Wikipedia:April Fools' Main Page/Featured Article/Archive 2010

Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of a Featured Article for April Fool's day 2010


Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:

Ground rules for this activity along with a list or participants may be found on the Main talk page.


Mission

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In the past, various unusual articles have been improved to featured article status. These include exploding whale, heavy metal umlaut, Japanese toilet, spoo, Joshua A. Norton, George Washington (inventor), Ima Hogg, and the Museum of Bad Art. People seeing some of these articles listed on the Main Page sometimes believe that it is a joke, when in fact, these articles are well-written and quite deserving of featured article status.

An unusual article (such as exploding toad or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) will be edited up to Featured article status and listed on the Main Page on April 1, 2010. The "recently featured" sentence could be changed to "other featured", and link to the above-mentioned unusual featured articles.

Given the amount of time it takes to bring an article up to Featured article status, an alternative solution would be to use an article that has already been made a Featured article, but has not yet been listed on the Main Page.

Requirements

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Raul is willing to consider any article for April fools day, as long as it meets three requirements:

  • It must be a featured article by April 1, 2010
  • It must not have already been used as the main page featured article.
  • It is not too risqué (more so than any other article that would be used on the front page)

Action items

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  1. What are we going to write/promote? We need to pick either a new topic or an existing article to nominate for FA. I think we need half a dozen nominees - then we vote/get consensus on which one is most suitable.
  2. We have to work hard to get it up to featured status. This may be very difficult and might take several attempts.
  3. We have to usher it through all of the phases leading up to FA.
  4. We need to make sure it's on the front page on April 1st. This means starting in on it fairly soon.

Proposals

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Ima Hogg has already been TFA (look three paragraphs up). And if you can get Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 to FA status, I will personally change my name to it. – iridescent 22:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Why thank you. If you'd like to help, please do. ISD (talk) 07:51, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Bigipedia article is currently a GA nomination, for anyone interested in reviewing it. The sooner it is, the quicker the process of getting it to FA will be. ISD (talk) 18:10, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Good news - Bigipedia has been promoted to GA status. I've now put it forward for a peer review to get it ready for FA nomination. If anyone wants to help review it, please do. ISD (talk) 07:17, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The PR for Bigipedia has been completed. It is now nominated for FA. Please contribute here. ISD (talk) 11:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I realize that it's now out of contention for the April 1st front page, but today's (21-Oct-2009) Front Page story Mary Toft would have been an excellent choice... oh well. Thomas Dzubin (talk) 14:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  Please check the rules. It fails Rule #2. Royalbroil 19:14, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Some suggestions.... As i take it we are looking for some thing out there, but from outside the US, preferably in the U.K. Here are some suggestions i have.

From the UK

  • Principality of Sealand - It was a featured article at one point and was on the front page, so not sure if we re-write it if it could even go back up there
  • Superlambanana - an outrageous sculpture in Liverpool

From Elsewhere

  • Fallen Astronaut - The only sculpture on the moon
  • War rugs - Tribal rugs in Afghanistan with tanks and AK-47s weaved into the patterns

--Found5dollar (talk) 15:04, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If Bigpedia passes FA I vote it, but otherwise another article probably of sufficent length is Centralia, Pennsylvania. ResMar 01:00, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update

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Interesting discussion, but nothing mentioned so far is an FA, likely to become an FA this late in the game, or hasn't already run on the main page. Several candidates, that are already FAs, are under discussion at WT:FAC#April Fools. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:04, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]