Where are all the nominations?[]
Five months and no additions to the "list"! Robin Patterson 10:15, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
More of them, but maybe we can choose better[]
The current nominees are great articles. However, the names do not capture the imagination. I would prefer a list of featured articles that mixes unknown people with great pages and well-known historical and current figures. At the same time, one can only have a few features at any one time. So, Andrew Pickard, William the Conqueror, and Barack Obama would be a good mix (and better if we could link Pickard to either). At the same time, we may want to discuss pages-to-be-featured and make sure that they are featurable, like Dzenghis Khan, Julius Caesar, George Washington. Rtol 07:52, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
- I agree with Rtol there. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:58, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Main page display[]
It needs a "More..." link to show readers that the one-paragraph "article" is not the whole thing. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:05, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- Seems AMK152 has now fixed that: great! — Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:23, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
That is part of the standard system. See Genealogy:Featured content/system. Let's get on and use the standard system so that we can feed our featured material to outside sites such as Facebook and genealogy blogs. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
We need more record of past featured articles[]
OK to take them off one list, but that page is really where they should be if any are. "Featured" is past participle, not including "what may be featured in future".
In addition to listing, I suggest — and have now created a first version of — a template to be added to the bottom of every article (and any other page, in case we branch out as other wikis have) that has been featured, displaying the fact that it has been featured and the start date and automatically putting it in the appropriate category. See Template:Featured. I haven't checked whether the standard system caters for that.
— Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:04, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
- Changed at Genealogy:Featured articles/Archive to a better list format. -AMK152(talk • contribs) 19:55, 18 May 2009 (UTC)