Left 4 Dead Wiki:Featured articles

Featured articles of Left 4 Dead Wiki are articles that represent the best articles Left 4 Dead Wiki has to offer. For articles to be featured on the Main Page, see /Queue.

Criteria
So just what makes a featured article? Well, we've prepared a list just in case someone should ask that, and it is as follows.

An article must...


 * 1) ...be well written and detailed
 * 2) ...be unbiased and have a neutral point of view
 * 3) ...be factual and not incorporate theory presented as fact
 * 4) ...be properly sourced if controversial information is entered into it
 * 5) ...not be tagged with any sort of improvement tags (i.e. cleanup, expand, etc.)
 * 6) ...have a succinct proper lead that can be used for the front page featured box
 * 7) ...have a complete, detailed biography if it is a character article
 * 8) ...not be the subject of any ongoing edit wars

See here for a list of current featured articles on Left 4 Dead Wiki. For more information on what makes a featured article, see Wikipedia's treatise on featured articles.

How to nominate an article

 * 1) First, nominate an article you find is worthy of featured status, putting it at the bottom of the list below; see criteria above. Also, add the nomination template to the top of the article you nominate.
 * 2) Certain users may object to the nomination if they disagree that the article is good enough; they must then supply reasons for doing so, and ways to improve the article (errors, style, organization, images, notability, sources). If no reason is supplied, their vote will not be counted until they do this.
 * 3) Supporters adjust the article until the objectors (with reasonable objections) are satisfied.
 * 4) The article is placed on the featured article list and added to the front page queue.

How to vote

 * 1) Before doing anything, be sure to read the article completely, keeping a sharp eye out for mistakes. Edit and fix these if you have time.
 * 2) Afterwards, compare the article to the criteria listed above, and then either support or object the article's nomination. (If you object, please supply concrete reasons for doing so, and how it can be improved.)
 * 3) As stated above, any objections will be looked upon by the nominator, supporters, and anyone willing to improve the article, and action will be taken to please the objectors.
 * 4) Once all objectors' complaints have been solved (or the article has 4 supports and no objections after at least a week), the article will be added to the queue and be officially known as a "featured article".

Eventually, the next article in the queue will be highlighted on the main page as featured, marked with the  template and removed from the list of nominations.

Voting templates
= Featured article nominations =

The Witch

 * I think we should have a new Featured Article so I nominate The Witch...Anyone else?JokersFlame 20:03, March 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Meh, I really don't care if this article becomes featured or not. DeathBlade182 23:01, March 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * It's an awesome article that has all of the requirements :D -Logic


 * I love this article and I think the Witch is one of the most important infected in the game. The Passing needs to be out for maybe a month (?) before it should be nominated. Cybrwulf


 * I think the Witch should be the featured article, it's an awesome article and The Passing only just came out. Spoilers. Qtheman 20:17, April 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey thats more supporters then the Passing!JokersFlame 02:02, April 24, 2010 (UTC)

I say the Witch should be the featured article because the Witch is the only special infected that has 2 different skins in the same game.TheLink736

It's well written, it has lots of tactics, sufficient images, and plus the new "Bride Witch" skin makes it have everything to make a perfect featured article. By the way, TheLink, the Boomer has 2 different skins too (Bomette and male boomer). Still, I think it's a perfect article, so I support. -- LaZa  22:32, April 24, 2010 (UTC)

I see no good reason why not. It's a well-written article that has plenty of info in all sections, and the Witch is certainy one of the most important Infected in the game. TheDesertFox 11:26, April 25, 2010 (UTC)

So how do we make this the featured article now that it has the most votes?

The Passing

 * I nominate The Passing as it's nearing its release and has been highly anticipated (as seen in the edit counts for the past few days) Jo the Marten  [[Image:Mini Hunter.png|I dare you to click Mini Hunter|link=http://l4dwiki.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=venatorphile]]( Shriek )  ಠ_ಠ  22:28, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

A lot of people are confused/upset about the death of an original Survivor, and it is an ongoing battle about who will appear at the beginning or not. I feel it has a lot of potential after the DLC actually comes out, but currently there is too much controversy surrounding a lot of aspects of it. Nightmirage 22:47, March 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * As Nightmirage said, there is currently a lot of people making edits about who they think will die or what they think will happen, not to mention we have little information about the campaign itself, therefore it is not a good candidate if we stick to the criteria. However, it is undoubtedly the most popular article in the wiki, so I guess that as long as we take care of vandals and such, as well as continuously update it with new information, it is worthy of being featured. DeathBlade182 23:01, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

Oh Jokersflame has an idea so lets show him up with a better one?! ;)...How ever I need to agree with Mirage...I say we wait until after the release...I fear that to many people will edit it wrongly. Is there a way to make it so only people with profiles edit if we make it the FA? If not then you can consider this against.JokersFlame 00:31, March 22, 2010 (UTC)\

It's a good article, I just think we should wait until after it's released. With love, MrJoe. 01:34, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Threads like this Are the reason why I am against this at this time.JokersFlame 19:47, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Honestly, i can see why you guys wouldn't want this to be the featured article, with vandals and such, but seeing as how so far, the only other choice is the witch, i think this one should be it as honestly, the witch is really old news.

It's too new, its information changes from time to time, the DLC hasn't been released yet and vandals got it locked up, so as MrJoe said, we should wait until it's released. -- LaZa 22:58, April 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * The passing is a stub, no one can expand it so it isn't a stub, and it hasn't been released yet. Cybrwulf