Doom Wiki talk:Featured articles/2016

This sub-article serves as a forum for discussion and nomination of articles for featured status on the main page.

List of featured articles
These articles have already been selected as featured articles. It is desirable that a new nominee is not one of these.


 * Doom 4
 * Knee-Deep in ZDoom
 * Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch
 * Stairs create unknown sector types
 * Aliens TC
 * Ouch face
 * Cacodemon
 * Doom rendering engine
 * The Ultimate Doom
 * Voodoo doll
 * Intermission screen
 * Strife
 * Lost soul

Future plans
After we upgrade to MediaWiki 1.25, it will be possible to denote featured status using the new "page icons" feature in that version. I was hoping this rollout would occur back in May, but there are various obstacles remaining to be overcome. --Quasar (talk) 09:14, 3 August 2015 (CDT)

2014-08
I'd like to kick off nominations for a new featured article to start as of August 1, and would like to start a monthly at-least rotation. Having Doom 4 featured on our front page during the reveal and QuakeCon events has actually boosted our page rank for that article above the other wiki's version for many Google search queries. I think this feature is a good opportunity to promote and make more visible our unique work. Articles should be of high quality, up to date, and have a stable reviewed version in order to bare minimum qualify. I would also suggest they should be TOC-bearing articles (having at least 4 major sections), and should have an article-top picture at the least. Feel free to nominate an article you feel deserves a time on the front page here. --Quasar (talk) 18:42, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Since nobody seems to be interested in getting the ball rolling, I am nominating The Ultimate Doom. --Quasar (talk) 16:12, 23 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Stairs create unknown sector types: It's one of the most mysterious bugs in Doom, and the article covers the topic well. It deserves some extra attention, IMHO. --Jartapran (talk) 17:02, 23 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I could roll with that if it gets the most votes ;) --Quasar (talk) 17:03, 23 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Knee Deep in ZDoom seems like a nicely-fleshed article, my only gripe being the number of red links. --Chungy (talk) 21:52, 23 July 2014 (UTC)


 * +1 for KDiZD. It's probably safe to de-link some of those people, as its probably not likely they'll have pages. I just wish there were a nicer way of wording that. --Eris Falling (talk) 22:10, 23 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Remove the giant list... or maybe don't put the full list... or split it in columns... As it is I don't think it's good enough for it to be called a "Featured article" --Kyano (talk) 00:49, 24 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Since the article was vastly improved with everybody's efforts, I'll cast my vote here and it wins the nomination for August. --Quasar (talk) 18:08, 1 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Previous discussions have suggested Ouch face, Shotgun, Doom rendering engine, E1M1, and E1M4. I would strenuously oppose the last, citing the crap LMPs.  :>
 * Others I think are comprehensive and clear, but not drowning in detail, and with at least one good image: Aliens TC, Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch, Intermission screen, Aspect ratio, Damaging floor. (My sticky fingerprints are all over some of these, so take with a grain of salt.)    Ryan W (talk) 22:19, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

2014-09
Did a month really already pass? Time to think about this again. I'm going to re-nominate Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch from last month's suggestions, since it is on our list of pages with poor SEO and could use the boost. I've just completed a basic rewrite, but it could use a bit more work as there are a series of empty sections, such as "Weapons", which do not elaborate on the mod's content at all. --Quasar (talk) 15:22, 27 August 2014 (UTC)


 * +1. Also, according to the official site, version 4 was released in May.    Ryan W (talk) 14:59, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

2014-10
For October, I nominate Stairs create unknown sector types again. The reasons are the same as before. --Jartapran (talk) 10:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I'll second it. Its extreme rarity makes it one of the most intriguing Doom bugs, next to the one that made you bring up an Imp as a weapon in PrBoom-Plus. Also I juuuuust fixed this problem in a port I'm currently working on but can't yet discuss so it seems like a fresh topic to me ;) --Quasar (talk) 14:49, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

2014-11
I liked the idea of nominating Aliens TC as the featured article, so I do it this time. The topic is historically very important, and the article covers many areas of the mod. --Jartapran (talk) 02:10, 29 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I'll second. --Quasar (talk) 02:44, 29 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Loved it then, love it now. +1    Ryan W (talk) 22:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

2014-12
Ouch face would be my pick for this year's last featured article. Who wouldn't have noticed the face while playing and wondered what triggers it... The article has a lot of information of the mystery. --Jartapran (talk) 03:50, 25 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I will second; it's a very popular topic known even well outside the Doom community thanks to places like ytmnd. --Quasar (talk) 06:02, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

2015-01
Thought to suggest something for a change. Cacodemon has battle information, various statistics, versions in other games and Hissy and Co. on the bottom. Pictures make it all even better. I'd say yes. --Jartapran (talk) 06:28, 27 December 2014 (UTC)


 * That would work for me, although the phrase "Big-mouthed floating thingies" definitely needs to appear on the front page somehow as a result ;) --Quasar (talk) 15:46, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

