HRWiki talk:Featured Article Selection

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Contents 1 Talk 2 Milestone emails. 3 vote 4 Too early 5 How to do the Lappynapping Saga?

Talk

To keep the main page cleaner, how do people feel about reserving the majority of the talk section for moving each five week section over here once they've run their course? Does this violate any Wiki standards, or would it keep the main part of this page simpler? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 04:50, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Maybe we could make an Archive page. Homestar Coder 05:32, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Archives by groups of 5 weeks, perhaps. Don't want the archive to get too lengthy, either. —BazookaJoe 05:38, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

I dunno, I think we could get away with at least 15 or 20 weeks at a time. Nobody really checkes archives all that often anyways. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 12:16, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Well I'm not really sure of the best way to go about archiving, so whenever we finish up with the first five week block, and move on, feel free to set up some kind of archive system, anyone. (And while you're at it, throw in the discussions at HRWiki:Da Basement if you want). ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 22:35, 22 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Milestone emails.

This is just a list to keep track on what was featured and what should be.

• 1. some kinda robot - The first Strong Bad Email. Start of the Tandy era
• 2. homsar - Introduction of Homsar
• 9. i love you - Introduction of fhqwhgads
• 11. i rule - Introduction of Strong Badia
• 16. band names - Introduction of Limozeen and Taranchula
• 29. superhero name - Introduction of Strong Badman
• 33. gimmicks - Explosion of the Tandy
• 40. vacation - End of the Tandy era
• 41. invisibility - Start of the Compy era
• 50. 50 emails - Email number 50
• 53. comic - Introduction of Teen Girl Squad
• 57. japanese cartoon - Indroduction 20X6
• 58. dragon - Introduction of Trogdor
• 80. stunt double - Introduction of Dangeresque
• 92. kind of cool - Introduction of Senor Cardgage
• 93. army - Origin of Cheat Commandos and the Homestarmy.
• 99. different town - Collaboration with TMBG
• 100. flashback - Email number 100
• 117. montage - Predicted end of The Paper
• 118. virus - End of the Compy era
• 119. animal - Start of the Lappy era
• 125. rock opera - A mention of every email until then
• 150. alternate universe - Email number 150
• 159. retirement - Return/demise of both the prior computers
• 173. the paper - (Presumed) retirement of the dot-matrix Paper, and introduction of the ink-jet Paper

You can add to the list emails you think should be featured as milestones. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 10:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I added montage. This may be considered a stretch by some, but I think the chances of us featuring it right around email #172 is a strong likelyhood... ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 15:44, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I've added army. Seems important to me as the origin of Cheat Commandos, if a bit less so for the introduction of the Homestarmy. Heimstern Läufer 11:32, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

As it turns out, perhaps as much so! Added a few timely additions. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  02:41, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Updated japanese cartoon. Apparently there have been no other nominations from this list fulfilled since then. --Stux 09:21, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

vote

how do you vote? — Slipknot6477 (Talk | contribs) 02:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC) (left unsigned)

Log in, go to the project page (see the tab above) and add your opinion to the sections. It's less a vote than a discussion. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  02:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Too early

Is it okay for me to leave my idea for the week of October 31, 2007 on this talk page until we reach the proper time to actually vote? Bad Bad Guy 22:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Can I add my idea to the project page now or should I wait til next week? Bad Bad Guy 19:38, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Considering lately we've been having more LATE votes... early is perfect. I'd go for yes. Bluebry 02:11, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

How to do the Lappynapping Saga?

A question was raised on the project page how to link to something that doesn't have (or even necessarily) need a page— in particular, how to feature the Lappynapping saga. Well, why not create a one off entry? The FA would be a summary of the saga, with links to cliffhangers, Lappynapped! and retirement. If DNA Evidence (running gag) didn't have it's own page, then something similar could be done for that. But, TBC have often mentioned that it's unusual for them to have any continuity or even story arcs, so this would only be used very occasionally. wbwolf (t | ed) 05:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Here's my question: Is it really a featured article, if it does not have a single mainspace article of which it is a writeup? of course, the idea behind a featured article traditionally has been that we take an article and put a bit of it on the main page, with a link leading to the complete article. Thus, it would be a substantial departure from our practices to make a feature that does not correspond to a specific article.

We could, of course, consider the possibility of actually having a mainspace article summarizing the entire saga. This would certainly solve the problem of how to feature. We'd have to decide if the idea of a summary article like this is something we like enough to have one. Heimstern Läufer 06:16, 27 December 2007 (UTC)