HRWiki:Featured Article Selection

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HRWiki:Featured article for 2009, week 51 (Dec 14-20)

It's Decemberween again! It's here, it's here! The week before is a minor article. This would be a good time to take care of the only remaining larger piece of Decemberween In July, Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes. wbwolf (t | ed) 01:39, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

That would work, but I think we should do Peanuts. cash money ^t_c 02:31, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

What about A Holiday Greeting? Although Peanuts would be good, too, since it's been a bit more expanded and would probably make good article fodder. MHarrington 18:41, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I like the idea of Peanuts since it's heavily referenced for the Decemberween toons, and I don't think we've featured an article that is one of the influences for TBC yet. wbwolf (t | ed) 15:50, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Not true. We've done articles on Nintendo and Atari 2600. MHarrington 18:38, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't really count the video game articles as an "influence"; stuff like Disney or The Simpsons or Mystery Science Theater 3000, which are more directly related to their style of humor and animation. Video games, while important, are more of a cultural starting point for them. wbwolf (t | ed) 18:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

I guess we should do Peanuts then. MHarrington 17:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2009, week 52 (Dec 21-27)

And in time for Decemberween, why don't we feature a toon that has been overlooked, A Decemberween Pageant. I think that is the last of the "older" D'ween toons that hasn't been featured, and it also provides a lot of the mythology of this holiday 55 days after Halloween. wbwolf (t | ed) 01:39, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I think The Battle of Strong Badia is a great article. Maybe we should feature that one. — MichaelXX2 21:16, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

You don't understand. For Decemberween, we feature a Decemberween article. It's a fine article, but pick another week to do it. wbwolf (t | ed) 22:03, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't notice that that was around Christmas. All right, A Decemberween Pageant sounds just fine. — MichaelXX2 22:08, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

I think that A Decemberween Pageant is a great toon to use and it provides a lot of the back story!--safariventureman 14:36, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2009, week 53 (Dec 28-Jan 3)

The Field. A place that appears in probably half the cartoons on the site. Jc iindyysgvxc 05:06, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

We're getting too far ahead again. I'll keep this one up, but please stay within 10 weeks in the future. Heimstern Läufer 05:08, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

And it's far too short, still. MHarrington 15:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I wonder if it might be expandable. It most certainly is too short (prose-wise) at this point, but it's also certainly an important place. It's something to consider, at least. Heimstern Läufer 01:54, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I think that if we can't get the prose we want from the field, then we should try doing the Dangeresque dailies this week. As mentioned before. Espemon333 00:40, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't think we should do another set of dailies so soon after the ones we did last week (as of post time). Heimstern Läufer 04:24, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

I would like to do another set very soon, though. MHarrington 16:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Well there IS a 12 week difference... up to concensus though... Espemon333 22:04, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Well If concensus says no to the dailies and the field, we could do the Battle of Strong Badia. Espemon333 22:16, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

I would like to see the Battle of Strong Badia. MHarrington 16:48, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

What about something appropriate for the start of the year? homestarrunner.com was dismissed for December 6th, the date the website started, but since January 1 was the date the website opened to the public, how about we do it now? Jc iindyysgvxc 23:49, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Great idea! homestarrunner.com! That'sBupkis! 00:19, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, homestarrunner.com does not have much in the way of decent text, just mostly lists here and there. MHarrington 02:59, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that's the reason it was dismissed above. Before we can make it happen, we'd have to address that issue. Heimstern Läufer 03:07, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Jackie Chapman is mentioned in a couple of sections below, but if she's going to be featured at all, it should be right away, before the baby break is over (since she is, after all, one-third of the reason the baby break is happening). — It's dot com 03:17, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

That is actually a pretty good idea if we can expand it. Right now it really seems a bit too short to me: it's got a fine prose intro, but very little beyond that. Heimstern Läufer 03:24, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 1 (Jan 4-10)

It's been a while since we've featured a Sweet Cuppin' Cakes character, so this week I vote that we feature an article that I hold very near and dear to me, and my new sunglasses. The Wheelchair! The Wheelchair 23:06, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Sure, I guess we can do The Wheelchair. MHarrington 06:44, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Since this week is the 6th anniversary of Stinkoman and 20X6, how about something from that universe this week? japanese cartoon, Stinkoman and 1-Up have already been featured. How about the email trading cards in which they are featured for this week instead? It'll be a while since we've done an email, and Trading Cards are an interesting running gag on the site, to boot. wbwolf (t | ed) 16:47, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

It's actually the 7th anniversary, not the 6th. And Pan Pan, Under Construction and Twenty THANXty Six were featured (at least that last one will be this Thanksgiving), too, though. It's just too bad that they have still not yet completed Stinkoman 20X6 or we could do that, too. Anyway, how about doing Cheatball? That article is long enough, I would think. MHarrington 00:51, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess Cheatball could work instead. I wasn't sure at first if it'd be long enough. Another possibility could be 20X6 vs. 1936. Either one would be fine. wbwolf (t | ed) 17:04, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it should be one where Stinkoman loses, I defiantly, I mean, Definitely vote Cheatball The McArby! 02:13, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 2 (Jan 11-17)

