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Featured articles, for the time being, are currently nominated and voted on by staff members. However, if you would like to assist us in improving nominated or discussed articles, any editor is certainly welcome give us a hand in our wiki's continuing improvement. Thanks!

So far, we have:

• 6 articles featuring Kingdom Hearts exclusive characters (Sora, Kairi, Riku, Naminé, Roxas, & Larxene).
• 2 articles featuring a Heartless enemy (Guard Armor and Shadow).
• 5 articles featuring a World (Traverse Town, Awakening, 100 Acre Wood, End of the World, and Land of Departure).
• 4 articles focusing on gameplay elements (Sleight, Master Form, Treasure Chest, and Avatar Menu).
• 2 articles featuring a Nobody enemy (Berserker and Dragoon).
• 3 articles featuring mini-games (Puzzle, Gummi Ship, and Titan Cup).
• 2 articles featuring a Disney-based character (White Rabbit and Jiminy Cricket).
• 2 articles featuring a Final Fantasy-based character (Leon and Moogle).
• 2 articles featuring a weapon (Oathkeeper and Ultima Weapon).
• 1 article on a main game in the series (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep)
• 3 miscellaneous articles (Kingdom Hearts, Another side, Another story..., and Removed content in the Kingdom Hearts series).
• 1 article on Kingdom Hearts series merchandise (Kingdom Hearts Trading Card Game)
• 1 article featuring a Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days mission (Mission 93: Believe)

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The rules for user nomination are as follows:

• After a primary category of article has an article chosen to be the Featured Article, any other articles within this category cannot be nominated again for two months.
• To accurately select an article that editors can review for detail to the very last word, phrasing, and format, all voting users must have 200 edits in the mainspace.
• Articles can never be renominated after being chosen.
• In the event of a tie, the former nominated article shall be featured first, and the latter nominated article shall be featured the following month. All voting restrictions for that month will roll over to the following month.
• On the final day of the month, a staff member will close the voting, and voting for the next month shall begin.
• Please provide reasoning as to why you think an article is fit to be featured--remember, by featuring an article, you are presenting an article that represents the best work of its category. Whatever is nominated should be a model article for others that are similar to it.
  • Also try to provide variety in your nomination--our goal is to balance out the "demographic" of articles above, not add more character articles.

October 2011

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 22:36, 3 September 2011 (UTC) The following articles: Aero Gravity Magnet Since we are removing the Cleanup of the Month, we need to showcase whatever success we did have.

Chitalian8 Say... — Only by allowing strangers in can we find new ways to be ourselves. Life's little crossroads are often as simple as the pull of a trigger. — 22:42, 3 September 2011 (UTC) I'd go with Aero, since that was not only the result of the Cleanup of the Month, but also the result of a Heartless Manufactory.

{{LightRoxas|text=I did nominate Aero last month, but we decided to go with Titan Cup since it had been nominated for 3 consecutive months. Now, though, I'd go for Aero, as I think it's the most complete of the three.

September 2011

Ineligible Categories: Days Missions, Final Fantasy Characters

LightRoxas - "One day when you're in trouble, the light within you will lead you to the light of another. Someone to keep you safe." TALK - "Ven, I'm sorry... I might not make it back as soon as I thought. But I promise I'll be there, one day, to wake you up." For Featured Article, we've generally been avoiding magic articles because they've been relatively low quality. However, there are now a few magic articles that are higher quality, notably Aero, Gravity, and Magnet. I think we should feature one of these articles; right now I'd nominate Aero, as it is the highest quality of those three.

It is pitch black... You are likely to be eaten by a grue... You are standing alone in the room. Beneath your right foot is something. When you move your leg, you can hear it crunch, like old paper. >take paper Taken. >examine paper It appears to be an ancient letter, from someone known as "The_Inexistent". >examine message from The_Inexistent The message reads: I pinged Kryten on the IRC, and asked him what had to be improved on the Titan Cup page. I fixed all of the issues he mentioned. As such, I would like to nominate Titan Cup. I feel that, even though the magic pages are getting along, they are still incomplete. Perhaps they could be featured in the future, unless, Aero is indeed finished right now, in which case it would be a great candidate.

LightRoxas - "I'm proud to be a small part of something bigger - the people it did choose. TALK - "I am who I am, because of them." Nice Zork bubble, Inexistent. I do think Aero is finished, but Titan Cup has been in the running for a few months now. I'd say go for Titan Cup this time, and I'll renominate Aero for next month.

