118Wiki:Featured Articles

A featured article exemplifies our very best work and features high standards of writing and presentation. The content of a featured article should be of a standard where it can be held up as an example for people trying to develop other articles of a similar theme. It should have the following attributes:

1. It is well-written, comprehensive and accurate.
2. It has images and other media where they are appropriate to the subject, with succinct captions.
3. It includes links to other articles where appropriate.
4. It is of appropriate length, staying focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail.

Featured Article Candidates

Before posting a nomination here, please tag the candidate page with {{FAC}}

Please place each candidate article title as a linked level 3 header (like ===[[this]]===) below this italicised instruction text. The newest candidate is to be placed nearest the top. Please add Support, Oppose or Comment in bold in front of your first constructive comment in reply to an article name and stamp each comment with 4 tildes ~~~~. If you wish to switch your opinion, strikethrough your previous stance (by surrounding with <s> and </s> like this) and post your new stance before your comment.

Lt. Cmdr Quinn Reynolds

Support as Nominator: This seems to have been a bit quiet of late so I thought I'd nominate another article and have a read of the others. Quinn's profile is another fine example of a character bio. It shows the potential of the 118wiki, how far you can expand your character history if you want. It has a good layout, too, spread over a few pages that don't overwhelm the reader with too much info at once. Hutch 12:42, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Support: I agree. This is a great example of a character page. I especially like the pictures that are throughout her page. Flows well. Alana 13:22, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Warp Drive and the Ithassa Five

Support as Nominator: A wonderfully in-depth and thoughtful article about a band on the periphery of simming. Ethan may have just made them up, but if you read this article, you'd never know it. If we can create articles like this about a band that showed up at an inter-ship celebration one night, just think of the kind of insightful and enlightening articles we could create about characters and things we sim about every day! Great Job, Ethan! -Lt. Kolk 17:14, 26 October 2008 (EDT)

Comment: Probably should be a page on it's own rather than a sub-page. Good level of detail but needs to be copy-edited for typos, overuse of bold text & things like inter-wiki links. Just added a category and changed another. Not far off at the moment though. - Lt Cmdr. Salak^Talk 17:22, 26 October 2008 (EDT)

Comment: Agreed -- all the bolding needs to go. Add a list at the bottom for the members, as well. :) --Wolf /^{talk page} 01:07, 16 December 2008 (EST)

Comment: Likewise. I really like the article & think it's fun. No problem with the wiki links but the bold type all over the place does jar a bit. Hutch 12:54, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Previous ships called Independence

Support as Nominator: One that I rewrote from the ground up a little while ago. However, it shows a summary of each ship to have borne the name, a pic for most of them (none could be found for the earliest ones), hopefully insightful prose into the history of a name that has long been a presence in both the US Navy and more recently the UFOP fleet. - Lt Cmdr. Salak^Talk 14:52, 30 September 2008 (EDT)

Comment': I'd recommend using the "thumb" or "frame" tags for the images to clean them up. Also, perhaps using the subtitles as links to the ships, instead put a "Main article..." indented link, even if it's on WP? --Wolf /^{talk page} 00:57, 16 December 2008 (EST)

Response: I've always found "Thumb" looks ugly on the page, while frame seems to be incompatable with scaling, which is used in every single one of the pics. As such, I'm very hesitant to use thumb and frame is impractical. - Lt Cmdr. Salak^Talk 12:55, 30 December 2008 (EST)

Thumbnails are still the best way to size an image with a caption. I think we should stick with that. --Wolf /^{talk page} 13:29, 30 December 2008 (EST)

Support: I think the pics look fine and this is definitely the best example of a 'Previous Ships...'

article I've seen. I like having a mixture of Featured Articles & think this one fits the bill - well-researched, good example of how Trek fits in with the 'real world'. Hutch 13:00, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Featured Article Review

This section is for the re-evalution of existing Featured Articles, in the event that an existing Featured Article is felt to fall below the expected standards. Please use constructive comments to suggest improvements to articles listed here. An article that fails a Review will lose its Featured Status. An article can not fail unless there is a majority of two supporting demotion. As retention is preferred to removal, please change your vote if the article has improved sufficiently.

Before posting a nomination here, please tag the candidate page with {{FAR}}

Please place each article title as a linked level 3 header (like ===[[this]]===) below this italicised instruction text. The newest discussion is to be placed nearest the top. Please add Retain, Demote or Comment in bold in front of your first constructive comment in reply to an article name and stamp each comment with 4 tildes ~~~~. If you wish to switch your opinion, strikethrough your previous stance (by surrounding with <s> and </s> like this) and post your new stance before your comment.

As with Featured Article Candidates, A Review listing will be closed after one month if a clear consensus has not been met. Articles nominated for review should not be withdrawn from the process except by an Admin in the event of a consensus.

Featured Articles

Upon promotion of an article to Featured, its discussion will be moved to a subpage of the articles talk page. The star will be added, automatically adding it to the Featured Article category, and it shall be listed here with the date of its promotion to Featured status.

• Karawati - Promoted (3-0) 8th April 2008 by User:Salak
• StarBase 118 - Promoted (2-0) 15th April 2008 by User:Salak
• Salak - Promoted (2-0) 22nd April 2008 by User:Salak
• Kolk, Jackford - Promoted (4-0) 27th April 2008 by User:Salak
• Ventu, Lily - Promoted (4-0) 5th May 2008 by User:Salak
• Betazoid - Promoted (3-0) 20th May 2008 by User:Salak
• Ehlanii, Karynn - Promoted (3-0) 27th May 2008 by User:Salak
• Geeva Kalpana - Promoted (3-0) 3rd June 2008 by User:Salak
• Devar, Arista - Promoted (5-0) 1st July 2008 by User:Salak
• Ithassa Region - Promoted (3-0) 9th August 2008 by User:Salak
• Wood, Daniel - Promoted (3-0) 26th January 2009 by User:Salak

Article of the Month

• Current Article of the Month

The Article of the Month is a Featured article which is chosen to appear on the front page of both the wiki and the main members area website as an example of what can be done on the wiki. The aim is to hold these articles up as examples, to show others what they can do and hopefully inspire them to attempt to replicate such with other articles. It is also a way of recognising the effort put into writing such pages.

Given their prominent position, these articles should be a good advertisement for both the wiki and the fleet as a whole. At present, the Article of the Month is chosen by simply selecting the next newest Featured Article.

Past Articles of the Month

• September 2009
• August 2009
• November 2008 - July 2009
• September/October 2008
• August 2008
• July 2008
• June 2008
• May 2008
• April 2008
• Test mock-up