MarioWiki:Featured articles

The featured articles are articles that represent the best that the SMWiki has to offer. This is not a way to showcase the articles of your favorite characters, items, or the like. It does not matter where it ranks according to the.

Nominated Articles
What are the articles that are awaiting confirmation? They can be found in this nifty category right here.

What makes a featured article?
So what makes an article special enough to be recognized? Just check it below.

How this Should Look


 * 1) ...be well written and detailed (but not too detailed)
 * 2) ...be unbiased, non-point of view
 * 3) ...be sourced with all available sources and appearances
 * 4) ...be stylized fairly nicely
 * 5) ...not be tagged with any sort of improvement tags (i.e., )
 * 6) ...have a reasonable amount of red links; use common sense
 * 7) ...have a complete, detailed biography if it's a character article
 * 8) ...not have been previously featured
 * 9) ...be notable (have significant content) – sometimes complete articles like Spiny Shroopa don't have enough information available to warrant a FA.
 * 10) ...must be in the main namespace and not be a subpage
 * Note: A nomination may be canceled if any of the requirements are not met.

How to Nominate:

An Article must meet PAIR standards, and thoroughly complete the PAIR process.

How this Works:
 * This is all covered on Mariowiki:PAIR, but a short summary is detailed below regardless.
 * 1) To start it all off, an article deemed up for review should be tagged Template:PAIRrequest by a user like you.
 * 2) Two Reviewers (a list of professional reviewers can be found at Mariowiki:PAIR) critique the article a la this template.
 * 3) The article is to then be worked on for a week by anyone but the reviewers themselves.
 * 4) At the end of the week, the reviewers repeat the second step. So you may see step two if your memory is worse than Professor Frankly's.
 * 5) Based on how the second review goes, it can all pan out in two different ways. If the article is met with utter failure, it no longer up for nomination, and is scrapped for a period of two months. After the two months are up, it can take a second crack at Recognition. If the article graduates with passing grades, it gets added to a nice queue and will be recognized on the Main Page in due course. It will also have acquired the status of "Legitimately Recognizable," and be added to the "Spotlight Spotlight" section of The 'Shroom, as well as mentioned in the Pipe Plaza.

Featured Articles
In the past, these are the articles that were deemed Legitimately Recognizable. Show your props.
 * Yoshi (on 17:03, 19 December 2006 (EST)) (archive)
 * Mario Kart DS (on 11:13, 2 January 2007 (EST)) (archive)
 * Bowser Jr. (on 20:22, 9 January 2007 (EST)) (archive)
 * King Boo (on 20:33, 16 January 2007 (EST)) (archive)
 * Waluigi (on 21:50, 24 January 2007 (EST)) (archive)
 * Goomba (on 15:40, 9 February 2007 (EST)) (archive)
 * Daisy (on 18:56, 21 February 2007 (EST)) (archive)
 * King K. Rool (on 21:41, 2 May 2007 (EDT)) (archive)