MarioWiki:Featured articles



The featured articles of the wiki are articles that represent the best the Super Mario Wiki has to offer. This is not a way to showcase the articles of your favorite characters, items, or the like.

Featured Article Standards
An article must…


 * 1) …be well-written and detailed.
 * 2) …be unbiased, non-point of view.
 * 3) …be sourced with all available sources and 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 redlinks.
 * 8) …have significant information from all sources and appearances, especially a biography for character articles.
 * 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 notable and have significant content – some complete articles like Spiny Shroopa do not have enough information to become FAs.

The Overall Process
First, nominate an article you find is worthy of featured status, putting it at the bottom of the list below; see criteria above. 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, it will be added to the queue, and will be officially known as a "featured article".

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 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. 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".

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

Every Sunday 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.

Featured Articles
None yet

Support

 * 1) Support Go Doopliss Luigibros2 17:00, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

Oppose

 * 1) Oppose – Too short for Featured Article - 17:05, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
 * 2) Oppose Too Short. BTW is this th way we're suppose to do this?
 * 3) Oppose Too Short. sorry buddy too short.
 * 4) Oppose TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SHORT.
 * 5) Oppose Way too short.
 * 6) Oppose Too short.----
 * 7) Oppose Sorry, but Doopliss' article is way too short. There just isn't enough information about him. ~ Zantok
 * 8) Oppose Not enough information in the article, way too little to be a featured article.

Status

 * Doopliss was nominated at 21:00, September 4, 2007.

Support

 * 1) Support King K. Rool is probably one of our best work here, along with Yoshi.--Glowsquid
 * 2) Support King K. Rool is really good, I say it should be an FA
 * 3) Support Agreed, it is filled with good information.
 * 4) Support Not the longest, but one of the best
 * 5) Support Fair amount of info, good enough for FA quality.----
 * 6) Support It's a good article and, besides having a few to many images, IMO, deserves to be the new FA.
 * 7) Strong Support A very well written article. It covers a huge amount of information about King K. Rool and his various alter egos. ~ Zantok
 * 8) Strong Suppot Long live K. Rool! --Taj The Genie 23:44, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

Comments
Xterra, if you want to oppose it, give a reason. What is "Not too good" in the article? Your vote don't help us in any way. Glowsquid

So, basically, unless he fixes that opposition, it's the next Fwatured Article?


 * Read below Max2. Xterra needs to indicate to the supporters what needs to be improved so that he may remove his opposition when those improvements have been made.  Since this user did not follow the rules of opposition, as stated in the nominations section, his "oppose" has no weight unless he provides reasons.  I have contacted him about this.  -- Son of Suns
 * All opposes that have unclear/no meaning will be removed. 18:50, 5 September 2007 (EDT)

Status

 * King K. Rool was nominated at 21:14, September 4, 2007.
 * King K. Rool met FA status requirements at 23:09, September 4, 2007. If reasons are not given for its only opposition, King K. Rool will become a featured article at 23:09, September 11, 2007, as supporters do not know what to change.

Support

 * 1) Support Looks good to become FA quality.
 * 2) Strong Support Has good biography, nice amount of images...
 * 3) per Max

Comments
Wgile the overral article seem good, the SPM section is too stubish. Glowsquid

Status

 * Hammer Bro. was nominated at 00:10, September 5, 2007.

Support

 * 1) Strong Support I've been wanting him to hit gold since my early days here ~
 * 2) Very Strong Support this article has so much behind-the scenes info, it should be a Super Featured Article.
 * 3) Strong Support This is one of the best articles I've seen, although some of the Spin-Off sections could be worked on.

Oppose

 * 1) Strong Oppose It has a lot of info, but so do a lot of other crappy articles. It's not that the info is bad the page assortment is.User:Fixitup

Comments
What exactly is it lacking? 22:32, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

Status

 * Wario was nominated at 00:16, 5 September 2007

Support

 * 1) Strong Support Look at it and judge ~

Oppose

 * 1) Super Strong Oppose Mainly just a guide on how to get the Stars.
 * 2) Per Max

Status

 * Super Mario 64 DS was nominated at 00:16, 5 September 2007

Support

 * 1) Strong Support Come'on it's got everything! ~
 * 2)  Very detailed, I nominated it last time

Status

 * Diddy Kong Racing DS was nominated at 00:16, 5 September 2007

Support

 * 1) Strong Support It is a very well thought out article. It is very detailed, and covers the many roles that he has had in the games he has been in. ~ Zantok
 * 2) Support Per above user
 * 3) Support Yep, it is a really good article. I worked really hard on the Sports and Quotes section.
 * 4) Per all.

Status

 * Bowser Jr. was nominated at 00:29, September 5, 2007.

Support

 * 1) Strong Support User:Dodoman - It's very well written, contains useful information, and well-describes Yoshi's appearance in evey one of his games. HERE YE HERE YE!
 * 2) Every section is well-detailed.
 * 3) Agreed, Yoshi's article is very detailed, and covers every last bit of his history, and traits.
 * 4) Support User:Fixitup I have to admit, it is probably better than the Daisy article.
 * 5)  Covers alot info and details, good amount of pictures, good grammar.

Status

 * Yoshi was nominated at 00:52, September 5, 2007.
 * Yoshi met FA status requirements at 19:38, September 5, 2007. If unopposed, Yoshi will become a featured article at 19:38, September 12, 2007.

Support

 * 1) Strong Support very well-writen article. Covers a ton of biography, phisical appearence, and has a good amount of images.
 * 2) Strong Support Per that guy. -Dodon't eat it like the cartoon man
 * 3) Per the guy that perred that guy.

Status

 * Goomba was nominated at 00:59, September 5, 2007.

Support

 * 1) Strong Support Fixitup Well organized, and covers the good stuff. Just as good as the astonishing Yoshi article IMHO.

Oppose

 * 1) Parts of it have POV. 18:47, 5 September 2007 (EDT)
 * 2) too much POV

Status

 * Daisy was nominated at 19:30, September 5, 2007.

Support

 * 1) Has a good amount of images and info
 * 2) Per Fg

Support

 * 1) Can't wait for this article to be featured

Oppose

 * 1) Strong Oppose Glowsquid See the article Talk Page and my comments.
 * 2) Per Glowsquid

Comments
I did a review for the PAIR system, and to sum up what I said in this review:
 * The article is horribly innacurate.
 * There's too many images.
 * Full of POV and speculation
 * The writting is generally horrbile and lack depth. Look at the King Boo sub-section in the relationship section for what I mean.
 * The formatting is not great...
 * It horribly lack info on the more obscure game like Hotel Mario, When I grown up, early years... ect.

Really, Luigi is faaaarrrr from FA worthy. Glowsquid