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For the successful drive to get Season 8 to FT status, see this page.
For the just as successful drive to get Season 9 to FT status, see this page.
For the somewhat less successful drive to get Season 1 to FT status, see this page.

This is a page to document the effort to make Season 4 a Featured topic. There really is no reason why we are doing it. We just thought it would be neat to get a Simpsons season to Featured topic status and basically chose Season 4 due to expressed interest from other editors. Also, a (very) long term goal of the Simpsons WikiProject is to get every episode page to GA status and this is a helpful way to get started.

Any questions? Just leave them on the talk page.

[edit] Tasks

If you would like to participate, there are several ways. You could:

  • Help clean up articles that are already GAs or GACs. Reviewers and copyediters are EXTREMELY helpful.
  • Work on improving an article so it is A class or of FA quality. Having every article be an FA is not a requirement, but having a few helps.
  • Claim an article that is unclaimed and get it to GA status.
    • The Season 4 DVDs are helpful, but not required. One could simply clean up everything but the production section and then wait for somebody who owns the DVDs to add one.
    • The articles should all be modelled after the current GA & FAs.
    • In order to claim an article, simply put your name next to it and move it to the "Claimed articles that are not GACs". If you do not own the DVDs, then add a note and somebody will help.
  • The WP:FT recommendations state that each article should have been peer reviewed. It is not a necessity, but it certainly isn't that difficult.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Progress

[edit] Complete

[edit] FLs

  1. Featured article The Simpsons (season 4) (Scorpion)

[edit] FAs

  1. Featured article A Streetcar Named Marge (Scorpion and Zagalejo)

[edit] GAs

  1. Good article Kamp Krusty (Simpsons fan 66)
  2. Good article Treehouse of Horror III (Simpsons fan 66)
  3. Good article Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie (Scorpion)
  4. Good article Mr. Plow (Simpsons fan 66)
  5. Good article Marge vs. the Monorail (Scorpion)
  6. Good article Last Exit to Springfield (Scorpion)
  7. Good article Selma's Choice (Ctjf83talk)
  8. Good article Duffless (Ctjf83talk)
  9. Good article Homer the Heretic (Simpsons fan 66)
  10. Good article Whacking Day (Gran2)
  11. Good article Homer's Triple Bypass Ctjf83Talk and Qst
  12. Good article New Kid on the Block Ctjf83Talk and Qst
  13. Good article The Front (Simpsons fan 66)
  14. Good article Lisa the Beauty Queen (Maitch)

[edit] Candidates

[edit] FLCs

[edit] GACs

[edit] Articles being worked on that are not GACs

If you wish to work on a page, put it here so others will know and thus two people won't start doing the exact same stuff.

  1. Lisa's First Word (Scorpion)
  2. I Love Lisa (Xihix)
  3. Brother from the Same Planet (Xihix)
  4. Krusty Gets Kancelled (Cirt)
  5. So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show (Maitch)
  6. Marge in Chains (Cirt)

[edit] Articles in need of work

  1. Marge Gets a Job

[edit] FT Criteria

A featured topic is a collection of articles that represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a subject comprehensively and with items of consistently good quality. In addition to the meeting of the requirements for all Wikipedia articles by all of the constituents, a featured topic has the following attributes.

  1. It is a set of similar, interrelated articles that cover a specific topic
    (a) There are at least three distinct articles.
    (b) The articles have a clear similarity with each other under a well-defined topical scope.
    (c) All articles in the topic are linked together, preferably using a template, and share a common category or super-category.
    (d) There is no obvious gap (missing or stub article) in the topic. A topic must not cherry pick only the best articles to become featured together.
  2. The topic has an introductory and summary lead article or list.
  3. Each article is of high quality, including references.
    (a) A number of articles are featured class (featured articles or featured lists), according to the following rules:
    (i) At least twenty percent (rounded up) of the articles are featured class.
    (ii) At least two articles are of featured class.
    (b) All other articles are good articles.
    (c) Items that cannot achieve a high rating (as stated in 3.a and 3.b) due to their limited subject matter have passed an individual audit for quality which included a completed peer review with all important problems fixed. Such items cannot be used to fulfill criterion 1.a.

[edit] Recommendations

In addition to the mandatory criteria above, it is recommended that all topics meet the following optional criteria:

  • The structure of the articles is similar, with the same section titles and order where possible.
  • The articles use a common infobox where appropriate.
  • Each article should have been peer reviewed.
  • The topic is not overly large nor needlessly small. There is no maximum number of articles, but if something is far larger than existing topics, it might be wise to split it into subtopics. For example, science fiction films would be too large a topic, but Star Trek films would be of appropriate scope. Conversely, a topic should not be excessively sub-divided; an all-encompassing topic of six articles is better than two topics of three each. These guidelines do not apply to items in a clear series (every article from 1st Canadian Parliament to 39th Canadian Parliament could be included in one topic), or those dictated by geography (for example, states of the USA).
  • To avoid wasting time, the topic should not have any active Good article nominations, Good article reassessments, Featured article reviews, Featured article removal candidates, Featured list candidates, or Featured list removal candidates when nominated for featured topic, and should only have Featured article candidates if the result does not affect whether the topic meets the featured topic criteria. Please have all required processes done before nominating.

[edit] Retention

  • Featured topic status is dependent on the continued adherence to all criteria, including retention of high quality status by all of the constituents. If any of the criteria are no longer met, or any constituents lose quality status, such topics will be eligible for a featured topic removal nomination after a grace period. The grace period will be three months for a demotion of an article or if the topic expands and is therefore incomplete; and six months following a change to the Featured Topic criteria.
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