Forum talk:Featured Article voting

Members of the wiki can nominate an article to become the Featured Article of the Month. Previous nominations can be viewed in the archives.

Nomination process
Anyone can nominate an article for voting. A minimum of three articles should be used to create a poll, but an administrator can opt to run a poll with two choices if no other articles have been nominated.

The person who is making the nomination should give a reason why they are nominating it. Please choose articles based on the quality of the article rather than if they are your favorite, so that people who go to the main page will see the best articles that our wiki has to offer.

Each nomination should be seconded. This will show that another person has looked over the nomination and agrees that it's ready to be voted on. If the page is not ready, then please indicate what needs to be updated before it will be ready.

To make a new nomination, click on Add topic at the top of the page and use the following format:


 * Nominated page:
 * Nominated by:
 * Reason(s) for the nomination:

The person who is seconding the nomination can edit the new section and include the following:


 * Seconded by:
 * Additional information:

If the article is not ready, then add a statement that it needs updating and list what needs to be improved. The nomination will be held for later voting after these are taken care of.

Guidelines

 * 1) If an article was previously Featured, please wait 2 years before re-nominating it again, to give other articles a chance to be selected. However, if no other articles are ready or have been nominated, then a repeat would be allowed.
 * 2) If a nominated article did not win, look it over to see if there were any problems that might have kept it from winning. Such problems should be fixed before re-nominating it.
 * 3) Very short/stub articles are usually not good candidates for a Featured Article due to the limited amount of information in them.
 * 4) The article must have excellent prose, have good grammar and be written from a neutral point of view without typos.
 * 5) It must cite its sources.
 * 6) It must follow all policies, such as naming, Manual of Style, and FAQ.
 * 7) It should not have any improvement templates on it, such as the Cleanup, Citation, Expand, Grammar, Notability, POV, Revise, Unclear, Update and Wording templates.
 * 8) When voting, please consider the quality of the nominated page over whether you like what the page is about.

See Flash's How-To Guide for tips on how to improve an article to get it ready to be nominated.