Wikipedia:W Awards

The W Awards (Golden W Award and Platinum W Award) are elite accolades recognizing the highest ability to bring content to the masses. The originial Golden W means that you've had content in all of the original areas of the Main Page: Today's featured article, In the news..., Did you know..., On this day..., and Today's featured picture. The Golden W predates the 2011 main page expansion by over a year, with only one recipient (TonyTheTiger) in that time. In 2011, both WP:FLs and WP:FSs were added to the main page. To retain the spirit of the Golden W, a Platinum W award will be awarded to those who are able to also add content to the two newer features on the main page that compliment the original five.

Read the criteria below for achieving the Golden W Award. If you believe you meet the requirements, you may apply for this award via the "Nominations" section.

Award Images and Their Requirements

If you you meet all the following requirements for this award, or you have contributions which have been scheduled to go on the main page, you may submit a nomination at the section below. Please note that awards are not conferred until after all contributions have actually gone live on the main page.

The Golden W, awarded for having content featured in every area of the main page.

The Golden W, with Laurels, awarded for having content thrice featured in every area of the main page.

You must have an article that you created and/or significantly improved and nominated for Featured Article be displayed at the Main Page.
You must have an article that you created/substantially updated and nominated for In the News appear at the Main Page in that section, with you being credited.
You must have an article that you started/expanded fivefold be displayed at the Main Page as a Did You Know..., with you being credited.
You must have an article that you created or significantly improved and nominated for On This Day displayed on the Main Page.
You must have an article that you created/substantially edited and nominated for Featured Picture be displayed on the Main Page.

Nominations

If you believe you meet all the requirements listed above, you may request the award following the instructions below. It would also be helpful if you reviewed one nomination and moved it to the log for each nomination that you have made.

Instructions

• Copy the following code and paste it to the bottom of the list at the "Current nominations" section below.

===={{User|YOUR USERNAME HERE}}====
:[[File:Symbol star FA gold.svg|25px]] '''FA''': [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/ARTICLE NAME]]
:[[File:Gnome_globe_current_event.svg|25px]] '''ITN''': ARTICLE NAME and nomination [DIFF]
:[[File:Symbol question.svg|25px]] '''DYK''': [[Wikipedia:Recent additions NUMBER]] and nomination [DIFF]
:[[File:Nuvola_apps_date.svg|25px]] '''OTD''': ARTICLE NAME and nomination [DIFF]
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|25px]] '''FP''': [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/PICTURE NAME]]
::~~~~

Reviewing

Anybody may help in reviewing the nominations. If you would like to actively participate, you may add this page to your watchlist and follow the reviewing instructions below. Although you can nominate yourself to the list above, you should not be the final arbiter for nominations of your own editorial work or your own nominations.

Instructions

• If you review and the award is not applicable, remove the nomination and notify the user via their talk page that the nomination failed; don't forget to explain why and to encourage them to try again later when they feel they've done it right.
  1. Did the editor make the very first encyclopedic content edit for each article? This partially satisfies the requirements for FA, ITN, DTK, and OTD.
  2. If the editor did not make the very first encyclopedic content edit for one or more of the above articles:
  • In the case of FA, did the editor significantly improve and nominate it? (Look at the FAC discussion and the article history.)
  • In the case of FP, did the editor create or significantly improve and nominate it? (Check the WP:FPC discussion and WP:POTD archives on the date in question.)
  • In the case of ITN, did the editor substantially update and nominate it?
  • In the case of DYK, did the editor expand it fivefold, and was the editor credited with the DYK entry? (Check to see if the editor was involved in the DYK nomination by reviewing his/her user contributions. This can be done as follows: Go to the user contribution history. Click on older. The URL should now contain a YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format time for the newest contribution on that page. Change the date to a proper date to look for the DYK info. Then search for "Did You" or something like that. The author may not have been involved in the nomination, but may have been credited nonetheless so check his/her user talk page the same way if you do not find nomination involvement.

• If you review and the award is applicable, remove the nomination from this page and notify the user at their talk with the following template under a new section titled "Golden W Award": {{subst:User:Noraft/Golden W Award/Message}} which produces:

		Golden W Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Golden W Award for your contributions to the Main Page: a Featured Article; articles listed on In The News, Did You Know, and On This Day; and a Featured Picture. Your contributions to Wikipedia put you in a class of highly skilled and prolific editors.

• Finally, add the user to the Golden W Award records.

Reviewers

Add your name here if you wish to actively check this page for nominations and review them.

• Noraft (talk · contribs)
• TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs)

Records

2010

May 2, 2010 TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) Gold

FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive4

ITN: Inauguration of Barack Obama [1]

DYK: Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December [2]

OTD: Chicago Board of Trade Building [3]

FP: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/20070616 Chris Young visits Wrigley (4).JPG

• N.B.: The above nomination is actually a faulty nomination. The award honors appearances on the main page. At that time, User:TonyTheTiger had already achieved 8 WP:TFAs, but First inauguration of Barack Obama would not make the main page until January 20, 2013. Tony was the nominator of three of the eight. The eight were, alphabetically, Campbell's Soup Cans (May 10, 2007, nom/FAC), Chicago Board of Trade Building (June 18, 2008 —/FAC), Cloud Gate (February 9, 2010 —/FAC), Jay Pritzker Pavilion (April 3, 2010 —/FAC), Prairie Avenue (December 27, 2009 nom/FAC), Richard Cordray (January 2, 2009 —/FAC), Saxbe fix (March 6, 2009 —/FAC), and Tyrone Wheatley (October 4, 2008, nom/FAC).
• N.B.: The above nomination is doubly faulty for a malformed ITN nomination, which was misplaced at P:CE. I believe my ruling today on a nomination like this by another would be that the malformed edit qualifies as editorial initiative of starting the nomination although it got moved. When this Award process begins to get more traffic, we can revisit this nomination.
• N.B.: Swapping in earliest DYK nom and archive for use in table that will probably be used as the display once other editors are recognized.

2014

July 23, 2014 Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs) Platinum

FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Roekiah/archive1 (TFA, nom)

ITN: Indonesian presidential election, 2014; nomination DIFF

DYK: Roekiah; Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012/August#26_August_2012 and nomination DIFF

OTD: Darah dan Doa and nomination (OTD)

FP: File:Semar Kris (alt) 3.jpg; Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Semar Kris redux, POTD

FL: List of literary works published in Asia Raja (nomination; TFL)

July 24, 2014 TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) Gold to Platinum

Same as #May 2, 2010 TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) Gold, plus

FL: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Mr. Basketball USA/archive1 (TFL)

See also

• The Four Award
• The Triple Crown Awards