Acepedia:Featured articles

Featured articles are the best articles Acepedia has to offer, as determined by the administrators and the users of Acepedia. Featured articles showcase the work that the editors have put into the wiki, and can be used as examples for editing other articles. Featured articles are displayed on the home page for one month and are noted as such at the top of the article itself.

How are featured articles chosen?
Starting on the first Saturday of every month, a blog will be posted at User blog:SlyCooperFan1 asking people to suggest articles for next month's featured article. The blog will be open to suggestions for 14 days.

On the third Saturday, the blog will be closed to new comments, and a second blog post will be posted. In this second blog post, users will be asked to vote on next month's featured article from a list of articles that are taken from the user suggestions from the first blog post (however, only well-edited articles will be taken from the suggestions; see below).

Voting will be open until the first day of the next month. On that day, the second blog post will also be closed to comments and the article with the most votes will be chosen as the new featured article. (In the event of a tie, a random number generator (or a penny) will be utilized to make the final decision.)

Can anyone suggest or vote on articles?
For the first two featured articles under this system, all users were allowed to suggest or vote articles. Starting with February 2014's featured article, a restriction has been put in place. Users who suggest or vote on featured articles must fulfill the following criteria: These restrictions were put in place to prevent random users or users who haven't contributed at all to the website from deciding on what articles become featured.
 * Have a registered account (without a visible IP address)
 * Have made 10 helpful edits to Acepedia articles

What are the criteria for a featured article?
When in the suggestion phase, users can suggest any article on Acepedia. However, the poll will only include articles that adhere to the following criteria:
 * Very few spelling/grammar mistakes, if any
 * Comprehensive in the info it provides
 * Must include at least one image
 * Must include references to its sources (This rule is considered loose since, at the moment, very few articles actually include references; in the future, this will be more heavily enforced)

What if a featured article no longer adheres to that criteria?
Featured articles are similar to most video game reviews on websites such as IGN. On IGN, if a game receives a certain score, that score cannot be edited or taken away in the future (unless the editor made a mistake). This similarly applies to featured articles; the fact that they won the status of "featured article" at some point in the past cannot be taken away from them in the future.

List of featured articles
Following is a list of articles that were awarded the status of featured articles.
 * December 2013 - Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
 * January 2014 - Jack Bartlett
 * February 2014 - F-15C Eagle
 * March 2014 - to be determined