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)
 * Well in smaller wikis the main administrator chooses the featured articles. Ranma Wiki is certainly not small but the community is not much active, so I think you're the one best suited for that job. Regarding the duration of each FA, two months is a bit long. What about 45 days? Poll. Hmm, user submitted questions is better, I think. But as I noted earlier, the community isn't active here, so I'm not sure if many people would vote/submit questions. Ryoga (talk)  16:35, May 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * I run a couple smaller wikis and have previously felt somewhat self-patronizing by choosing any FA that I pretty much wrote myself, so I have avoided having FA on 2 of the 3 that I manage (the third is just a week old and too new). For this and the polls, what could be done is set up a suggestion thread and people could discuss FA they might like to see or suggest improvements. Same thing with poll questions. Broken Sphere  (Talk) 04:49, May 10, 2012 (UTC)