Forum:Addition to the Main Page

I recently came up with a new idea for the main page. I was thinking maybe we should have a section (which is updated monthly), that is solely devoted to articles that are stub. Basically, we would nominate articles that are need updating, require more content, or need to be adapted to suit the MoS. Not only would this prompt new users to help out with the community by aiding in the construction of these articles, but it would also help channel and focus the energy and editing capacities of many users on this site, uniting them to help out with articles that really need rebuilding.

In the voting section, In that time between updates on the MP, a user will nominate an article for improvement, and underneath that suggestion, people will vote yes or no. Beneath the nominated article, someone else can list another. During voting, a maximum of four entries will be permitted for nomination. Now, under no circumstances are we shaming the users who created these pages, for not being up to scratch with the Manual of Style. We are simply nominating articles for better quality and standards. For articles which need more information, we simply update the pages. If its a situation where we can't update due to a lack of information, we may have to delete the article, leave it as it is, or figure out a way to improve it.

If you are not to keen on the voting idea, pitched the possibility that we just a list of pages that have been given the specific "Need of Wikifying" tag rather than voting for it. No nominations, no voting, just a list of tagged pages would be an idea, which means browsing through the lists of ideas. A list of pages that have been nominated for improvement rather than voted. Please tell me whether you'd rather a vote for these articles, or prefer a list of articles that have previously been tagged for improvement.

This would bring the wiki's spirit together, and help give us focus on a particular project to make the wiki better. Like I said, nominating stub articles on the voting page would occur monthly, so as to give users time to work on maybe three or four articles before the next batch are nominated. We don't want to rush and overwork users by flooding them with an overflow of articles in need of improvement. Of course, I'll have to put this through the community policy voting page, but I just want your input on this idea before I do this.

So what do you guys think? Yes or No? -- Welcome  to   the   Fezpedia!   02:39, June 28, 2011 (UTC)