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Welcome to featured article selection. Please help us choose and create write-ups for our best, most interesting, or otherwise noteworthy articles to appear on the main page. For ideas, check out the featured article nominations.

Checklist

Checklist for new Featured Article:

Make sure the article is proof-read up to a high standard.
At 0000 UTC Monday, purge the main page cache.
Protect and add {{mprotected}} to the new image; Unprotect and remove {{mprotected}} from old image.
Semi-protect the live FA write-up; Unprotect the old FA write-up.
Add {{featuredarticle}} to FA's talk page.
Update HRWiki:Featured Article Nominations with descriptive edit summary — see history.
Update HRWiki:Featured articles with descriptive edit summary — see history.

Discussion archives

Other Discussion | 2005, Weeks 26-29 | 2005, Weeks 30-39 | 2005, Weeks 40-52

2006, Weeks 1-10 | 2006, Weeks 11-20 | 2006, Weeks 21-30 | 2006, Weeks 31-40 | 2006, Weeks 41-52

2007, Weeks 1-10 | 2007, Weeks 11-20 | 2007, Weeks 21-30 | 2007, Weeks 31-40 | 2007, Weeks 41-52

2008, Weeks 1-10 | 2008, Weeks 11-20 | 2008, Weeks 21-30 | 2008, Weeks 31-40 | 2008, Weeks 41-52

2009, Weeks 1-10 | 2009, Weeks 11-20 | 2009, Weeks 21-30 | 2009, Weeks 31-40 | 2009, Weeks 41-53

2010, Weeks 1-10 | 2010, Weeks 11-20

Article discussions

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 17 (Apr 26-May 2)

For this week, how about something "live"? I'm thinking the the SXSW Panel from March 14, 2005. Combine the intro with a summary of the script and it would work, I think. MHarrington 07:41, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Certainly would be good to something real-world. Yeah, I think that would work, from what I can see in the article. Maybe might be good to prepare the writeup a bit early so we can be sure it works (note: not saying right now. Just sometime as it gets closer.) Heimstern Läufer

07:49, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

I am not disagreeing with that article at all; in fact, I think that it would be great to do something real-life, seeing as how we haven't in a while. But, perhaps out of my silliness and stupidity, I feel that The Couch should be featured for this specific week. Strong Awesome

18:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Good idea. The Couch. Rick Tommy (edits) 10:44, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

What about the couch? --Essence of Ghost Water 12:35, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Glad you asked. First off, it is a pretty decent article, but for what inspired me to nominate it would be Opti's post here. Call me stupid, but since Opti never recommended an article, and he doesn't come here often nowadays, The Couch is in his sig. Strong Awesome

19:25, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

I think The Couch would be great to have on the front page for a while... Not only is it a well-written artical, it also makes the Main Page more appealing and comfy! (no, but seriously it is a great article) nova scotia 19:54, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

So what should be done for today? MHarrington 15:12, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

The Couch would make an excellent FA; let's go with that. wbwolf (t | ed) 18:15, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 18 (May 3-9)

Since it's been a while since our last set of dailies, how about Dangeresque characters, as MHarrington has previously suggested? Heimstern Läufer 07:43, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Good idea. But I have two other daily ideas:

Stuff in Old Flash Stuff (we can start off with Old Flash Stuff, then do six of the nine items in OFS. I'm wondering which three items will have to miss out; those three will probably need to be the three most important ones so they can have their own week.)
Main Pages (we can do six main Main Pages, then one of the secret ones. Sometime in the future, we will probably do three more MP dailies in this format. However, this means that one MP will get a week to itself; as Main Page 22 seems to be the most important Main Page, it will probably be the one.)

