MarioWiki:Featured articles



The Featured Articles of the wiki are articles that represent the best the Super Mario Wiki has to offer. The Featured Article Nomination process was created in order to highlight quality articles representative of the. You should nominate articles based on their content, not because you like the subject.

Featured Article pages all observe the No-Signature Policy.

Featured Article standards
An article must…


 * 1) …be well-written and detailed. This means that little to no grammar errors and/or spelling errors are present. The writing must also be standard.
 * 2) …be unbiased, non-point of view.
 * 3) …be sourced with all available Mario-related appearances.
 * 4) …follow the Manual of Style and all other policies on the Super Mario Wiki.
 * 5) …not be tagged with any sort of improvement tags (i.e., , etc).
 * 6) …have a proper lead that gives a good summary of the topic and can be used for the front page featured box.
 * 7) …have a reasonable amount of (or no) red-links.
 * 8) …have reasonable information from all sources and appearances. Full coverage is ideal, but not always possible, and so, is not required for obscure, difficult-to-obtain media.
 * 9) …not have been previously featured on the Main Page. Otherwise, it can only be restored to featured status.
 * 10) …include a reasonable number of images of good quality if said images are available.
 * 11) …be of reasonable length (at least 9000 bytes), and not marked as a stub.

Featured List standards
The MarioWiki also has a subsection called Featured Lists. Here are the basic requirements to meet this standard. It must:


 * 1) …be well-written and detailed. This means that little to no grammar errors and/or spelling errors are present. The writing must also be standard.
 * 2) …be unbiased, non-point of view.
 * 3) …be sourced with all applicable entries.
 * 4) …follow the Manual of Style and all other policies on the Super Mario Wiki.
 * 5) …not be tagged with any sort of improvement tags (i.e., , etc).
 * 6) …have a proper lead that gives a good summary of the topic and can be used for the front page featured box.
 * 7) …have a reasonable amount of red-links.
 * 8) …have significant information for all entries. If the list is a collection of in-game information, complete descriptions, statistics, etc. should be available where applicable.
 * 9) …not have been previously featured on the Main Page. Otherwise, it can only be restored to featured status.
 * 10) …include one or more images for each entry on the list where applicable. For example, a list of in-game collectible items should include one picture of each.
 * 11) …be of reasonable length (at least 9000 bytes), and not marked as a stub.

The overall process
First, nominate an article you find is worthy of featured status, using the Nominate field below; see criteria above. Please add a reason to your vote, referring to the quality of the article rather than the article's subject. '''Any oppose (or support vote if the nomination is unfeaturing an article) vote that contains simply a fan vote such as "Mario is my favorite character, he should stay featured!" will be immediately removed.''' Anyone can comment on featured article nominations whether logged-in or not, but only registered users can nominate articles or vote on nominations. Note that a previously featured article cannot be featured on the Main Page again; however, it can be restored to featured status if there are no other featured articles in queue.

Others will object to the nomination if they disagree that the article is good enough; they will then supply reasons for doing so, and ways to improve the article (errors, style, organization, images, notability, sources).

Supporters adjust the article until the objectors (with reasonable objections) are satisfied. The article is placed on the featured article list and added to the front page queue.

Also, if, at least a week after the article's nomination, that article has five supports and no objections, and stays so for at least one week, it will be added to the queue, and will be officially known as a "featured article". If at a later date a featured article does not meet all the FA requirements anymore, there is the option to unfeature it. Also note that, as with other wiki processes, the staff reserves the right to veto nominations that are poorly justified or made in bad faith.

How to nominate
Before doing anything, be sure to read the article completely, keeping a sharp eye out for mistakes. Afterwards, compare the article to the criteria listed above, and then either support or object the article's nomination. If you support, simply sign with your name, without adding a reason (unless you are the first supporter and thus the nominator).

