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:I kinda agree that community awareness is decreasing. Ultimately, the Featured Article might end up with only administrators' decisions to see which is eligible to become "featured". I don't encourage this, because wikia is a collaborative creation and people need to get involved. This, however, might be just in case. When in doubt, well, we could postpone it to one article per month... [[User:Nikel23|'''<span style="color:#007FFF; text-shadow: #ACE5EE 0 4px 4px;">Nikel</span>''']] [[User talk:Nikel23|<span style="color: #30D5C8 ; text-shadow: #00FFEF 0 4px 4px;"><sub>''Talk''</sub></span>]] <sub>–</sub> [[The Sims Wiki:Featured Media/Voting|<span style="color:red ; text-shadow:#E97451 0 4px 4px;"><sub>''Vote!''</sub></span>]] 12:07, October 18, 2012 (UTC)
::I personally am not sure whether it's a lack of awareness or a lack of interest in participating. I've said in the past that I think the system in place is too complicated, and it ends up scaring a lot of people away (Featured Articles used to get a lot of anon votes, but not anymore). I'm not sure if that's the reason why this has happened, but I'd prefer to simplify the selection process rather than make it an administrative choice because, as you said, this is a collaborative project. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<font color="navy">LiR</font>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">speak</font>]] ~ [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">read</font>]]</sup>''' 16:43, October 18, 2012 (UTC)
:::I'll apologize in advance if this seems like it's slightly off-topic but as I feel it's somewhat related, I'm just going to say it.
:::I'm not going to sugar coat it - [[The Sims Wiki:Featured Content|Featured Content]] in general, which includes but is not limited to [[The Sims Wiki:Featured Article|Featured Articles]], is lacking and I feel that some kind of revamp is essential to solving the problem. However, I don't have any ideas myself on how to solve this and truth be told, I've considered bringing this up a fair bit lately but to no avail as I simply can't think of a solution. As LiR said, it can't be determined whether or not the cause of the decline rests solely with the lack of awareness or the lack of interest, so that makes things even harder.
:::That said unless a better solution can be thought up, maybe slowing things down and returning to the one article per month system ''could'' be a way to gain more votes. I realise that discussing Featured Content in general isn't the intent of this discussion and again I'm sorry if I kind of derailed it but I felt it was worth a mention and if anyone wants to start a new section about it, they're more than welcome to do so.
:::And that's yet another thing on this wiki that's dried up completely... {{GGsig}} 17:40, October 18, 2012 (UTC)
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