HRWiki:Featured Article Selection

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HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 27 (Jun 30-Jul 6)

Since we already featured Happy Fireworks, how about Cardboard Marzipan? Bad Bad Guy 21:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I guess we could do that. Another thing we should try is Fireworks. Of course, that one would need to be updated drastically. MHarrington 21:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, which is too bad, since Fireworks is definitely better connected to July 4th. But then, there's no obligation to do a July 4th article, so there's no harm in doing a one with a loose connection like Carboard Marzi. Heimstern Läufer 03:33, 24 April 2008

On the other hand, if we're going to do Saddy two weeks prior, this could be a bit of an overdose of character variations. Heimstern Läufer 21:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

As an alternative, how about something tangentially related? Like how Homestar Runner wants to dress up as Uncle Sam in Strong Bad Is A Bad Guy? (I know, I know, it's a stretch....) wbwolf (t | ed) 05:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

It's a stretch, but I see no reason not to do it anyway. Heimstern Läufer 05:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Any more thoughts so we can gather consensus? Heimstern Läufer 02:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Strong Bad is a Bad Guy would be fine. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  02:31, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with Fireworks being an appropriate Featured Article, it is just a rather short list of the use of fireworks in H*R. The other two are more appropriate, and since the FA doesn't have to be 4th of July related, I wouldn't mind seeing Strong Bad Is A Bad Guy myself. Of course, nothing wrong with being a little festive either. :) --Stux 02:35, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I agree with Heimstern on the Saddy dilemma, so I think SBIABG is our best bet. -- Super Martyo boing! 02:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 28 (Jul 7-13)

Have we featured The Announcer yet? If so, how about Homestarloween Party? --Technochocolate 03:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC) Or specially marked.

Getting pretty far out in advance again; let's not go any further than this week for a bit, OK?

We haven't featured The Announcer yet. That article could possibly use some expansion before featuring, but it's a possibility. Homestarloween Party's been featured (and we usually save Halloween toons to be featured at Halloween, anyway). Heimstern Läufer 03:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, let's slow down a little bit, huh? MHarrington 08:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Ten weeks is enough. I think we have 12 now. Let's hold it to 10 - guideline suggestion? Question mark? The Announcer works for me. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  01:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

First, The Announcer sounds reasonable to me, but secondly, let's slow way down a little bit, huh? We keep getting too far out ahead. Let's add more once we get below five or six weeks ahead (by then, the first 26 weeks will likely be in the archives and it'll be time for weeks 27 through 52). In the meantime, if it's any comfort to you, we can keep discussing ideas for the weeks that are already on here. MHarrington 19:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way, in regards to the Halloween toons, can I be the first to make a suggestion there, please? MHarrington 18:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

If someone could expand Irregular Loading Screens, then it would be a great choice. Sam the Man 19:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

How about the Gremlin? -Peter

Hmm, I never thought of that one... MHarrington 02:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Gremlin: maybe. Dunno if it's a popular enough article. Irregular Loading Screens: no. That article does not seem interesting enough to be a Featured Article even if it was expanded a bit. Homestar-Winner (talk) 02:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, me again. This is another illustration of the problem we're having here at FAS: throwing out ideas without discussing. The conversation was going along pretty well, with support gradually emerging for The Announcer, when a user comes in with a suggestion to feature The Gremlin without saying anything about the previous discussion or explaining why to feature the latter and not the former. Why is this a problem? It leaves the discussion fragmented and makes it hard to determine consensus. If I came along now to close this, I would have a very heard time telling where consensus lies. For this reason, when contributing here, always respond to what previous users have said instead of just throwing out your own ideas. Thanks. Heimstern Läufer 04:13, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 29 (Jul 14-20)

One of the Thy Dungeonman games. Empaire 12:38, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

How about an actual person? Say, Missy Palmer or Ryan Sterritt? MHarrington 06:54, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

As important as Missy is to H*R, her write up is a bit thin. Ryan's page is actually of decent length. May I also suggest Y-O-U as a possibility (their contributions have been key a number of TBC's musical projects). wbwolf (t | ed) 06:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

