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 (Image:), 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.sdfsdf

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

How to list an article

 * 1) Put  '''on the page you wish to be featured.
 * 2) Create an article at RuneScape:Article of the Month/Name of article replacing name of article with the name.
 * 3) On the page, place === Name of article ===, then your reason. Save.
 * 4) Come to this page (RuneScape:Article of the Month) and add  at the bottom to finish the process.

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 October 2009 will be number 39.
 * 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.