RickTommy 11:40, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Are you suggesting these ideas for this week or just sometime in the future? If the former, I really think the Dangeresque ones should take priority since they were suggested a while ago. Heimstern Läufer

11:45, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

If we're going to do the Dangeresque characters for a dailies set, how about this (as per what has been said repeatedly):

Monday: Dangeresque
Tuesday: Dangeresque Too
Wednesday: Renaldo
Thursday: Cutesy Buttons
Friday: Perducci
Saturday: Killingyouguy
Sunday: Baron Darin Diamonocle

That seems a bit solid, don't you think? MHarrington 03:08, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but maybe with one of them replaced with The Stunt Double. RickTommy talk

08:22, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

No, I think it's pretty solid how it is right now. MHarrington 05:11, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I would really like to have Sultry Buttons included. She's an easily overlooked character because she's only in SBCG4AP (though she plays a critical role in it), and I think it's good for us to emphasize these lesser-known ones. And no, I don't think she should be substituted for Cutesy, as including them both (preferably consecutively, even) emphasizes the unclear relationship between the two. Heimstern Läufer

07:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

What if we fleetingly mentioned Sultry in Cutesy's article? MHarrington 05:20, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

I think the list we have now is fine! But we should stick with the characters in the toon s and the game s.So I say no Sultry Buttons Rondleman!

Stuff I did.Talk. 18:43, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

And I say otherwise. The very interest of Sultry Buttons is eliminated if she's but a footnote in Cutesy's bio. She deserves a full day on the main page. Heimstern Läufer

10:51, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Heinsterm Fauler. --Essence of Ghost Water 12:36, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

No way! I'd rather do the Stunt Double, as he's the Dangeresque series' raison d'etre. Anyway, can we move the dailies to next week, and do A Mother's Day Message instead, since it's Mother's Day? Rick Tommy (edits) 08:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Please, RickTommy, let's be nicer in how we discuss. It's true, though; we really do have an overabundance of Dangeresque characters. If only we could have a ten-day week at some point in which to do them all.

If we move this ahead a week, we'd be shoving Huudge or Sterrance off the list until later. Since there's no real consensus there, that could be done, but I'm not too sure we should. I also think we've been trying a little too hard of late to have seasonally themed FAs and that we could lighten up on that a bit. Heimstern Läufer

09:02, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

A Mother's Day Message would be a good idea, but Mother's Day is on the 9th, and that's the last day it would even be up. I want to go with Dangeresque, but the Mothers Day toon is a good idea too... nova scotia 19:29, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

First off: while celebrating Mother's day is not a bad idea, I think we're more invested in taking the Dangeresque route and since it's coming up soon, we should finalize preparations for those dailies. We can always feature A Mother's Day Message next week (even if it's a day late) or shelve it till next year since we only have one Mother's day toon to feature and we celebrate Mother's day every year.

Now, on to Dangeresque: I think the current proposed order is pretty good. However, given the importance of both Sultry Buttons and Cutesy Buttons, why not feature them both on the same day? It's the perfect place to lampshade the ambiguity between the two characters. Moreover, this could be moved to then end on Sunday as part of a "special daily double feature" :). The lineup would then be as follows:

Monday: Dangeresque
Tuesday: Dangeresque Too
Wednesday: Renaldo
Thursday: Perducci
Friday: Killingyouguy
Saturday: Baron Darin Diamonocle
Sunday: Cutesy Buttons and Sultry Buttons

What do you guys think? How does that look? --Stux 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I think we should put the Buttons characters on Thursday and push the other characters down by one day. And we should focus primarily on Cutesy, though we could fleetingly mention Sultry in the description. MHarrington 20:01, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Why do you so insist on a fleeting mention of Sultry? Are you listening to anyone else's ideas at all? Incidentally, though I hadn't thought of it until Stux mentioned it, the idea of simultaneous featured articles is not unprecedented: On the day of the 2008 US Presidential Election, Wikipedia featured both Barack Obama and John McCain (and even randomized the order so as not to give preference to one or the other). I think that'd be an interesting idea to pursue. Heimstern Läufer