No. It is one of the Dungeonman games or else. Since we have already featured the Dungeonman himself and ye flask, it makes sense to feature one of the Dungeonman games. Empaire 10:19, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Umm, no, it's not "one of the Dungeonman games or else". You don't get to make decisions like that. I'd say we ought to feature Ryan, personally. Heimstern Läufer 21:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I like the idea of featuring Ryan Sterritt too. And we should expand Missy's article sometime; she should be featured at some point. Trey56 21:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 30 (Jul 21-27)

Since it has been talked quite a bit, why don't we feature techno for this week? wbwolf (t | ed) 05:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm down. Oh, wait, I mean, the system is down. Heimstern Läufer 21:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 31 (Jul 28-Aug 3)

How about Lowercase i's? That's becoming a quite large inside joke. Homestar-Winner (talk) 22:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure, Lowercase i's would be good. That one has a decent amount of text anyway. MHarrington 18:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 32 (Aug 4-10)

Since we haven't done one in a while, how about a TGS issue? I'm thinking the first one. MHarrington 18:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I would advise against us featuring TGS 1 for this reason: It's a subset of the email comic. Therefore, it makes more sense to feature that email instead, as it helps show where TGS came from and gives us the first episode.

As an alternative, perhaps TGS 11, since it has a summer theme? Alternatively, we could wait a few weeks and do TGS 4, with its back-to-school theme. Heimstern Läufer 15:11, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I like the idea of Teen Girl Squad Issue 11 being featured for this week. TGS as a whole has not been featured enough. wbwolf (t | ed) 05:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, let's just do comic, then, huh? I agree that TGS isn't shown more often, but let's try to save some of the post-tenth issue ones (i.e., Issue 11) for later. Besides, wouldn't it be overkill to have two summer-themed toons in a short timespan, since I proposed Summer Short Shorts at one point? MHarrington 15:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

In agreement. Let's do the email comic. It'll be just like featuring a TGS comic, but this shows where it came from. (I actually didn't know until now) DrPepper42 01:18, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

If we're going to do techno two weeks before, I don't think we should do another email this week. I don't see any reason we can't do two summer-themed cartoons, but if we don't want to, I still suggest delaying TGS a few weeks and doing Issue 4 (partly because we haven't featured many early TGS episodes). Heimstern Läufer 01:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I say we shouldn't do any more summer themed Featured Articles. If any school people are at all like me (and I know some are), they will be thinking "Aww man, we hafta go back to school again soon!" by August. I think comic would be a good idea. Homestar-Winner (talk) 02:01, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

And I still say two emails separated by only one week is too many in such a short timespan. Heimstern Läufer 03:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

(KOs colons and throws them into an active volcano) Not really... We have nearly 200 SBEmails total. I doubt that many have been featured. There are more SBEmails than anything else. It's not a big deal. DrPepper42 13:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. I'm surprised we haven't featured emails more often! So we should not complain about having emails close together. Besides, there was one time where was an entire week's worth of Tandy 400 emails, I seem to recall. MHarrington 17:03, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

That's still only one week, not two weeks of email with only one in between. Heimstern Läufer 04:25, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but comic was featured for week 31, 2005. How about the locker room? Hazzard4123 18:05 11 June 2008 (UTC)

But that was actually just an article on the series as a whole. I'm talking about the actual email. MHarrington 18:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

So was I. DrPepper42 00:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. With "comic", we could kill two birds with one stone: we'll do something with both the squad of teenagers of the female persuasion and an email on the part of that guy in the wrestling mask. MHarrington 18:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 33 (Aug 11-17)

How about — Psssshhh! — the Double Deuce! MHarrington 05:30, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm thinking Fonts or Fonts By Toon. Haha. Just kidding. Sadly, those pages'll never make it as a featured article, I'm afraid. Oh, Fonts! I pine for you. <sniff> OptimisticFool 08:44, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: the Double Deuce We look to already be doing a running gag two weeks before, so I'm thinking not such a good idea (but keep it mind for the future). Opti: Hmm, I wish there were a way to feature one of those, and if I ever think of a way, I certainly will suggest it. It's a really great amount of obscure info, but how to make it featurable I don't know. Heimstern Läufer 04:24, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, except the two weeks prior, the running gag is of a different variety than the Double Deuce, so no offense, but they should not be exactly comparable. MHarrington 16:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure, they're different types, but I still argue they're too similar in type to occur so close together. Not to mention that I think it's a bad idea how we have running gags divided into several categories, anyway. Heimstern Läufer 18:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

