Fanlore:Featured Article Nominations

This page lists active nominations for future featured articles. For general information about the featured article process, consult Fanlore:Featured Articles.

Nomination Criteria

When thinking of pages to nominate, try to focus on pages of interest that are well-developed (though not necessarily "finished" or perfect) and will spark interest in visitors and would-be editors.

A Featured Article nomination should fit the following minimum criteria:

The article should be thorough and have a solid amount of information about the topic.
It should follow Fanlore policies.
It should have a good first (or first two) paragraph(s) introducing the topic well. (These are used to spotlight the article on the main page.)
The article should not be flagged with Template:Stub, Template:ExpandArticle, or have headers with no content in them.
The page should be up to date, or as up to date as it can reasonably be.
It should not have been previously featured on the Fanlore main page.

For more detailed criteria, refer to Featured Article Nomination Requirements.

Adding a Nomination

To add a nomination, add a subsection with the format below in the 'Current nominations' section of this page. Featured Article Nomination process has additional information.

===[[Page title]]===

Nominated by [[User:Username|]] on DATE. As of this writing, the page has a good intro and is reasonably comprehensive, with no content flags. 

(Add other comments here)

Please try not to truncate this - if the page doesn't fulfil one or more of the criteria listed above, consider whether this can be addressed before nominating the page.

Voting on a Nomination

Check out the sections below and add your approval, rejection or other comments. Make sure to bold the main word(s) in your vote: 'yes,' 'no,' 'hesitant yes,' and so on.

If you have reservations about the quality of a nominated article, explain your concerns as specifically as possible, with tangible suggestions, so others will be able to address your points. We encourage editors to follow up on their own suggestions, but improving a nominated article is not the sole responsibility of the original nominator or commenter. All editors are welcome to fix problems that have been flagged up and say the issue has been resolved.

An article needs at least four affirmative votes to successfully qualify as a Featured Article. A user voting 'hesitant yes' (or 'nearly', etc.) should clearly outline the edits needed to turn their vote into a full yes. A hesitant vote can be counted as an affirmative once these suggestions have been addressed.

If an article acquires three or more negative votes with no votes in favour, it may be disqualified before the three month voting period has ended. Nominees with split votes or active conversation will remain active at the discretion of Fanlore Policy & Admin.

Please don't forget to sign your comments ("~~~~" will insert your name and date)).

Some example votes with comments:

* '''Yes.''' That looks great! --~~~~
* '''Yes.''' Good one! --~~~~
* '''Hesitant yes.''' Maybe that intro could be fleshed out a bit more? It doesn't really explain much. --~~~~
* '''No.''' This needs more [[PPOV]]. --~~~~

Please do not remove any nominations, or edit content signed by other users. Fanlore Policy & Admin and gardeners monitor this page and will archive or move nominations to the list of upcoming nominations as needed.

Past Nominations

Current Nominations

The Impact of Blogging on Fandom

Nominated by Distracteddaydreamer on 3 Jan 2024. I love the pages introduction and how it emphasises fans opinions on blogging in their own words. No content flags. Distracteddaydreamer (talk) 03:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Maybe: the intro seems a little off to me and I think needs to be reworded, how it says "Below are a series of excerpts from essays dated 2002-2005" like that doesn't seem like something you'd want to read on the front page. -- Kingstoken (talk) 19:50, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Similarly, " (content from earlier or later years is welcomed)" makes the page sound very work-in-progress. And I do appreciate that the lede is signposting a particular period of years that the article is going to focus on, i think that will make it a much more manageable article to construct. But the title suggests a much broader scope than that ("blog" as a term dates to 1997, and obviously blogging continues to impact fandom to this day) -- maybe a title change is in order? That seems easier than broadening the scope of the article (it's already very long). -- Quaelegit (talk) 22:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

It's the scope of this page that I really like, and the notion that it's a work in progress. I don't see the quote you refer to anymore (about adding content?), but an overarching look at specifically how blogs have impacted fandom is exactly what makes this article interesting and that's why it should change and be added to as things change. Though the essays are mostly dated from 2002-2005, its because they are quoting fans words to make a point about blogging and certainly the impact of blogging would be most seen as it comes into fashion and probably later if/when it goes out of fashion. Having a broad article to capture this makes more sense to me than a narrower article and then a second article with a new time frame... Distracteddaydreamer (talk) 16:16, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

The "quote" is the first sentence of the second paragraph of the lede. And there *are* some essays from as late as 2010 but they're retrospective. All of the discussion on the page (that i've skimmed at least) is about people reacting to the shift from Usenet/mailing lists to Personal Blogs as the central locus of internet interaction. If you want to keep the broad scope then there's 20 more years of blogging that needs to at least be acknowledged. [e.g. the "death of blogs" to social media was a HUGE deal last decade, surely people had something to say about that in a fannish context?] -- Quaelegit (talk) 20:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

