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General Discussion

Do you want us to post from the top or the bottom? --Δ Epelesker (talk) 17:19, 24 September 2013 (MST)

Top should be the newest I think. Easier to see the newest stuff that way. -- Destructor (talk) 19:50, 24 September 2013 (MST)

PotM Discussion (8th October 2013)

My thought was to eliminate the PotM entirely and introduce a Random Page of the Week. This would use the random page function to find a suitable page (meaning it is not 'empty' of information, and has no mature content, stuff like that) and post it on the main page for people to see. I think it is more fair, and provides publicity to pages people might otherwise never see. Another idea I had was to make the Page of the Month only allow these Random Pages of the Week. Meaning, you have to choose from the pages featured in the Random Page.--Maekada (talk) 22:16, 8 October 2013 (MST)

Yes, I realize I was horrible and didn't really elaborate much on what exactly our positions were in the backroom discussion we had. I'd rather let the mods speak for themselves here, rather than attempt to paint the entire picture on my own.

My personal reason for bringing up the discussion is that I feel that the public vote system, as it is now, has its flaws: from some comments that have appeared in recent months, there have been issues with results ending up skewed toward well-viewed pages owned by active members, and that articles that barely miss winning several months in a row get "pushed". --Δ Epelesker (talk) 17:41, 8 October 2013 (MST)

About the PotM thing - Mostly the trend I've seen was that all the voted-in folks had Art of some kind. Makes it difficult for some people (I'm including myself in this) to get any kind of recognition for pages they've spent a lot of time on. Just seems like having art done is like, a prerequisite for being voted in.-- 16:20, 8 October 2013 (MST)

I'm actually happy you brought this up for discussion because it's a point that I pretty much forgot about. I can see where it can be believed that there's an unwritten rule or a "pay to win" mentality where a page has to have commissioned artwork, but there really isn't such a thing. I can agree with you to a certain extent that pages with artwork (and extensive formatting) have a certain edge with the preference of voters, but it's not like we can disqualify those articles just because of it, or easily sway the public opinion to lean towards simpler articles. --Δ Epelesker (talk) 17:41, 8 October 2013 (MST)

Hello, @leroyswish here. I was thinking the other night: What if the winners of POTM won an art commission?. I mean, not something TOTALLY outrageously priced, but just something. Asides form just "winning", we don't really have hopes for much. We all work insanely hard on our pages and maybe a great award is ready?
Also, what if we voted on all of the POTM past winners and chose one to rule them all? --@leroyswish (Talk) 18:00, 8 October 2013 (PST)

I can't really speculate on how feasible something like this at the moment. --Δ Epelesker (talk) 19:58, 8 October 2013 (MST)

Please leave the PoTM the way it is. There is no reason to change it now. If you want to do a Random Page of the Month or whatever, make it its own thing, but leave the PoTM as it is. More than likely, random page is how people FIND potential candidates for PoTM anyway, so it would be redundant to have two. I know I find some decent pages once in awhile when I hit the random page link. --@Reldin

Reldin, the majority of people likely look at who has already been nominated and vote for them. This is why we usually only have 1-2, maybe 3 candidates in total. --Maekada (talk) 07:32, 9 October 2013 (MST)