Forum:Featured Card Issues

I hate to say it, but whoever's been writing the last few Featured Cards is just plain awful. Not only does it provide any more info than just chatter, there's no useful analysis of the card or how to play it.

Also, shouldn't a writer at least try to be a bit more formal with the language used in these reviews?

Text like this has nothing to do with the actual card itself. It's just editorializing:

* How will this card affect the Metagame in the near future? You could say only time will tell, however if you look at the success of this card’s impact on the OCG. Frog Monarchs, aka Frognarchs, have made a good use of this card in the OCG, as well as Formula Synchron, Swap Frog, Fishborg Blaster, Ronintoadin, and the recently unlimited Treeborn Frog. Considering that the OCG is a good barometer for the impact cards will have in the TCG, it’s safe to say that Effect Veiler has a lot of playtime to come.

Text like this is not analysis. Also, how do you get into a discussion about D.D. Crow? Stick to the card:

* With the upcoming format killing some decks, and making others more viable, the Metagame is going to change. The question now becomes, which do you find more problematic, the presence of cards in the graveyard, or the effect of the monster that hits the field? Effect Veiler stops the problem when it arrives on the field, and D.D. Crow’s goal is to stop it from happening to begin with by hitting key cards in the graveyard. The potential of both cards is clear, but you don’t always have room for both, as they’re likely to take up the same slot in your main or side deck.

If anyone is thinking about doing this Featured Card segments, then would it be so hard to actually do the job? Stick to the card, give good/in-depth analysis and avoid the cliches of trying to use one card to predict the entire meta!

• Well, it's very easy to criticize it, but how would you write it to make it better?--YamiWheeler (talk • contribs) 15:42, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Question: Why isn't there a featured card article for each new pack for the yugioh wiki site? And why do featured cards take so long to change? --184.96.223.211 (talk) 01:39, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Probably because the Featured Card changes monthly or something. It's been a while since the last time I saw that discussion on how often the Featured Card should change though. --Gadjiltron (talk • contribs) 07:16, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

How are the featured cards decided anyways? And I agree, I would like them more often. We have averaged about a featured card every 2 months (24 months/12 featured cards), which I think is a bit too long...--BassNettoHikari2 (talk • contribs) 15:11, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

well we have to appreciate the writer. not everyone would spend their time in writing a featured card article. Who ever complained about it just being like a discussion, well its already included some ways how to use it and you cant expect too much from the writer as he said that the card hasnt been released for long Enternal Evoluton Burst (talk • contribs) 23:04, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Normally, the Featured Cards are cards that have just been released so the writer usually doesn't have much to work with. As for who decides, well it isn't sure. There was one time that the admins and users discussed about it but the newest one wasn't discussed publicly before. I guess you would need to ask Deltaneos and maybe Messenger of the Dark/Demon God Asura, as I hear that he also helped out with this before.-- HHTurtle ^Talk   06:22, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

I think admins deciding what the featured card is is fine. I actually think the featured card section on the main page is a pretty well, thought out set of paragraphs. There's an introduction, reasons why it's a good card, and then a conclusion. Very well-done. There's really no reason for change. Admins do their research on this stuff, so unless a non-Admin makes a new featured card, there's really nothing to potentially worry about. Yugioh DED((Leaving Me Messages Are Often Left Here) 06:58, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

I think we should make a sticky thread in this section of the forum where people can post their suggestions and have other users comment on them. Something like this. If a Featured Card is created without discussion in that forum, it should be deleted. It was kinda sad to see Some discussion about a Featured Card based on the new Forbidden and Limited Lists ignored in favour of Something completly different.
I prefer to let everyone have their say, than leave it a pure admin decision. Besides how many active admins are up-to-date on the current meta? -- Deltaneos (talk) 19:38, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Writing "Committee"