I sort of get what you mean, in the sense that most of the quotes come from specifically that reaction to change, and some recent discussion might be cool to add too. I suppose my argument for the broad scope is twofold. Firstly, I think the header points (blogging is about the self, etc etc) as raised in the TOC seem to accurately parallel my assessment of discussions of the impact of blogging in Fandom; it remains accurate and reasonably comprehensive, to my knowledge. Newer discussion might reiterate similar points (and might be worth including, just to prove that!) but that is why it ought to all stay one article because a second article about say, the end of longform blogs for socmed would likely have the same thing to same about blogs as this article. So even though more could be added, I think it falls under the same points and structure of the existing article, if that makes sense? Secondly, I think its sort of becuase of that shift from mailing lists to blogs that this discussion surfaced at all? So its not bad for the article to prominently include that context; the impact of blogging was the shift and all the knock-on effects on fandom. Am a lil sleepy rn so I hope my point here is clear :' )

Edit/addon - after a closer look though, some of the discussion is particularly around the dynamics of livejournal/diaryland blogging, as opposed to tumblr blogging... see the point at the bottom about the friendslist, which only applies on websites like those. If there are enough points where livejournal blogging differs from tumblr/wordpress blogging, it seems worthwhile to separate the topics. So upon consideration while I wouldn't want the page to be restricted by time (like 2002-2005), it might be worthwhile to change "impact of blogging" to ... impact of livejournal/diaryland? Open to suggestions. Distracteddaydreamer (talk) 18:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Good idea on the "livejournal/diaryland" change. MPH 02:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes It is almost academic in length and content :-) -- WhatAreFrogs? (talk) 21:57, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Hesitant yes. I think it's a good source of info for anyone looking into the topic when it comes to LJ. Nothing strikes out to me as particularly featured article worthy though, I don't know of any other subject matter regarding fandom that would use the same format this article uses to describe a fandom-y thing unless it also relates to journal sites (with the way it quotes from journals, which are more coherent than most social media posts.) I also think the refs on this article are strangely formatted but I'm a glass house throwing stones complaining about that --Cavewomania (talk) 23:07, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes (I've been working the introduction.) MPH 02:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Not yet: This doesn't read like a wiki page to me, just a collection of quotes from discourse, and the description of the page ("below are a series of excerpts from essays that were written at this time. Woven into the excerpts are general thoughts and observations contributed from the recollections of individual fans.") suggests this too. It's difficult to parse without prior background knowledge on the migration to blogging and the sites themselves (which I don't have).

I agree with Quaelegit that the main problem is the scope of the page. A possibility could be reworking this page to be more generally about early fandom migration to blogging sites, and rename the page to something like "Early 2000s Fandom Migration to Blogging". Having a look around, we have a page for Fandom Migration generally that doesn't go in depth on any particular migration, pages like Livejournal that have information about migration to LJ specifically, but as far as I can tell, no page on this more broad occurrence in the early 2000s except for this page.

That doesn't necessarily require chopping this article down too much IMO — the main change would be adding a section at the beginning for context/summary of the migration itself and the reasons why it occurred (similar to the Livejournal page) and perhaps making the sections of this page into subsections under a "Impact"/"Discourse" heading. Even if the page isn't reworked in this way, I still think it would benefit from summary/context given to the topic as a whole. I wasn't around in fandom at the time the shift from mailing lists, Yahoo Groups etc to blogs occurred, and so I have very little understanding of (a) why this shift occurred (e.g. new websites launching), and (b) what the physical differences between the two modes of doing fandom were (as opposed to philosophical, which is what the page currently focuses on), which makes the page as is difficult for me to follow.

I would also like to see the length/number of quotes pared down a bit — Fanlore is a wiki, not a record of every example of something, and I think the quotes could be a lot more streamlined for better readability (summarising the arguments made in the quotes at the beginning of sections would also be help with this I think).

I'm happy to put my money where my mouth is and work on the structure & style of the page if others agree with what I've said above, but my knowledge of this era of fandom is pretty limited so I'll need some help filling in the content. Castille (talk) 05:17, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for your extensive thoughts on this! I think you make a few great points. I would support the page rename & crosslink to Fandom Migration - have added a link on that page for now. There's a lot to say about fandom migration and not enough deep dives into it IMO. I also like your suggestions for more context around why there was migration and the physical differences between the two websites - thanks for picking up on that blind spot.

