MarioWiki talk:Featured articles/Unfeature

Is there any way we could integrate this page into the main FA page? Or at least do some little DPL or whatever (or even a manual edit) to show that there is or there is not an article nominated? It's a little tedious to click the link just to see that there are no nominations.
 * OK, seriously. I never remember to check this page. Could there please be some reminder on Featured Articles? The two articles I will actively attempt to change could have been unfeatured while I didn't check this page.

Do we have a former FA template?

I don't believe we do. I think I can create one. How about we use a dark star image to replace the star in our featured article template? Yoshario'''

I was thinking we'd have the Star image we have now, only grayscale and split. I can make the image, and you can make the template. But give me a couple hours as I need to work out some issues with my computer. 19:14, 18 June 2009 (EDT)


 * Before you start making the template, please give your reasons why we need it. I don't think we do, actually. Why should we tell our readers that an article was once featured? There's nothing that makes this article special then. It even makes it look worse, because it lost its status as a FA. 19:30, 18 June 2009 (EDT)


 * I think it's good because it shows the page was once a good article and has the potential to become one again. A FFA template would draw attention to that. I don't think it would make the article look any worse. 20:20, 18 June 2009 (EDT)


 * I'm not sure about that. Some articles became FAs "in a rush", they weren't that good, there just weren't any opposers in time. See Luigi's Mansion for example. I don't really see why we should mark articles like that one as "former FA". 01:44, 19 June 2009 (EDT)

New Rule?
I feel we need a new rule that prevents oppose votes such as, "The article may not be good enough right now, but we should wait until someone (or I) fixes it, rather than unfeaturing it." This would include some of the votes on the Yoshi nomination as well: "I think this article should be given time to adjust to the fa reqs before we have this vote again", and "Shouldn't we just wait a bit, i think somebodys redoing it, plus there are lots more images now, it could just be good enough in a few weeks." Such votes don't help at all. What matters is how good an article is at the moment, not how good it could be when it's fixed. After all, we do not feature articles that just have the potential to be FA-quality, either. So, does anyone object to adding this rule to the page? 06:40, 12 August 2009 (EDT)
 * If there are no objections, I'll add this rule to the page tomorrow. 14:46, 22 August 2009 (EDT)
 * No, what we need is a rule that allows the administrators (if a majority of them agree) to unfeature an article at any time, that is, if the unfeaturing nomination doesn't work (i.e. the Yoshi article looks terrible, and a bunch of fans are keeping it featured). Having a featured article that looks horrible is detrimental to the wiki, it makes us look like our best articles are a load of junk. That is only my opinion, though. 15:32, 22 August 2009 (EDT)
 * Another sysop privilege that just makes us seem undemocratic? Not sure about that. You don't have any objections to the particular rule I'm proposing, do you? Other opinions? 15:47, 22 August 2009 (EDT)
 * It may seem undemocratic at first, but the new rule regarding the sysops being able to remove any proposal deemed detrimental at any time may seem undemocratic as well, right? The same as that rule, it would only be a last resort, as in the case with the Yoshi article, which it remaining an F.A. would not be good for the wiki. I don't really have any objections, and what I stated in my comments are my opinion. 15:57, 22 August 2009 (EDT)