Forgotten Realms Wiki:Featured article nominations

This thread is for nominating, discussing and voting on featured articles to go on the Featured article template. An article that reaches at least 3 votes in favour, including one administrator vote, will be promoted to featured article status.

Criteria
A feature article should meet the following criteria:
 * Complete: The article should give everything about the subject. There should be a complete account from the standard sources, and common and important information should appear. It doesn't have to be utterly exhaustive, with every tidbit from every obscure source, but ideally there should be some little tidbits of lore to spice it up and surprise the expert FR fan.
 * Correct: We should be able to confirm that every fact presented is true and accurate by examining the sources. That goes hand-in-hand with...
 * Referenced: The article should be fully referenced.
 * Formatted: The article should be fully formatted in wiki article style, sectioned out, and infoboxed, with a past-tense, in-universe POV, and good English text.
 * Important: The article should be on a reasonably well-known topic that ties into the larger setting, comes from multiple sources, or is just famous to readers.
 * Big: A medium-to-long article demonstrates completeness, and short ones are too easy to make look good.
 * Illustrated: Pictures and quotes really spice up the article, breaking up walls of text, and make it look good. It also stands out on the main page.
 * Demonstrative: The article should demonstrate all appropriate practices, policies, templates, and wiki code to budding editors. It should also demonstrate our usefulness to players and DMs (for example, presenting a fully developed community to play in or NPC to deal with). It could also demonstrate how to balance lore from different editions and media.

Nomination Form
Please nominate an article in the following format:

Article Name

 * Nominated by:
 * Disclaimer:
 * Vote:
 * For:
 * Against:
 * Pros:
 * Cons:
 * Requests
 * Verdict:
 * Requests
 * Verdict:
 * Verdict:
 * Article Name: The name of the nominated article. This should be a direct link to the article.
 * Nominated by: The editor who originally nominated the article for feature status.
 * Disclaimer: Please note if you wrote the article yourself or otherwise had a strong hand in it.
 * Vote: The current score. Please add 1 if you are for it, subtract 1 if you are against it.
 * For: List your name here if in favor.
 * Against: List your name if in not in favor.
 * Pros: Give a dot-point list of reasons why the article should be featured.
 * Cons: Give a dot-point list of reasons why the article should not be featured.
 * Requests: List anything you feel should be done to the article that would make improve and/or make it worthy of featured status.
 * Verdict: The final result of the vote: 'approved' to be a featured article; 'pending' or blank if it's still under discussion; or 'refused' if it's currently irredeemable without major reworking. The verdict will be decided by an administrator after thorough checking.

Voting Process
For Nominated, For, and Against, just list your user name: User:__. For Pros, Cons, and Requests, give a reason following by a short signature (three tildes ).

You may change your vote if you are satisfied by changes to an article, or find some problem with it. Please relocate your name to the correct category, update the current vote tally, and note the change somewhere.

Extensive discussion of requested work on an article should be taken to that article's Talk page.

Nine Hells

 * Vote: 2
 * For
 * Moviesign, Darkwynters


 * Against
 * Disclaimer: I rewrote much of this article. – Moviesign
 * Pros
 * big article, copious references, good infobox, demonstrates use of the "notes" template, attempts to cover all versions of the plane over three cosmology models. – Moviesign
 * excellent organization, expertly sourced, and interesting subject matter - Darkwynters (talk) 18:38, August 23, 2015 (UTC)
 * Cons
 * topic is not universally appealing, could be improved with more material from newer sources, only the one image. – Moviesign
 * I added two more images to help break up the wall of text. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 13:59, September 6, 2015 (UTC)
 * the article does lack specific references to the Realms, though it does include Forgotten Realms sourcebooks - Darkwynters (talk) 18:38, August 23, 2015 (UTC)
 * Requests
 * Requests

Zhentil Keep

 * Vote: -1
 * For
 * Moviesign


 * Against
 * hash, Darkwynters


 * Disclaimer:
 * Pros
 * Big article, well referenced, popular topic, extra images. – Moviesign
 * Big & reasonably comprehensive – hash
 * Cons
 * Quite a few red links. – Moviesign (Withdrawn)
 * The timeline in Ruins of Zhentil Keep upon which a lot of the article is based was deliberately written with a pro-zhentarim bias. Red links. – hash
 * Missing sources; needs clean up and organization - Darkwynters
 * Requests
 * Cross-reference with other sources so the article is truthful. – hash

Mithral Hall

 * Vote: 0
 * For
 * Moviesign


 * Against
 * Darkwynters


 * Disclaimer:
 * Pros
 * Big article, well referenced, well-known topic, gallery – Moviesign
 * Cons
 * Some subsections fall below the three-sentence rule/guideline. – Moviesign
 * Organization; entire sections need citations; needs more clarity in wording - Darkwynters
 * Requests

Kalach-Cha

 * Vote: -1
 * For
 * BadCatMan


 * Against
 * Darkwynters, hash


 * Disclaimer:
 * Pros
 * Huge (biggest real article on the wiki), complete, popular topic — BadCatMan
 * Popular — hash
 * Cons
 * No pictures, huge wall of text. B canon, but that's not a real drawback. The main problem is the language: it's very vague, severely overuses "would" statements, uses awkward his/her and he/she genders, and generally suffers for trying to accommodate the branching storylines of the game and player customisation of the character. — BadCatMan
 * Too comprehensive - lots of information that doesn't need to be there; Lots of red links; unattractive. — hash
 * Organization; needs to be reworded; no sources for specific game references - Darkwynters
 * Requests
 * This needs an edit to improve the language (hey, that's something I can do). Pictures can be included by taking scenes from the game and other character (essentially, the article is as much a synopsis of the game as it is a biography of the character). — BadCatMan
 * Feels like I am playing a game, not reading about a person and his history - Darkwynters

