Doom Wiki talk:Featured articles

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

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List of featured articles[edit]

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

2025-02[edit]

For January, in absence of nominations, I already used last year's status bar suggestion, and for February the most obvious anniversary (also previously proposed) is GT Interactive Software's 32nd. --Xymph (talk) 03:17, 22 January 2025 (CST)

2025-03[edit]

Plenty of anniversaries next month: Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders (28th), SMMU (26th), The Troopers' Playground (29th), The Darkening Episode 2 (25th, already nominated two years ago), Demonfear (25th). Take your pick? --Xymph (talk) 03:16, 22 February 2025 (CST)

Of course I vote for Heretic! --Nockson (talk) 04:53, 22 February 2025 (CST)
I will also vote for SOTSR (note that we have featured Heretic previously, while this is a different article). Gauss (talk) 05:18, 22 February 2025 (CST)

2025-04[edit]

It's almost April. Since Doom: TDA comes out in May, I suggest we do the Doom game that came out before it as our April featured article. So I suggest Doom Eternal. --Robotcthulhu (talk) 12:37, 25 March 2025 (CDT)

Darnit, just realized it's already up there. It doesn't have the category, though. Anyone else have suggestions? --Robotcthulhu (talk) 12:42, 25 March 2025 (CDT)
I have no ideas of my own, so I'm going to shamelessly steal Xymph's comment from last year and note that Hexen (Sega Saturn), 99 Ways to Die and Scythe will all have anniversaries. Gauss (talk) 12:53, 25 March 2025 (CDT)
Ten years ago John Romero released source code for DoomEd, so that's another variant and I personally prefer it.--Nockson (talk) 13:24, 25 March 2025 (CDT)
Huh, most crowded nominations I recall seeing in a while... I'm going to vote for DoomEd, seems like the more interesting one to spotlight to me. --Dynamo128 (talk) 13:45, 25 March 2025 (CDT)
My vote goes to DoomEd as well. --Robotcthulhu (talk) 20:01, 25 March 2025 (CDT)

2025-05[edit]

Plenty anniversaries: 28th for Hexen (Sony PlayStation) and Hell Revealed; 29th for Dystopia 3; 30th for Obituary; and 31th for the final Doom Editing Utilities release (but too(?) many redlinks). It's been a while since a mod was featured, and Obituary has the nicest anniversary, so that gets my vote. --Xymph (talk) 04:53, 30 April 2025 (CDT)

Ditto. Plus, Gauss wrote the walkthroughs for that one recently. --Robotcthulhu (talk) 05:00, 30 April 2025 (CDT)
I vote for Obituary too. --Nockson (talk) 07:06, 30 April 2025 (CDT)

2025-06[edit]

Anniversary wise, not a lot of suitable candidates: Quake (29th, so that should be saved up for next year), Dawn of the Dead (28th, but the article isn't particularly noteworthy), Slaughter Until Death (31st, ditto, and we just featured TIC's Obituary), and a few more thin mod articles. Scythe 2 is only 20 years, but a comprehensive article, so that could be featured unless someone has a non-anniversary proposal? --Xymph (talk) 10:49, 29 May 2025 (CDT)

I'm going to vote for Scythe 2. Gauss (talk) 11:01, 29 May 2025 (CDT)
+1 for Scythe 2. --Nockson (talk) 11:27, 29 May 2025 (CDT)

2025-07[edit]

Plenty of mod release anniversaries in July, the oldest two being the 29th for All Hell is Breaking Loose and Memento Mori II. Saving the latter for a nice round 30th next year, I propose to feature the former this year. There are also utility anniversaries in July, but none of the articles seem feature-ready, so improving those could help in two+ years (just planning ahead a bit ;) ). --Xymph (talk) 04:36, 28 June 2025 (CDT)

Agreed on All Hell. --Nockson (talk) 05:32, 28 June 2025 (CDT)

2025-09[edit]

Anniversaries that haven't been covered yet are hard to find for September, but like a year ago (with the pain elemental) we could feature one of the monsters that was introduced in Doom II's Sep 1994 release. Take a pick from arch-vile, mancubus or revenant? --Xymph (talk) 04:35, 30 August 2025 (CDT)

