.

If an article which has been featured has been rewritten or typos/incorrect information in the old preview text has occurred, new text can be proposed in the preview text section. If old preview text is disliked, new preview text can be proposed here for the article's next featuring. Preview text is to be written outside of one's comment and can be edited by anyone. If a preview text suggestion is accepted, it will replace the text found here and the discussion archived; if a preview text suggestion is rejected, the text is removed and the discussion is archived.

If anyone feels that an article that has been featured does not have feature quality, a new discussion should be created in the Removal section. An article does not have to have been rewritten since its last feature to warrant having its removal discussed. If the proposal for removing is accepted, the article will be removed from the line-up and the discussion archived with a time stamp; if the proposal for removing is rejected, the discussion is to be archived without a time stamp.

Nominate
Articles that would like to be nominated go here.

An Empire Divided
Interesting, well-illustrated and timely (WoC). --Santax (talk · contribs) 03:05, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Disagree due to some of the images - more in detailed comment on issues was made before seeing this. When said issues are good, then I agree with nomination.  Konig / talk 03:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Kite
commonly used. well written article.- Zesbeer 01:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah but Kite needs a picture! preferably some warrior being slow witted :p --[[Image:User_Chieftain_Alex_Chieftain Signature.png]] Chieftain  Alex 01:13, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * As Alex said, needs a picture. I propose the gif used on Crippled. -- Konig / talk 01:22, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * that image dosnt really fit when i think of kiting i think of someone running around.-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 01:49, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, mistook kiting with snaring for some reason. Really don't know what image would be best used. -- Konig / talk 05:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * There's too little text to feature this imo. -- Konig / talk 22:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The Crystal Desert/Pre-Searing had even less text and more lists. razor 39999 09:50, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * That text was all in one place, this doesn't really have a good front-page 2-paragraphs though. (And tbh, those two were barely making it looking back at them). -- Konig / talk 09:51, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Devona
konig nominated but was to lazy to list them.- Zesbeer 00:47, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I did not and was not - I said if Keiran is accepted, then I would. -- Konig / talk 01:35, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it'd be cool for people to read the backstory for these guys, if the pages are up to par of course. ~Farlo Talk 00:38, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure on this one. I'm in the undecided state of this one. I wonder, Konig, what do you think? Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 05:00, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Borderline. Konig / talk 16:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Prince Rurik

 * because i love him and am a huge fan boy...-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 10:13, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Awe, Well... I think it's a decent page worth showing. Has some good information to it. I'm for this one. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 19:11, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It is definitely one of the better looking NPC pages, and being such an important character, there's quite a bit of information, which is good. The one thing that might make some people reject this is that more than half of his "bio" is under the spoiler tag, although, honestly, who that cares enough hasn't already beaten all four or had it ruined in-game already? I support this one. ~Farlo Talk 19:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Not a lot of original text without spoilers and we've had multiple complaints about spoilers on the front page. I'm prone to say no on this one. It's one of the better NPC pages, but 1)I think we have enough NPC pages, 2) I think this can be improved more, and 3) I'd like to see NPC pages on par to Shiro Tagachi, Abaddon, and Gwen, rather than Keiran Thackeray and Dhuum (Shiro has the quotation and still manages 4 paragraphs and has concept art which is always a + to the interesting for folks I've noticed; Abaddon has less text but has the inscription and more images - both concept art and not; Gwen has a quotation, 4 paragraphs, and a nice sized gallery, and even documents community information in the notes). I think we've gotten into "if it has paragraphs, it's nice" for NPC and region articles, which isn't necessarily true. This article just doesn't stick out to me as "special" or interesting compared to all the others that have some work put to them (Devona, Eve, Cynn, Mhenlo, Salma, King Jalis Ironhammer, Evennia, Captain Langmar, Saul D'Alessio, Mad King Thorn (imo best of the list), etc.) and looks like it could be expanded. There's nothing about him about what he does outside of the primary missions in post-Searing except that he and Althea were dating and he has Sohothin. -- Konig / talk 00:48, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * its funny konig you always say it could be expanded and then you dont care to expand it. i also dont know when the no quotation text in the preview came into practus but i think we could use that for it.-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 03:07, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't expand things because it's not in my interest and I do have things to do. Also, I'm probably the reason you nominated this. In the case of this article, I did expand (and rewrote). Regarding the no-quotation text in the preview, it was done because it's not wiki-original writing (same reason for this rejection). There's a reason we're not even nominating things like An Empire Divided (possibly the most informative official document for GW1). -- Konig / talk 04:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * i still like this page so if you point me in the direction of the lore that you want to add to it then i ll add it.-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 20:45, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I still accept this page. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 04:54, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I support this article as well. It's good enough, on a similar quality to Gwen or Keiran and better/more informative than some other previously featured pages. EDIT: A problem could be that part of the spoiler text would show on the front page feature summary. razor 39999 17:05, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Rejected pages
These pages were rejected because they were not ready to be featured yet. Feel free to renominate them if you think they have improved enough!
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 * Archive 3

