User:Wysth/featured page list

Requirement discussion

Feel free to add additional requirement suggestions here. — Why 13:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• consist of editorial content. Pages that only contain lists of skills or are made up from game quotes only are not a good base for featured pages.

Imo, a good requirement, though obvious. A page which only documents one skill is not something I would support to be featured with or without this requirement anyway. — Why 13:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it is too obvious; at least when looking at some of the proposals. Of course we can't restrict that too much because we are documenting a game after all, and all information is somehow taken from the game.. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• use proper grammar and spelling. Change the grammar and spelling if you want to add it to the list.

This also is one of the more obvious, but perhaps one of the more needed requirements too. Featuring pages that incorporate grammar failure just doesn't look good on the community. — Why 13:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I think this is really obvious and not required to list at all. Getting a page featured will get enough attention that editors will read it, and I think we have enough clever people that will fix any errors. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• if numbers and equations are involved, they must be verifiable or agreed upon by consensus

All our content is somehow verified, otherwise it would be reverted. This does not only apply to equations which have most probably a far more complex research history than some other comments. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

yes but. e.g. the animal companion and dmg calculation articles have caveat lector labels or disputes. i mean yeah, as long as the calculations pan out, it's great. --VVong|BA 16:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• stable. no disputes or stubs

I fully agree with the disputes one but for stubs the nomation of the page, or the process until it gets featured, could be the chance to make the article complete. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

i think disputed pages should still be open for nomination. they should just have the disputes resolved before getting featured. --VVong|BA 16:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• comprehensive. it should hit all important points of subject

We have articles here not autobiographies with lots of redundant things. I think it is obvious that the article has to be good to get nominated in the first place. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• appropriate structure. use hierarchies correctly

obvious; good articles are based on a good structure. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• length. needs to stay on topic. trivia should not constitute a major portion of the article.

I disagree. If the trivia are relevant, a page with a lot of info in the trivia section should be able to be featured. — Why 13:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

See two points before; and if the Trivia section is really good, I don't see how that would be something against it. For example our inscription trivia page has a lot interesting facts (most of the trivia is approved) and would qualify for a featured article, too. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

the part i'm concerned about is exactly that only "most" trivia is approved and that the information content doesn't really refer to guild wars. but if this is dropped, i don't see it being a big deal. --VVong|BA 16:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• if game tips are involved, they must be verifiable or agreed upon by consensus

These are basically written in the form of a guide, and in that case I think the article really has to be good that people will vote for it getting featured. The other place are the notes-section in articles and those are often improved, and will probably also be improved when the article gets nominated. poke | talk 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

my take is that these sections can be messy even if they have great info. i'm specifically thinking of the minigame articles that i tend to edit. that's one reason i nominated the jade quarry. i wanted to see what would happen to that article once it got nominated. --VVong|BA 16:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

feel free to ad extra tips

Tips for improving a article so it is ready to be featured

To be clear the next list is only a list with tips/guidelines they are not rules! The guildwiki community will say if a article is ready to be featured wenn consensus has been reached.

Please note that a page after nomination will almost always be improved by the community

1. The article has to be a article, not a list with quotes, skills or items.
2. The information in the article has to be able to be checked.
3. Pictures added to the article have to have extra value to the article, do not ad unnecesarry pictures to a page.
4. Try to get all the spelling and grammar errors out of the article.
5. Try to write a article that is objective but still nice to read.