August 2011

Ineligible Categories: Merchandise, Days Missions

Since Moogle and Titan Cup were a bust, I'm open to either of the two. If the articles are up and ready at the end of the month we'll use it. Xion4ever Who am I? — 06:45, 2 July 2011 (EDT)

LightRoxas - "It was the sound of books... pages being turned. So, that's just what I was doing, just reading, uh... books. So not a moron." TALK - "Apparently when you scream at a marshmallow, all you get is a scared marshmallow." As good choices as both those seem, Titan Cup doesn't hold much significance and Moogle still needs plenty of work. I'd like to nominate Grim Reaper, a difficult Heartless from Kingdom Hearts II. It has a large strategy section, and it has been ages since a Heartless has been featured. EDIT 10:38, 19 July 2011 (EDT): Since I originally posted this, Moogle has been fixed and is now a model article. I'm certainly open to Moogle being featured.

Eternal Nothingness XIII - I'm not afraid of what the darkness holds now. Even if you do wrest control of my heart from me, even if you cast me into the deepest, darkest abyss, you'll never sway me from the one cause that pushes me to keep on fighting. Whatever the cost, I'm ready to pay it. TALK - There's darkness within me... So what does that matter? I know I'm strong enough to hold it back. — 14:33, 18 July 2011 (EDT) I second the Moogle's nomination.

The Inexistent - Pitiful users, mindlessly collecting information. The rage of an edit releases this knowledge, and they all come together, to form: The Wiki!!! TALK - And on the Wiki these words appear: "My name is The_Inexistent, user of users: Look upon my edits, ye Mighty, and despair!" Actually, I do believe the Moogle article is "finished". I may be very wrong here, but I believe the recent interest in the Moogle shops was merely spurred by finishing Moogle. But then again, I'm only saying this because I feel the Moogle shop info should be in the Moogle Shop article, where it rightfully belongs. I also brought this subject up on the talk page. EDIT 16:53, 18 July 2011 (EDT) : Moogle is back in the running. I vote for Moogle (I guess I'm kind of nominating it, too.

SilverCrono Well, I can tell who you are. — "Looks like you're prepared." "What is with you and picking up stray puppies?" — 17:45, 18 July 2011 (EDT) I say Moogle. A lot of work has been put into it and it deserves the nom, I think it looks good now.

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 12:43, 19 July 2011 (EDT) Good to see that Moogle is getting to where it needs to be. As for the shop info, we could transclude it on the page and merge Moogle Shop altogether. However, it makes more sense to me to place the shop table on Moogle Shop, and then make a short section on the Moogle article with the Main template leading to Moogle Shop.

July 2011

Ineligible Categories: Merchandise, Gameplay Elements

The Inexistent - The end... TALK - is not so near when I am here... For this month, I nominate Titan Cup. We have never featured a cup article, let alone anything to do with the colleseum. This article is by far the most complete of all the cup articles, and it has one of the most interesting trophies. All I need to know is if it is missing "further plot information", like what is listed on the majority of other cup articles, or if that is what the strategy and rules are. Until then, I'll be addnig a plot related section using <!--- --->. EDIT 21:19, 7 June 2011 (EDT): Mini games are not considered gameplay elements, correct? I do not believe so, as they are too numerous, and they rarely contribute to the actual gameplay, plus it doesn't really fit with the other gameplay elements already featured.

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 01:00, 8 June 2011 (EDT) Moogle is extremely close to completion; its few imperfections are even able to be and have been listed on its talk page. With an entire month to complete this, I think we should certainly feature Moogle. Lately, we have been featuring articles that are more minor within the entire KH universe. While this is good for the articles and hard to not do while trying to keep our original character count down, I think Moogle is a more major article that is close to perfection.

The Inexistent - Tic tic! TALK - Wait, not the song... Fair enough. I denominate Titan Cup. I'll renominate it next month after it's been polished, and when it is completely eligible (because I'm still not sure...)

