Doom Wiki talk:Featured articles

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.

2024-01[edit]

As before, few suitable anniversaries in January, so let's go back to a recent general nomination: status bar. The only part needing more info for that, is the behavior of the double health bar for Strife. See in the HTML comment. Any input, anyone? --Xymph (talk) 05:30, 27 December 2023 (CST)

I support this nomination, but unfortunately I can't help with the Strife section - I've never played it. However I have plans to expand Heretic and Hexen sections even more in the future. --Nockson (talk) 05:49, 27 December 2023 (CST)

If that future is beyond Jan 1 (and that would be fine, no rush), we should feature something else. Perhaps Doom: Annihilation and then at some later time Doom: Annihilation minor characters? --Xymph (talk) 06:02, 27 December 2023 (CST)

Way beyond that, got too much stuff on my plate right now, primarily herhex capitalization fixes. I also think that the status bar article needs more info in the source ports section. About DA - it is the article about the movie and IMO it lacks the most important part - the section about reception. --Nockson (talk) 07:44, 27 December 2023 (CST)

I don't understand what's needed exactly about the Strife double health? All it does is recolor the bar gray, I don't think it even needs a unique screenshot to represent it.

With all that said, I don't think the state of the article is in any way acceptable, because it is missing the console versions of the HUDs. I'll see if I can fill all that information in today. --Dynamo128 (talk) 06:14, 30 December 2023 (CST)

I meant describing the behavior of the two bars, not an extra screenshot no. Anyway, I already postponed that article because of various update plans. Although source port status bars come in so many variations, they are probably better served in a standalone article, like similar topics (cheat codes, parameters). For now I plan to use the one article nobody objected to, about the movie's minor characters. And if you object to that only now, that will be ignored unless you propose an alternative feature too. ;) --Xymph (talk) 06:44, 30 December 2023 (CST)

2024-02[edit]

I could find few notable anniversaries of feature-ready articles, only GT Interactive Software (31st) fits the bill, and perhaps Runaway Train (23rd) if it got some screenshots. Any alternative suggestions? --Xymph (talk) 07:16, 27 January 2024 (CST)

Grove was put up on iDgames in Feb 2004 so that will be turning 20 years old. --terrcraftguy695 (talk) 09:57, 27 January 2024 (CST)

Was literally editing the page at the same time to say the same haha. I also nominate Grove. Its historical value to the community fits the bill. - Endless01 (talk) 10:01, 27 January 2024 (CST)

I think Grove is a good pick. It is a very influential release for the Doom community, and has a big, round anniversary coming up. Sounds good to me. --Gregor (talk) 12:31, 27 January 2024 (CST)

2024-03[edit]

With two 30th anniversaries for Origwad and E2M1ED.WAD, milestones in the burgeoning community, I propose to feature the first one through the 15th, and the second one from the 16th. --Xymph (talk) 02:59, 27 February 2024 (CST)

Great idea. Seconded. --Gregor (talk) 08:45, 27 February 2024 (CST)

2024-04[edit]

In a rerun from two years ago, there are anniversaries for 3DO (28th), Hexen (Sega Saturn) (27th), and 99 Ways to Die (28th), as well as Scythe (21th). Of these, 3DO has the most comprehensive article. --Xymph (talk) 07:07, 22 March 2024 (CDT)

Vote for the 3DO article. --Redneckerz (talk) 07:20, 22 March 2024 (CDT)

2024-05[edit]

Plenty anniversaries: 27th for Doom Music (album), Hexen (Sony PlayStation) (but we just featured an official port), and Hell Revealed; 28th for Dystopia 3; 29th for Obituary; and 30th for the final Doom Editing Utilities release (but too(?) many redlinks). We also featured mods in Feb/Mar - I vote for the music album. --Xymph (talk) 05:10, 22 April 2024 (CDT)

I will also go with Doom Music, but Hell Revealed and Obituary are coming in a close second and third. Gauss (talk) 08:57, 22 April 2024 (CDT)

2024-06[edit]

Anniversary leftovers from last year's round-up: 30th for Crossing Acheron, Doomsday of UAC & Slaughter Until Death; 28th for Quake, 27th for Dawn of the Dead. Choices choices... Crossing Acheron is the most comprehensive article, so that gets my vote, but we could also split the honors with Doomsday of UAC (which is very close behind) halfway through the month. --Xymph (talk) 08:22, 27 May 2024 (CDT)

Coming from me, this is probably rather biased, but my vote goes to Doomsday of UAC. --Taufan99 (talk) 15:47, 27 May 2024 (CDT)

Quake is nice but I guess 30th is fitting for Doomsday of UAC and Crossing Acheron, which can be split like you said. --Dynamo128 (talk) 04:17, 30 May 2024 (CDT)

2024-07[edit]

Anniversary roundup: Ni'mRoD - IXNAY on the HOMBRE and 2002 A Doom Odyssey (22nd); All Hell is Breaking Loose and Memento Mori II (28th); and Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus (30th), which also provides a nice variation on the more common mod anniversaries. So that gets my vote. --Xymph (talk) 06:04, 25 June 2024 (CDT)

2024-08[edit]

This August marks 20 years of Doom 3. Hell yeah!. And the article itself seems pretty good to be featured. So, that's my vote. --Nockson (talk) 15:48, 25 July 2024 (CDT)

Surprised that hasn't happened already! I am backing this proposal. --Dynamo128 (talk) 15:54, 25 July 2024 (CDT)

Thirded. Gauss (talk) 16:08, 25 July 2024 (CDT)

2024-09[edit]

September marks 30 years since Doom II's release. Given that a monster article hasn't been featured in a fair bit I would recommend the Pain Elemental given that both the Cacodemon and Lost Soul Have previously been featured, it was 1st introduced in Doom II, and the article seems to be feature ready IMO. Thoughts? --Terrcraftguy695 (talk) 15:40, 23 August 2024 (CDT)

Works for me. --Xymph (talk) 15:54, 23 August 2024 (CDT)

2024-10[edit]

One day left and there's no proposals here, so how about another double feature - half the month for Doom (Game Boy Advance), and another one for Doom II (Game Boy Advance). --Nockson (talk) 07:32, 30 September 2024 (CDT)

Seconded --Robotcthulhu (talk) 08:33, 30 September 2024 (CDT)

2024-11[edit]

Doomsday will be 25 years old this November. Not only are 25 year anniversaries pretty nice, but the sourceport itself has a considerable reputation and is notable for its fully 3D enhancements and features.- Endless01 (talk) 16:21, 21 October 2024 (CDT)

I think that sounds good. --Robotcthulhu (talk) 05:31, 22 October 2024 (CDT)

2024-12[edit]

In the spirit of the spotlight we did for Duke Nukem 3D on its 25th anniversary, I think it would be fair to extend the same courtesy to the 30th anniversaries of the two original Doom competitors, Marathon and Rise of the Triad, which coincidentally both came out on the same exact day (December 21) and featured a number of shared innovations. My proposal is to dedicate one half of the month to Marathon, and the other to Rise of the Triad. Marathon had a demo release one month before the full version, so I think it'd make sense to have that one first, and Rise of the Triad second, to close off the month and lead us into January. It would also be a good showcase of the improvements done to each page and also highlight the recent re-releases of both games. --Dynamo128 (talk) 15:35, 24 November 2024 (CST)

Stop making so much sense, Dynamo. I agree. --Redneckerz (talk) 15:52, 24 November 2024 (CST)

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 (28th), 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)