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RuneScape:Article of the Month

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Articles of the Month (AOTM) or Featured articles are articles that are so good that they should be featured on the Main Page. Doing so will cause many people to notice that article, as the Main Page is the first thing people see when they visit the site.

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[edit] Criteria

Articles must meet certain criteria. If it does not, then it cannot be featured.

[edit] The article

  • The article is in the ARTICLE namespace (also known as the mainspace). It cannot be a project page (RuneScape:), a template (Template:), a category (Category:), a user page (User:), a file (File:), a discussion page (Talk: or User/Template/MediaWiki/RuneScape talk:), or a software page (MediaWiki:). It also cannot be the main page itself. Any invalid nominations will be deleted.
  • The article is well written and informative.
  • The article follows the style guide.
  • The article's pictures look nice and are not scarce.
  • Overall, the article looks nice and is easy to read.

[edit] Voting

  • Nomination starts the month prior to the designated featured article month (for August, nomination is in July).
  • Voters are required to have been on the RuneScape Wiki for at least two weeks, and must have 50 edits excluding userpage, user talk page, and sandbox edits.
  • You cannot declare an article as an article of the month until the day before the month is over.
  • Users may support more than one candidate.

[edit] Past featured articles

2006

2007

2008

2009

[edit] How to list an article

  1. Put {{featured}} on the page you wish to be featured.
  2. Create an article at RuneScape:Article of the Month/Name of article replacing name of article with the name.
  3. On the page, place ===[[Name of article]]===, then your reason. Save.
  4. Come to this page (RuneScape:Article of the Month) and add {{RuneScape:Article of the Month/name of article}} at the bottom to finish the process.

[edit] After voting

When the month is over, the following steps should be done:

  1. Remove {{featured}} from every nominated page.
  2. Near the bottom of the winning article, before the categories and templates, put {{featured article|month year}}. Month is the month that the article is featured, and year is the current year of the featuring.
  3. Create an archive called RuneScape:Article of the Month/archive#; replace # with the next increment from the previous archive. The archive for October 2009 will be number 39.
  4. Put {{archive}} at the top of the archive, then add {{subst:RuneScape:Article of the Month/name of nominated article}}, one for each article that was nominated that month. Then save the page.
  5. Add *[[RuneScape:Article of the Month/archive#|month]] - [[name of winning article]] to the above section.
  6. Delete all of the nominations in the Candidates section to allow the next month's nominating to take place.
  7. Administrators - Update the the featured article template with the new feature article.

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Lumbridge Beginner guide

I am nominating this article because of it's simple easy-to-use qualities. It is meant for new players, and I think it is perfect, with the simple 2-3 sentence explanations.

Not yet - This article is now out of date due to the new intro quest and the new objective system. I think these new details need to be incorporated before we feature this article. Tollerach talk 19:11, November 4, 2009 (UTC)

Slight Oppose - It is mainly just a list of how to do stuff. It's nice and all, but I don't think it's as nice as some of the AotMs in the past. Because Zaros pwns the others. Oli4burggraa TalkBecause I hate The Great Orb Project so much. 07:29, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

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