Marsember

 * Nominated by: Moviesign
 * Disclaimer: I just discovered it was a Featured Article in the past. I haven't looked at it yet.
 * Vote: 1
 * For: Jandor
 * Against:
 * Pros:
 * At first glance, it doesn't seem that bad. — Jandor (talk) 16:25, August 20, 2013 (UTC)
 * Cons:
 * Requests:
 * Being a quite popular area of FR (Cormyr, although I'm not that fond of this area yet), we should also look it more thoroughly for possible easy refreshes-updates-enrichment. — Jandor (talk) 16:25, August 20, 2013 (UTC)
 * Verdict:
 * Verdict:

Mystra

 * Nominated by: Moviesign
 * Disclaimer: I rewrote most of this article. – Moviesign
 * Vote: 0
 * For:
 * Against:
 * Pros:
 * A fairly well-rounded article that hopefully sheds some light on the confusion of the many Mystras. – Moviesign
 * Quite a few nice illustrations – Moviesign
 * Well written and fleshed out, a very important goddess. — BadCatMan (talk)
 * Cons:
 * Subject is from pre-Time of Troubles and is therefore 2nd-edition with limited sources, not very modern, and might have limited appeal. – Moviesign
 * Mystryl/Mystra is important to the setting in all her incarnations, and this Mystra's actions continue to have importance (making the Chosen, raising gods, etc.) — BadCatMan (talk)
 * I have laid the foundation, but this article needs fleshing out with information from the novels before it's feature-worthy. – Moviesign
 * Requests
 * Much of the history is based on adventure sourcebooks and not the novels. Please discuss at Talk:Mystra, especially whether this is a con or not. I honestly don't know. – Moviesign
 * Yeah, there's a lot more history and personality to her in the novels. I touched on this at the Talk page. — BadCatMan (talk)
 * Someone please add info and flavor from the novels. – Moviesign
 * Verdict:

Cathedral of Emerald Scales

 * Nominated by: Moviesign
 * Disclaimer: I wrote this. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Vote: 2
 * For: Eli the Tanner, BadCatMan
 * Against:
 * Pros:
 * A unique location dominated by non-humans, and really, can you have too many snakes? :-P &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Lots of pretty pictures to break up the wall of text. &mdash; Moviesign (talk)
 * An inspiring use of pictures for a location.--Eli the Tanner (talk) 20:07, March 13, 2016 (UTC)
 * Complete, as far as I know. Make requests if you think something needs expanding. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Fine and evocative work. — BadCatMan (talk)
 * Cons:
 * Our only other building-type Featured Article is also a temple (well, you get that with Powers & Pantheons providing such detail on these. But I don't think this limitation is such a concern now we have so many Featured Articles. — BadCatMan (talk)
 * I suspect the place appears prominently in novels like the House of Serpents Trilogy (set in Hlondeth), so some novels-lore and history may be required. — BadCatMan (talk)
 * This is correct. Vanity's Brood mentions a few details about the Cathedral, but I'm not sure how much of it is "new" lore. --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 08:41, April 3, 2018 (UTC)
 * Requests
 * There's minor mentions of the Cathedral in Dungeon #69 ("Slave Vats of the Yuan-ti", p. 23), and in Cult of the Dragon (p. 59). The first source is an offhand mention of the Cathedral, linking it to the yuan-ti plot described in the adventure. CotD describes a plot by Medusanna to use an unwitting Cult of the Dragon agent to undermine the ruler of Hlondeth. I'm not sure how useful this is for the article on the structure itself, but could you take a look? --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 08:33, April 3, 2018 (UTC)
 * Yessssss. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 18:18, April 3, 2018 (UTC)
 * Verdict:

Delzimmer

 * Nominated by: Moviesign
 * Disclaimer: I wrote 90% of this. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Vote: 1
 * For: BadCatMan
 * Against:
 * Pros:
 * An unusual town in a corner of Faerûn that doesn't get much attention. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Quotes, glossary, and a table using new style border boxes to help break up the wall of text. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * There are no images to illustrate this (you're at the mercy of the source material there, of course), but the novel use of the bordered quote boxes mitigates this quite a bit. Good ideas! — BadCatMan (talk)
 * Cons:
 * Not many sources to draw from. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Unfortunately, Delzimmer was a dot on the map until 3rd edition, and even then only fleshed out with two sources, so it is rather lopsided in terms of references. Again, you can't help that. But we did find some 2e-era mentions to use, which eases the problem. — BadCatMan (talk)
 * I would like to supplement the Kindle page refs with numbers from the paperback book, when I get my hands on it. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Requests
 * A number of red-linked locations and inhabitants listed at the end will need references if the articles aren't made. — BadCatMan (talk)
 * I plan on turning those red links blue. Having to work late has put a dent in my wiki time :-/ &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Verdict:

Khôltar

 * Nominated by: Moviesign
 * Disclaimer: I wrote this. &mdash;Moviesign
 * Vote: 0
 * For:
 * Against:
 * Pros:
 * Another unusual town with quite a bit of detail. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Quotes and a glossary to break up the wall of text. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Cons:
 * The town doesn't exist anymore, so not exactly a current topic. &mdash;Moviesign (talk)
 * Requests
 * Verdict:
 * Verdict:

Approved Nominees

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