Currently the only two Philippine-related articles that have Featured Article status that I know of are Battle of Leyte Gulf and Mount Pinatubo. And they're featured articles not because they're Philippine-related but because the first one is a World War II-related article (it's arguably more US- and Japan-related) and it's about the world's largest modern naval battle in history, while the second one is a poster article of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains.
It's way past time for the Philippines to have its very own Featured Articles, written primarily by Filipino Wikipedians. I propose that we have a project to select five candidate articles to improve to Featured Article quality by the end of 2005. What these five (or more or less) articles should be would be decided by consensus or vote. The article Philippines is a natural candidate but I feel that it is a little too edit-prone. I'm seeding the nominations below, feel free to suggest other articles. I suggest that we stick to general topics and ones that are easily verifiable. Nominations and voting will close on November 15. This gives a month and a half to bring the selected articles up to Featured Article quality. -- seav 01:27, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Comment: I'll support any of these after getting them through Wikipedia:Peer review first, though to get any necessary changes. I mean, for the Tagalog language article alone, I need to cite sources and I haven't had the time to dig through my library to do that. I just don't want you all to go through the support process for nothing. So we have to make sure first. Do I make sense here? :-) -- Chris S. 12:38, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
How about someone selecting RP articles which are near FA status and prioritize them? I'm sure one of you guys have been doing Wikipedia long enough to do a good selection. -- Nino Gonzales 11:16, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
The results are in! Here are the articles to improve to FA level: Boracay, José Rizal, Manila.
So how do we go about collaborating on improving the article? I suggest that one person be in charge of coordination for one article on a voluntary basis. Then, start an Featured Article collaboration section on the article's talk page linking back to this project page. Also, a notice should be placed at the start of the article's discussion page. Whatcha think?
Anyway, I volunteer to be the coordinator for the Manila article. -- seav
Hey what happened? Has any of the nominations reached the status? I want to help out am not sure where to start -- Noypi380 07:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Currently the only two Philippine-related articles that have Featured Article status that I know of are Battle of Leyte Gulf and Mount Pinatubo. And they're featured articles not because they're Philippine-related but because the first one is a World War II-related article (it's arguably more US- and Japan-related) and it's about the world's largest modern naval battle in history, while the second one is a poster article of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains.
It's way past time for the Philippines to have its very own Featured Articles, written primarily by Filipino Wikipedians. I propose that we have a project to select five candidate articles to improve to Featured Article quality by the end of 2005. What these five (or more or less) articles should be would be decided by consensus or vote. The article Philippines is a natural candidate but I feel that it is a little too edit-prone. I'm seeding the nominations below, feel free to suggest other articles. I suggest that we stick to general topics and ones that are easily verifiable. Nominations and voting will close on November 15. This gives a month and a half to bring the selected articles up to Featured Article quality. -- seav 01:27, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Comment: I'll support any of these after getting them through Wikipedia:Peer review first, though to get any necessary changes. I mean, for the Tagalog language article alone, I need to cite sources and I haven't had the time to dig through my library to do that. I just don't want you all to go through the support process for nothing. So we have to make sure first. Do I make sense here? :-) -- Chris S. 12:38, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
How about someone selecting RP articles which are near FA status and prioritize them? I'm sure one of you guys have been doing Wikipedia long enough to do a good selection. -- Nino Gonzales 11:16, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
The results are in! Here are the articles to improve to FA level: Boracay, José Rizal, Manila.
So how do we go about collaborating on improving the article? I suggest that one person be in charge of coordination for one article on a voluntary basis. Then, start an Featured Article collaboration section on the article's talk page linking back to this project page. Also, a notice should be placed at the start of the article's discussion page. Whatcha think?
Anyway, I volunteer to be the coordinator for the Manila article. -- seav
Hey what happened? Has any of the nominations reached the status? I want to help out am not sure where to start -- Noypi380 07:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)