If we can't have a running gag, how about Drive-Thru Whale? He's starting to become a fairly prominent pseudocharacter....wbwolf (t | ed) 04:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I think that would be sweet. Heimstern Läufer 18:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Go Drive Thru Whale! DrPepper42 18:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 34 (Aug 18-24)

For this week, my option is the Heavy Load. I mean, Lourde. MHarrington 17:17, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure. That's a good one. -Peter

It's a bit on the short side, but I guess it's workable. And it is an interesting object (debuted with Homsar, after all, way back in the early days of sbemail). Heimstern Läufer 23:54, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I dunno about this one. Most information in the article right now is either speculations or talking about other weights that look like the weight but are not the same one. Homestar-Winner (talk) 23:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Maybe it is too much of that. I've removed what I think was the least relevant info. What's left is a bit on the short side. You reckon we could expand it? Heimstern Läufer 02:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Still, the Monty Python and bilingual labeling part of the article is still speculation. I don't think there is enough actual facts in the article to make it a FA. How about instead we do something completely different and feature the quite popular toon Where's The Cheat?. It's quite long, and it has every main character in it! Homestar-Winner (talk) 02:40, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Heavy Lourde: Since no one's stepped in to fix it, I'm going to say maybe not do that one. I do kind of think it'd be nice to do an object, since we haven't featured one in a bit and we feature a lot of toons (in the generic sense; not only including big toons). Any ideas? If not, let's go ahead and do Where's The Cheat (while keeping in mind an object for a future feature). Heimstern Läufer 03:29, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I got an idea: if we can't do Heavy Lourde, then let's do another object, like the BMW Lighter. That's an object, too. I simply looked at the and I had the idea. MHarrington 18:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Already been featured, I'm afraid. Heimstern Läufer 18:33, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... okay, how about Interactive Menus? MHarrington 19:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I dunno, that one seems a bit lacking in content. Heimstern Läufer 22:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Can we do The Municipality for this week? -Peter

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 35 (Aug 25-31)

Perhaps a game? It's been a while since we last featured one: week 8 of this year was the last time. Heimstern Läufer 06:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

How about one of the games that Strong Bad dreamed up in the video games email? Any of those would work. Or we could also do Stinkoman 20X6. MHarrington 19:27, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

We've been delaying featuring 20X6 until level 10 comes out... though even I begin to wonder if that's worth doing anymore. On the one hand, I don't like featuring an incomplete game because the situation is a bit awkward if it ever is finished (do we ever get to showcase the complete game?) Then again, I think it's highly possible the game will never be finished, since TBC seem to have moved on to other things (such as SBCG4AP). Heimstern Läufer 23:29, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Then let's do the StrongBadZone game. It's one of the games that SB has dreamed up in the "video games" email. And it has a decent amount of text to boot. MHarrington 17:00, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I like that idea. It also begat one of the better-known H*R phrases, "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE". Heimstern Läufer 17:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to suggest Commandos in the Classroom, as this week is close to the start of school for a lot of people, and would have tons of "OMG! BACK TO SCHOOL FRENZY!" moments. Bluebry 22:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... if we do that, which at this point I'm neutral on, let's see if we can do StrongBadZone not long later, shall we? I can see the value of a back to school article, but we should make sure our heads engsmsplode sometime. Heimstern Läufer 03:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

What about Week 37? It's after the next week. {points down} Bluebry 03:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 36 (Sep 1-7)

This week would be Labor Day, and since we featured Labor Dabor last year, how about doing the "labor day" email this year? I think it fits, if only weakly. MHarrington 17:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

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Daily Featured Blocks (On Occasion)

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• [[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 0]] (redirect day 7 to this)