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==June 15==
==July 1==
{{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}} are games that we've all been waiting almost five years for, and we're incredibly excited by their approach.
Starting this month, we are going to revive the {{bp|featured articles}} process on Bulbapedia. On the first of every month, one featured article will be featured in this space. The first one will be in August, while July will serve us to try the new system:


Despite this, please keep in mind that '''''NO SPRITES ARE YET OFFICIAL'''''. All sprites found on the HGSS site are until release ''beta sprites'' that may change, much as the sprite for [[Origin Forme]] {{p|Giratina}} did between the beta phase and final release of {{game|Platinum}}.
Every FA nomination will remain open for one month, at the end of which we will decide whether or not to give the article in question Featured Article status or not. Just like before, every user can nominate any article {{bp|featured article candidates|the old way}}, as long as the article fits {{bp|what is a featured article?|the criteria}}. Every user may vote, provided that they explain their opinion – but note that the topic in question isn’t what the ''subject'' of the article is, but how good it is – its prose, details, accuracy, design, and level of interest. The final decision will not be based on the number of votes alone, but on their content as well.


Please keep this in mind. New HGSS sprites should be uploaded to the filename Spr 4h {{tt|###|National Dex number}}.png, but ''should not replace the sprites at the National Dex number at the current time''. Platinum sprites are overall better quality than the sprites we can get from HGSS at the current point -- wait for the games to come out, and we should be able to rip the best quality sprites from the games themselves within days, as we did with Platinum.
Many of the articles that were nominated up until today have changed a lot in the long time they were nominated, and so many votes became irrelevant. To start off with a clean slate, the nomination page was cleared and all nominees were voted on. [[History of Pokémon]] received featured status, and several other articles have been re-nominated with a fresh slate. The rest were rejected for the time being.


Again, excitement may be high, but do not make the quality of images take a dive just because {{p|Lugia}} can. Reservations start in July, pointing to a release sooner than any of us expect.
Please vote and nominate away!


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Revision as of 06:44, 1 July 2009

July 1

Starting this month, we are going to revive the featured articles process on Bulbapedia. On the first of every month, one featured article will be featured in this space. The first one will be in August, while July will serve us to try the new system:

Every FA nomination will remain open for one month, at the end of which we will decide whether or not to give the article in question Featured Article status or not. Just like before, every user can nominate any article the old way, as long as the article fits the criteria. Every user may vote, provided that they explain their opinion – but note that the topic in question isn’t what the subject of the article is, but how good it is – its prose, details, accuracy, design, and level of interest. The final decision will not be based on the number of votes alone, but on their content as well.

Many of the articles that were nominated up until today have changed a lot in the long time they were nominated, and so many votes became irrelevant. To start off with a clean slate, the nomination page was cleared and all nominees were voted on. History of Pokémon received featured status, and several other articles have been re-nominated with a fresh slate. The rest were rejected for the time being.

Please vote and nominate away!

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