If you object, please supply concrete reasons for doing so and how it can be improved. Please cite which rule your objection falls under. Failure to do so will result in your objection being considered invalid. Users may vote for the removal of an oppose vote if they feel it is invalid or not specific enough, but have to give reasons for their choice. Three users, including an administrator, are required for the removal of an oppose vote. This is how it should look like:

==== Removal of Opposes ==== Name of a specified user
 * 1) Reasons the oppose vote should be removed

After the required amount of votes is met, users must wait 24 hours before removing the vote. Any vote that has per'd without providing any additional reason will also be removed.

As stated above, any objections will be looked upon by the nominator, supporters, and anyone willing to improve the article, and action will be taken to please the objectors.

Once all objectors' complaints have been solved (or the article has five supports and no objections after at least a week), the article will be added to the queue and be officially known as a "featured article". A nomination may fail if it does not pass after an automatically calculated two month deadline.

Also remember to correctly format at the top of the article you are nominating.

Every Saturday the next article in the queue will be highlighted on the Main Page as featured, marked with the featured template, and removed from the list of nominations. The beginning of the article then appears on the Main Page via the featured articles template. Nominees that are inactive for a month will be eliminated from the nominations list. Artificially "bumping" nominations to extend their nomination period is not allowed and may result in a warning.

Also, each user may only have three active featured article nominations at any given time. Once this limit is reached, the only way to newly nominate a different article is for one of the active ones to fail (does not meet the deadline), pass (i.e. the article meets featured status), or to be deleted. If a user exceeds this limit, the most recent nomination will be deleted and a warning will be issued.

Type the exact article name as a sub-page name to create the nomination page below. Read anything in comments ( ) carefully. If the article has already been nominated in the past, you might come across a redirect instead. What can be done here is copy the basic code layout of another FA nomination, and format it as necessary.

Un-featuring articles
If for some reason (e.g. a new guideline the article does not follow) a Featured Article or List fails to maintain its high quality, not meeting all the FA requirements anymore, there is the option to remove its FA status. For an explanation of the process and the possibility to nominate an article you think is not worthy of FA status anymore, please refer to this page.

Archiving
Whenever a Featured Article nomination passes or fails, it must be archived. To archive a FA nomination, it should be moved from  to   unless that article name is already taken by a previous nomination in which case it should be moved to   and then N3 and so on. should then be removed from it and be replaced with a different template depending on if it passes or fails. If it passes, replace it with and add the sentence   but replace everything in with the description in the parameters. If the nomination fails, replace the template with or.

Featured Articles/Lists

 * ''If you feel that an article on this list does not meet all the requirements for Featured Articles, you can nominate it to be unfeatured.


