Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Macintosh/next focus

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[edit] Policy

Can we come up with a policy for voting on our next focus? Should the voting be unanimous, majority, or plurality? How long does the election stay open? Should one user be able to nominate more than one article? (I think this is contradictory.) Who decides when a focus is no longer a focus? Does it have to go to FAC after being a focus? Sorry, I know that was a lot of questions...—t-bte288-c 19:17, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, we pick the focus here. There will be no templates (besides {{macprojectarticle}}) to signify a focus nominee or focus elect (like President elect) because I'm not up to creating new templates, keeping track of them, and adding a new category. A focus stays a focus for as long as it takes for the Project to decide it is worth to submit as a FAC. The whole point of a focus is that when we're done it's featured, so yes, that's our ultimate goal. I went ahead and nominated three articles, but that's since we're starting off and I want to give people some choice (in the future, I agree with you that it shouldn't be allowed). The voting will most likely go by plurality. As I outlined, we have about half a dozen or so very good but not featured articles that would be the easiest to bring up to featured. I think Wackymac's goal of having everything featured is too far out; those crucial five or six is more reasonable. The thing is, we need to address just about everything in Category:WikiProject Macintosh articles and bring them up to a respectable, though to necessarily featured, level. Sorry, I know that was a lot of answers...--HereToHelp (talk) 19:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I tried to make the project as simple as possible by nominating the hot topics one by one as we get them featured. I did not really want use voting like WP:AID and WP:COTW do. An article that is the focus should be the focus until it is featured. Once we've done all the hot topics... I'll compile a new version of the hot topics from the lists. If we use a voting system, the entire process would be slowed down. Having everything featured would be nice, but not everything can be - But there is enough information on the hot topics so those can become featured. In the end I guess about half the articles we're working on will become featured and half will become good articles. — Wackymacs 20:17, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

All that work down the drain...oh, whatever. How about a pool of future articles in the todo list that people can work on with knowledge that there's a good ammount of info already there, and that we'll get to them pretty quickly? Keep the pool small (like the four that we have nominated) and either A) they can be ordered so we have them picked out ahead of time or B) someone just goes ahead and selects one, and other articles can be added through a similar informal method to be put back in the pool.--HereToHelp (talk) 20:24, 18 December 2005 (UTC)