HRWiki:Featured Article Selection

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Checklist for new Featured Article: Make sure the article is proof-read up to a high standard. At 0000 UTC Monday, purge the main page cache. Protect and add {{mprotected}} to the new image; Unprotect and remove {{mprotected}} from old image. Semi-protect the live FA write-up; Unprotect the old FA write-up. Add {{featuredarticle}} to FA's talk page. Update HRWiki:Featured article nominations with descriptive edit summary — see history. Update HRWiki:Featured articles with descriptive edit summary — see history.

Contents 1 Discussion Archives 2 Weeklies 2.1 HRWiki:Featured article for 2007, week 51 (Dec 17-23) 2.2 HRWiki:Featured article for 2007, week 52 (Dec 24-30) 2.3 HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 1 (Dec 31-Jan 6) 2.4 HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 2 (Jan 7-13) 2.5 HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 3 (Jan 14-20) 2.6 HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 4 (Jan 21-27) 2.7 HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 5 (Jan 28-Feb 3) 2.8 HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 6 (Feb 4-10) 2.9 HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 7 (Feb 11-17) 2.10 HRWiki:Feature article for 2008, week 8 (Feb 18-24) 3 General Discussion 3.1 Daily Featured Blocks (On Occasion)

Discussion Archives

Other Discussion | 2005, Weeks 26-29 | 2005, Weeks 30-39 | 2005, Weeks 40-52

2006, Weeks 1-10 | 2006, Weeks 11-20 | 2006, Weeks 21-30 | 2006, Weeks 31-40 | 2006, Weeks 41-52

2007, Weeks 1-10 | 2007, Weeks 11-20 | 2007, Weeks 21-30 | 2007, Weeks 31-40 | 2007, Weeks 41-52

Weeklies

HRWiki:Featured article for 2007, week 51 (Dec 17-23)

How about retirement? It's the longest sbemail, and I really like that email. Religious Corn   20:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Nah. I'd like to see something Christmasy, or Decemberweenish. Either what I want or The Decemberween Tree would be fine. Sam the Man 21:11, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

The Decemberween Tree's prose intro is a bit short for a featured article. what I want would probably work, though. Heimstern Läufer 00:03, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I like the idea of doing what I want too.Religious Corn   20:31, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

There aren't that many pre-Decemberween shorts of any substance (though Decemberween In July might make a good alternate....). I have no problem with what I want for this week. wbwolf (t | ed) 01:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2007, week 52 (Dec 24-30)

A Decemberween toon. How about A Decemberween Pageant? Sam the Man 21:11, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Just to list all the major D'ween toons: A Holiday Greeting (more or less Decemberween), The Best Decemberween Ever, A Decemberween Pageant and Decemberween Short Shorts (I've excluded Homestar Presents: Presents because we featured that last year). Heimstern Läufer 05:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Naw. Like I said before, we should do less daily articles. I think The Best Decemberween Ever would be a good enough article, as it introduces the word Decemberween. Homestar-Winner (talk) 10:00, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree, if we keep on having daily articles for holidays, we are going to run out rather quickly, then...bad stuff happens. I think The Best Decemberween Ever is a good article to be featured on this day...week.--~ SlipStream 11:05, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I just realized that you weren't saying that we should do a week of different toons. I should read these posts more carefully. But still, I think we should feature The Best Decemberween Ever. Homestar-Winner (talk) 11:25, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll just support having The Best D'ween Ever as the featured for this week... wbwolf (t | ed) 14:48, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, just to clarify: I wasn't suggesting dailies, just setting our what our options are. Heimstern Läufer 17:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and Best D'ween ever sounds fine to me. Heimstern Läufer 17:12, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good! Religious Corn   20:32, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, one of the best Decemberween cartoons... ever... I agree! Trey56 07:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I Love it! This is an Important article and deseves The title. Dynamite ^oo^

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 1 (Dec 31-Jan 6)

Note: Whatever MediaWiki decides to call December 31 (week 53?), it will be redirected here. —BazookaJoe 19:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

To start of the year, how about a Peasant's Quest thing. Like Rather Dashing, Peasantry, The Three Keepers of Trogdor or The Trog-Cave? Sam the Man 19:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

How about one of the secondary characters? Both Nebulon and The Stick would be worthy for a featured article. wbwolf (t | ed) 19:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I hate you, The Stick. I mean, yeah, let's do The Stick. Homestar-Winner (talk) 22:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

The Stick's prose intro is rather short for a weeklong FA, though. Does anyone think they could expand it? Heimstern Läufer 22:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Nebulon is a more thorough article, at any rate. I think it would make a better FA. Heimstern Läufer 16:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

We've done Nebulon and The Stick, already. Why not History According to Strong Bad? It seems like a good article to me.

No, we haven't featured those already. Heimstern Läufer 01:56, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

YOU should check again. anyways, WHY not try a sbemail, say, unnatural?

