Editing Forum:Featured Card Issues

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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?--[[User:YamiWheeler|YamiWheeler]] ([[User be talk:YamiWheeler|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/YamiWheeler|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? --[[Special:Contributions/184.96.223.211|184.96.223.211]] ([[User talk: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. --[[User:Gadjiltron|Gadjiltron]] ([[User talk:Gadjiltron|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Gadjiltron|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...--[[User:BassNettoHikari2|BassNettoHikari2]] ([[User talk:BassNettoHikari2|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/BassNettoHikari2|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 [[User:Enternal Evoluton Burst|Enternal Evoluton Burst]] ([[User talk:Enternal Evoluton Burst|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Enternal Evoluton Burst|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.--<span style="background-color:LightCyan; border:4px ridge blue; -moz-border-radius:1em;">&nbsp;[[User:Hide Head Turtle|<span style="color:black;">'''HHTurtle'''</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Hide Head Turtle|'''Talk''']]</sup> &nbsp;</span> 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. <font style="background-color:black">[[User:Yugioh DED|<span style="color:red;">Yugioh DED</span>]]([[User talk:Yugioh DED|<span style="color:red;"><small>(Leaving Me Messages Are Often Left Here)</small></span>]]</font> 06:58, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

I think we should make a sticky thread in [[Forum:Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Community Discussion|this section]] of the forum where people can post their suggestions and have other users comment on them. Something like [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests|this]]. If a Featured Card is created without discussion in that forum, it should be deleted. It was kinda sad to see [http://yugioh.wikia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&oldid=1199265#New_featured_card_please.21 Some discussion] about a Featured Card based on the new Forbidden and Limited Lists ignored in favour of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:Featured Card/Effect Veiler|Something completly different]].<br />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? -- [[User:Deltaneos|Deltaneos]] ([[User talk: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. [[User:Messengerofthedark|DemonGodAsura]] ([[User talk:Messengerofthedark|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Messengerofthedark|contribs]]) 01:47, December 1, 2010 (UTC)