Forum:Allowing featured articles to be re-featured

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I think we could alleviate the frequent issue of not having current featured articles to display, by allowing previously-featured articles to be featured again. To do this would involve a simple change to the rule.

I propose that we allow an article that has been previously featured to be re-nominated and re-selected as a featured article (provided the article is still good enough to warrant being featured). Re-features would be considered in the same manner as new features are. I'd just add two stipluations:

1. Articles are ineligible to be re-featured for a certain period after being featured, and;

2. If multiple articles are queued to be featured (i.e. two or more articles are successfully nominated and voted on for FA status), any newly-featured articles take precedence over any re-featured articles.

Regarding the first point, I'm not sure what a satisfactory length of time is before allowing a re-feature. I feel like anything shorter than a year is just too short. But anything beyond two years just, to me, feels too long. So my thinking is that we should set this limit somewhere in between one and two years. But that's just my opinion.

Are there any thoughts regarding this proposal? -- LostInRiverview ^{talk · blog · contribs} 03:46, June 22, 2019 (UTC)

I disagree

That may kill the initiative of quality-control: articles of significant subject would remain indefinitely looking crap that are messy and require serious copy-editing (not just grammar, but organization and alike), as for articles that allowed to be re-featured would be prone to being unfairly... well re-featured as many times people see it fit. Re-featuring doesn't seem like a good idea, because it doesn't give much motivation to fix/clean other articles that been left messy for far too long. DrakonoSkerdikas (talk) 19:33, June 23, 2019 (UTC)