RuneScape:Featured articles


 * Not to be confused with User of the Month or Requests for adminship.

Articles of the Month (AOTM) or Featured articles are articles that are so good that they should be featured on the Main Page. Doing so will cause many people to notice that article, as the Main Page is the first thing people see when they visit the site.

Criteria
Articles must meet certain criteria. If it does not, then it cannot be featured.

The article

 * The article is in the ARTICLE namespace (also known as the mainspace). It cannot be a project page (RuneScape:), a template (Template:), a category (Category:), a user page (User:), a file (File:), a discussion page (Talk: or User/Template/MediaWiki/RuneScape talk:), or a software page (MediaWiki:). It also cannot be the main page itself. Any invalid nominations will be deleted.
 * The article is well written and informative.
 * The article follows the style guide.
 * The article's pictures look nice and are not scarce.
 * Overall, the article looks nice and is easy to read.

Voting

 * Nomination starts the month prior to the designated featured article month (for August, nomination is in July).
 * Voters are required to have been on the RuneScape Wiki for at least two weeks, and must have 50 edits excluding userpage, user talk page, and sandbox edits.
 * You cannot declare an article as an article of the month until the day before the month is over.
 * Users may support more than one candidate.

Past featured articles
2006
 * August - Fishing
 * September - Draynor Manor
 * October - Magic
 * November - Miscellania and Etceteria
 * December - Hunter

2007
 * January - Pyramid Plunder
 * February - Contact!
 * March - Castle Wars
 * April - Mining
 * May - TzTok-Jad
 * June - Desert Treasure
 * July - Kalphite Queen
 * August - Trouble Brewing
 * September - Falador
 * October - Lunar Spells
 * November - Barrows
 * December - Fairy ring

2008
 * January - Varrock
 * February - Warped terrorbird
 * March - God Wars
 * April - East Ardougne
 * May - Kennith's Concerns
 * June - Paterdomus
 * July - Mourning's Ends Part II
 * August - Keldagrim
 * September - Armour
 * October - Godsword
 * November - Santa hat
 * December - History of Varrock

2009
 * January - Wise Old Man
 * February - Stone Circle
 * March - Hazelmere
 * April - Members
 * May - While Guthix Sleeps
 * June - Cape of Accomplishment
 * July - Baxtorian
 * August - Lucien
 * September - Ullek
 * October - Lord Drakan
 * November - Stone of Jas
 * December - Mi-Gor

How to list an article

 * 1) Put  '''on the page you wish to be featured.
 * 2) Create a page called RuneScape:Article of the Month/name of article. On the page, put === Name of article ===, and put the reason you think the article should be featured under it. Then put two level four headings labeled "Support" and "Oppose" under it. (Example: ====Support==== ) Put your signature ( ~ ) under the "support" heading.
 * 3) Under the "Candidates" section of this page, put  .

After voting
When the month is over, the following steps should be done:


 * 1) Remove featured from every nominated page.
 * 2) Near the bottom of the winning article, before the categories and templates, put month year. Month is the month that the article is featured, and year is the current year of the featuring.
 * 3) Create an archive called RuneScape:Article of the Month/archive#; replace # with the next increment from the previous archive. The archive for January 2010 will be number 42.
 * 4) Put archive at the top of the archive, then add , one for each article that was nominated that month. Then save the page.
 * 5) Add  *month - name of winning article  to the above section.
 * 6) Delete all of the nominations in the Candidates section to allow the next month's nominating to take place.
 * 7) Administrators - Update the the featured article template with the new feature article.