Well, it's the first of the month. Seeing as Titan Cup isn't up to par, I suppose Moogle is the next choice. However, it seems we didn't finish Moogle. As such, I'm going to nominate a Days mission article: Mission 93: Believe for this month. Like the other mission articles they're complete with videos, strategy sections, story summaries, treasure locations, etc. Note: I'm mainly nominating this because we're short on time. If someone has something better to switch it to, by all means, change it.--Xion4ever 23:07, 1 July 2011 (EDT)

June 2011

Ineligible Categories: Gameplay Elements, Enemies

The Inexistent - Tic tic! TALK - Wait, not the song... Okay, so after some discussion at the Roundtable, we are rolling over last month's noms to this month. Therefore, this leaves us with: Kingdom Hearts Trading Card Game - Two votes, nominated first Yen Sid - Ineligable (Darkheart3 lacks sufficient edits), nominated second End of the World - Two votes, nominated third According to the current rules, the TCG would currently be winning, as, in the event of a tie, it was nominated first. The reasoning behind the nominees: TCG - Reveals Card: space, first real world article Yen Sid - Important in upcoming DDD EotW - Diverse media, links to pages that need improvements So, yeah. These are the noms. Vote away!

I say KH TCG. WE NEED MORE WORK ON CARD SPACE. So yeah, TCG. --Ag (Silver) - 47 107.8682 amu ~Crono 00:13, 8 May 2011 (EDT)

...I don't remember deciding that. I remember you mentioning it in the middle of another discussion and assuming it to be discussed. Sure, it's fine to nominate those again, but let's not exclude any other particularly or potentially magnificent articles. --^DTN 21:12, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

On that note, I'd like to nominate Moogle. We've only featured one article focusing on a Final Fantasy character, and that series is booming right now, with Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy Dissidia Duodecim, and Final Fantasy Fantasy Type-0. However, since none of these are prevalent in the series, I say we just go with a constant: Moogle! I'm going to start working on the article to make it a more proper candidate than it is now, so please do consider this. --^DTN 21:20, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

I'm pretty sure the whole point of it being a Featured Article is that it's a good article, not that the series it's from is "booming". Just the fact that you need to go and fix it up shows that it is in no condition to be the Featured Article. For that reason I place my vote for KH TCG to raise awareness about the card articles and feature an article that is more original. -- AS IF! 21:23, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

I already put in that I wanted TCG. When you said you were the fun one on the lane, who was your competition? The mailbox? - Erry 00:04, 15 May 2011 (EDT)

Done... almost.

As if: Of course, you are correct. The condition of the article comes before that of the popularity of its subject. However, the great part of that is that the article is in near-prime condition now. All it is missing now that I can see is a render of its Timeless River form. TCG is important, though I'm thinking of distribution here, so that we have some diversity in our articles being featured. --^DTN 03:23, 15 May 2011 (EDT)

Diversity was the entire reason I nominated this. We have no real world articles featured, nothing related to cards, and 6 character articles. KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 09:25, 15 May 2011 (EDT)

Moot. Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is a real-world article, though not specified explicitly, and as you can see above, Final Fantasy character articles fall into a different category than that of Kingdom Hearts original characters. Plus, the TCG article is not even close to being of a high standard that would make it an exemplary article. Moogle, on the other hand, just needs the Timeless River model, and that's purely aesthetic for visualization purposes. --^DTN 17:59, 15 May 2011 (EDT)

And what, exactly, is it missing? KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 20:40, 15 May 2011 (EDT)

May 2011

Ineligible Categories: Enemies, Items

The Inexistent - Dusk, Light to Darkness... TALK - The great transition. Well, it's almost half way through the month... I'm not sure if this nomination will go through (as I suspect that Avatar Menu will be used next month if complete). BUT, in the event that it isn't, or for June, I nominate Kingdom Hearts Trading Card Game. The article is complete, with no expansion templates, stub tags, or section stub tags. It gives a complete overview of the TCG, and, if featured, would allow readers to discover the dozens and dozens of card articles we have here. EDIT- 20:24, 13 April 2011 (EDT) And we've never done a real world article. This would be a perfect opportunity.

Here's the thing: the TCG page doesn't link to a single card article. If there were a nav template or a list of cards, it'd do the trick. That being the case, I'm going for another nom, and I'm calling for End of the World. The article's complete, the media within it are diverse and some of the links lead to pages which need improvement. Why did the Keyblade choose me? I have to know. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 19:59, 17 April 2011 (EDT)

UxieLover1994 Tiempo de morder de nuevo con el poder! El tema de hoy: su sorpresa! — 09:28, 18 April 2011 (EDT) End of the World: I vote for that, too! Since there are pages connected to it that need to be edited and such.

The Inexistent - All your base are belong to us... TALK - What you say?!? Done. The article now links to ALL Card: articles, and soon they will all link back to the TCG article. I still believe that this article would be a good choice, as it would be an entirely new category, as opposed to another character article or another world article.