I think that we may need a "Writing Committee". Not to say that only those users can come up with ideas, no, just that only they are allowed to write the content. This should allow for a much more clean slate of articles. Of course, the community would vote on the card to be written about. One format I would, however, prefer to see, is that the pattern of FCAs should be that when a new set comes out, a card that has not been spotlit by KONAMI on their strategy site, is featured here. One example is that I would currently like to write about "Skull Meister". Other times, older cards that have fallen by the wayside and may still have a powerful impact, or a good niche, potent, small-amount-of-cards, strategies that lead unpopular Decks to a YCS victory and the like would be good FCAs. I personally would love to write more FCAs, however, how often new ones go up should be discussed. A new one every week could lead people to run dry of ideas, and if they aren't frequent enough, the Wikia looks stale. DemonGodAsura (talk • contribs) 01:47, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Skull Meister was actually done by Konami... quibbling aside, I do think that only users that can prove that they have writing talent should be allowed to write the card articles. Some of them just stink.... I mean they really, I-wouldn't-have-believed-it-if-I-hadn't-seen-it-with-these-eyes, stink. Runer5h (talk • contribs) 02:42, December 1, 2010 (UTC)Runer5h

I agree with Runner, we should be able to find someone who could actually write good card articles (I mean really, who writes these?!?), plus, being that the articles are on Our Main Page it kind of makes our Wiki look bad, and quite sloppy, which we all know this isn't, I think we should have everyone who would like to write the articles write their name down somewhere, and then we as a community pick some card that they should all write about, we then pick the best ones, and they can write the articles (if we like more than one, we can rotate them around). Then we can find someway of picking the featured cards...BassNettoHikari2...Talk to me... 07:08, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

The "Destiny Hero - Plasma" one has been deleted now. I've also removed the createboxes from Project:Featured Card and Template:Featured Card and linked to this forum instead. This thread has also been renamed as it didn't seem appropriate to "Horrible Writing/Reviews for Featured Card" from those pages. -- Deltaneos (talk) 13:42, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

I dont have a username, but am willing to contribute to the featured article page in anyway possible. Perhaps we should make a list of the cards that we want to feature, and then we'll have some place to go from. I think Chain Disappearance is an overlooked card. Maybe we should make a featured one about that. I think the big issue with the writing is that we dont want to just copy all of the card tips that are already on this forum, but to cast an old card in a new light. They dont have to be the best cards in the game, they just have to have a certain charm to them which makes the game fun. Take the Gift Card feature from a few years ago for example148.100.208.57 (talk) 23:23, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Seconding this, just because it would look more formal and organized. I mean, at first, I made some hesitations when I made the Barbaros Page, because I wasn't sure if it'll last. Being in a committee will mean that we'd actuall talk on a page, make drafts and finally have a finished product that would look most presentable, and its author more confident. MarxMayhem (talk • contribs) 09:12, December 3, 2010 (UTC)

A User/Writer's Input

I use the above header just to separate this message from the one about the writing committee as it's not that connected to it. For anyone who doesn't realise (I don't see why you would), I'm just a standard user, not an admin, however I'm also the writer of the previous featured article on "Ronintoadin". The way I saw my article, was I'd recently built a Frog deck and was starting to realise the wonders of "Ronintoadin" so I decided to write the article on him and submitted it under the aforementioned (Deltaneos) createbox for featured card. I expected, and by the end assumed the process would be that my article would be present in the "Featured Card Project", admins would look at it as it has created a new page in the wiki, and then if they liked it, after making some small punctuation, grammar and coding corrections, they might put it on the main page. What happened next was strange. After a couple of days, the article appeared on the main page, but only for me. Any other computer still showed the previous featured card, and mine would only show my article, even when I logged out, but would change if I deleted my cookies. After a couple of days of this, my article appeared for everyone (and I was really happy!). I don't know if that story helps anyone at all, but if it did, you're welcome.

To me, this seems like the best system, whether or not that is actually how the system worked. I don't know if admins approved it, or it did, after a while, automatically change. If it was that it automatically changed, and the lack of changes to the featured card that occur, it seems to me that admins wouldn't have a hard task of approving new featured card articles, as the amount of articles submitted would be reasonably low. I would love to write another article, and have considered it for a while, but the right card never came up, until now, and I've started writing an article for "Red Nova Dragon" as I feel it's a card that shouldn't be overlooked. But that's merely my opinion. I think having admins approve new articles gives everyone the chance to contribute, and people will know straight away if they can write or not, cause their article won't be featured, but as I said, I don't many people are that interested in it anyway.

