MarioWiki:Featured Articles

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The Featured Articles of the wiki are articles that represent the best the Super Mario Wiki has to offer. The Featured Article Nomination process was created in order to highlight quality articles representative of the Super Mario Wiki. You should nominate articles based on their content, not because you like the subject.

1 Featured Article Standards
2 The Overall Process
3 How to Nominate
4 Featured Articles
5 Nominated Articles

[edit] Featured Article Standards

An article must…

…be well-written and detailed.
…be unbiased, non-point of view.
…be sourced with all available sources and appearances.
…follow the Manual of Style, and all other policies on the Super Mario Wiki.
…not be tagged with any sort of improvement tags (i.e. {{rewrite}}, {{expand}}, etc).
…have a proper lead that gives a good summary of the topic and can be used for the front page featured box.
…have a reasonable amount of redlinks.
…have significant information from all sources and appearances, especially a biography for character articles.
…not have been previously featured on the Main Page. Otherwise, it can only be restored to featured status.
…include a reasonable number of images of good quality if said images are available.
…have at least 4,000 characters (letters, spaces, etc.) not including templates, categories, quotes, images, or "official profiles and statistics" sections. Text in an image thumbnail may be included.

[edit] The Overall Process

First, nominate an article you find is worthy of featured status, using the Nominate field below; see criteria above. Note that a previously featured article cannot be featured on the Main Page again; however, it can be restored to featured status if there are no other featured articles in queue. Others will object to the nomination if they disagree that the article is good enough; they will then supply reasons for doing so, and ways to improve the article (errors, style, organization, images, notability, sources). Supporters adjust the article until the objectors (with reasonable objections) are satisfied. The article is placed on the featured article list and added to the front page queue. Also, if, at least a week after the article's nomination, that article has five supports and no objections, it will be added to the queue, and will be officially known as a "featured article".

[edit] How to Nominate

Before doing anything, be sure to read the article completely, keeping a sharp eye out for mistakes. Afterwards, compare the article to the criteria listed above, and then either support or object the article's nomination. If you object, please supply concrete reasons for doing so, and how it can be improved. Please cite which rule your objection falls under. Failure to do so will result in your objection being considered invalid. As stated above, any objections will be looked upon by the nominator, supporters, and anyone willing to improve the article, and action will be taken to please the objectors. Once all objectors' complaints have been solved (or the article has five supports and no objections after at least a week), the article will be added to the queue and be officially known as a "featured article".

Also remember to add {{FASTAT}} at the top of the article you are nominating.

Every Saturday the next article in the queue will be highlighted on the Main Page as featured, marked with the featured template and removed from the list of nominations. The beginning of the article then appears on the Main Page via the featured articles template. Nominees that are inactive for a month will be eliminated from the nominations list.

Type the exact article name as a sub-page name to create the nomination page below. Replace {{{1}}} with the article name. Read anything in comments () carefully.

[edit] Featured Articles

King K. Rool (at 23:09, 11 September 2007)
Goomba (at 17:41, 13 September 2007)
Yoshi (at 10:54, 14 September 2007)
Lakitu (at 18:16, 15 September 2007)
Bowser Jr. (at 20:41, 15 September 2007)
Princess Daisy (at 23:30, 29 September 2007)
Waluigi (at 02:37, 30 September 2007)
Wario (at 00:53, 14 October 2007)
King Boo (at 15:14, 14 October 2007)
Dimentio (at 23:00, 15 October 2007)
Mario Kart DS (at 22:14, 21 October 2007)
Luigi's Mansion (at 17:45, 9 December 2007)
Super Paper Mario (at 06:08, 12 December 2007)
Hammer Bro. (at 15:05, 13 December 2007)
Super Smash Bros. Melee (at 18:02, 30 December 2007)
Kamek (at 18:05, 4 January 2008)
Spiny (at 15:23, 13 January 2008)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (at 18:32, 17 January 2008)
Mario Strikers Charged (at 19:52, 9 May 2008)
Tabuu (at 10:00, 22 May 2008)
Mario Kart (series) (at 16:56, 21 June 2008)
Deanna Mustard (at 00:39, 1 July 2008)
Count Bleck (at 12:50, 5 July 2008)

[edit] Nominated Articles

Nomination	Last Edited...	First Nominated...
Featured Articles/N/Koopa Troopa	14:31, 6 July 2008	14:09, 8 March 2008
Featured Articles/N/Baby Peach	00:37, 6 July 2008	15:09, 30 June 2008
Featured Articles/N/Alien (Club Nintendo)	19:46, 4 July 2008	12:52, 23 June 2008
Featured Articles/N/Baby Mario	19:41, 4 July 2008	15:14 EST, 4 July, 2008
Featured Articles/N/Petey Piranha	19:38, 4 July 2008	December 25, 2007 22:45,
Featured Articles/N/Luigi	01:17, 4 July 2008	17:56, 6 April 2008
Featured Articles/N/Princess Peach	00:18, 3 July 2008	20:03, 10 January 2008(EST)
Featured Articles/N/Mushroom Kingdom	00:12, 3 July 2008	6:19, 1 July 2008
Featured Articles/N/Toad	19:59, 1 July 2008	19:56, 2 May 2008 (EDT)
Featured Articles/N/Ludwig von Koopa	16:39, 1 July 2008	18:11, 11 May 2008
Featured Articles/N/Bob-omb	16:03, 1 July 2008	21:59, 13 April 2008
Featured Articles/N/Dry Bones	20:49, 30 June 2008	17:33, 8 June 2008
Featured Articles/N/Mario Kart Wii	22:16, 29 June 2008	16:19, 22 June 2008
Featured Articles/N/Smithy	15:38, 19 June 2008	00:40, 29 September 2007
Featured Articles/N/Bowser	04:31, 19 June 2008	12:40, 15 September 2007