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War in Kryta Viral Marketing

 * rejected 17:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

You can't deny it, it was a great time in gw history if you paid attention to forums or the wiki. It seems good for putting in the feature rotation to me. -- Konig / talk 05:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The article itself is nothing but a huge list. Or possibly several long lists. - Auron 06:36, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I would like to see this featured, but imo it suffers the same issue as any article with endless lists: it's long on data but short on information. The opening is also a bit tl;dr compared to other articles. There are lots of ways to address this (assuming others agree it's an issue). Some possibilities are:
 * Moving the facebook lists into a subpage.
 * Highlighting the critical days.
 * Associating specific tweets (Ok, technically, not tweets, but same idea) with the gallery.
 * Pulling out a portion of the top paragraph and creating a timeline section, which combines some of the above ideas.
 * I wasn't around when this was happening, so I'm glad to see it documented. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 06:37, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I personaly think its a bit to listy to be featured -- Nick 123  User Nick123 sig.jpg 20:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * While this could be potentially a feature-worthy article, it is a long way off. For me the question is: Why try to feature this, instead of War in Kryta, which seems the more obvious target? --Xeeron 10:53, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The difference is huge. Featuring "War in Kryta" would be like feature Guild Wars Prophecies in my mind. The viral campaign is easily overlooked even on that page.
 * @TEF: I disagree with moving the facebook lists onto a subpage, personally, since the viral marketing page is already, in a way, a sub-page. I can agree with a timeline idea though, unsure for the "associating specific tweets with the gallery" part. Perhaps condensing the facebook lists since that seems to be the major issue people have. -- Konig / talk 19:46, 13 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm happy with any idea that turns the page from looking like a copy of facebook or twitter into something that presents an informative restatement of what happened. I don't think there's enough value in printing the long list in the main body of the article; perhaps it can be hidden (as we have done with NPC locations). Then we can focus on the key ideas for the article, using a subset of the tweets to illustrate. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:01, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * looks good to me:p naloj [[Image:User_Naloj_Signature.png|19px]] 10:18, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Community events rock, and I think it should be featured. I wasn't around to see it either :(.  If a decent solution for shortening the lists is found, I support it.  TEF's idea of collapsing them is alright. ~Farlo Talk 23:11, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Cantha

 * rejected 17:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

good page.- Zesbeer 01:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC) - which was your comment, Kaisha. The stagnation was mainly in reference to the other articles (as I said ). Konig / talk 16:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see a change to the "After Factions" section but on second thought maybe that could be kept and merely expanded when WoC comes about. -- Konig / talk 01:22, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There's too little text to feature this imo. -- Konig / talk 22:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It needs some more work done to it, than that of which it has. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 00:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Cantha is a great campaign, I totally agree that this should be featured. [[Image:Entangling Asp.jpg|20px]]‎ Scar 03:08, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Konig, why is this moved here? It's between positive and negative, not enough to determine either. I'd like it moved back. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 22:01, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * i am glad someone else see's my point....^-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 03:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Guild Wars Wiki talk:Projects/Featured pages and Guild Wars Wiki talk:Projects/Featured pages. Long discussion short: For all of these rejected at the same time as this article: There was equal or mostly disagreements to featuring and discussion has stagnated indicating that without altering the article said discussion would not remain. Likewise, after about 3 months there were no such improvements to this particular article. Alongside this, based on previous discussions as of late, discussions would only resume when it is represented rather than someone making a comment in the discussion.
 * That said, 2 against, 2 for, stagnant; I rejected. Keep in mind, rejected articles can be renominated at a later date (preferably after improvements). Konig /  talk  04:13, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The Stagnant was not long enough to be moved. Your reject was one of the 4, not reason enough to move. Also, more explanation on the talk. <3 Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 04:52, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Firstly, to clarify, and I'm going to use bold as I said this before: I did not reject purely because I disagree with it. At the time, I was not the only against, as "It needs some more work done to it, than that of which it has."

Tyria

 * rejected 17:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

an even better page.- Zesbeer 01:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see an improvement to the intro paragraph for front page featuring. -- Konig / talk 01:22, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the World page would be a better feature, and even if we just do the continent, I propose using [[Media:World of tyria - 6.1 woBG Medium.jpg| This image]], or at least a chunk of it. It's really well made, and is a bit different from the map we see every day. ~Farlo Talk 23:23, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Tyria (world) was featured, before it had its history section removed (due to it basically being the same as History of Tyria, which is what a good portion of Lore and is within Human (both features - though the later wasn't at the time) and is only a history of the continent). -- Konig / talk 23:54, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, makes sense. I should have checked that, haha. I wish there was more original writing, because I think the World article is a lot more interesting than one area, but if it's been going like that, then I guess there' no point changing it. ~Farlo Talk 00:30, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Many articles have been altered after featuring - in fact, I think all of them have, the question just remains at "how much were they altered?" Charr, Lore, and Tyria (world) are three I know which got heavy alterations. And they will again (or rather, the later two will). -- Konig / talk 05:17, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * There's too little text to feature this imo. -- Konig / talk 22:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * If the main beginning paragraph had some more to it. I'd be a bit more for it, but it doesn't have enough that says "feature" to me... Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 00:41, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Elona

