HRWiki:Featured Article Selection

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Welcome to featured article selection. Please help us choose and create write-ups for our best, most interesting, or otherwise noteworthy articles to appear on the main page. For ideas, check out the featured article nominations.

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This is a placeholder topic for 5-year redirects. Due to overall decreased activity FAs are now being reused more often. The common practice has become to redirect to the FA exactly 5 years prior to the current FA. When an article is re-used mark it in the following manner:

{{FA queue|<date>|Redirects|alternatediscussion=yes|decision=<article name>}}

Example:

{{FA queue|15 Aug 2011 |Redirects|alternatediscussion=yes|decision=1-Up}}

Please keep this discussion in the FA page at all times but do copy it to archive pages as well.

Kick-a-Ball

HRWiki:Featured article for 2011, week 41 (Oct 10–16)

All Right, Kickball!!!!! -- Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 21:07, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind seeing this featured one day. It's a fun toon, this marks the first appearance of the Umpire since Where My Hat Is At? (the book version I think), and I liked the ending of the toon. — Ngamer01 14:56, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Onion Bubs

HRWiki:Featured article for 2011, week 42 (Oct 17–23)

An important pseudocharacter. RickTommy (edits) 00:45, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

halloweener

HRWiki:Featured article for 2011, week 43 (Oct 24–30)

halloweener. RickTommy (edits) 05:40, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

It's a little bit of a short article, but compared to other early Sbemails it's quite long. I think it'll be fine for featuring. doctorwho295 15:08, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

SO GOOD!--Cheergly hands on deck! 13:35, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Given that we're still in hiatus, i think it's best to only have 1 week for halloween this year. --Stux 14:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Well, we managed to do two weeks last year. Also, from what I've heard, it's most likely that this will be when the Brothers Chaps come back. RickTommy (edits) 03:19, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Jibblies 2

HRWiki:Featured article for 2011, week 44 (Oct 31–Nov 6)

Jibblies 2. RickTommy (edits) 05:40, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

So we're reverting back to the old format here? I'm for featuring Jibblies 2, and I suppose it's good for that week. doctorwho295 15:05, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright! Jibblies it is! I can go in the painting and all!--The Cheergly One says, "Now spell encyclopedia.... What? I'm supposed to what?! {embarrassed} Oh, man... I blew it real bad this time." 11:18, 28 August 2011 (UTC)The cheergly one

Article discussions

20X6 vs. 1936

Suprised it was never featured. -- Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 21:07, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

I think this is a good suggestion! --Stux 14:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm going to third this as I liked the exchange between The Homestar Runner and Stinkoman. — Ngamer01 18:30, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I guess it could make a great feature for Jan 2-8. RickTommy (edits) 21:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Why then, Rick? — Ngamer01 18:22, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Because that's 20X6 week. RickTommy (edits) 21:07, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

What's 20X6 week? That's not a thing. — Defender1031*Talk 01:11, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

He's referring to the anniversary of the release of japanese cartoon, the email that was the beginning of 20X6. this was pointed out by Stinkoman at the end of Happy Trogday. i'm also surprised this article hasn't been featured. but at the rate we're going, i think that anniversaries such as this hold less importance towards when a cartoon may be featured, and i wouldn't restrict it to that week. The Knights Who Say Ni 02:23, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

I want to nominate this for the week of Trogday in 2012, and I have. —Soiled Bargains ^(talk|ctrb) 18:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Hiatuses

Given how long it's been since the last toon, I guess it sounds appropriate to emphasise that fact by featuring this article. RickTommy (edits) 12:20, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Given that featured articles are supposed to be the best the wiki has to offer and given that that page is up for discussion, I don't think this is a good idea. — Defender1031*Talk 13:24, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

One, I've expanded it, and two, it's been up for discussion since October last year. RickTommy (edits) 01:54, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

The expansion made the article more of a mess. In my opinion, it's still not good enough for any consideration of a feature based on article standards. And the article shouldn't be featured for the purpose of educating people on a current event, though I don't know if we would want to feature it on the basis that hiatuses are now "infamous" among H*R fans. — Ngamer01 17:05, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Character Cards