Already did check, thanks, and those articles haven't been featured. Heimstern Läufer 18:42, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 2 (Jan 7-13)

A Short Perhaps? Good shorts: One Two, One Two, Drive-Thru, Looking at a Thing In A Bag? Sam the Man 19:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I'll throw in Strongest Man In The World as another good short for this week. Though Looking at a Thing In A Bag would be an excellent idea. wbwolf (t | ed) 19:48, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm going with the thing in a bag. Slipknot6477 13:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

How about dragon because January 13 was when dragon was first released. Though hardly a man is still alive that remembers that fateful day and year. Homestar-Winner (talk) 20:40, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I'd go with Looking at a Thing In A Bag or dragon. --Trogga 03:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Let's give Troggie a happy 5th Trogday feature: dragon. Heimstern Läufer 03:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Shouldnt we do happy trogday since it is trogday, and to dragon next week? Slipknot6477 16:00, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

One Trogdor birthday feature should be enough for one year, and dragon, as the email that started it all, seems like the better choice. Heimstern Läufer 08:04, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I Agree, but I like Drive-Thru. Maybe for next week 'cuz dragon IS a good pick Dynamite ;)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 3 (Jan 14-20)

I'm thinking we should do a good article nobody knows about. 'd, maybe? Slipknot6477 02:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I think 'd is a well-known article actually... — Defender1031*Talk 02:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

We haven't done something real world in a while. TMBG Concert - 25 Sep 2004? --Trogga 02:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Wait, the late night jengajam interview! great interview! Slipknot6477 02:32, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Um, I suppose I could have it finished by then....wbwolf (t | ed) 03:07, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I think the TBMG concert would probably be fine, and we could let Wbwolf take his time shanking our jengaship and feature it later. Heimstern Läufer 05:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm gonna say mascot. An important email with a good background reference.

I don't think we need to feature any more sbemails than we already are. Heimstern Läufer 01:59, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 4 (Jan 21-27)

How about a daily featured article week with Compy 386 emails. Just some classics: comic, japanese cartoon, dragon, crazy cartoon, personal favorites, monument, video games, your friends, invisibility, time capsule, monster truck. Sam the Man 20:35, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I think most Compy emails are big enough to be featured for a whole week. Plus, I don't really like having daily articles. Homestar-Winner (talk) 12:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I think this is a good idea to do at some point (I don't think more than a few compy emails are worth a whole week), but I think it's still too soon after our most recent set of dailies. Heimstern Läufer 16:51, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

We featured Cheerleader last year and have never gotten around to featuring any other TGS characters. How about So and So? Heimstern Läufer 16:56, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

So and So would make a great FA. wbwolf (t | ed) 06:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. Sam the Man 18:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I think so, too. Dynamite ^o.o^

I just saw it on the featured articles already. I think we haven't but I'm curious why everyone says that articles we have featured we have not like the stick. Dynamite :|

Have a look at HRWiki:Featured articles to see what we've featured and what we haven't. You'll notice these aren't there. Heimstern Läufer 00:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 5 (Jan 28-Feb 3)

Another grammar thing! I'd personally like to see Nondescript Nouns, but it's prose is too short. Perhaps we could expand it? Sam the Man 18:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I've always thought Nondescript Nouns's scope was a bit ambiguous, and I don't really think it's our finest work. Perhaps another running gag, such as Crapfully Yours? Heimstern Läufer 03:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

We've done crapfully yours. If we wanna do a running gag, how 'bout blatant lies?

No, we have not done Crapfully Yours already. Heimstern Läufer 01:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Aside from the "SBEmail extravaganza" suggested above, I haven't seen some of the classic SBEmails suggested in the talk page being featured recently. Might I suggest army? --Stux 09:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

I tend to think we already feature emails often enough. Heimstern Läufer 06:49, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 6 (Feb 4-10)

It's time Minor Characters got their time to shine. Any minor characters you can think of? Sam the Man 18:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

How minor is Rumble Red? --Trogga 03:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think we need to feature a minor character. We're talking about featuring one in early January, along with a TGS character a bit later in the month. I'm thinking we might try featuring an item, since we do that somewhat rarely. Perhaps the No Loafing Sign? Heimstern Läufer 03:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

We haven't featured the No Loafing Sign yet? Yeah, let's do that. Homestar-Winner (talk) 16:34, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

It's hard to believe we haven't done that one yet. I vote yes! o.0

HRWiki:Featured article for 2008, week 7 (Feb 11-17)

Who Said What. 60.230.37.94 06:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

We really shouldn't be featuring that. Homestar-Winner (talk) 21:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

At some point, we ought to feature something from the Lappynapping saga. Ideally, I'd love to feature the entire saga for a week, but we don't exactly have a summary article for the whole thing, and I'm not sure we should. One possibility could be just featuring cliffhangers one week and retirement the next (pros, it allows us to cover the saga; cons, it takes up two weeks). Heimstern Läufer 21:42, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I like the idea, but I also agree with the problems. The closest we have to a summary article is on the Lappy's page. --DorianGray 21:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

How bout a Valentines/Valentimes day toon. TGS 12. Justin Master of Nature 21:19, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Since Valentimes is so rarely done in H*R, featuring Teen Girl Squad 12 would be a good thing for this week. Hopefully, TBC will add more "holiday specials" in the future. wbwolf (t | ed) 23:36, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Totally! Great Idea, I think TGS is important to Vanentines day with Cheerleader's boy obsession. Dynamite =)

Sure, we can wait on the Lappynapping saga. Heimstern Läufer 19:08, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Which is a good idea anyway, until we figure out how to feature something that doesn't have a direct page (yet?). Also support TGS12. --DorianGray 05:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

HRWiki:Feature article for 2008, week 8 (Feb 18-24)

How bout Where's An Egg?. Aaron Master of Life 20:35, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I dunno, I was thinking retirement. Religious Corn   20:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Umm...No. Well, maybe ...{drum roll} Listerine. Master of Nature 21:19, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

retirement might be good, but Listerine is way to short and let's not forget that it is a HRW:OA. Sam the Man 22:31, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I think that nightlife may be good. It features a lot of important remarks and such in it. Besides, Listerine is too short, anyways. Dynamite 0.o

Nightlife is probably too new for an FA. Heimstern Läufer 19:08, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

By the time this article is featured, it wont be. DYNAMITE :{

Double Deuce?!?!?!!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!Justin Master of Nature 16:00, 29 December 2007 (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)