Forum:Invalid Featured Nominations

Basically, what I want to bring up here regards, in case the title wasn't evident enough, invalid argumants for featuring an article, Let's take the example of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Awesome game, yes, and it may well have a decent wiki page. But the reason it was nominated was purely because it has been more or less a year since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was featured. I've been here a while now and seen some fairly ridiculous arguments, but this one is the undisputed jewel in the crown. Fortunately it was for this reason that there was nearly no support for the nomination.

But to take another example, Dimitri Petrenko. An epic character indeed, which was nominated mainly for this reason and his influence on the story. His article, however, is in need of a cleanup, particularly the dare-I-say-the-word Trivia section. Now, this wouldn't be an issue, except this nomination recieved quite a lot of support for reasons utterly unrelated to the quality of the article. That isn't mentioning all the other nominations for messy or bloated articles.

Anyway, I say we should implement a policy regarding these bad nominations. If the reason for nomination does not concern the quality of the article at least as its main point, if not the whole argument, it gets struck through and ignored. Give or take a bit of common sense, this would be fairly straightforward to implement and would cut down on the number of insufficient and/or biased nominations. Seijana 13:19, February 25, 2011 (UTC)