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== New FA system ==
== New FA system ==
{{Proposed update}}
Ok so this system we can agree on is most ineffective, so here is my proposition:
Ok so this system we can agree on is most ineffective, so here is my proposition:
*FAs will be chosen quarterly: on the first of January, April, July, and October.
*FAs will be chosen quarterly: on the first of January, April, July, and October.
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:::::::Idk, I don't want to put too many restrictions on suggestions yet, for fear that we may run into the problem of having ''no'' suggestions when it comes time to pick an FA. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;">'''King'''</span></span>]] 16:34, 25 January 2016 (EST)
:::::::Idk, I don't want to put too many restrictions on suggestions yet, for fear that we may run into the problem of having ''no'' suggestions when it comes time to pick an FA. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;">'''King'''</span></span>]] 16:34, 25 January 2016 (EST)
::::::::I don't think it should be a problem. If it is we can decide what to do. -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 16:39, 25 January 2016 (EST)
::::::::I don't think it should be a problem. If it is we can decide what to do. -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 16:39, 25 January 2016 (EST)
So I was thinking, maybe suggestions should only expire after a year if they have a negative vote count? Otherwise, we may be throwing out good suggestions. (I mean 4 per year isn't a ton of movement, a good one could easily miss its opportunity) <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;">'''King'''</span></span>]] 22:55, 27 January 2016 (EST)
:Hmm, yeah, that seems like a good idea. But then even more candidates may rack up. Also, one year seems a little too "long term" in my opinion. -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|link=User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 23:48, 27 January 2016 (EST)
== Remove candidates with a score of X. ==
I say we should remove any candidates with a score of X or under after each ''quarter''. I don't see any need to keep candidates that nobody really thinks are good right now. What about positive candidates? -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|link=User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 15:00, 27 February 2016 (EST)
:I agree. Maybe make it anything less than 0. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">'''King'''</span></span>]] 15:04, 27 February 2016 (EST)
::Sure, anyone who post it automatically counts as +1, so it would take 2 votes disqualify it. -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|link=User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 15:06, 27 February 2016 (EST)
== April 1st... wait a second... ==
The new featured article goes up April 1sy. Wait, no it won't. Because it will be pushed off until April 2nd due to shenanigans. Can't fool me! Anyway, I was wondering if the select by date should be moved to the day following, or perhaps not. Hey, it would be a joke in and of itself now that I think about it. [[User: RobSir_zx|<span style="color:orange">Rob</span><span style="color:blue">'''Sir '''</span>]] [[File:RobSir-sig.jpg|16px|link=http://www.ssbwiki.com/images/8/8d/G%26WTheme.ogg]] [[Special:Contributions/RobSir zx|<span style="color:red">zx</span>]] 08:10, 1 March 2016 (EST)
:<nowiki>:x</nowiki> <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">'''King'''</span></span>]] 08:17, 1 March 2016 (EST)
== Suggestion ==
I feel like we should close additional suggestions starting one month before the selection date, then they would open back up as soon as the selection was made. That way we can focus the votes on the current candidates. <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|you]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small>  13:06, 1 March 2016 (EST)
:Yeah, I could get behind that. Others could still vote on current ones, though, right? <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">'''King'''</span></span>]] 13:15, 1 March 2016 (EST)
::Right. But that would be all they could do. Like the Smash Arena suggestions are right now. <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|you]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small>  18:08, 1 March 2016 (EST)
:::Yeah that could work. Let me finish up these cheers and I'll give this some more attention. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">'''King'''</span></span>]] 18:24, 1 March 2016 (EST)
== Don't remove year old candidates ==
Before, [[User:Serpent King]] said we should remove candidates only if they have a negative score. Now that we changed it to remove any candidates with a score below 0 after each cycle, we could remove the part where they get removed a year after regardless of their score. We may lose some good candidates if we have more than 4 good choices at once. -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|link=User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 14:39, 7 April 2016 (EDT)
== A "good article" system? ==
So wikipedia does this thing where they mark articles with a green icon that have a strong chance of being feature worthy. I understand this is both smaller than and not wikipedia, but we could have a similar system. For example, Roy gets featured in june, the Fox article could get marked for being about a subject of such notoriety. It was also be a good way of indicating when an article is pretty much complete and would need no major edits in the future. [[User: RobSir_zx|<span style="color:orange">Rob</span><span style="color:blue">'''Sir '''</span>]] [[File:RobSir-sig.jpg|16px|link=http://www.ssbwiki.com/images/8/8d/G%26WTheme.ogg]] [[Special:Contributions/RobSir zx|<span style="color:red">zx</span>]] 00:03, 8 April 2016 (EDT)
:Personally, I think the system we have going now works out well. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0; text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">'''King'''</span></span>]] 00:06, 8 April 2016 (EDT)
:Someone talked about my suggestion outside of the main FA page!  Too cool![[File:SwagmanSig1.png|20px]] [[User:Swagman|<span style="color: Green;">'''Swagman'''</span>]], [[User talk:Swagman|<span style="color: Dark blue;">'''the Green Swordsman'''</span>]] [[File:SwagmanSig2.png|20px]] 00:43, 8 April 2016 (EDT)
== An idea ==
Since there's featured articles can we start doing featured images? [[File:AlbumArt-Dixie.png|20px]]  [[User:TabuuandMasterCore|TabuuandMasterCore]] 15:04, 8 July 2016 (EDT)
== Soft protect the current featured article? ==
