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Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of a Featured Article for April Fool's day 2009


Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:

Ground rules for this activity along with a list or participants may be found on the Main talk page.


Mission

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In the past, various unusual articles have been improved to featured article status. These include exploding whale, heavy metal umlaut, Japanese toilet, spoo, Joshua A. Norton, George Washington (inventor), and Ima Hogg. People seeing some of these articles listed on the Main Page sometimes believe that it is a joke, when in fact, these articles are well-written and quite deserving of featured article status.

An unusual article (such as exploding toad or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) will be edited up to Featured article status and listed on the Main Page on 1 April, 2009. The "recently featured" sentence could be changed to "other featured", and link to the above-mentioned unusual featured articles.

Given the amount of time it takes to bring an article up to Featured article status, an alternative solution would be to use an article that has already been made a Featured article, but has not yet been listed on the Main Page.

Requirements

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Raul is willing to consider any article for April fools day, as long as it meets three requirements:

  • It must be a featured article by April 1, 2009
  • It must not have already been used as the main page featured article.
  • It is not too risqué (more so than any other article that would be used on the front page)

Action items

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  1. What are we going to write/promote? We need to pick either a new topic or an existing article to nominate for FA. I think we need half a dozen nominees - then we vote/get consensus on which one is most suitable.
  2. We have to work hard to get it up to featured status. This may be very difficult and might take several attempts.
  3. We have to usher it through all of the phases leading up to FA.
  4. We need to make sure it's on the front page on April 1st. This means starting in on it fairly soon.

Suggestions

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  • This article proved to be very difficult last year, as no one would seriously work on it and needed improvements at FAC didn't happen. I see it has gone backwards a bit since it's FAC last year. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's short enough that it could be expanded fivefold to qualify for DYK.---I'm Spartacus! PoppaBalloon 20:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I just greatly expanded this article. Put it up for DYK.--Found5dollar (talk) 03:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My idea!!! Ceran//forge 20:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I dunno... a bit juvenile? I think we can be a little more clever. It'd be a good cheap laugh, but there are better options I think. -kotra (talk) 04:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]