MarioWiki talk:Featured articles/Unfeature

Is there any way we could integrate this page into the main FA page? Or at least do some little DPL or whatever (or even a manual edit) to show that there is or there is not an article nominated? It's a little tedious to click the link just to see that there are no nominations. BLOC PARTIER.

OK, seriously. I never remember to check this page. Could there please be some reminder on MarioWiki:Featured Articles? The two articles I will actively attempt to change could have been unfeatured while I didn't check this page. BLOC PARTIER.

Do we have a former FA template? Phoenix Rider

I don't believe we do. I think I can create one. How about we use a dark star image to replace the star in our featured article template? YosharioFile:Yoshi wearing mario's hat.jpg

I was thinking we'd have the Star image we have now, only grayscale and split. I can make the image, and you can make the template. But give me a couple hours as I need to work out some issues with my computer. Phoenix Rider 19:14, 18 June 2009 (EDT)

Before you start making the template, please give your reasons why we need it. I don't think we do, actually. Why should we tell our readers that an article was once featured? There's nothing that makes this article special then. It even makes it look worse, because it lost its status as a FA. Time Questions 19:30, 18 June 2009 (EDT)

I think it's good because it shows the page was once a good article and has the potential to become one again. A FFA template would draw attention to that. I don't think it would make the article look any worse. Phoenix Rider 20:20, 18 June 2009 (EDT)

I'm not sure about that. Some articles became FAs "in a rush", they weren't that good, there just weren't any opposers in time. See Luigi's Mansion for example. I don't really see why we should mark articles like that one as "former FA". Time Questions 01:44, 19 June 2009 (EDT)

New Rule?

I feel we need a new rule that prevents oppose votes such as, "The article may not be good enough right now, but we should wait until someone (or I) fixes it, rather than unfeaturing it." This would include some of the votes on the Yoshi nomination as well: "I think this article should be given time to adjust to the fa reqs before we have this vote again", and "Shouldn't we just wait a bit, i think somebodys redoing it, plus there are lots more images now, it could just be good enough in a few weeks." Such votes don't help at all. What matters is how good an article is at the moment, not how good it could be when it's fixed. After all, we do not feature articles that just have the potential to be FA-quality, either. So, does anyone object to adding this rule to the page? Time Questions 06:40, 12 August 2009 (EDT)