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 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.

Type the exact article name as a sub-page name to create the nomination page below. Replace  with the article name. Read anything in comments ( ) carefully.

Featured Articles

 * King K. Rool (on 23:09, 11 September 2007)
 * Goomba (on 17:41, 13 September 2007)
 * Yoshi (on 10:54, 14 September 2007)

Nominated Articles
This list will get a few tweaks soon, but is sufficient for now.

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