Conservapedia talk:Featured articles

My friend are these articles that we wish to see improved or articles that we wish to have displayed as examples of articles that capture the spirit of Conservapedia? Thank you. Learn together 12:55, 14 December 2007 (EST)

This is the list of articles that are proposed for the Main page's section "Featured articles". Please add as many as you wish. You can also object one or more of them or improve any as I did with I Have a Dream. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 17:28, 14 December 2007 (EST)

Articles should show the spirit of Conservapedia but also represent the best we have and be attractive for users of CP. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 09:40, 15 December 2007 (EST)

Is Bible good? I new at this so I'll have to learn a little! :P ~BCS^Talk2ME 17:07, 22 December 2007 (EST)

Order

Could we have some indication of what order the articles will be made feature articles?

I assumed that Genesis would be the next one, as it was next on the list, so made some improvements to it (well, I thought they were improvements!). I didn't go beyond that. Of course, being an Aussie with little knowledge or nor interest in American politics, I wouldn't have done anything to the Republican Party article, so I don't feel cheated in that sense, but some advance notice on what will be next would be a good idea.

Philip J. Rayment 02:29, 4 January 2008 (EST)

There's been no response to this query at all. And now an article that wasn't even on the list has been added to the main page. This prevented any of us from reviewing that article to see if it could do with any improvements before being posted.

Could we please stick to posting the articles in the order listed. If someone thinks that the order should be changed prior to an article being posted on the main page, then fine, but the list should be reordered so that we still all know what will be next.

Philip J. Rayment 08:23, 23 March 2008 (EDT)

Dear Philip. In this article as in many of CP any one can edit, but there is an special team for this one. From my point of view, there is not a rule for order in the list. Dates in the year or events could have some significance to select one article. You may join the team if you like and have the duty to update it. Thank you for your interest. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 11:40, 23 March 2008 (EDT)

I didn't know there was a team. DanH 15:52, 23 March 2008 (EDT)

I'd like to be part of the team. Philip J. Rayment 01:37, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

Great! Welcome aboard. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 09:50, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

As I have been "encouraged"...

... to get involved constructively in the site (I will save a 90/10 debate for the debate pages) I thought I might offer to help here in whatever capacity is needed (copy-editing future articles of note, etc...). However, I'm curious who's running this show? I liked the methodology described on the main page (a list of upcoming featured articles with plenty of advance notice, etc...), but Conservative has brought his google crusade to this project and pushed his atheism article to the front of the line.

Without making personal remarks, it's safe to say that I don't agree, philosophically, with how he goes about his business. Please let me know if a)you'd like any help here at all, and b)if so, what role he plays, if any? Thanks, Aziraphale 16:19, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

What happened to the funny little lines you would always write after your comments? HenryS 16:22, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

Having arrows that point at my non-standard user name seems to be "asking for it" in the current climate. ;) Aziraphale 16:25, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

The Featured Article is "run" by a committee comprising Joaquín Martínez‎, Learn together, DeanS, and me (the late-comer. There was another person, but he has since been banned). Anybody can add featured articles to the list as suggestions, anybody can review and try and improve those articles, and anybody can suggest that any given article should not be used or can propose a change of order. But it is that committee that makes the final decisions on what is used and when (barring being overridden by someone higher up, such as Andy, of course).

Some senior sysops have also had some discussion about setting specific criteria that featured articles should meet, but nothing much has come of that yet.

You are welcome to help in any of those ways I've mentioned. Philip J. Rayment 22:28, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

Unfortunate timing or fate? I'm going to have to look elsewhere on the site, Philip, sorry. Aziraphale 19:30, 2 May 2008 (EDT)

Atheism

I think it would be important to consider this for next update:

Atheism

15:00, 1 May 2008 Conservative (Talk | contribs | block) (I believe a major online conservative christian newspaper is going to do a story on conservapedia's atheism article)

--User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 10:55, 2 May 2008 (EDT)