User:Raul654/Featured Articles

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This page is for discussion of my proposal to have a "Featured Articles" section on the main page.

This is the original post to the village pump (now in the January 2004 archive):

Great new thought - I want feedback![edit]

I just had an interesting idea and I wanted to get some feedback. On the main page, we have catagories for "In the News", "Recent Deaths", "New Articles" and "Anniversaries". The only way for a non-timely article to get put there is just after it is created.

My thought was - why not create a 5th catagory - "Featured Articles"

People could nominate articles on the discussion page (or would could have a special page just for that). That way, nontimely articles get their time on the main page too. Personally, a lot of the editing I do is on technical articles, which never makes it to the front page. I think this is a way of rewarding people who have similiar tastes. ---Raul654 10:48, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Maybe the most recent additions to Wikipedia:Brilliant prose would fit the bill? Bmills 10:50, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

or random or rotating selections from that list. Gentgeen 11:15, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I agree. Let's add it under the anniversries bar (take out the second line); there's also space in the enclyclopedia box. --Jia ng 17:08, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Look at Wikipedia: Experimental Main Page or Main Page/Temp5 for some ideas. Feel free to add interesting articles, better with commentaries ilya 22:29, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Every article in "Selected Articles" is a featured article. I don't see the point (unless it was a featured Brilliant prose article). --mav 13:16, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)