Arch-vile OFC! --Nockson (talk) 04:39, 30 August 2025 (CDT)

2025-10[edit]

Anniversary options galore for October: Doom (film) (20th), Doom Builder (22nd), Simplicity (20th), Doom 3: BFG Edition (13th). Doom Classic (iOS) (14th). And also 28th for Depths of Doom Trilogy but that article is too light-weight; 26th for ZDoomGL (v1) but it has no screenshot; and 29th for Final Doom (PlayStation) which we'll save for next year. And several mods of which few have sufficiently meaty articles. --Xymph (talk) 07:26, 28 September 2025 (CDT)

I think a 20th anniversary is as good a reason as there'll ever be to feature the hilarious Doom movie with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. --Gregor (talk) 08:30, 28 September 2025 (CDT)
That is my thought as well. --Xymph (talk) 13:17, 28 September 2025 (CDT)
Totally agree, actually substantial effort was put into that page (when the DVD came out if not earlier) to improve upon Wikipedia's version -- more complete development bibliography and more accurate comparisons with the games. FWIW / KUTGW, MinimumJosei (talk) 15:36, 28 September 2025 (CDT)
+1, the article looks very good. --Nockson (talk) 15:40, 28 September 2025 (CDT)

2025-11[edit]

Anniversary round-up: Mock 2: The Speed of Stupid (22nd), Vrack 3 (22nd), PrBoom (26th), New WAD Tool (31st), SLADE 1 (20th) / SLADE 3 (15th). And also Twilight Warrior (27th, but no map pages) and Nuts (24th, but no Essentials yet). Any favorites? --Xymph (talk) 08:25, 23 October 2025 (CDT)

Well, it's gotta be SLADE, right? Everyone's favorite WAD editor (and some people's favorite level editor, too ;). An essential tool for Doom modding, and wiki work! --Gregor (talk) 11:09, 23 October 2025 (CDT)
My first choice is PrBoom. SLADE is a close second, simply because it's been featured before. Gauss (talk) 11:33, 23 October 2025 (CDT)
Oh, overlooked that, then I wouldn't have listed it. It happened way back in July 2018, but still doesn't need a re-feature when there are plenty alternatives. I vote for NWT because it's a more fleshed out article than many such tools, leaving PrBoom for a future November. --Xymph (talk) 11:49, 23 October 2025 (CDT)
PrBoom for me. --Dynamo128 (talk) 09:34, 28 October 2025 (CDT)

2025-12[edit]

Plenty anniversary options for next month: Alien Vendetta (24th), Daedalus: Alien Defense (22nd), The Classic Episode v1.0 (25th), DeeP97 (29th), DeathManager! (31st). And more mods like H2H-Xmas (30th), 007: Licence to Spell DooM (23rd), and others of which the articles are a bit on the thin side for featuring. Any preferences? My vote goes to the 25th one. --Xymph (talk) 03:05, 29 November 2025 (CST)

I vote H2H-Xmas, if only because it's a nice round anniversary that it's celebrating and a Christmas-themed wad being the featured article in the Christmas month would be appropriately seasonal. --MF38 (talk) 03:42, 29 November 2025 (CST)
+1 to H2H-Xmas. --Nockson (talk) 03:45, 29 November 2025 (CST)
H2H-Xmas for me as well. Age before beauty. Plus I like the Christmas angle. Ho ho ho. --Gregor (talk) 04:10, 29 November 2025 (CST)
I also think it would be nice to feature a Christmas wad for next month. --Zoyahu (talk) 04:57, 29 November 2025 (CST)

Well, the winner is obvious, but can the article be fleshed out a bit more in time before the feature? --Xymph (talk) 05:16, 29 November 2025 (CST)

