Tolkien Gateway talk:Featured article nominations

Revision as of 14:18, 2 March 2011

Nomination limits

Let's try to hold the nominations down to 2 or 3 at a time. Hyarion wants to concentrate on bringing more articles up to standards, and I agree.--Theoden1 16:17, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

Criteria

I think we should come up with better criteria for nominating an article. Some people have mentioned pictures, references, and sources as necessary components - I'll agree. Yet saying we cannot use this article becuase it has no footnotes, when the Featured Article doesn't have any cannot work out. Can we establish a formal list of criteria? --Breragor • (Talk • Contribs • Edits) 00:53, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

O.o Eriador has 45 footnotes. But yes, I agree, it's a good idea to establish a list of criteria. -- KingAragorn  talk  contribs  edits  email  10:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

I recall coming up with a list a year or so back, but I can't recall where it is. -- Ederchil ^{(Talk/Contribs/Edits)} 12:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

A FA must:

• Describe an important event, artifact or person, be it in the real-world or in Arda.
• Have a limited amount of redlinks (5%?).
• Have full sourcing.
• Have some good images.
• Have a bulk of text in the "History" section.
• Have (if available) a full "Portrayal in Adaptations" section.
• Have (if available) a full genealogy in the familytree template.
• Have (if available) an "Other Versions of the Legendarium" section.
• Have as many relevant templates (disambigs, see also's, navigation, pronounce) as possible.
• Have language links if available.
• Have a "Merchandise" section (for Decipher Cards, Games Workshop, chess pieces et cetera).

—User:Ederchil at Tolkien Gateway talk:Featured articles on 22:08, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm broadly in agreement with the above, but I would add "location" to the list of acceptable topics and take out the requirement for a "Merchandise" section. My own proposals would look like this:-

1. The text is entirely written by TG editors with correct English spelling, grammar and punctuation;
2. There are no outstanding maintenance templates on the article;
3. The article is well referenced throughout, leaving the reader under no illusions as to where to source information themselves;
4. The article conforms to TG's Standards, as well as those laid out in the relevant Project;
5. The text is sprinkled with relevant images (including captions) of appropriate size - if necessary, including a gallery;
6. Articles are at least 5,000 bytes long (for comparison, that's the current revisions of Beorn or Tar-Aldarion);
7. Where applicable, contains "History", "Portrayal in Adaptations", "In Other Versions of the Legendarium", "See Also", "Genealogy", "Etymology" and "Bibliography" sections;
8. Where applicable, full use has been made of relevant templates, e.g.: disambiguation, see also, main, navigation, pronounce, familytree;
9. Where applicable, contains interwiki links;
10. Preferably no red-links, but no more than half-a-dozen.

For more, any article which can tick those boxes should be an FA (and is currently how I judge articles). --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 14:18, 2 March 2011 (UTC)