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2009-11-16T14:31:12Z

Yurpee: /* Gandalf */

== Featured Articles ==

Any registered user can nominate an article for '''featured''' status. It should be well-written, complete, illustrated, and referenced. After nomination, an article should receive five votes with with no objections within a month or so. Each entry should begin with '''Agree''' or '''Disagree''' and be signed by the user. One vote allowed per user, of course. For the sake of practicality, let's limit active nominations to '''two articles''' at a time. Further nominations should be held in the queue, in reserve.

==[[Glamdring]]==
I know it's scandalous, ego-pleasing self promotion, but I personally think my
<s>preci...</s> Glamdring article would make a great Featured Article. -- [[User:Ederchil|Ederchil]] 16:13, 29 May 2008 (EDT)

* '''Agree'''. It is an impressive article for a weapon, with complete information, both from inside and outside the imaginary world, which gives the reader a more complete image. Great references section! The pleasant writing style is on the plus side as well. ~~ [[User:Þelma|Þelma]] 15:55, 28 June 2008 (EDT)

* '''Agree'''. It is well cited. For that alone goes my vote. ~~ nikolet 03:33, 8 July 2008 (EDT)

* '''Agree'''. I am astounded by this article's consistence and reference. Such excellence deserves to be featured.--[[User:Ingwe|Ingwe]]

* '''Agree'''. Great article presenting all the facts and assumptions about the sword. A very thorough and nevertheless entertaining article. --[[User:Eldarion Telcontar|Eldarion Telcontar]] 18:59, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

==[[Gandalf]]==
It's a pretty impressive article, and well deserved for my favourite character and such an interesting character.--{{User:KingAragorn/sig}} 07:14, 6 June 2008 (EDT)

* '''Agree'''. If I'm not mistaking, Gandalf has already been FA once. That doesn't mean it can't be again, but it's near the end of the queue. Oh, '''agree''', btw. but the sourcing needs to be a bit better. -- [[User:Ederchil|Ederchil]] 08:01, 6 June 2008 (EDT)

* '''Agree'''. This article is extensive, appears complete, well-referenced, and lavishly illustrated. It is a prime example of what an FA should be.--[[User:Theoden1|Theoden1]] 13:31, 7 June 2008 (EDT)

*'''Agree'''. Yes, quite well done. Excellent, in fact.--Ingwe

[[Category:Featured Article Nominations|Featured Article Nominations]]

* '''Agree'''. Nice long article, good information, plus good introduction into Tolkien. {{unsigned|ZehnWaters}}

*'''Agree''' A Middle Earth without Gandalf, is not a true Middle Eearth at all.--{{User:Breragor/sig}}

*'''Agree'''. After reading it, I have to admit it is the best article we have.--<tt><sup><font color="#7BA05B">[[User:Odysseas-spartan-53|Odysseas]]-[[User talk:Odysseas-spartan-53|Spartan]]</font></sup>[[Special:Contributions/Odysseas-spartan-53|<font color="#4B5320"><font size="5">53</font></font>]]</tt> 10:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

*'''Agree'''. Exellent Article! Besides, Gandalf is the heart of Tolkien's work. His article deserves to be featured. [[User:Mthomas|mthomas]] 12:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

*'''Agree'''. The first thing new users see is the main page, and generally people are most familiar with Gandalf. --Yurpee

Tolkien Gateway:Featured articles/Nominations

2009-11-16T14:30:16Z

Yurpee:

Forums:This site still alive no news, witch king has been the featured for a year now

2009-11-16T14:18:52Z

Yurpee:

<div style="background: #eee; border: 1px solid #aaa; padding: 5px">'''[[Main Page|Tolkien Gateway]] > [[Forum:Council|Council]] > {{PAGENAME}}'''</div> [[Category:Council]]



Refer to heading {{unsigned|60.224.33.205}}

:The front-page could probably use a makeover, but the rest of the site has changed immensely over the past year. We're now averaging nearly two thousand unique visitors every single day thanks to all the hard working editors like [[User:Ederchil|Ederchil]] and [[User:Sage|Sage]]. --[[User:Hyarion|Hyarion]] 03:38, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

::Thanks for the credit. Personally I don't use the main page since I directly go to the "recent articles" or my watchlist list, and I guess other regular editors do so too. [[User:Sage|Sage]] 08:53, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

:::Me too; though I hardly do anything of late (touchups and janitorial mostly). I've been dividing my time between this wiki and the DCAU and DC wikia's (dividing meaning they get slightly more time). Hyar, now that you back, can you solve the image problem? -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 11:17, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

::::It may be that we rather use sites like the watchlist or "recent articles" but what visitors see first is the main page. The "On this day..." section is great and we don't need "Updates" every month but the contents of "Featured Article", "Collaborations" and "Featured Quote" are ancient.

::::'''''Featured Article'''''
::::We have 2 nominated articles: '''Gandalf''' with seven Agrees and '''Glamdring''' with three. '''Gandalf''' lacks some sources so maybe we could take Glamdring first (if Ederchil and Sage added their Agree we would have the needed 5 - in fact I haven't voted either...). Ederchil, would you put Glamdring on the Main Page (I could write the short text needed..). It would be great to see a change there... :)

::::'''''Featured Quote'''''
::::We have already five Agrees for the "Elrond-Gimli exchange". Why don't put it on the Main Page?

::::'''''Collaborations'''''
::::We could take one of the articles needing expansion. I would suggest [[Barad-dûr]]?! Perhaps we should change "The improvement drive article for this week is:" into "The improvement drive article is:". It's a bit strange to read "for this week" and see it unchanged for months.

::::[[User:Eldarion Telcontar|Eldarion Telcontar]] 20:59, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

:::::Went ahead and changed the quote and collab. I don't vote for Glamdring because I wrote it. (and, I'm ashamed to say, nominated it.) -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:48, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

::::::Voted for Glamdring (really great article). One last Agree needed and we could have a new Featured Article after seven months. -- [[User:Eldarion Telcontar|Eldarion Telcontar]] 21:02, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

:::::Thank you for the responses, i just really like the article of the day idea. Maybe we could change it 2 article of the month?

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2009-05-11T11:27:18Z

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