Wikipedia:April Fools' Main Page/Featured Article/Archive 2014

Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of a Featured Article for April Fool's day 2014

Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:


 * April Fool's Main Page/Featured Article
 * April Fool's Main Page/Today's Featured Picture
 * April Fool's Main Page/Featured List
 * April Fool's Main Page/On This Day
 * April Fool's Main Page/In The News
 * April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know

Ground rules for this activity along with a list or participants may be found on the Main talk page. -

Mission
In the past, various unusual articles have been improved to featured article status. These include exploding whale, heavy metal umlaut, Japanese toilet, spoo, Joshua A. Norton, George Washington (inventor), and Ima Hogg. People seeing some of these articles listed on the Main Page sometimes believe that it is a joke, when in fact, these articles are well-written and quite deserving of featured article status.

An unusual article (such as exploding toad or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) will be edited up to Featured article status and listed on the Main Page on 1 April 2014. The "recently featured" sentence could be changed to "other featured", and link to the above-mentioned unusual featured articles.

Given the amount of time it takes to bring an article up to Featured article status, an alternative solution would be to use an article that has already been made a Featured article, but has not yet been listed on the Main Page.

Requirements
Bencherlite is willing to consider any article for April Fools' Day, as long as it meets three requirements:


 * 1) It must be a featured article
 * 2) It must not have already been used as the main page featured article.
 * 3) It is not too risqué (more so than any other article that would be used on the front page) - 1st April is not an excuse to use naughty words in the TFA blurb

Action items

 * 1) What are we going to write/promote?  We need to pick either a new topic or an existing article to nominate for FA. I think we need half a dozen nominees - then we vote/get consensus on which one is most suitable.
 * 2) We have to work hard to get it up to featured status.  This may be very difficult and might take several attempts.
 * 3) We have to usher it through all of the phases leading up to FA.
 * 4) We need to make sure it's on the front page on April 1st.  This means starting in on it in good time.

Proposals
Ogopogo MGray98 (talk) 15:57, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Not featured yet. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:02, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I understand. My proposal is an effort to get this to featured. MGray98 (talk) 16:09, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * That would need to be explicit (a lot of people put articles which are already featured in this section). Compare last year. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:04, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Wank Week EamonnPKeane (talk) 17:58, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Out of the four here at the moment, I would choose this one for some point on the main page; perhaps DyK, as it has an immediately funny Article Title. The article is completely factual. It is truly reminiscent of that time at Channel Four when they relentlessly pursued this kind of programming - e.g., the "porn" pink triangle on some films, one of the first on-screen tattoos on U.K. TV.  Geoffjw1978 TL C 21:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Article is still A class. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:53, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

HMS Queen Mary: Could stylize as Queen Mary. buffbills7701 21:39, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure I like the idea of joking about a war grave. BencherliteTalk 21:43, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Fox tossing. I still am not convinced that this article is an elaborate hoax EamonnPKeane (talk) 23:04, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Barbara L - We could phrase it as if the subject were human. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Doc Adams - Doctor-cum-baseball player. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Disco Demolition Night - Probably the funnest article I reviewed last year. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Bone Wars Worded as an actual war. Alexschmidt711 (talk) 00:07, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Pig-faced women, Execution by elephant Weird titles that mean exactly what you think. Alexschmidt711 (talk) 00:07, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Execution by elephant is illegible, as it previously ran in 2004. Bone Wars is likewise ineligible (2009 TFA). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:00, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

OK, TFAs are scheduled up to 24th March now and at the moment there isn't a single solid proposal for 1st April here. Please post any suggested blurbs at WP:TFAR or I'll have to choose something myself. BencherliteTalk 09:04, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Disco Demolition Night has some great potential IMO. --Tone 09:42, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I have already left a message for Wehwalt (the principal author of that article) but further suggestions now belong at TFAR, not here. BencherliteTalk 10:11, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

I've posted three suggestions, including rough stabs at leads, at WT:TFAR. --Dweller (talk) 22:54, 11 March 2014 (UTC)