Forum:The Featured Articles problem

So, as some have noted before, we have a problem with our featured articles. Namely, nothing can promoted anymore because our system is clunky and outdated. Currently, in order to be promoted to featured status, an article must have five votes in favour of being promoted, with at least two votes coming from a group known as "Unspeakables." Of this group, The Department of Mysteries, two are inactive admins, one of which has made no edits in nearly three months, and another in over six months. Of the rest, another no longer edits all that regularly, one is a Wikia staff member and is no longer directly involved with much work here, and of course, well know Seth Cooper, but he can't do it on his own.

I think it's really time that we completely scrap the existing system and come to some sort of new way of promoting Featured articles, even if it's simply an admin choosing a new one once a month or so based on what looks like a good choice to them and is within the general guidelines of good style based on our policies. My vote, as I cast it, is Support. ProfessorTofty (talk) 02:37, December 9, 2012 (UTC)