Erry - Nothing is true Everything is permitted TALK - I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and this is my Brotherhood. ~ 18:34, 28 April 2011 (EDT) I say Card Game.

April 2011

Ineligible Categories: Items, Weapons

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 01:08, 3 March 2011 (EST) After a discussion with Kryten, we're really looking to feature Avatar Menu for April, if the community agrees. However, the article is missing a bit of info here and there: Confirmation of random avatar names. There are possibly 10+ more that we have not yet covered. Gallery of scratch card backgrounds and icons. General edits to the introductory lead text. Filling in/creating the Floor Code and Floor Challenge tables Hope this helps! If the community has something else in mind, don't be hesitant to suggest it. Be sure to refer to the stats above! We've only had two featured articles of gameplay elements, so here's a potentially excellent third one.

AS IF! The world is garbage! CRUNCH! Actually, I was going to suggest "List of Avatar Parts", just because of how amazing it is that we managed to get all 900+ images, but that works too. I can definitely tell that you're trying to make it worthy of being the Featured Article, just by the sheer amount of edits made on it in the past few days. If we can just make it perfect, I definitely think we could use it for April's Featured Article.

The Inexistent - All the world's a puzzle, and I the one who made it so... TALK - EVIL has come... at last... Thirded. On a completely unrelated note, yes, it is missing Re:coded info, I'll work on that EDIT 17:18, 4 March 2011 (EST) - Wait... what info is missing? To my knowledge, it's attacks didn't change. The kanji on the sword is translated, in the design section. Also, so I may be able to fix it, what info is missing? We have the artwork, and all of the stats are filled in. And lastly, I thought that the FA should have some amount of text, as opposed to articles that are 90% images like treasure chest or 98.56% images like List of Avatar Parts...

LightRoxas - "Humans can be terrible creatures indeed." TALK - "Now, kill me... or I... shall kill YOU!" As much as I like Tron, I'm gonna agree with Avatar Menu. I feel like a lot of people forgot about Re:Coded because of BBS earlier release and news about KH3D. Maybe this will remind some readers.

AS IF! The world is garbage! CRUNCH! Sorry, LightRoxas, but you need at least 200 Mainspace edits before you can vote for a featured article. Currently you have ten.

SilverCrono Well, I can tell who you are. — "Lea, we have to go." "Well, I can tell you are." — 17:29, 26 March 2011 (EDT) Yeah, Avatar Menu works for me. I'm using mah hood bubble because I'm not used to contributing here...

It's already 8 April; how come the Featured Article on the homepage hasn't been changed? I'd change it, though I'd just need to know what to throw into the "preview". This monster... This is no Unversed. Just a dweller of Darkness. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 05:23, 8 April 2011 (EDT)

AS IF! The world is garbage! CRUNCH! I'm pretty sure it's because they didn't finish it in time, which is why if you look on Kryten's user page and talk page, he demands that everyone to help finish it. (Yay, that's a subjunctive indirect command dependant clause.)

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 18:25, 9 April 2011 (EDT) After some decision-making in the roundtable, it was decided that Avatar Menu is still unfit to be featured. Instead, we will be featuring the model article for the Items project, Dragoon. KAIN HIGHWIND FTW

March 2011

Ineligible Categories: Weapons, Worlds

The Inexistent - Ain't no grave... TALK - Can hold my body down... For the month of March, I nominate Invisible. Now, you may be saying, "T_I, why are you nominating your favorite article?" Well, for one reason, only two Heartless enemies have ever been featured. Second, this article is extremely complete, with all journal entries, a very complete design section, and even an image of its weapon. In addition, this Heartless has appeared in several games. And, finally, the Invisibles are more of an unusual type of Heartless, having a human- like build, weilding an actual weapon, and bearing writing on said weapon.

Raiden9000 - I nominate Cloud Strife's page. My reason for this is because there is only one Final Fantasy based character page that is featured so far and that is Leon. Cloud also has some good attacks when you fight him throughout the games and has a cool fight scene with Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 2. Sorry if my nomination was meant to be in one of those bubble things like the one above, but I don't know how to do those.

Unfortunatly, this is ineligible, because: As per the rules above, you lack sufficient edits, and gave no real reason why the page itself is a polished article. KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 21:43, February 3, 2011 (UTC)

Raiden9000 - My bad. Stupid dyslexia... I see now. 200 edits... Is that in this wiki alone or across all wikis?