23:33, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

That's a great idea, Heimstern. But again, what about the Stunt Double? Rick Tommy (edits) 02:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

The Stunt Double is indeed important to the origins of the Dangeresque franchise, but his article is a tad shorter than most. More important is the reason it's shorter: He's not really much of a character. Him showing up to get beaten up, smashed, even diamond'd is funny, but doesn't leave much character for him. That's why, unless we're able to extend this week by adding Whackday, Spleenday, Rootenskahootenday and Schnozday (which would actually be a fun idea), I would prefer to exclude the Stunt Double in favour of the others above. Heimstern Läufer

08:14, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

It seems like we have more than double the number of Dangeresque characters than we have days in the week. Would it be so crazy for completion's sake to do TWO weeks worth of these dailies, lumping together a few sets of characters to make them all fit into 14 days and shift all the suggestions for the following weeks down by one? — Defender1031*Talk 09:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

And now, I choose to recite a list:

— Defender1031*Talk 10:34, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

I think some are too short to merit an article appearance. And I think it's fine just to do a week of all the main characters. This is why I think Cutesy should be the main point of one article and Sultry could appear in Cutesy's article. Sultry only appeared in Dangeresque 3, whereas Cutesy appeared more often. This is why I've thought that Sultry should appear only fleetingly, if at all. I think we should still do the week idea I've thought of earlier. MHarrington 20:11, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

I really like Heimstern's idea of extending the week with several fake days. But the "two whole weeks" idea is pretty good too. nova scotia 20:35, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Oh, these ARE fake days... I figure we call the second sunday "twelvesday", monday "flinglesday", tuesday... alright seriously... MHarrington, I don't appreciate being summarily shot down. How about keeping an open mind to other people's ideas? Further, part of the point of doing dailies is to cover shorter articles that work as part of a group, but wouldn't merit a whole week to themselves. — Defender1031*Talk 20:42, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 19 (May 10-16)

How about a Limozeen character - Larry, perhaps? RickTommy 07:09, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

It's been, like, nine or ten weeks since the best thing email was articled, so I don't know. MHarrington 07:37, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I think waiting for a bit before featuring Larry would be for the best. Heimstern Läufer

04:13, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

How about Da Huuuuuudge? Po wer Pie

How about Sterrance instead? Rick Tommy (edits) 11:16, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Please discuss; don't just throw out ideas without discussing what others have already said. Heimstern Läufer

11:19, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Da Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge is a better choice than Sterrance. --Essence of Ghost Water 12:22, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Umm, Sterrance is much more important, as he (?) has appeared in more than twice as many toons as Da Huuuuuuuudge has. Rick Tommy (edits) 08:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm down with Da Huuuuuudge, it's slightly off-beat which is cool and emphasizes TBC's weird humor. --Stux 18:22, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I think we should do Sterrance first before we do Da Huuuuuuuudge. We should do both soon, though. MHarrington 20:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Reasons why, everyone. So far, I've only seen reasons from RickTommy and Stux. This is not discussion; it's turning into the town meeting from unnatural. (And yes, I do think we should kill it.) Heimstern Läufer

23:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Sterrance, because it was the one SB claimed to have gotten right. And it appeared more often than Da Huuuuuuuudge. MHarrington 06:42, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 20 (May 17-23)

Five years since the first featured article! Maybe we should do something special to mark the occasion? RickTommy 07:09, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't really think of anything. MHarrington 05:12, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I was thinking maybe Index Page, the most imprtant page on the site (not really, but it's often the first page that one looks at on the site), or an early toon like Pom Pom Too, or one of the earliest articles to be suggested as a featured article: Schenactady Crispies, or, as has been mentioned a couple of times not long ago: homestarrunner.com. Rick Tommy (edits) 00:13, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't know. MHarrington 18:58, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

