Team Fortress Wiki:Featured articles

Featured articles

Featured articles exemplify some of the best written and most informational articles on Team Fortress Wiki. Featured articles must adhere to the featured article criteria below. Featured articles are determined and rotated by the staff. Criteria A featured article is— informative: it should contain both helpful and useful information; comprehensive: it should be complete, without omission of major facts or details; accurate: it should be factually accurate, and sourced where appropriate. It should also be— well-written: the prose of the article is engaging, and of a professional standard; properly styled: the article should follow all conventions in the Style guide; stable: the article should not be currently undergoing any major revisions or edit wars; of appropriate length: the article should stay focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail. Its use of media should be— referential: images should be used as a source of reference; to clarify: images should be used to help illustrate a point; informational: images should be used to display additional information. Media used on a featured article must be appropriately licensed and include source information on the file description page. A featured article must also be— well-connected: by linking to all relevant articles; by linking to reliable outside sources where appropriate.

Current featured articles 2Fort Administrator Ambushing Backstab Bonk! Atomic Punch Buff Banner Cloak Comics Crafting Critical hits Dalokohs Bar Decorated Dispenser Duck Journal Dynamite Pack Engineer Eyelander First Annual Saxxy Awards Gang Garrison 2 Gibs Hadouken Hats Haunted Hallowe'en Special Heavy Hydro Item quality Jarate List of game modes Mechanics Medic Medieval Mode Movies Non-player characters Patches RED Sandvich Saxton Hale Sentry Gun Sniper Spy Taunts Team Fortress Classic ÜberCharge Über Update Wrangler Nomination procedure To nominate an article— Ensure that the article meets the criteria. Add a new section to the Current nominations section below, and include a link to the article and a statement from you about it. Add {{Featured article candidate}} to the talk page of the article. Anyone is free to nominate any article they consider to meet the featured criteria.

Current nominations

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Cow Mangler 5000

It disintegrates players, even their gibs! It fires lazers, first soldier weapon to directly cause mini-crits. Has the disabling affects of a sapper(without the obvious destruction). Has moar ammo in a clip than any weapon, and the most ammo, being indefinitely usable. Is moderately easy to craft. Ummmm..... Thats about it please nominate this lol.... — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bunnydav1d (talk) • (contribs)

 Comment Articles should be nominated based on the article itself, not on the weapon. -- Firestorm 08:13, 9 August 2011 (PDT)

Item timeline

Something of a hub article. It is a complete, interesting, informative article. Heck of a lot of links... pretty much exactly what's on the tin. It's an item timeline. It does what it says it will and looks sexy doing it. --SilverHammer 23:25, 16 August 2011 (PDT)

 Neutral It's got what it needs to be, but it's a list. We'd be better off showing off the weapons, or the item sets. I'm gray here. Triscuitable 20:34, 19 August 2011 (PDT)

Kill icon

Not much to say, it's a good page and informative.  –  Cructo [T][C] 17:11, 6 November 2011 (PST)

 Neutral Seems nice, but nothing extremely exciting.  –  Epic Eric (T | C) 16:45, 17 May 2012 (PDT)

Halloween Costumes

Is complete, well linked, helps document an event, shows players in full costumes and has video demos of effects where they exist Govcon 18:59, 11 April 2012 (PDT)

Soldier

Clean, pure execution on a theme. Nicely represents the backstory and weaponry of this class. Clean explanation of Speed, despite obvious complexity. (Darkid (Talk | contribs) 18:22, 5 June 2012 (PDT))

Kritzkrieg

Perfunctory but excellent explanation of this weapon. Clarifies confusing charge rates, and has a well-put-together weapon demo. (Darkid (Talk | contribs) 18:22, 5 June 2012 (PDT))

Replay Editor

This article itself has some nice and good information about the Replay system and has a little guide on how to start a movie and how to edit it, functions get's explained easily, render info for best film preformances and the article keeps up in track with the update history, easy to understand if you take time reading and very interesting. Link here! Let's see some replying on this. TNS 14:39, 2 June 2012 (PDT)

 I'm neutral here. It's interesting, but the lack of pictures, nearly over-excessive use of bold text, and long paragraph-y format is a bit detracting. However, the material is extensive but not superfluous.Darkid (Talk | contribs) 15:29, 2 June 2012 (PDT)

BLU

I Nominate This Article With Reasons Standing Are:

• Well Written
• Very Informative To The TF2 Story line
• Effective on Entire Game Play
• Gives Insight to Entire Reasons For Game Play
• Correct Links
• Proper Images

FenixChief 15:35, 15 August 2012 (PDT)

 Hoog support How the BLU article didn't get into featured article? How pootis happen? Hoog support TheGuy299 04:05, 24 December 2012 (PST)

 Support Given that a merge proposal has been made regarding the RED and BLU articles, I think it appropriate to revisit the FA status of RED and BLU. The argument for merge is that the articles are redundant. A counter-argument is that that very redundancy is fundamental to the themes of the articles. If the two articles are intentionally so similar, and if the decision falls against the merge, then BLU should have at least a brief, if long overdue, stint as featured article if only to complete the intended symmetry. Mikado282 (talk) 14:20, 24 June 2017 (PDT)

NECA

With the dolls confirmed to be releasing in the next week and the action figures well on the way, getting the word out on the main page would be relevant and interesting, as a featured article should be. --SilverHammer 16:18, 27 August 2012 (PDT)