2015-02
I couldn't come up with an article, so I had a look at Ryan W's list again and decided to nominate Doom rendering engine. The topic is essential and the article is comprehensive. --Jartapran (talk) 16:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

2015-03
Voodoo doll causes me divided feelings. The topic is very intriguing, and the article covers a lot, but I don't know English well enough to tell if the wording is appropriate. I'd still like to nominate the article. --Jartapran (talk) 02:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I had time to test the content properly today and found something dubious. Maybe some other time. --Jartapran (talk) 15:24, 26 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I'd have no problem putting this on the front page. IMO featured articles need not be perfect, just comprehensive and with cleaned-up formatting.  If the language is a bit cagey in places, it's because the technical concepts are themselves subtle, as Quasar alludes to here.    Ryan W (talk) 23:29, 26 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Since Jartapran had reservations about voodoo doll we talked about it and have decided to go with The Ultimate Doom due to its 20th anniversary being next month. Hopefully this isn't offensive. We're already 3 days late in changing it. --Quasar (talk) 01:01, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

2015-04
I've thought afterwards that I was unnecessarily stubborn when I did not restore the nomination of voodoo doll last month. Ryan W made sense in his post above, and thus, I would like to nominate voodoo doll again and promise I will not withdraw it this time. --Jartapran (talk) 12:22, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


 * +1, and I believe gamers have thicker skin than Jartapran thinks they do. :>     Ryan W (talk) 23:44, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

2015-05
We haven't had a website article as a featured article yet. Thus, I'd like to nominate Doomworld; it's a long-lived site and still significant in the Doom community. I'm only afraid the article might be too short.

If Doomworld is not fitting, I would bring up intermission screen from the top of the page. The article has a nice range of sections, and the thing itself is an important element in the Doom series and in Heretic. --Jartapran (talk) 23:12, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * +1 to intermission. Nothing against Doomworld but I've had enough accusations that this place is run in accordance to DWF views on things already without running what to the casual eye would look like a banner ad for it :P --Quasar (talk) 00:08, 30 April 2015 (UTC)


 * [dw]I don't know why anyone would think Doomworld and the Doom Wiki had a working relationship...[/dw] --Linguica (talk) 02:58, 30 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Working relationship, yeah, of mutual benefit. I'm talking about a misconception that exists that we'd only cover things that are considered important or good in the eyes of forum regulars there, and are therefore just a "Doomworld community" take-over of the original site. Just a thing that has come up once or twice, and was definitely never our intent in the formation of this fork. I'm not opposed to Doomworld eventually being a featured article, I'd just rather it wait a while longer, given I *just* started the twitter feed that'll be attracting some new attention hopefully. --Quasar (talk) 04:51, 30 April 2015 (UTC)


 * +1 for Intermission screen. Very comprehensive, style/formatting in great shape, mixes prose with data fairly smoothly, and variant/port info doesn't overwhelm the original narrative (quite a feat for us sometimes).    Ryan W (talk) 02:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

2015-07
I'd bring up Strife, as the article is comprehensive. In addition, it is the central hub of wikilinks to Strife-related stuff that has got a lot of new content lately. If one of the purposes was to show our unique work, selecting this article as a featured article would help in that, IMO. --Jartapran (talk) 10:24, 30 June 2015 (CDT)


 * Seconded, especially since that other site has been for quite a while now going around and pushing links on other sites like tvtropes bragging about how they have more Strife content than we do, which is totally laughable considering the huge number of articles I have personally authored, for which they don't even have vague equivalents. --Quasar (talk) 11:06, 30 June 2015 (CDT)


 * +1. Really shows the amount of effort that's gone into it since the early days.    Ryan W (talk) 16:18, 30 June 2015 (CDT)

2015-08
Lost souls are pesky bastards, but I think they're an interesting type of enemy. The article is comprehensive, it introduces different versions of the monster and also has considerably many links to articles that concentrate on the monster's various oddities. I'd show a green light to this. --Jartapran (talk) 13:53, 31 July 2015 (CDT)


 * +1. Since the SEO rewrite, I can't find a thing to complain about here &mdash; it appears we've finally documented all version differences, and eliminated paragraph-long redundancies vs the bug articles.  Hooray!    Ryan W (talk) 16:25, 31 July 2015 (CDT)


 * Consider it approved :P --Quasar (talk) 00:44, 1 August 2015 (CDT)

2015-09
I want to renominate Doomworld for this month. --Quasar (talk) 11:40, 2 September 2015 (CDT)
 * +1. For the same reasons as previously. --Jartapran (talk) 08:53, 3 September 2015 (CDT)
 * Sounds good to me. --Chungy (talk) 16:51, 3 September 2015 (CDT)

2015-10
I'll nominate Chocolate Doom for the month of October. --Chungy (talk) 01:18, 18 September 2015 (CDT)