This week would be Trogdor's birthday, so let's do something like that. I'm thinking The S is for Sucks Dragon. MHarrington 06:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree that it should be Trogdor related, I'd suggest Wormdingler, if we had more to go on, but Wormdingler has showed up only twice, and was only named last trogday, so Ima have to agree on The S is for sucks dragon. although we could take in a bit of a different direction... like maybe Stinkoman related. The McArby! 17:34, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Yo man, I'm down. I mean, I totally support S Is For Sucks. wbwolf (t | ed) 16:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 3 (Jan 18-24)

Looking Old. Not only is it that email's anniversary, but featuring it this week is a reference to a line from that email. Plus, we haven't yet done any emails from 2005 or 2007, yet we've done at least two emails from every other year. Jc iindyysgvxc 10:00, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I've been thinking that while we should do emails from 2007, I think we should wait until they do the winter Olympics in February. I got an idea in mind for a set of dailies that follow a common theme. In the meantime, how about doing one of a live person for an article. I'm thinking Jackie Chapman. MHarrington 16:59, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Would you care to elaborate on your masterdly plan for Olympic emails? As it stands, we don't know why you're not keen on looking old for this week, and of course we all know it's important to explain why you're not going with someone else's suggestion. Heimstern Läufer 00:23, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, in terms of looking old, I was just thinking that we need to do something from 2005 before anything else, and it's been a while since we've done an article on a live person. Besides, what is the reference to the email's line, anyway? As for the Olympics plan, I was thinking of a full week of the references to DNA evidence running gag. I was thinking of doing the six emails (165-170) that reference it and close out the week with the Big Toon. MHarrington 01:13, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I dunno, I think the big toon would easily be worth an entire week, not just a day, and I think the same could be said of some of those emails (in particular, strong badathlon would be a good feature during the Olympics, though it would fit the Summer Olympics a lot better than the Winter). I don't really think they should be dailies. Heimstern Läufer 06:38, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

RE: "what is the reference to the email's line, anyway?" Surely you can guess? Okay ... it's "time to relate to some 18 to 24 year olds". And the week we are doing it is the 18th to the 24th. Get it?

Oh, that joke. Well, I still think we should do an email from 2005 before 2007, for some reason. I think we should do Jackie Chapman this week. That article has a decent amount of text anyway, and it's been a long time since we've done any articles on real-live humans. I believe the last one was on Ryan Sterritt in July 2008. MHarrington 02:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm a bit concerned that Jackie's article might be a tad short. It's got enough content for a writeup, but not much beyond that.

I also think we could use some outside opinions here. It's not clear to me why we seem to be so intent on not doing looking old, though I'm not fixed on it. Heimstern Läufer 03:12, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

As I mentioned in the section above, I think Jackie should be featured as soon as possible (as opposed to this week), if she's to be featured at all. — It's dot com 03:18, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 4 (Jan 25-31)

For this week, how about the Strong Bad Email geddup noise? I kinda picked something from 2005, and a bit out of left field, too. MHarrington 17:34, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 5 (Feb 1-7)

I'm very surprised that Characters, Toons, and Games haven't been done yet. Maybe we could do one of them? Jc iindyysgvxc 11:34, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Not one of those currently has a prose intro that is long enough to be a proper featured article, so far as I can see. Also, we're getting out too far once again. The latest week we discuss should be, at most, ten weeks in advance of the current week, and this is eleven weeks out. Heimstern Läufer 11:59, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes! Once and for all, let's keep this below ten articles before we add any new ones, please? MHarrington 05:27, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

How about one that has been suggested but passed up: the Taranchula Black Metal Detector? MHarrington 17:27, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 6 (Feb 8-14)

For this week, how about Sickly Sam's Big Outing? MHarrington 02:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Seems like a good choice of Valentine-themed FA. Heimstern Läufer 03:19, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

HRWiki:Featured article for 2010, week 7 (Feb 15-21)

How doing another set of dailies this week? I'm thinking of characters from Dangeresque, since people wanted a set of dailies themed to that series. How about: Dangeresque, Dangeresque Too, Renaldo, Cutesy Buttons, Perducci, Killingyouguy and either Craig or Baron Darin Diamonocle. MHarrington 16:54, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I have three more ideas for a set of dailies: Main Pages (since we haven't done any Main Pages yet), e-mails from the second half of the Tandy era (last time we did a week of e-mails, we precisely covered the first half of the Tandy era [and that was a whiiiiile ago]), and Powered by The Cheat toons (since there are exactly 7 of them available). Jc iindyysgvxc 23:54, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

If we have some recent articles on emails done up, I think we should put off the Tandy-era emails until later in the year, but not necessarily give up on that one. Besides, I chose Dangeresque characters because we haven't really done much of anything related Dangeresque at all, short of the series as a whole. MHarrington 02:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I like the idea of Dangeresque dailies, but I still think this is too early. We just had a set in October. I think the very maximum of dailies we should ever have is two sets a year, and that there should always be at least six months between them. Heimstern Läufer 03:36, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Then why don't we try for the first week of March. In the meantime, how about doing an article on the suffix -èd? MHarrington 06:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

HRwiki:Featured article for 2010, week 8 (Feb 22-28)

1987? (I wonder how that page has so many hits, more than some e-mails...) Jc iindyysgvxc 11:09, 20 December 2009 (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)