Forum:FA and Poll Guidelines

As with pretty much 99% of Wikis every so often articles are chosen to be featured on the main page. Now since I began editing here there's only been three featured articles, Ranma Saotome, the Ranma ½: Live Action Special and our currently featured article (FA) Pink & Link. This is obviously a very low number of FA (roughly about 1 a year), so I'm proposing the addition of guidelines for choosing FA and how long they'll be featured for.

Firstly, there is the issue of choosing which articles will be featured as there are several acceptable candidates. Obviously on Wikis with a larger community this would be easily sorted by holding polls on which article should be featured, but of course this isn't the case here. Unfortunately I haven't thought of a solution to this so any input would be appreciated.

This leads me to the next issue of how long the article should be featured for. On average I would say articles are featured for about a month, but I personally feel that given that the majority of out articles at the moment are Music related or Manga chapters (not that an article in either of those categories couldn't be featured) it would be better suited for FA to remain on the main page for about two months while the next article is selected.

In a similar vein, it may be beneficial to put in place a system for deciding main page Poll questions. Again I'm not completely sure how this would be carried out (User submitted questions seem the mostly likely way to proceed), so any suggestions would be welcomed. --Trivi-AM (talk) 16:55, May 6, 2012 (UTC)