Maybe Character Cards!--Cheergly hands on deck! 15:27, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Schenectady Crispies

One of the very first articles to be suggested for featuring ([1]). RickTommy (edits) 06:58, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

But this cereal is too generic. It's not notable enough and there's the breakfast cereals suggestion further down this page that is more important. I'm going to say no to this. — Ngamer01 18:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Cheat Commandos (toon)

The introduction of Cheat Commandos. RickTommy (edits) 06:58, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm going to second this. This would make a good feature whenever. — Ngamer01 18:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Week of Thanksgiving (Nov 21-27)

Happy T. RickTommy (edits) 06:58, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Happy T is kinda lacking in content. Is there even enough to manage a minimal writeup at least? — Ngamer01 18:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Bubs's Shady Business Practices

Although it's a relatively new article, it has been edited much more frequently than one would expect from an article created during this hiatus. RickTommy (edits) 06:36, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Seems ok by me. I'm going to second this. — Ngamer01 18:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Baddest of the Bands

Well, we've featured Homestar Ruiner and Strong Badia The Free, so... RickTommy (edits) 09:09, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm going to second this one as well. I like Homsar in this one. — Ngamer01 18:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Seeing as Baddest of the Bands was released October 27, 2008, perhaps it's best to feature this for week 45, November 6-November 12, before its birthday gets a little belated. —Soiled Bargains ^(talk|ctrb) 18:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

FeedBurner Page

Although I personally dislike the FeedBurner page, I guess it could make a good feature, since it is important because can be accessed from the Navbar. RickTommy (edits) 09:09, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Seriously

My recent comment made me think of this page, and since it is a common catchphrase, I think it could make a good feature. RickTommy (edits) 09:09, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Week before Decemberween/Christmas (Dec 12-18)

Snowglobe. RickTommy (edits) 00:45, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

As with Halloween, given that we're in a hiatus I don't think we have a need for two weeks of D-ween themed articles. --Stux 14:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Week of Decemberween/Christmas (Dec 19-25)

Happy Dethemberween. RickTommy (edits) 00:45, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Main Pages (daily feature)

Sometime soon, can we have a week of daily articles? I was thinking maybe stuff on Old Flash Stuff or some Main Pages. RickTommy (edits) 10:41, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

A Main Page daily would be awesome! PowerPie 01:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

As long as it's in November or later, for the at least 6 month spacing of dailies, A week of dailies would be nice. Although, hard to choose just 7 Main Pages to feature. StrongAwesome 22:25, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if this is the best way to go about this. If you have seven articles in mind for a daily, then you should propose those seven articles, but don't just say "We should do a daily." -- Super Martyo boing! 05:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I think we should do this daily before the end of the year. RickTommy (edits) 00:40, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

There is no pressing need for a daily to occur before the end of the year. Moreover, adequate no topic has been suggested for a daily. A daily shouldn't be made for the sake of having a daily, it should be used to showcase stuff that doesn't always fit in one weekly FA. The new format can help encourage that, but we should always pick dailies carefully. --Stux 21:21, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Also, might I add that in the future, dailies will need to be more frequent, since we will eventually run out of articles that are important enough for a week to themselves? RickTommy (edits) 13:26, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

If we start running out of articles, we might need to go in the other direction; that is, keep the certain featured article for longer than a week so that we don't run out so quickly. but that shouldn't happen for a very long time, so i don't think we need to worry about it. The Knights Who Say Ni 17:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Either way, I think that we should do this daily soon, as it has been a while since our last one. Anyway, my theme for the daily: Main Pages, as was said at the start of this conversation. Anyway, the main pages we should feature are: 1, 7, 13, 15, 17, 23, and the Homsar Main Page. RickTommy (edits) 06:28, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

We did two weeks of dailies earlier this year. After that, I would suggest we wait a while before another set, at least until the new year. Heimstern Läufer 09:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Fair 'nough. PowerPie 20:04, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Until the updates start flowing again, I say we just don't do any period. Like Ni, I'm worried about time and the amount articles we have. —Soiled Bargains ^(talk|ctrb) 23:13, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. Unless we get a really good set of articles approved by at least a few people, we should hold off on the dailies. doctorwho295 5 February 2011