 Not yet As noted on the top of the page, "this article is a stub". Right now, it's only a gallery with some info, without any crutial, main-page-worthy info. It still is a looooong way from getting good enough to be featured.  –  Epic Eric (T | C) 14:45, 21 September 2012 (PDT)

Australian Christmas

With the new 2012 Smissmas update just announced, it would be good to feature the original Australian Christmas in place of the original TF2 Halloween Special.-- — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Irkdesu (talk) • (contribs) 06:47 GMT 20 December, 2012

Robots

I nominate this article as it clearly defines all the different variations of robots. This article also assists new players in learning what each icon means, what this robot can do and how to counter it. It offers links to pages that go more in depth on every robot. The final reason why I nominate this article is the unused content section offers a clear view on all of the unused robots, as it clearly describes each and every one. Da Chingy Guy (talk) 14:46, 29 September 2013 (PDT)

Pyro Robot

In my opinion, the Pyro Robot should be considered as an article for the FAP. It has all relating images, tells you everything you need to know about the article, and is up-to-date. An overall obvious choice. Rollin' Solo (talk) 02:03, 21 December 2013 (PST)

Unusual

This article is informative on what the Unusual effects are, how they look, and just straight up information on unusuals themselves. It even gives information on which hats can be uncrated in the Unusual quality. As far as the recent update, it is up-to-date. ClockworkSpirit2343 21:14, 22 January 2014 (PST)

After nearly a year of the featured article being the engineer update, I think we can safely change it to Unusual. --Piemanmoo 05:25, 30 June 2014 (PDT)

The recent update with series Unusuals made the page need some edits, so once it gets updated, I think it should be put up. ClockworkSpirit2343 21:33, 17 July 2014 (PST).

Scout

This article is precisely what describes a Scout and helps people when they need to know what weapons and items the Scout can use/wear.

TF Industries

To be honest, this page should be featured because without it, we wouldn't have a back story to TF2. M15513c0mm4nd (talk) 13:42, 7 October 2014 (PDT)

Duck Journal

Very unique page, well-written, and has a lot of information and images on it. Each contents of the page are really well explained and as well listing to other areas of the Wiki. I also think that the "Mann vs. Machine" featured article on the main page are quite outdated, especially as it states "In the newly added Mann vs. Machine game mode...", so we probably need something else for that. ▪ - 22:36, 22 May 2015 (PDT)

 Support Its unique mechanic and attribute make this item worth to be feature article. With good writing and the way to explain the mechanic, I think it should be there. Rikka Takanashi (talk) • (contributions) 20:56, 23 June 2015 (PDT)

 Done! It's rather well-written, and I feel that after the improvements made to the article by Mikado, it definitely deserves to be one. -- LordKelvin 17:49, 30 July 2015 (PDT)

Can you please change the image? The model is too pointy and it doesn't look too good on the main page. I would suggest using the File:Duck Journal.png instead, or the Backpack Icon (though, proper cropped). The only issue with the Backpack Icon would be that the Duck is yellow and not orange as it's in-game. ▪ - 13:59, 12 August 2015 (PDT)

Mannpower

The new mode in development. It has a lot of great information on the mode, powerups, and others. Plus, we really need to change the Featured Article. It's been stuck on "Mann vs Machine" for so long. --Dr. Scaphandre (talk) 17:08, 23 June 2015 (PDT)

Main menu

The main menu page is a well organized page about all the features of the game's main menu. It has organized tables with images of each feature that describe them in full detail, and has quick links to other parts of the wiki. --Dr. Scaphandre (talk) 14:50, 5 October 2015 (PDT)

Decorated

Well... It is an interesting and informative article, and not really long (and boring) at the same time. Also its content is not that old and not that new at the same time. It has lots of pictures for the people who loves images and some nice interface stuff. It is one of the rare articles that I managed to read until its end before I decided to translate it. So... you know. It is nearly the perfect article to be featured. Cagrimanoka/tr - (Say something) 12:02, 24 August 2016 (PDT)

 Support The page is extremely well done with lots of well fleshed out templates. With good writing and explains easily the concept of skins, I agree. -- Dr. Scaphandre 12:05, 24 August 2016 (PDT)

 Done! Well, after a minor hiccup, it's now up. -- Dr. Scaphandre 15:39, 24 August 2016 (PDT)

Gunslinger

The information on this page is well written, well thought out, and really informative. I would love to see this great page featured. --Scunt Main (talk) 10:33, 28 February 2017 (PST)

 Support Agreed. Perfect writing and very informative. It's also very easily understandable in my other main language. Support! --User:47flipfell

 Actually, yes There is a lot to say about it, and a lot was said, by someone(s) capable of saying so clearly and distinctly. It meets the criteria. Mikado282 (talk) 04:18, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

But, now I think it should be first checked that it is current to all patches, especially the October 20, 2017 Patch #1. It may be a few days before I can test this myself. Mikado282 (talk) 18:24, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

I updated it a bit. Is it stable enough now? Mikado282 (talk) 00:40, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Holy Mackerel

Not much to say, it's a good page and informative. P3rkzitos (talk) 15:39, 10 June 2017 (PDT)

Achievement items

It's a big part of TF2, how has this not been featured already? -- BrofessorBeta (Talk | contribs) 18:07, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Maybe. Its should first be decided whether to add the new contract reward items as Achievement items, since they are Achievement items. Please see: Talk:Achievement items‎#Contract reward items are Achievement items. Mikado282 (talk) 04:04, 14 March 2018 (UTC)