Forum:SH:Status article nominations


 * I'm not really sure where to put this, but I think it's time that we as a community do something to address the fact that something needs to be done about the state of the status article nominations. Looking at the featured article nominations today I realised that no nominations have been successful at all so far this year and the Featured article history hasn't even been changed from 2016 yet, despite at least one failed nomination. Only a single review has been made by a member of the Inquisitorius this year, and a fair few from previous years sit unresponded to. Overall the entire system has ground to a complete halt, despite the fact new nominations are regularly added. The situation for GAs and CAs is the nearly the same, although not quite as dire, where the four nomination limit means many users can't even add new nominations as their old ones sit idle.


 * I honestly have no intention of criticising anyone here, I fully understand that life gets in the way of Wookieepedia all the time, and motivation might be low especially after the legends/canon switch over. That being said, we clearly need to make a change of some kind as the current system we've been using is simply no longer working. We need a fairly large wave of promotions for users into the different review boards so that each has at the very least three users regularly active in reviews, since this is the number of votes needed for an article to pass. Otherwise we need to change the system itself so that it can start to move again, perhaps requiring less votes or something similar.


 * I would begin nominating people myself, but felt it would be worth having a discussion first about what needs doing, especially since my own activity can be a little sporadic and so there are probably others with a better idea who the best nominees would be. Again I want to stress this isn't an attack on anyone and I hope we can all work out a solution together. Ayrehead02 (talk) 15:05, April 24, 2017 (UTC)