Now it's been nearly a year since our last daily. So can we now do this one? RickTommy (edits) 06:42, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

What set of dailies do you suggest and why? That's really the first step here. For my part, I'm really not sold on doing a set of dailies soon, still, but maybe others will want to. Heimstern Läufer 08:39, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Probably the Main Page dailies that I mentioned above. RickTommy (edits) 09:07, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

OK. I don't think we've ever featured a Main Page before, so I'd be interested in knowing if we could manage much of a writeup for one. What would one of those look like? Heimstern Läufer 09:13, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

For a Main Page daily, how about this: 1, 7, 15, 18, 20, 22 and 26? doctorwho295 22 March 2011

1. One of them should be one of the special Main Pages.
2. Here, I also suggested a Main Page daily, and I also said that we will probably do three more Main Page dailies sometime in the future. But this means that one Main Page will miss out, so that one will get a week to itself, and MP22 seems to be the most important one, so that will be the one. Actually, that comment was made before MP26 was released, so this means that two MPs will get a week to themselves. But MP22 is still one of those two.
3. And speaking of MP26, it's too new to be featured.
4. Just FYI, earlier in this discussion, I also wrote a list of the Main Pages we should feature.

RickTommy (edits) 12:54, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm for this. Now we just need to come to some kind of consensus for which ones to feature. I'd pick ones that feature running gags or are done in the alternate universes: 3 ("wear a bikini"), 10 (Old-Timey), 11 ("today's forecast is total crap"/"more than two problems"), 17 (20X6), 22 (virus), 23 (backwards), and either the Strong Bad or Homsar main page. Regarding the list above: (1) Yes. (2) That discussion is obsolete. Any points you made there don't apply here unless you restate them and they gain consensus. (3) I agree that 26 is too new only because, well, it's still on the main page list of what's new. (4) You sure did. — It's dot com 01:44, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

The main pages don't really have enough info. They might need a...test write. -- Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 14:43, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

I think we need to try to gather more interest for the FAS before we do a daily. doctorwho295 00:35, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

It's reaching the year-and-a-half mark now. I seriously think this daily should be done soon. RickTommy (edits) 09:09, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Just because you seriously think the daily should be done soon doesn't mean we have to. As mentioned before, there is limited FA interest and the lack of updates kind of makes a daily a lower priority. I believe that for something like this to be considered: 1) consensus has to be reached as to *which ones* to feature and 2) once there is consensus write-ups should be made ahead of time so show that these pages indeed to have sufficient content for featuring. --Stux 13:40, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

I say go for the ones that It's dot com suggested, though probably with 22 replaced with 1, since I still think that 22 should get a week to itself. Never mind, 22 it is, but I still would like to know which two main pages should get a week to themselves. RickTommy (edits) 01:54, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

your friends or different town

We usually feature a Sbemail [the week of July 18-24]. How about different town, your friends, long pants, dangeresque 3, or theme song? RickTommy (edits) 08:45, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, sounds fine to me. doctorwho295 20:34, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Hehe, RickTommy's still trying to invoke the old format. ;) Any of these Sbemails would be fine to feature on any given week. --93.207.89.92 14:13, 19 May 2011 (UTC) (That Anonny Guy)

Header changed to just "a sbemail" as there's really no significance to any particular week. Heimstern Läufer 15:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

The anonny is right. This kind of nomination is horribly vague and has no place here under the current format. If you want to nominate any of those emails on their own, singular merits, then that would be fine. — It's dot com 21:18, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

I have drafted very creative write-ups for your friends and different town. (User:RickTommy/sbemailwriteups) RickTommy (edits) 12:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

The Announcer

An important minor character. RickTommy (edits) 03:19, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Bubs and Coach Z's Relationship

An important relationship. RickTommy (edits) 03:19, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Flash

Without it, most of H*R wouldn't be possible. RickTommy (edits) 08:12, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Breakfast Cereal

