User:Mario/Sandbox

http://www.mariowiki.com/images/4/4b/Mario_Vsign.png Self-explanatory. This is where I do things. In this case, I'm helping to overhaul the Featured Article process, something me and the administrators agreed that it needs to be done, so I whipped up this prototype page for Featured Articles.

Featured articles are top-quality articles presented in the main page. They are chosen by our editors. If an article meets or exceeds Nookipedia's featured article quality standards, it can be nominated to be featured. Here are the standards articles must meed or exceed to be considered featured.

Nomination process
As long as editors are autoconfirmed, they can nominate articles to be featured by submitting a nomination in the section below. The voting process works similarly to voting on featured images; registered users may use the templates above to vote or make comments. Once they have voted, they must sign their comments with ~.

Nominations will be held open for at least a week for users to vote - at the end of the voting period, a Administrator, Bureaucrat, or Director will determine the result and close the vote, and will feature the article if the nomination passes. Votes that are inadequately supported or irrelevant may not be included for the sake of consensus.

Once the article is featured, a feature badge is placed on the top of the article.

Articles can also be removed from their featured status if there is a major flaw or if the article does not maintain changing standards.

A list of featured articles can be found here.

Formatting
''The following section is an example only. Please do not vote or comment in the following section.''

Example article
This article follows all standards and is complete. It should be featured. - http://www.mariowiki.com/images/f/f6/SSBDonkeyIcon.png Donkey Kong 16:19, September 5, 2013
 * oh, yes it shold -http://www.mariowiki.com/images/7/76/VBWLBombWarioSprite.png War io money and galirc is awesum lol
 * Actually, the trivia section is way too long and there is missing information on New Leaf. Luigi 02 http://www.mariowiki.com/images/8/83/LuigiSPP.PNG
 * I really hate the villager mentioned in the article. The article shouldn't be featured. http://www.mariowiki.com/images/c/ce/BirdoItadakiDS.png Birdo
 * Per Luigi02. http://www.mariowiki.com/images/0/05/BowserJrMap-MKDD.png Bowser's Jr.
 * Birdo, your vote is invalid and it needs to be changed or it will be deleted! http://www.mariowiki.com/images/1/1a/Toad2.gif Mushroom Retainer Man