MarioWiki:Featured articles/Unfeature/N1/Krunch: Difference between revisions

#{{User|NSY}} I oppose the unfeaturing of this article so strongly to the extent would be a terrible event for the wiki if it were to happen. Vareity in our featured articles is so important I will go as far to argue that we should be featuring '''more''' articles like this not less. This article in my eyes long enough to be featured, by "reasonable length" I mean it being more than just a couple of paragraphs or 2 sections, this page has 7 each covering different aspects. It is important that we have vairety in our featured articles. If we do not allow articles like this to have feature status that in serioussly will narrow what is eligible for feature status. Our featured collection would just end with major recuring chatacters and game articles which is not a healthy variety. (it already kinda is but this unfeature would make it worse and encourage should limted varity). Per everyone else particularly Jorge.

#{{User|Doomhiker}} Our featured articles are supposed to represent exceptionalism. What is exceptional, in regards to a wiki? In my eyes, excellence in regards to wiki editing is the capacity to go into full, absolute detail in a subject matter so every bit of factually correct information can be sqeezed, no matter how pedantic. No matter how small, how niche, how seemingly unimportant, it seems, to give every subject such a level a detail and writing that it is treated as important as the Bible. Krunch represents this philosophy to a tee. A random, small character of little importance, that is still so thorough and complete in its information that anything that can be known about it is known by reading the article. Most other wikis refuse to go into such intensive detail into even more important subject matters. Wikipedia's own policies forbid going into professional detail into its subjects, limiting their scope to the bare necessary information. We don't draw such easy to fill lines. We make it our mission to go into such extraordinary detail about anything an everything, as long at it pertains to the ''Mario'' franchise. Krunch is one of the best representations of why and how this wiki goes beyond the usual standard. Our featured articles are meant to represent our wiki at its best. Krunch is our wiki at its best. Size will never change this.

Also, something more pragmatic. There is no actual, defined standard for what is an "acceptable length". It is highly up to interpretation, and, frankly, is arbitrary. The Baby Donkey Kong unfeaturing is barely a precendent. Beyond it being from nine years ago, its voters failed to tangibly define what is an "acceptable length" and why it applied there. Therefore, the precedent does not need to be followed; it was never integrated into the actual literature of featuring policy. I frankly believe that the "acceptable length" phase should be abolished. Beyond its highly arbitrary nature, I am concerned of its implications. By requiring featured articles to be above a non-specific length, it encourages users who want their articles to be featured to write longer, wrongly correlating length with quality. It homogenizes featured articles; articles that meet the standards of length tend to be similar, that being game pages, big character pages, and lists, both reduces that variety of the wiki that is featured and encouraging editors to only fixate on certain types of articles. And finally, by not allowing all articles to be held up to the same exceptional standards, we imply that not all articles are worth imposing the same standards on - resulting in medium length subjects like Krunch to often be abandoned. For the sake of allowing more articles like Krunch to fosters, I propose that the length requirement be abolished at some point in the future - whilst a two-article page obviously should not be featured, this should be determined on a case-by-case basis rather than written into the letter of the law.