 * King K. Rool (at 23:09, 11 September 2007)
 * Goomba (at 17:41, 13 September 2007)
 * Yoshi (at 10:54, 14 September 2007) (unfeatured at 16:22, 14 March 2010)
 * Lakitu (at 18:16, 15 September 2007) (unfeatured at 13:59, 14 July 2009)
 * Bowser Jr. (at 20:41, 15 September 2007) (unfeatured at 21:03, 25 July 2011)
 * Princess Daisy (at 23:30, 29 September 2007) (unfeatured at 16:57, 23 February 2013) (refeatured at 13:24, 17 December 2013)
 * Waluigi (at 02:37, 30 September 2007) (unfeatured at 06:23, 9 May 2011) (refeatured at 22:39, 19 March 2013)
 * Wario (at 00:53, 14 October 2007)
 * King Boo (at 15:14, 14 October 2007) (unfeatured at 20:46, 2 May 2011) (refeatured at 20:06, 23 April 2012)
 * Dimentio (at 23:00, 15 October 2007)
 * Mario Kart DS (at 22:14, 21 October 2007) (unfeatured at 13:16, 26 August 2009) (refeatured at 16:16, 14 September 2012)
 * Luigi's Mansion (at 17:45, 9 December 2007) (unfeatured at 09:52, 29 January 2009)
 * Super Paper Mario at 06:08, 12 December 2007) (unfeatured at 10:52, 28 February 2013)
 * Hammer Bro. (at 15:05, 13 December 2007)  (unfeatured at 03:29, 8 March 2010) (refeatured at 15:18, 18 July 2012)
 * Super Smash Bros. Melee (at 18:02, 30 December 2007)
 * Kamek (at 18:05, 4 January 2008)
 * Spiny (at 15:23, 13 January 2008)  (unfeatured at 17:07, 18 September 2010)
 * Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (at 18:32, 17 January 2008)
 * Mario Strikers Charged (at 19:52, 9 May 2008)
 * Tabuu (at 10:00, 22 May 2008)  (unfeatured at 05:52, 29 April 2011)
 * Mario Kart (series) (at 16:56, 21 June 2008)  (unfeatured at 11:48, 29 March 2013)
 * Deanna Mustard (at 00:39, 1 July 2008) (unfeatured at 19:21, 10 February 2009)
 * Count Bleck (at 12:50, 5 July 2008) (unfeatured at 23:03, 24 February 2013‎)
 * Baby Daisy (at 02:22, 27 July 2008)
 * Baby Peach (at 01:23, 29 July 2008)  (unfeatured at 18:12, 23 May 2011) (refeatured at 16:47, 31 December 2011)
 * Baby Mario (at 05:56, 4 August 2008) (unfeatured at 09:21, 9 July 2009) ''(refeatured at 15:07, 9 November 2013)
 * Super Smash Bros. (at 16:53, 22 August 2008) (unfeatured at 15:58, 14 May 2010) (refeatured at 13:05, June 15 2010)
 * Baby Luigi (at 17:48, 28 August 2008)
 * Dry Bones (at 17:00, 2 September 2008)
 * Super Mario 64 (at 16:08, 5 September 2008) (unfeatured at 15:44, 27 September 2013)
 * Rosalina (at 19:39, 5 September 2008)
 * Dixie Kong (at 18:42, 11 September 2008)
 * Ganondorf (at 16:52, 16 September 2008)
 * Sir Grodus (at 17:47, 16 September 2008) (unfeatured at 04:25, 6 October 2010)
 * Petey Piranha (at 21:49, 19 September 2008)
 * Yoshi (series) (at 08:35, 24 September 2008) (unfeatured at 13:07, 17 August 2013)
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl (at 09:42, 18 October 2008)
 * Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (at 18:57, 26 October 2008)
 * Doopliss (at 19:25, 24 November 2008)
 * List of Collectibles from Mario Party DS (at 08:17, 1 December 2008)
 * Kolorado (at 12:03, 30 December 2008)
 * Gus (at 01:30, 10 January 2009) (unfeatured at 01:18, 27 February 2010)
 * Geno (at 15:31, 13 January 2009)
 * Mama Mario (at 01:26, 15 January 2009)
 * Shadow Queen (at 17:58, 19 January 2009) (unfeatured at 21:38, 23 July 2010 (UTC))
 * Badge (at 03:16, 24 January 2009)
 * Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (at 21:42, 27 January 2009)
 * Robo Koopa (alter ego) (at 12:45, 4 February 2009)  (merged to King Koopa's alter egos)
 * Grubba (at 21:00, 9 February 2009)
 * Smithy (at 09:25, 20 February 2009)
 * Mt. Teapot (at 16:45, 27 February 2009)
 * Star Piece (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars) (at 11:24, 28 March 2009)
 * Beldam (at 22:28, 11 April 2009)
 * Kirby (at 07:58, 15 May 2009)
 * Super Mario Sunshine (at 22:13, 16 May 2009)
 * Sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) (at 23:00, 30 May 2009)
 * Super Mario Galaxy (at 10:51, 17 July 2009)
 * WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (at 20:44, 11 August 2009)