I can make an image set for the wad, but I'm not sure how it should be formatted. For previous Doom II wads I've used 1280x720, no HUD, captured in nugget doom (example). Would that be okay for this?
And while I'm asking, would 1280x720/no HUD/no filtering/and captured in the 2020 release (example) be acceptable if I'm going to add images for the vanilla Doom 64 levels?
It's not set in stone, but personally, I would recommend having the resolution be 640x480 for the screenshots, both for a smaller filesize and because it's more consistent with the already existing screenshots. This applies mainly for D64 but looking at other pages (i.e. MAP01: Entryway, the same rules are utilized. --Dynamo128 (talk) 07:09, 29 November 2025 (CST)
Since H2H-Xmas is a vanilla mapset for classic Doom II, using 4:3 aspect ratio would be preferable for that as well, either 800x600 or 640x480 is fine. --Xymph (talk) 07:16, 29 November 2025 (CST)

2026-01[edit]

I waited it out but nobody posted a nomination, and AFAIK there aren't any suitable anniversaries (DEU comes close but has too many redlinks). So like two years ago with its minor characters, one of the DA movie articles fits the bill. --Xymph (talk) 03:45, 1 January 2026 (CST)

2026-02[edit]

I found no immediately suitable anniversaries to feature, the following all need some work:

Suggestions, anyone? Perhaps one/some can be improved to become feature-worthy before next month, and others for future years? --Xymph (talk) 05:38, 28 January 2026 (CST)

What about DelphiDoom (21st)? I know nothing about it but the article seems pretty thorough. The logo can be snatched from the SourceForge --Nockson (talk) 15:22, 30 January 2026 (CST)
That one escaped my (admittedly incomplete) search, but works for me. --Xymph (talk) 16:28, 30 January 2026 (CST)
I did some work on the Runaway Train page, so it should be suitable to feature at some point. If we're picking DelphiDoom this year, I think it would be nice to feature Ty Halderman for February next year (which would be the 30th anniversary of him becoming idgames admin), but the lack of any image on his page might be hard to fix. Is there any way at all to reasonably get a good photo of him? --Zoyahu (talk) 08:39, 31 January 2026 (CST)

2026-03[edit]

Leftover from a year ago: The Troopers' Playground (30th), SMMU (27th), The Darkening Episode 2 (26th, already nominated three years ago), Demonfear (26th), PrBoom+ (21st), ZDL (21st). Lustrum-wise, the choice is obvious? --Xymph (talk) 10:24, 27 February 2026 (CST)

PrBoom+, of course! --Nockson (talk) 11:34, 27 February 2026 (CST)
Agreed, go with PrBoom+. (We have featured PrBoom before, but that's a different thing.) Gauss (talk) 12:18, 27 February 2026 (CST)
We've featured a port just this month, so that's not a good choice for variety IMHO. PrBoom+ can just as well wait until it's a year (or several) older, and then celebrate a more remarkable anniversary. TTP gets my vote. --Xymph (talk) 12:30, 27 February 2026 (CST)
In my opinion TTP's page is too bland, for example there are no images apart from the titlepic. It could really use a gallery and maybe an additional screenshot of the only custom monster. --Nockson (talk) 12:48, 27 February 2026 (CST)
Not all that different from The Talosian Incident, Fava Beans, The Darkening or Obituary, then. And there are two days left to remedy this, if someone answers the call? --Xymph (talk) 13:04, 27 February 2026 (CST)
I think TTP's page is fine and detailed enough: could maybe use a screenshot or two, but that's it. And I think it'd be a good anniversary for this, as it's a notable mod that was recently updated too, which some people might have missed. That's my vote. --Dynamo128 (talk) 14:56, 27 February 2026 (CST)

2026-04[edit]

Anniversary roundup (incomplete as always): Hexen (Sega Saturn) (29th), A Hidden Mountain Factory (30th), 99 Ways to Die (30th), Cyberdreams (28th), Chord G (27th), Caverns of Darkness (24th), Scythe (23th). Any preferences? --Xymph (talk) 13:32, 29 March 2026 (CDT)

A Hidden Mountain Factory is a classic from the '90s that might not be on everyone's radar, so it could benefit from a spotlight. It always stood out to me for its distinct setting. Plus, the article is very complete, and 30 is a nice round number. --Gregor (talk) 14:11, 29 March 2026 (CDT)
+1 to A Hidden Mountain Factory, cleaned it up a bit. --Nockson (talk) 14:26, 29 March 2026 (CDT)
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