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- Sorry for the late response, my life is crazier than usual...Anywho, I'm all for this idea. My main concerns are the usual: controversy which begets user bashing/arguments over a petty/trivial matter. Keep those contained and I'm a happy person. Nice idea, Kate.
- I think the Land of Dragons is the most complete of those suggested at this point.
Part of the problem with using the BBS worlds is that they're technically not finished until we get the release here, since I'm sure bits will change, and, as Xion mentioned, the spoiler issues. Besides, Land of Dragons is a nice example of an article for a world that has so far appeared in a single game.
- Regarding world ideas...
Castle Oblivion- Aqua creating Castle Oblivion from the darkened Land of Depature.
Radiant Garden- Meh, it's in KH II and BBS.
Olympus Coliseum- Same reasoning as Radiant Garden.
If it's worlds not pertaining to BBS in anyway, I'm up for anything. The Inexistent proposed the Land of Dragons previously..
- Well, we, as a wiki, like to vote. The Mirage Arena is a great example of that, and I have to say Featured Media has exceeded everyone's expectations, methinks.
We've improved in quality overall since we stopped Featured Articles, and even more so since we've re-added them as staff only. I think we have a lot more wiki members who know what quality means and are willing to help and polish something so it's at its best.
Therefore, I would like to propose, in December, , we return Featured Articles to the hands of all the editors. I do think we should use the same system as Featured Media , as that has worked very well in producing a wide range of winners, and perhaps borrow and modify a couple of guidelines from FF Wiki's procedures, such as so many nominees before voting starts. If need be, we can re-tool things as we go along to make it work more smoothly, but I think this is a step we should take.
What say you, fellow staffers? Viva la editors!
- Gummi Ship was indeed the selection for August, my only issue was finding an appropriate image of reasonable quality. Hopefully we will receive blueprint images of the Gummi Ships soon.
It has been a while since we have featured a world article, I think the last one was Traverse Town. I'm still not too sure about featuring a world from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, due to our spoiler policy, but perhaps a world the former games would suffice, maybe even something that could tie into Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep without being spoilerific. Any suggestions?
- What about Olympus Coliseum? It has appeared in every Kingdom Hearts game and it offers a challenge everytime.
- I'm not keen on Land of Departure for two reasons:
#The game's not out yet here. Stuff will change, the page will probably be slammed with edits after the English version is released. It's in a bit of an unstable position to be called feature yet.
#It's awfully, um, small. There's just not a lot of anything on it. I know that it's one world in one game, so that does limit how big it can be, but...it just doesn't scream feature-worthy. Yet.
Now 100 Acre Wood...good grief, DTN. That's a thing of beauty. That's how a good world article should look. Granted, it's got multiple games to support it, but it's also well-organized, nicely annotated, and bursting with info. I'm all about the Pooh.
- I'm going to leave the Featured Article as is until we come to a consensus.
ENX, the point of a Featured Article is that it is already the best it can be or pretty close, not that it needs improvement or fits a theme. If it needs improvement, it should be fixed before it is nominated. If it's something to encourage improvement, then we have the Improvement section for those needs.
DTN, 100 Acre Wood is very good indeed, but it's hardly a consensus with one or two people. We need more input here.
Given the direction of where this is going, I'm going to flat out say I'm not going to be the sole decision maker here. I want to hear from other staff members. We've got them and we need more input from them as well. We'll delay the vote until Monday to make a final decision.
- I would like to nominate Blitz, which over the past week, has been hammered into what I hope is a model technique article.
- I see that Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep was chosen as the featured article. My commentary on this would be as follows:
BIG MISTAKE
The article is still very messy and is not completely consistent with the format of our other game articles. Also, whoever nominated and supported this seemed to forget that all Featured Articles should follow the manual of style, be written well, and not have any maintenance issues. You can see a missing tag in the bottom of the page, was that not obvious enough?
But I digress. 100 Acre Wood is the only quality article that comes to mind right now for October.
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EDIT: This is not to be taken offensively, but just to remind all of the staffers that an article should be thoroughly inspected before being nominated, and not to just nominate an article because it fits into the time frame. Thanks!
- Oh, sorry. It is probably a mod only thing. My bad.
- In response, ENX, 100 Acre Wood is in full accordance with our Manual of Style. An article should be "perfect" before it is posted on the main page, not after. Then it is no better than the Cleanup of the Month, and defeats the entire purpose of Feaured Article. You'll also notice that BebopKate approved of the article beforehand, complimenting its high quality.
- Sorry, my fault. I just did it last month and people seemed fine with that.
- Ah yes, so you did. Sorry, it's been a long day at work.
I would be fine with Birth by Sleep as a featured article. I don't think there's quite as much to change there as there would be in something world or character related.
- *dusts off the page* Whew! Been a while since we were in here. *opens wikiwindows to let in fresh wikiair, uses her wikibroom to clean away the wikicobwebs, and then trips over a wikiottoman as karmic justice for blatent abuse of the prefix "wiki"*.
Let's see...where were we...ah yes...
- Nobody should have to wait for anything, way to get in there and nominate. Kingdom Hearts II is a good choice, I'll put it up if no one dissents.
- Hola, señors y señoritas. I have a bit of news for us that might change our plans. Even though we all know that Room Core should have been the Featured Media for September, it looks like we are going to be putting up some art of the Land of Departure. I'm still hoping that everyone spontaneously changes their vote to the much superior Room Core, but in the event that doesn't happen, we may want to reconsider putting Land of Departure up as the Featured Article. Personally, I'm not sure how good or non-rigged it would look to have our Featured Media and Featured Article correspond with each other. At the same time, it might be nice, since Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is just around the corner. Hooray!
Anyway, I did a long, drastic cleanup of 100 Acre Wood yesterday that should make it a model article. Plus, it's whimsical. If we find that we need to change our decision for Featured Article, I think this would be the way to go.
Hasta luego, ciao.
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