So after the Roy vandalism that occurred yesterday, I started doing some research on the other featured articles in the past. As I expected, most, if not all of them were larger hot spots for vandalism around the time they were featured. What I'm proposing is that from now on, every featured article in the future gets soft protected so that way only autoconfirmed users can edit it, and once it comes time to make the switch, the protection gets lifted on the previous one and is put on the new one, hopefully combatting most of the vandalism that featured articles do see. Thoughts? [[User:Disaster Flare|<span style="color:Green; text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px green">'''Disaster'''</span> <span style="color:Blue;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px blue">'''Flare'''</span>]] [[File:Disaster Flare signature image.png|20px]] ''[[User talk:Disaster Flare|<span style="color:SkyBlue;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px skyblue">(talk)</span>]]'' 13:13, 27 July 2016 (EDT)
:I support this. Featured articles are smack on the main page, making them quite possibly the most easily accessible page on the wiki, which can also leave them to be the most vulnerable to potential malicious acts. [[User:Aliks-Odev|Aliks-Odev]] ([[User talk:Aliks-Odev|talk]]) 14:04, 27 July 2016 (EDT)
:Seems reasonable to me. Many wikis do this. [[User:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="dodgerblue"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">'''Miles''']] <font color="silver">([[User talk:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="silver">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 14:31, 27 July 2016 (EDT)
::Bump. [[User:Disaster Flare|<span style="color:Green; text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px green">'''Disaster'''</span> <span style="color:Blue;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px blue">'''Flare'''</span>]] [[File:Disaster Flare signature image.png|20px]] ''[[User talk:Disaster Flare|<span style="color:SkyBlue;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px skyblue">(talk)</span>]]'' 20:16, 27 July 2016 (EDT)
:::Eh why not? fine with me. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:12pt">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">Serpent</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">King</span>]]'''</span> 20:21, 27 July 2016 (EDT)
:::Isn't this kind of early to bump? Anyways, I'm '''neutral'''. -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|link=User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 22:27, 27 July 2016 (EDT)
== Move ==
'''Support'''. Easier to locate the article when it matches up with the official name. [[File:Nyargleblargle.png|16px]][[User: Nyargleblargle|<span style="color:LawnGreen">'''Nyargle</span>]][[User talk:Nyargleblargle|<span style="color: orange;">'''blargle'''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Nyargleblargle|Contribs]]) 20:40, 13 November 2016 (EST)
As the tagger, I personally think this makes the most sense. If we ever do decide to do featured images and such, we can deal with it then. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:12pt">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">Serpent</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">King</span>]]'''</span> 01:14, 14 November 2016 (EST)
'''Support''' until/unless we ever do featured images. <b>[[User:john3637881|<span style="color: black;">John</span>]]</b> [[File:John3637881 Signature.png|20px]] <b>[[User talk:John3637881|<span style="color: red;">PK SMAAAASH!!</span>]]</b> 09:30, 14 November 2016 (EST)
'''Don't bother'''; the suggested move target could easily just be a redirect and the open-endedness of this title saves us a hassle later if we want to add types of featured content. It's not like there's anything wrong with the current title. [[User:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="dodgerblue"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">'''Miles''']] <font color="silver">([[User talk:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="silver">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 10:03, 14 November 2016 (EST)
:By that logic we could move [[Mario]] to Jumpman and have it redirect. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:12pt">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">Serpent</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">King</span>]]'''</span> 11:31, 14 November 2016 (EST)
::...That really does not make any sense at all. Mario is unambiguously the character's name in near-100% of contexts except for the original Donkey Kong, in which his name was retconned. This is talking about something completely different in type: the labeling of an overarching category that right now only has one part of it that's being used. What's the issue with the current title? It's not misleading in the slightest, just more general than is immediately necessary, in a way that's completely harmless. [[User:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="dodgerblue"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">'''Miles''']] <font color="silver">([[User talk:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="silver">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 11:52, 14 November 2016 (EST)
'''Oppose''' per Miles. -[[User:Menshay|Menshay]] ([[User talk:Menshay|talk]]) 13:35, 14 November 2016 (EST)
'''Support'''. You know. This took a while for someone to notice that the title is not exact. [[User:Dots|<font color="red">'''D'''</font><font color="green">'''o'''</font><font color="blue">'''t'''</font><font color="purple">'''s'''</font>]] ([[User talk:Dots|talk]]) [[File:Mega Man X SNES sprite.png|19px]] The Pizza 19:58, 14 November 2016 (EST)
== Show each nomination's score ==
1. This would keep track of score better than having to count the score each time.
2. Also, Making featured articles bimonthly or even monthly would help keep the front page for fresh and feature more articles that deserve it.
3. And for this rule: "In the event of a tie, an admin picks which article gets used." Which admin gets to break the tie? Just the first one that notices it?  --[[User:Meester Tweester|Meester Tweester]] ([[User talk:Meester Tweester|talk]]) 23:26, 1 October 2017 (EDT)
:# Have thought about this before and decided it would be too difficult to constantly keep track of.
:# We barely are getting the votes necessary to justify getting new articles in every 3 months.
:# Probably me, but it hasn't happened yet.
:<span style="font-family:Algerian;font-size:10pt;background:#000;border:outset #083 2px;padding:1px">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">Serpent</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|12px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0">King</span>]]'''</span> 23:29, 1 October 2017 (EDT)
== A question. ==
Hasn't the current article been going for more than two years now? When will we get a new featured article?
-[[Pep123]] 14:33, 13 July 2020 (CEST)
:As of now, it's been almost '''five''' years. On the main page, there's a notice "Due to SmashWiki working on other stuff, featured articles will be on break until further notice." Looking at the main page's history, the notice was officially put in July 2020. What's that "other stuff" mentioned by the notice? --[[User:GarfLarf|<b><font color="#FFA000">G</font><font color="#D06000">a</font><font color="#C09030">r</font><font color="#F000C0">f</font>]][[User talk:GarfLarf|<font color="#0050D0">QC</font></b>]] 16:20, April 29, 2023 (EDT)

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