HRWiki:Featured Article Selection

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HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 31 (Jul 31-Aug 6)

How about Analysis of Homsar's Speech Patterns? We should encourage, promote, and feature scholarly research wherever possible. — It's dot com 13:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I think more people need to review and edit it before it's featured. Also let all the topics on the talk page be resolved. It may be a new kind of article, but it's still controversial and some users don't agree with the neutrality of it's POV. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 14:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I also don't really like the idea of featuring that article before we feature Homsar himself, but that's just me. Heimstern Läufer 14:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I say we do a toon this week. --Sam Goldfish 21:36, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

How about another milestone email? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 09:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

invisibility? --Sam Goldfish 20:42, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps, although I suggest that virus would be an even bigger milestone and more worthy of featuring. It's a whole email about the demise of the Compy and the end of that era of Email (as opposed to invisibility, which is indeed the beginning of the Compy era, but shortly thereafter moves on to other things; i.e., what SB would do were he invisable [sic] for one day). That's my thought. Heimstern Läufer 11:09, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree. We're featuring Homsar in December, so let's put Analysis of Homsar's Speech Patterns shortly thereafter, perhaps January. As for the feature for this week, I wouldn't mind virus. It's one of the most popular emails out there. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 20:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

With lots of links it could have. Agree on virus. --DorianGray

virus sounds good. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 07:40, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Wrote it with brilliance, boss. Can someone please(!) make the virus page look good before it goes live?! I will be away for most of tomorrow. Double-check the stage notes of the transcript (get rid of "The camera", "We see", make sure pan/tilt/zoom is correct), comb through any bad fun facts that leaked in, order the fun facts in the same sequence they occur in the email. Thanks, BazookaJoe 05:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Should we mention on the featured bit that this was the email that helped STUFF come to be? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 05:56, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Most readers won't know what STUFF is. Loafing 05:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I debated it, but I tried to follow Wikipedia's practice of avoiding self-references. —BazookaJoe 12:36, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 32 (Aug 7-13)

I vote Bubs for the August character, which we could stick in this space. That leaves September for Coach Z, October for The King of Town, November for The Poopsmith, and December for Homsar. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 20:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a good order to me. --DorianGray

I concur. Not last place. Heimstern Läufer 07:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 33 (Aug 14-Aug 20)

Lappy 486? --Sam Goldfish 02:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Compy 386 came first and hasn't been featured yet. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 06:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 34 (Aug 21-Aug 27)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 35 (Aug 28-Sep 3)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 36 (Sep 4-Sep 10)

Something Back to Schoolish? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, Crazy Go Nuts University has already been featured. If we want something Back-to-Schoolish, we could think about featuring Teen Girl Squad Issue 4. Heimstern Läufer 07:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 37 (Sep 11-Sep 17)

Coach Z? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe it's just me, but I was thinking of something more sober for the American users. Just a thought. -The4sword 13:55, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 38 (Sep 18-Sep 24)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 39 (Sep 25-Oct 1)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2006, week 40 (Oct 2-Oct 8)

The King of Town? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

General Discussion

Daily Featured Blocks (On Occasion)

In order to switch to and from daily featured articles, follow these simple steps:

1) Create pages like:

[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 1]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 2]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 3]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 4]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 5]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 6]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 7]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 51, day 1]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 51, day 2]]

2) Create a redirect to begin with, such as [[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50]] redirecting to [[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 1]]

once it's switched over...

3) Change the main page text 'This Week's Featured Article' to 'Today's Featured Article'.

4) Change the main page link to:

{{HRWiki:Featured article for {{CURRENTYEAR}}, week {{CURRENTWEEK}}, day {{CURRENTDOW}}}}

once it's ready to be finished...

5) Create a redirect to end with, such as [[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 51, day 3]] redirecting to [[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 51]]

6) Change the main page link back to:

{{HRWiki:Featured article for {{CURRENTYEAR}}, week {{CURRENTWEEK}}}}