 * Kart (at 23:30, 27 August 2009)
 * List of shops in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (at 15:09, 9 September 2009)
 * Super Mario 64 DS (at 20:32, 14 September 2009)
 * Rawk Hawk (at 20:41, 14 September 2009)
 * Mario Kart Wii (at 20:43, 14 September 2009)
 * Mario Super Sluggers (at 14:01, 27 September 2009)
 * Koopa Bros. (at 19:24, 15 October 2009)
 * Honeyhive Galaxy (at 11:48, 19 October 2009)
 * Diddy Kong Racing (at 23:51, 1 November 2009)
 * Nintendo DS (at 04:52, 10 November 2009)
 * Assist Trophy (at 17:10, 5 December 2009)
 * Fawful (at 18:25, 5 December 2009)
 * Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64) (at 23:33, 14 December 2009) (unfeatured at 22:42, 4 May 2012)
 * Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (at 18:23, 23 December 2009) (unfeatured at 15:51, 27 March 2013)
 * Mii (at 02:05, 25 December 2009) (unfeatured at 09:47, 6 January 2010)
 * Paper Mario (at 20:56, 30 December 2009)
 * Wario Land II (at 18:54, 12 January 2010)
 * Mario Kart 64 (at 15:31, 23 January 2010)
 * Donkey Kong (Game Boy) (at 09:04, 30 January 2010)
 * Wii (at 19:25, 1 February 2010)
 * Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (at 05:22, 22 April 2010) (unfeatured at 22:40, 30 March 2013)
 * Donkey Kong Land (at 21:14, 16 May 2010)
 * Rice Beach (at 22:35, 26 May 2010)
 * List of Bonuses in Super Smash Bros. Melee (at 24:59, 5 June 2010)
 * List of Tayce T. Recipes by ingredient (at 17:06, 25 June 2010)
 * Mario Power Tennis (at 21:48, 25 June 2010) (unfeatured at 02:02, 18 June 2012)
 * Bramble Scramble (at 20:18, 23 July 2010)
 * Kiddy Kong (at 20:18, 23 July 2010)
 * Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (at 15:16, 1 August 2010)
 * Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (at 00:44, 14 August 2010)
 * Chain Chomp (at 19:42, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * List of Tayce T. Recipes (at 19:54, 19 September 2010)
 * Donkey Kong Country (at 18:15, 15 October 2010)
 * Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (at 02:48, 19 October 2010) (unfeatured at 8:02, 31 March 2013)
 * Clockwork Ruins Galaxy (at 17:05, 3 November 2010)
 * List of Saffron and Dyllis Recipes by ingredient (at 1:41, 1 December 2010)
 * List of Zess T. Recipes by ingredient (at 17:20, 29 December 2010)
 * Shadow Mario (at 21:26, 9 May 2011)
 * Mario Kart: Super Circuit (at 21:08, 13 May 2011)
 * Culex (at 12:39, 16 June 2011)
 * Toadette‎ (at 20:34, 8 August 2011)
 * Mario Sports Mix (at 01:47, 27 February 2012)
 * Rolling Coaster Galaxy (at 01:50, 27 February 2012)
 * Mario Superstar Baseball (at 11:47, 5 June 2012)
 * Bowser (at 09:21, 10 August 2012) (unfeatured at 19:35, 8 May 2013)
 * Super Mario World (at 06:29, 31 August 2012)
 * Super Mario 3D Land (at 20:16, 5 September 2012)
 * List of Paper Mario beta elements (at 03:03, December 1, 2012)
 * New Super Mario Bros. (at 11:42, December 1, 2012)
 * Coin Rush (at 16:38, December 15, 2012)
 * Baby Donkey Kong (at 17:58, 29 December, 2012) (unfeatured at 7:31, 2 March 2013)
 * Toad Town (at 17:31, 7 February, 2013)
 * Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (at 15:57, 9 April 2013)
 * Yoshi's Island DS (at 02:28, 11 May 2013)
 * Mario Kart 7 (at 7:10, 9 July 2013)
 * Mystic Forest (at 14:44, 9 November 2013)
 * Mario Party DS (at 08:45, 25 November 2013)
 * Miracle Book (at 16:51, 25 December 2013)

Nominated articles/lists

 * See Category:FA nomination pages

FAs proposed for unfeaturing

 * See Category:Unfeature

Successful nominations
These are the nominations that succeeded.

Feature nominations

 * See Category:FA succession archives

Unfeature nominations

 * See Category:Unfeaturing succession archives

Failed nominations
These are the nominations that failed. They can be renominated after 2 months only.

Feature nominations

 * See Category:FA failure archives

Unfeature nominations

 * See Category:Unfeaturing failure archives