I was going to nominate Silver Rock, but Invisible is good, too. I'll just use SR for June >:3 --Ag (Silver) - 47 107.8682 amu ~Crono 21:52, February 3, 2011 (UTC)

@Raiden - No, it is unique to this wiki, but you should be sure to check the rules on other wikis, because no two are alike. KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 21:02, February 4, 2011 (UTC)

Plus FA still tiptoes on Staff jurisdiction. maggosh 21:17, February 4, 2011 (UTC)

Raiden9000 - Cool thanks. I'm going to go now. =D

LightRoxas - "I'm proud to be a small part of something bigger - the people it did choose. TALK - "I am who I am, because of them." I'd like to nominate Mark of Mastery, as it is of importance in the upcoming title KH3D. March is the launch month of the 3DS, so we can expect a lot more info on the game coming our way soon. The article itself is fairly polished and it would make a unique change of pace for FA.

As much as I love BBS, I'm gonna go with Invisible..it's nice for a change to see a Heartless after all these Nobodies/Unversed games. Anywho, I'm all for Invisible. However, isn't there supposed to be a strategy section on the page?--Xion4ever 18:14, 11 February 2011 (EST)

AS IF! The world is garbage! CRUNCH! I would like to nominate Mickey Mouse. He is one of the most important characters in the series, and is a fan favorite (he placed third in the Keyblade War). His article is also very polished and well written, with no additions or revisions listed at the top of the page. There have also been only two Disney characters in Featured Articles, much like Heartless, so I think it's time we give Mickey the respect he deserves.

I'll second thatDarkheart3

2 things:

1. @Xion - True, I'll just change the ability section to strategy, because that is what it's supposed to be, anyway.
2. @Any staff member - The edit count rule is... well, two ineligible nominations have been made this month. Your thoughts?

KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 08:50, 19 February 2011 (EST)

But I have 241 mainspace edits! Don't you need 200 to suggest a page? AS IF! 11:41, 19 February 2011 (EST)

You're fine, As if, I was refering to LightRoxas and Raiden. KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 14:44, 21 February 2011 (EST)

All right, since my nomination is ineligible, I'll just vote for Invisible too. LightRoxas 16:47, 23 February 2011 (EST)

Just to clarify: everyone on here nominates/votes for Invisible, yes? If not, speak now by shortly, and clearly nominating something else. DON'T RANT SAYING "Since it's ineligible/I don't really like it, but I'll go with it/etc." Peferct example sentence: "I do not nominate/vote for Invisible, instead I nominate <insert article with link here>."--Xion4ever 18:53, 24 February 2011 (EST)

Yes, I vote for Invisible. Wasn't really trying to rant. LightRoxas 15:00, 25 February 2011 (EST)

Verdict: Invisible is still missing several pieces of quality information--Re:coded info, translation of the kanji on the sword, and information from all the Ultimanias. Since no other article has recieved a significant amount of sceondary support to this article, we had an IRC conversation in #KHWiki-noticeboard, and decided upon Treasure Chest, with a super special surprise image system to be coded by LegoAlchemist. --^DTN 01:08, 3 March 2011 (EST)

February 2011

LightRoxas - "I fight for the Users!" TALK - "I'm also better than you!" So, I've read the posts below, and it looks like this is now open to non-staff. If I'm correct, then I'd like to nominate Aqua for February. Here's why: She won the Keyblade War, which recently ended. She is mentioned in the Secret Ending of the recently released Kingdom Hearts Re:coded. She appears in the also recently released Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix. These are just my ideas, and if this is all still staff only, then I apologize.

Chitalian8 Talk to a Wall... — All it takes is a step forward. Don't make me laugh. — 17:39, January 20, 2011 (UTC) I'd say winning the Keyblade War would be a reason not to make her the featured article.

Two things: One, there needs to be something this month that isn't a character. Second, isn't this supposed to be staff only? KRCCFNF is tired of being STEPPED ON. 02:44, January 21, 2011 (UTC)

1) Then what about Ultima Weapon? It has appeared in several games, and we've only done one featured weapon.