I'd only disagree with the length / number of quotes, but that's because I feel like each quote is illustrating a fresh point, and are examples of rather than every example. There are lots of quotes because it was a big discussion with many perspectives. (I haven't dug through the references - if its similar essays cited again and again then maybe we can pull from alternate quotes). Though ofc there could improvement around the framing for clarity and readability and your help would absolutely be welcome in making the article tighter! I just want to make sure none of the "philosophical" discussion around the fandom migration is lost, because that is the sort of perspective I think is tricky to search for since its so perspective and experience based and hence important to archive. -Distracteddaydreamer (talk) 07:40, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't think I have the bandwith to help much with this in the near term but I like Castille's proposals. My first instinct is to agree with Distracteddaydreamer to lean on the side of reorganizing/contextualizing quotes instead of paring them down, but I haven't read the page thoroughly in a while so maybe when I re-read i'll see some options to combine/summarize. Maybe I can help with that, as well as with checking the references (I skimmed the references and I didn't see a lot of repeats but I *did* see a lot that could use reformatting/filling in info). Yeah, I'll try help with that soon. -- Quaelegit (talk) 20:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Almost: It was really interesting to read, especially how some of the same issues/fears about loss of community/fandom interaction that we are seeing now with new platforms we also there during the move to blogging. I enjoyed reading the article. I agree with other points made and think if a few changes were made, it would be solid. It does seem primarily Livejournal/specific early 2000s focused so I agree the title and framing of the article might benefit from shifting to that perspective, because an article about all blogging platforms might be unmanageable.Cookies and chaos (talk) 12:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Sherlock Holmes

Nominated by Kingstoken on Apirl 2, 2024. As of this writing, the page has a good intro and no content flags. One of the OG fandoms, and I think this is a fairly good overview.

Almost: The introduction needs to be a little longer before its featured. I'd like to see some more detail on the fan response to Sherlock's death, but I know with such an old fandom, that info might not be available. --Auntags (talk) 22:39, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Not voting on the article right now, but for "response to Sherlock's death" i bet there's some good academic papers about it. Does anyone have jstor access and know how to search for this? -- Quaelegit (talk) 04:08, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Also not voting yet, but answering Quaelegit's question I remember that ACD received many unfriendly letters regarding the character's death that later led him to revive him, If I'm not mistaken, I read some articles in Brazilian Portuguese, but I would have to research a little more -- Ellakbhesse (talk) 14:28, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

strive seek find yield

Nominated by Kingstoken on May 31, 2024. As of this writing, the page has a good intro and no content flags. I thought this Star Trek:AOS fic might be an interesting feature.

Almost: I've rearranged it a bit to have a more clear lead and overview section and added some internal links, but still I think the lead needs more info — I'm not familiar enough with the fandom to know if the fic is known for anything in particular, how popular it is etc. I'd also like to see some commentary/context given to the reactions. - Castille (talk) 07:08, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Almost: Looking at the page compared to other Featured Articles on fic, it doesn't have a section for inspired fanworks (fic, art, podfic, translation...), , as well as still lacking the info mentioned by Castille Hazel (talk) 06:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

No vote, but... Per internal discussion, the fandom-specific fanfiction infoboxes are getting deprecated. I'll jumpstart work on the Star Trek infobox replacements today, but I'd like to wait until the infobox for the page is switched out before featuring it. Pinky G Rocket (talk) 16:38, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Dream SMP

Nominated by MaybeCatherine on 8 June 2024. As of this writing, the page has a good intro and is reasonably comprehensive, with no content flags. Streaming and YouTube based fandoms have gained a lot of prominence over the past few years, and this article is an interesting introduction to one of the more significant fandoms to come out of that.

Hesitant Yes: Very comprehensive and informative article. However, I would prefer some re-organisation for the current Canon section, as I worry it might overshadow the fandom aspect of this subject. Maybe some abbreviated summary of events or links to external wiki re canon section and shift the focus from retelling the canon events to how the fandom reacted to such events? -- Aerlko (talk) 03:03, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Almost The fandom section of the article doesn’t feel as comprehensive or organized as the rest of the article, and I feel like it has a lot of room to be expanded before it becomes a featured article. 90PercentHuman (talk) 09:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. Rossi (talk) 03:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Racetrack Higgins

Nominated by Sobqjmv sphinx on June 23, 2024. As of this writing, the page has a (decent?) intro and is reasonably comprehensive, with no content flags. I am nominating with some hesitation and in part with the hopes of getting suggestions for expansion and especially for how to format the intro paragraph.

Almost: I think it needs a little more polish before featuring. First, I think there should be more fanwork examples, for the most popular character in the fandom he should have more than two fics as examples. Is there any fanart examples? Could we get a piece of fanart for the infobox? Also I would like to see a few more popular tropes/fanon for the character, I think you have a good start with him possibly being Italian and neurodivergent, but are there other themes or tropes that keep coming up in fanworks for this character? -- Kingstoken (talk) 23:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes: changing vote to yes after changes made to the article -- Kingstoken (talk) 10:04, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for helping. I've added a ton of examples now and started on some other tropes. I'm going to look into getting an image for the infobox but I'm not certain yet. — Sobqjmv sphinx (talk) 00:29, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Added art for the infobox now. — Sobqjmv sphinx (talk) 16:41, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes from me. Rossi (talk) 16:45, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

The Third Verdict

Nominated by Kingstoken on July 1, 2024, As of this writing the page has good intro and no content flags. I stumbled across this article and thought it might make a good featured article.

Not yet. Lead needs bulking; the page needs a plot summary instead of just a quote from a blurb; image layout needs to be fixed; "reactions and reviews" needs synthesis/a summary instead of just using raw quotes. Pinky G Rocket (talk) 16:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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