Forum:CT Archive/Re-featuring restored Featured Articles

Hey everyone,

Wookieepedia currently has a policy which states that former Featured Articles --- if restored to Featured Status --- can not be added to the Featured Article queue and featured again on the main page, unless they were previously featured on the main page prior to January 29, 2007. The original CT that enacted this can be found here.

This was put into effect more than three years ago. I think it's time that we updated it. The RFAN page has opened Wookieepedia up to the idea of post-January 2007 articles appearing on the main page again. Our standards for what makes a Featured Article have drastically improved since 2007, and any article which was granted Featured Status in 2007 but later had its FA status revoked would basically require a complete rewrite in order to be granted FA status again these days. Tommy recently completely rewrote Arca Jeth, for example.

2008 seems to be when FA standards rose sharply. The first FAnom to pass in 2008 was Skirmish aboard the Leviathan, which was featured on the main page on February 11, 2009. As such, I propose that "January 29, 2007" be changed to "February 11, 2009." Any former FA that was featured on the Main Page prior to this date, but later lost its FA status, would thus become eligible to be re-featured if it were to be restored to FA status.

Maybe you think that we should push the date forward even further. If so, I encourage you to view this CT as a step in the right direction and support it. Further reform could be proposed at a later date.

This CT would also have the benefit of ridding us of the confusing RFAN Benchwarmers page (I can criticize it because I invented it!). The benchwarmers page keeps track of former FAs that, on account of having lost their status, were passed over when it would have otherwise been their turn to be added to the RFAN page. Any article on the Benchwarmers list currently can be added to the queue if it's restored (eg, Arca Jeth). If this CT passes, the Benchwarmers page will no longer be necessary, as all of the articles listed on it will be eligible to be re-featured anyway. At least not until the RFAN page reaches Skirmish aboard the Leviathan, but that won't be for a long time. Come that time, hopefully we can enact something less confusing than the Benchwarmers page.

So, supporting this CT is supporting the following changes:


 * 1) On Inq/FA queue checklist, all instances of "29 January 2007" will be changed to "February 11, 2009."
 * 2) The RFAN Benchwarmers page will be killed.
 * 3) All references to the Benchwarmers page on Inq/FA queue checklist and Inq/RFA queue checklist will be eliminated. On the RFA queue checklist page, "If it is no longer a Featured Article, please add it to the benchwarmers page." will be changed to "If it is no longer a Featured Article, please skip over it."

Any ideas on how to improve this, add them to the discussion below. Cheers, and thanks for reading.

Support

 * 1) Menkooroo 12:31, November 4, 2011 (UTC)