2) It looks like they decided to make it open if you read the discussion below. LightRoxas 14:14, January 21, 2011 (UTC)

As much as I like Aqua as a character, I favor Ultima Weapon. We haven't been focusing on weapons very much for Featured Articles or Media, so it's nice for a change.--Xion4ever 17:30, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

I agree, Ultima Weapon's a good idea. maggosh 17:44, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

I also agree, but would you all say the article is high-quality enough to be the Featured Article? It looks good to me, just wanted to make sure. Chitalian8 01:20, January 25, 2011 (UTC)

I personally am all for it, it's something new, something that's not overly cliche, sounds good to me--ShadowsTwilight 05:58, February 1, 2011 (UTC)

Verdict: Ultima Weapon !

January 2011

I nominate Land of Departure for the month of January. With the possibility of the Wiki leaving in the quickly approacing months of the future, I thought Land of Departure would be nice for it's title- departure. Think of this nomination for January as a farewell to this horrid Oasis, and a departure towards a better home. Also, once we do move, I nominate the remains of this Wiki to be Castle Oblivion. :P--Xion4ever 19:09, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

The problem with that is that articles should be nominated for excellence, not timing... but darn, this one is just too perfect to resist. If we could get a few staffers, and of course anyone else, to spruce this article up into an example of an ideal world article, I am all for it. --^DTN 23:58, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

I would be willing to assist. maggosh 00:25, December 17, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, we have a problem. Head down to the bottom of the page, it seems we agreed to allow this article of the month to be decided by voting. Two thoughts: 1) January could quite possibly be the last month that this wiki remains on the wiki before moving, so we could make the change back to voting in conjunction with our move. Actually, this might be a helpful transition. 2) We have already chosen an article that seems pretty up-to-snuff, we could also just make sure the general community is fine with it. --^DTN 23:11, December 26, 2010 (UTC)

I could really go either way, but considering it's our last month, I'd say open the polls. maggosh 00:14, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

December 2010

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." As am I. Hmm...I think Removed content in the Kingdom Hearts series might make the cut.

Well then, allow [another] staff member to appear. Terribly sorry for the late response, guys. Yes, this is only a staff thing (unless there's been a change made during my inactivity)...anywho, if you guys notice that the staff hasn't voted/selected a featured article for the next month, tell them! Kryten, Neumannz, Maggosh, ENX, and now, TNE are on numerous times of the week be it on here or on the IRC. Inactive staff such as myself, Kate, and the others do occasionally check in here once in a while. Regardless of when we appear or not, you guys can always ping us on our talkpage or on the IRC (heck, even the Facebook/Twitter pages would work) about it.

Onto the vote! I second Maggosh's nomination for Removed content in the Kingdom Hearts series.--Xion4ever 20:34, December 14, 2010 (UTC)

Well, it's official then. :D maggosh 22:14, December 14, 2010 (UTC)

And it's done! --^DTN 22:21, December 14, 2010 (UTC)

November 2010

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." Well, seeing as nobody's made any suggestions for November, I'll put in my own nomination; Another side, Another story.... Now, taking DTN's concern last month into consideration - "not completely consistent with the format of our other [game] articles" - I took the initiative to ensure Another Side's article matches the format of our other secret ending articles; I'll admit there was some degree of difficulty as the article supports more than one of them. I do believe a secret ending hasn't been nominated before, so why not do something different? Thank you for your consideration.

ShadowsTwilight - He's leaving you behind, and when you catch up, he'll be a different person TALK - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I like it

I second (Er, third.) that vote.--My Keyblade + Your face = pwnage 20:16, November 3, 2010 (UTC)Chihuahuaman

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." ...guys, Featured Article is still under Staff jurisdiction.

I'm sorry, nobody told me that. Thanks for telling me before i got a warning.--My Keyblade + Your face = pwnage 00:13, November 5, 2010 (UTC)Chihuahuaman

October 2010

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 18:45, September 4, 2010 (UTC) I see that Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep was chosen as the featured article. My commentary on this would be as follows: BIG MISTAKE The article is still very messy and is not completely consistent with the format of our other game articles. Also, whoever nominated and supported this seemed to forget that all Featured Articles should follow the manual of style, be written well, and not have any maintenance issues. You can see a missing <ref></ref> tag in the bottom of the page, was that not obvious enough? But I digress. 100 Acre Wood is the only quality article that comes to mind right now for October. EDIT: This is not to be taken offensively, but just to remind all of the staffers that an article should be thoroughly inspected before being nominated, and not to just nominate an article because it fits into the time frame. Thanks!

