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Fire cape
An article in the RuneScape Wiki does not necessarily have to be long in order to be good. As long as the essentials are done in great quality, such as adequate description of its subject, appropriate image usage, and abundant connections such as links, templates, and categories, any article should be considerable for Featured Article.
Therefore, I nominate the Fire cape article for demonstrating many of this. It has described what was necessary regarding a Fire cape, has many different images to represent its subject, and contains several connections with links to relevant subjects. It contains templates that would lead to other articles and goes into more specific details about the subject, categories that groups it with other similar objects, and even a disambiguation in case a user is interested in a different article of a similar name. It basically has done nearly everything an Item article would be expected to have.
This article has demonstrated many correct ways to implement the Wiki's features and style, and thus deserves attention given to it. A nice variety of users have edited on the article rather than a single or a select few users rushing it to attempt to obtain its featured status, making it truly one of the articles that can be declared a Wiki article that can be further improved by any user. Furthermore, if it succeeds, it would be the first Item-based article to be featured on the Wikia, a record worth to note itself. 
Tarikochi 06:32, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- Neutral/Oppose - It's got good info and images/animations, but it seems a bit.....messy.
I'll give it another couple of days to think about it.Cheers,
Chicken7 >talk>sign 22:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose - This article is a mess, and generally hard to look at. It's neither well versed nor visually appealing. I personally find the over-abundance of animations tacky. One animation can be helpful...four animations is overkill, unprofessional, requires too much bandwidth, and is simply showing off. I agree that short articles should be eligible for FA, but this is probably the furthest from FA quality that I've ever seen. Endasil (Talk) @ 18:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose - No. It's sloppy and has too many needless animations. Cool Spy0 01:07, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose - A bit better now that the 40 animations are gone; but the article is still a joke. You only nominated it because you have one. Ice 01:21, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- Neutral - Just to let everyone here know, I've done a bit of cleaning up on the article, so if you wanna have a look again, it's a bit better... I listed the changes in the talk page. Regabuh 01:59, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Kennith's Concerns
While I'm fairly biased as I had a large hand in this article, I'm nominating this article for a few reasons:
- We have not had a quest featured for close to a year.
- This article has a good balance of images and information, both of which are structured in an easy-to-read manner.
- The article is an exemplary Quest guide: all bullet points start with a verb, instructions are unambiguous, instructions are given in the imperative form to reduce second-person "you" usage.
- The article is an example of how the wiki benefits from being a wiki: it reached near completion in very little time after the release of the quest, through collaboration.
Discussion
- Support as nominator Endasil (Talk) @ 02:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support Good guide for a quest even though its a new(ish) article. --
Derial(Boywithbrain) 
06:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support - Great walkthrough, plenty of images.
C Teng talk 14:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support Actually a pretty good article, I enjoyed the quest as well. Ice 22:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support - It would defenitely help me with the quest. Good info and pictures. Cheers, Chicken7 >talk>sign 00:52, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support - Article was extremely easy to follow when I did the quest.--Bigm2793 00:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- Decision: It seems like this article will be the May featured article. I may not be around later tonight, and it's a bit early now, but I've left a possible summary for Template:featuredarticle at my sandbox. Endasil (Talk) @ 22:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Cooking
- We haven't had a skill as our featured article for a while.
- Food is instumental for hard quests.
- The article is written neatly and very infomatively.
- Lets face it, Cooking is a huge part of RuneScape.Sworddude319 16:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