It has a long enough intro, starts with a quote from an interview, and is important to the TBC; what more could you want? RickTommy (edits) 08:12, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Bad Graphics Ghost

Surprised it was never featured; also, it was once accidentally bolded on the nominations page. RickTommy (edits) 01:54, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

This will be nice to feature next year for Halloween. Second'd! — Ngamer01 18:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I think we should hold this one off until Halloween next year as well. —Soiled Bargains ^(talk|ctrb) 18:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Week of Trogday (Jan 9-15)

Wormdingler. RickTommy (edits) 01:54, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

You know, how about we spice things up and nominate 20X6 vs. 1936 for this week instead? We could save Wormdingler for Troggie's 10^th birthday instead. —Soiled Bargains ^(talk|ctrb) 18:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Discussions of Articles Needing Expansion

Discussions in this section regard articles that, per consensus, require further expansion of the article itself before the article should be featured.

FAQ

An important page on the site. RickTommy (edits) 01:16, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Can we manage a writeup of this? There's no prose introduction to speak of, so it'd have to be some sort of summary. I'm not at all sure you'd be able to get enough content out of the FAQ page to make a proper main page writeup. Heimstern Läufer 03:23, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

I think we'll be able to do an introduction of this. I support nomination. doctorwho295 21 February 2011

I missed that this page had been "slated" to feature this week despite inadequate consensus for featuring. There is reasonable question whether there enough material to feature. This cannot be featured until an adequately-long FA has been made. I'd suggest writing one to show that there is and then featuring it on a different week. --Stux 13:40, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

A Splode

One of the more infamous phrases on the site. RickTommy (edits) 06:23, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

I don't think this has enough content to feature. --Stux 14:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Legal

An important page, since it can be accessed from the Navbar. RickTommy (edits) 09:09, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I don't think this has enough content to feature. --Stux 14:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

The Virus

The Virus! The Virus! -- Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 14:46, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

This article might need a bit more expansion before getting featured. doctorwho295 00:38, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Stalled Discussions

Discussions in this section regard articles that, due to lack of consensus or consensus against, are not ready to be featured at this time.

Swears

I know it's not exactly an appropriate article for featuring, but it's still a rather popular one. RickTommy (edits) 12:54, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand. You say it's not appropriate for featuring, but you're suggesting featuring it? For my part, I don't really think this article should appear on the Main Page, as interesting an article as it may be. Heimstern Läufer 14:50, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

The article itself would be up for nomination, but because of the subject matter it shouldn't go up. doctorwho295 01:05, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

I do think this article is interesting, but, yeah, it's probably not best to link to it from the main page. — It's dot com 01:55, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

We could make it a Featured Article WITHOUT using any swears or links to this page. -- Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 17:17, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

No, we really couldn't. Part of the point of featuring an article is to make an easy link to the article. Per subject matter of the page, I'm against featuring this article. The Knights Who Say Ni 18:24, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Me Too! -- Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 19:12, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Cinder Block

An important pseudo-character. RickTommy (edits) 00:19, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

It's not that important. It doesn't even get counted in the population. — It's dot com 02:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

The only reason the Cinder Block is on in the first place is when Strong Badia is on. I would rather feature Strong Badia if we ever feel the need to have this mentioned. doctorwho295 12:26, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Umm, Strong Badia has already been featured, and I doubt it wouldn't have already been featured. RickTommy (edits) 12:35, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

The Umpire

The Umpire. He would make a Great article!!! Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 14:46, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

There's not much information on the page. I don't think I can support this. doctorwho295 00:36, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

OK. But I'm suprised 20X6 vs. 1936 was never featured. Let's feature that instead. -- Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 14:27, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Intro

Another important H*R page. RickTommy (edits) 06:42, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I think this has a little more information than the above [the index page], but there might be a need for more. Any other opinions on this? doctorwho295 19 March 2011

Agreed. It's better than the Index Page but I'm not sure if it's interesting enough. (That Anonny Guy) --93.207.75.209 11:34, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

General discussion

Daily Featured Blocks (On Occasion)

In order to make daily featured articles for one week, 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 0]] (redirect day 7 to this)