Eternal Nothingness XIII - This heart belongs again to darkness. All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it—it grows, consumes it. Such is its nature. In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came. TALK - Your body submits, your heart succumbs—so why does your mind resist? — 19:16, October 1, 2010 (UTC) The only reason you think 100 Acre Wood is such a masterpiece is because YOU revised it, DTN. That's not a fair enough judgment/reason to nominate an article. Birth by Sleep was elected to sort of tie-in to the Wiki's theme and also encourage users to edit the article, as well as articles based on it with the new information the English adaptions revealed. I'd say, in the spirit of Halloween being in October, the stereotypical thing to do would be nominate a Halloween-based article, so we at least acknowledge it in some way, even though switching to a temporary Halloween theme is completely pointless. So I'd like to nominate Halloween Town, simply on the grounds that it's based on the best stop-motion film of all time, has appeared in almost every game, has a great storyline, and makes the Heartless encountered there look totally awesome! Granted it could still use some work, that can all be changed in time.

maggosh - I had been told the darkness would devour me, but what terrors could it possibly hold, so long as I found the strength to control it? TALK - This world is just too small. I second ENX's notion.

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 02:32, October 2, 2010 (UTC) In response, ENX, 100 Acre Wood is in full accordance with our Manual of Style. An article should be "perfect" before it is posted on the main page, not after. Then it is no better than the Cleanup of the Month, and defeats the entire purpose of Feaured Article. You'll also notice that BebopKate approved of the article beforehand, complimenting its high quality.

BebopKate - This one is Zazzles...because he's Zazzy! TALK - Here's your cat...and here's your $20...03:33, October 2, 2010 (UTC) I'm going to leave the Featured Article as is until we come to a consensus. ENX, the point of a Featured Article is that it is already the best it can be or pretty close, not that it needs improvement or fits a theme. If it needs improvement, it should be fixed before it is nominated. If it's something to encourage improvement, then we have the Improvement section for those needs. DTN, 100 Acre Wood is very good indeed, but it's hardly a consensus with one or two people. We need more input here. Given the direction of where this is going, I'm going to flat out say I'm not going to be the sole decision maker here. I want to hear from other staff members. We've got them and we need more input from them as well. We'll delay the vote until Monday to make a final decision.

Chihuahuaman What did i do!? What did YOU do!?!? — 22:35, October 2, 2010 (UTC) What about Olympus Coliseum? It has appeared in every Kingdom Hearts game and it offers a challenge everytime.

Chihuahuaman What did i do!? What did YOU do!?!? — 22:36, October 2, 2010 (UTC) Oh, sorry. It is probably a mod only thing. My bad.

Neumannz — Looks like I'm gonna have to jump...! TALK — I work alone! Except when I work with Xion...which is all the time. — 02:10, October 3, 2010 (UTC)   I would like to nominate Blitz, which over the past week, has been hammered into what I hope is a model technique article.

Bluer says at 07:37, October 3, 2010 (UTC) Olympus Coliseum is missing information, and Blitz has a collection of redlinks. 100 Acre Wood is agreeable.

September '10 Nominees

BebopKate - This one is Zazzles...because he's Zazzy! TALK - Here's your cat...and here's your $20...06:33, August 1, 2010 (UTC) *dusts off the page* Whew! Been a while since we were in here. *opens wikiwindows to let in fresh wikiair, uses her wikibroom to clean away the wikicobwebs, and then trips over a wikiottoman as karmic justice for blatent abuse of the prefix "wiki"*. Let's see...where were we...ah yes...

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 03:33, October 2, 2010 (UTC) Gummi Ship was indeed the selection for August, my only issue was finding an appropriate image of reasonable quality. Hopefully we will receive blueprint images of the Gummi Ships soon. It has been a while since we have featured a world article, I think the last one was Traverse Town. I'm still not too sure about featuring a world from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, due to our spoiler policy, but perhaps a world the former games would suffice, maybe even something that could tie into Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep without being spoilerific. Any suggestions?

Regarding world ideas... Castle Oblivion- Aqua creating Castle Oblivion from the darkened Land of Depature. Radiant Garden- Meh, it's in KH II and BBS. Olympus Coliseum- Same reasoning as Radiant Garden. If it's worlds not pertaining to BBS in anyway, I'm up for anything. The Inexistent proposed the Land of Dragons previously.. Xion4ever Who am I? — 12:42, August 5, 2010 (UTC)

BebopKate - This one is Zazzles...because he's Zazzy! TALK - Here's your cat...and here's your $20...18:17, August 15, 2010 (UTC) I think the Land of Dragons is the most complete of those suggested at this point. Part of the problem with using the BBS worlds is that they're technically not finished until we get the release here, since I'm sure bits will change, and, as Xion mentioned, the spoiler issues. Besides, Land of Dragons is a nice example of an article for a world that has so far appeared in a single game.

DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 03:47, August 30, 2010 (UTC) Hola, señors y señoritas. I have a bit of news for us that might change our plans. Even though we all know that Room Core should have been the Featured Media for September, it looks like we are going to be putting up some art of the Land of Departure. I'm still hoping that everyone spontaneously changes their vote to the much superior Room Core, but in the event that doesn't happen, we may want to reconsider putting Land of Departure up as the Featured Article. Personally, I'm not sure how good or non-rigged it would look to have our Featured Media and Featured Article correspond with each other. At the same time, it might be nice, since Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is just around the corner. Hooray! Anyway, I did a long, drastic cleanup of 100 Acre Wood yesterday that should make it a model article. Plus, it's whimsical. If we find that we need to change our decision for Featured Article, I think this would be the way to go. Hasta luego, ciao.

Eternal Nothingness XIII - You have to be strong. Strength of heart will carry you through the hardest of trials. TALK - What I do, I do for friendship. — 20:56, September 1, 2010 (UTC) Not sure what we've decided, but I think we should feature the actual BBS article. For two reasons: We've never featured a game article before Comes out September 7th, and many other obvious reasons Not sure what verdict we've reached, but this is, to me, the best choice.

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." I also agree. Along with the Land of Departure featured media, I think it's the best choice for September.

BebopKate - This one is Zazzles...because he's Zazzy! TALK - Here's your cat...and here's your $20...23:06, September 1, 2010 (UTC) I'm not keen on Land of Departure for two reasons: The game's not out yet here. Stuff will change, the page will probably be slammed with edits after the English version is released. It's in a bit of an unstable position to be called feature yet. It's awfully, um, small. There's just not a lot of anything on it. I know that it's one world in one game, so that does limit how big it can be, but...it just doesn't scream feature-worthy. Yet. Now 100 Acre Wood...good grief, DTN. That's a thing of beauty. That's how a good world article should look. Granted, it's got multiple games to support it, but it's also well-organized, nicely annotated, and bursting with info. I'm all about the Pooh.

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." Sorry, Kate, you seem to have misunderstood me. I said, along with the Land of Departure in Featured Media; I was agreeing with ENX on Birth by Sleep's article.

BebopKate - This one is Zazzles...because he's Zazzy! TALK - Here's your cat...and here's your $20...23:34, September 1, 2010 (UTC) Ah yes, so you did. Sorry, it's been a long day at work. I would be fine with Birth by Sleep as a featured article. I don't think there's quite as much to change there as there would be in something world or character related.

Sub-Discussion: Back to General Voting?

BebopKate - This one is Zazzles...because he's Zazzy! TALK - Here's your cat...and here's your $20...18:33, August 15, 2010 (UTC) Well, we, as a wiki, like to vote. The Mirage Arena is a great example of that, and I have to say Featured Media has exceeded everyone's expectations, methinks. We've improved in quality overall since we stopped Featured Articles, and even more so since we've re-added them as staff only. I think we have a lot more wiki members who know what quality means and are willing to help and polish something so it's at its best. Therefore, I would like to propose, in December, (for the January article, natch), we return Featured Articles to the hands of all the editors. I do think we should use the same system as Featured Media (restrained categories), as that has worked very well in producing a wide range of winners, and perhaps borrow and modify a couple of guidelines from FF Wiki's procedures, such as so many nominees before voting starts. If need be, we can re-tool things as we go along to make it work more smoothly, but I think this is a step we should take. What say you, fellow staffers? Viva la editors! (Don't hit me, TroisNyx. ^_^)

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." No one commented? For two weeks? @_@ Well, as a newly appointed moderator, I'd like to say bringing voting back in December sounds like a good idea.

Allons, allons, je ne vais pas te frapper :P And what do we do for this month's FA, then ? I'm as good as new! All my functions have been restored! • TroisNyxÉtienne — 15:00, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response, my life is crazier than usual...Anywho, I'm all for this idea. My main concerns are the usual: controversy which begets user bashing/arguments over a petty/trivial matter. Keep those contained (no scandals, excessive arguments) and I'm a happy person. Nice idea, Kate. Xion4ever Who am I? — 18:58, October 5, 2010 (UTC)