Before I close, (I do realise I've written a hell of a lot), if anyone would like to leave me constructive feedback on my "Ronintoadin" article, it would be much appreciated, as I realise there is some concern, particularly from the original poster, as to the quality of writing and if there were parts of my article people felt were unnecessary, I would like to know for future reference. Ok, I'll stop now. --Nick R P Green (talk • contribs) 02:40, December 7, 2010 (UTC)

I licked the Rointoadin article, is was one of the better ones we have had, it described what it does, ways to (ab)use it, and comparing to other cards that may work similarly, and how to work it against your opponent. It was nice, simple as that, we need more like that, although I do think that Admins, or the community, should look at them and tweak them a little bit, as I suggested before...BassNettoHikari2...Talk to me... 07:05, December 7, 2010 (UTC)

What happened was that your computer was showing you the absolute most recent revision of the page, which not all computers do. To see the absolute most recent revision, just add the following to the end of the link: &action=purge

Now, on the topic of a "Red Nova Dragon" article, some people may already know this somewhat, but I am a staunch advocate for not doing am article on this card for a few reasons. One: KONAMI has already done an article on it. For anyone to post any article about it here would look ticky-tacky. Two: I feel that we should do an article based on one of the TCG Exclusive cards, such as "Skull Meister". I know that KONAMI mentioned it in their intro article for it, however, it was not a strategy article in any way. It merely explained how the effect worked. We all know how to use generic Synchro Monsters, such as "Red Nova Dragon", so there really is no strategy for it. These articles shouldn't be "look how cool this card is!". No, they should be insightful on how to use the card properly. The card that is featured, not always, however, should be relatively relevant to the current metagame. Unfortunately, "Red Nova Dragon" is not even close, with "Red Dragon Archfiend" being largely replaced by "Scrap Dragon". Please do not take this as a vote of dis-confidence in your writing ability, just that I am opposed to the card that you would like to write about. (Oh, and no, I'm not an admin [yet], so what I say isn't concrete. I felt I needed to make that clear, as I see my name thrown around for decision making.) DemonGodAsura (talk • contribs) 08:27, December 7, 2010 (UTC)

Fair point. If Konami is writing these articles on cards, why aren't we making use of them, and placing them on the front page, or creating a section devoted to the Konami written ones, whilst leaving the user and admin written ones to the main page, as I feel it is these articles are those likely to give more of an insight into the card and its strategies, as Konami's are more used more advertising purposes more than anything else. I'm not sure why the featured card should necessarily be a TCG exclusive, seen as how the Wikia is supposed to cover all aspects of Yu-Gi-Oh!, including the OCG.

Finally, as this is purely a difference of opinion on our parts, I disagree with your arguement against a Red Nova Dragon article. Being an advanced synchro monster, i.e. requires a very unusual Synchro material list, I wouldn't class Red Nova Dragon as a "generic synchro monster", because for the most parts, it is very difficult to summon. Plus there are a lot one could talk about in an article, like how it can be summoned, how deck's could be changed to accommodate it or which decks can already use it, (the reason I wish to write the article is because I can't summon it currently, I need to adapt, yet my mate's Infernity deck can get Archfiend and then Nova out in one turn). I do see this affecting the metagame, as because of its sheer power, I think it should be ran in every deck that Synchro summons. Plus the fact that Red Nova and Red Dragon Archfiend are far easier to obtain than a single Scrap Dragon suggests that we're going to see much more of Red Nova Dragon than we are of Scrap Dragon.

That's my opinion on the matter anyway, obviously everyone's view will be different. Would be nice to get some responses from the people who started the article to see how these last few posts have affected their original thoughts and ideas.

--Nick R P Green (talk • contribs) 15:52, December 9, 2010 (UTC)