So, the new main page did not appear until May 23, 2005 which was the first day of week 21 on 2005 (see ISO_week_date). I see that this year that date falls on Week 20 (after getting this wrong a couple of times). If it's that important, we can just re-feature Homestar Runner as a one-time retro-feauture with a short and subtle 1-line message saying that we've been doing 5 years of FAs. For some reason I feel it would be nice to do this on week 21 rather than week 20 (and match the week numbers). Otherwise, I think we should really treat this like any other FA week. Looking at the oft-ignored nominations page I see that we have never featured Parsnips A-Plenty and it might be due for a feature. --Stux 18:14, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 21 (May 24-30)

Missy Palmer? RickTommy talk 01:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Missy Palmer's important to H*R, but that article's seriously lacking in content. At present, it wouldn't work for a weeklong feature. Heimstern Läufer

07:50, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 22 (May 31-Jun 6)

How about a Videlectrix game? We have available: Secret Collect, Rhino Feeder, Thy Dungeonman, Population: Tire, Pigs on Head, Thy Dungeonman 2, 50K Racewalker, Duck Guardian One, and Thy Dungeonman 3. RickTommy talk 01:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Based on the ones listed here, I would say Population: Tire is probably the best bet. MHarrington 05:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I'd pick one of the Thy Dungeonman games.

Either Pop Tire or a Dungeonman game would probably be good choices. Can't decide which I prefer at this point. Heimstern Läufer

08:06, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 23 (Jun 7-13)

For this week, how about the jibblies? MHarrington 05:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 24 (Jun 14-20)

For this week, how about Strong Bad's Computer Malfunctioning? We could have the intro and all the little descriptions after it, sort of like that article on characters lacking certain body parts. MHarrington 18:45, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

HRwiki:Featured article for 2010, week 25 (Jun 21-27)

How about The Reddest Radish? Rick Tommy (edits) 00:20, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

While this is (once again) over the limit of ten, there doesn't seem to be a clear consensus in some of the nominations above. Why not contribute your opinion there first instead of adding more weeks? Strong Awesome

00:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

HRwiki:Featured article for 2010, week 26 (Jun 28-Jul 4)

Cardboard Marzipan? Rick Tommy (edits) 10:44, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

What did the man say to you above? --Essence of Ghost Water 12:20, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

At this point, we're exactly 10 weeks out, so he's OK this time. Heimstern Läufer

12:21, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Oh. Anyhow, Cardboard Mazipan is a good choice. It's certainly better than Cardboard Homestar. --Essence of Ghost Water 12:24, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

While Heim's right and he's ok within the 10-week limit, RickTommy, why don't you give others a chance to make initial suggestions during the new few FA weeks for a change? There is no need to rush the FA process and you should give others a chance to weigh in their suggestions without them feeling rushed or like they need to follow a specific topic. Thanks. --Stux 18:08, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

HRwiki:Featured article for 2010, week 27 (Jul 5-11)

New Paper? Rick Tommy (edits) 02:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

General discussion

Daily Featured Blocks (On Occasion)

In order to make daily featured articles for one week, create pages like:

[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 1]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 2]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 3]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 4]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 5]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 6]]
[[HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 50, day 0]] (redirect day 7 to this)

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 ::::::::I think some are too short to merit an article appearance. And I think it's fine just to do a week of all the main characters. This is why I think Cutesy should be the main point of one article and Sultry could appear in Cutesy's article. Sultry only appeared in Dangeresque 3, whereas Cutesy appeared more often. This is why I've thought that Sultry should appear only fleetingly, if at all. I think we should still do the week idea I've thought of earlier. [[User:MHarrington|MHarrington]] 20:11, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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+::::::::::Oh, these ARE fake days... I figure we call the second sunday "twelvesday", monday "flinglesday", tuesday... alright seriously... MHarrington, I don't appreciate being summarily shot down. How about keeping an open mind to other people's ideas? Further, part of the point of doing dailies is to cover shorter articles that work as part of a group, but wouldn't merit a whole week to themselves. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 20:42, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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