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.

Currently all FAs & nominations are going under this.

Featured Articles

 * 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)

Nominated Articles Meeting Requirements
Articles must still be on list a week after being posted (see below) to be moved to the queue list or become a featured article immediately, depending on the queue.

Nominated Articles

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * Diddy Kong Racing DS
 * Yoshi's Island DS
 * Super Mario 64 DS
 * Bowser
 * Princess Peach
 * Toad
 * Wario
 * Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
 * Super Smash Bros. Melee
 * Smithy
 * Hammer Brother
 * Blooper
 * Birdo
 * Shy Guy

Nominated Articles On Hiatus

 * Donkey Kong (needs to be rewritten)
 * Chain Chomp (needs more images)

What makes a featured article?
So just what makes a featured article? Well, we've prepared a list just in case someone should ask that, and it is as follows.

An article must...


 * 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:


 * 1) First, nominate an article you find is worthy of featured status, creating a sub-page at MarioWiki:Featured Article/N/pagename; see text box below.
 * 2) 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).
 * 3) Supporters can adjust the article until the objectors (with reasonable objections) are satisfied.
 * 4) The article is placed on the featured article list and added to the front page queue.
 * 5) Also, if, at least a week after the article's nomination, that article has 5 supports and no objections, it will be added the queue, and will be officially known as a "featured article".