 * rejected 17:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

same as above.- Zesbeer 01:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * May need an additional sentence or three for the front page, but otherwise good enough for me. -- Konig / talk 01:22, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Looking at this again, I think this, and the other 2 continent articles, can and should be improved before feature. The intro text is too small for front page for this and Tyria, and I'm sure we could fit in a better format for geography (that bullet-point "major regions" always seemed like a placeholder to me, it just doesn't look so great). -- Konig / talk 05:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * There's too little text to feature this imo. -- Konig / talk 22:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I think this page could use some more work, before being featured. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 00:38, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Ascension

 * rejected 17:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

i feel like this is something a lot of people dont know about and need to know because i mean 200 skill points are pro.- Zesbeer 08:33, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * THERE'S 200??? HOW'D YOU GET THEM? /noob This would be a good feature, but it needs a lot of work. If it was expanded with a history of those who tried, their failures, etc, it would add a lot to the article and be a good branch for other lore and civilizations.~Farlo Talk 00:30, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * thanks for joining in on the discussion, also nice trolling.-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 06:43, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I didn't troll too much did I? lol. Although I fear the same would happen with this as Tyria (world), any thing added that would be informative and helpful already exists elsewhere (and probably featured). ~Farlo Talk 09:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's the case, actually. The lore behind it could probably be expanded a bit, but I don't think there's been a feature on anything that is or can be on that page. -- Konig / talk 19:13, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * There's too little text to feature this imo. -- Konig / talk 22:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Accepted pages
This section is for the articles accepted but not yet nominated.
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 * Archive 1
 * Archive 2
 * Archive 3
 * Archive 4

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Mad King Thorn

 * accepted 17:28, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * to be featured on Halloween or with new Lunatic Court content

While Halloween may be over, since this article got a rewrite, I figured I'd nominated this article. -- Konig / talk 09:35, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * i see no reason why not... though i feel like a little more info could be on that page...-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 10:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd like a few more yays or nays before accepting/rejecting please... -- Konig / talk 21:19, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I would say no because i personally dont find it as interesting as the other pages that have been featured and if we are to feature it i would say do it over halloween :) -- Nick 123  User Nick123 sig.jpg 10:15, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it has some serious formatting issues and could use a once-over with GWW:NPC. After that, I'd have no problem with it. --Santax (talk · contribs) 21:11, 21 December 2010 (UTC)


 * No, I don't see this article as feature-worthy. It's a fine article, but not any more special than dozens of other similar articles. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 21:14, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * an article doesn't have to be "special" it just has to be well written and not have any work tags on it.-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 01:20, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Added the only thing I noticed missing from the format guide that Santax suggest. -- Konig / talk 02:37, 22 December 2010 (UTC)


 * The requirements are: no tags (or implied tags) and consensus that an article deserves mention on the main page. I, personally, think an article needs something special to meet that second hurdle. For example, Dwarven Ale and Moon Shell meet the first requirement, but I don't think either is worthy of a prominent spot. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 06:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * i really think the article is fine, and unless you come up with a real liget reason as to why we shouldn't feature it then i say full steam ahead it will be good to have more then one article for the Halloween time.-[[Image:User_Zesbeer_sig.png|link=User talk:Zesbeer‎]] Zesbeer 12:56, 24 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I have a legitimate reason: 11 months of the year, there are more interesting articles deserving of the prominent spot; it is only feature-worthy when Guild Wars celebrates Halloween. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:06, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * In that case, why not do what we did when we accepted other articles such as miniature, Costume Brawl, Rollerbeetle Racing, Dragon Arena, and Dwayna vs Grenth - have a note of "accepted to be featured on xyz event." Unless you have a reason to not feature it even on Halloween. -- Konig / talk 18:26, 24 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm good with an event-driven feature cycle; I didn't know that was an option. Timeliness is often all it takes for something dull to become notable. (e.g. the US Vice President is usually forgotten...until the Prez visits the hospital for a flu shot.) — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:52, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Any opposition to moving this to accepted with a tag denoting for either Halloween of when the Lunatic Court's content comes about? -- Konig / talk 16:58, 26 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I support this. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 17:03, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Preview text
Proposals for altering existing preview text goes here.
 * Archives:
 * Archive 1

Removal
Proposals for removing articles from the featured article line-up goes here.

Removed pages
These pages were removed because their quality has lowered since initial featuring or they were reviewed and decided to not be put to par.
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 * Archive 1

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