User blog comment:Mak23686/News about the featured articles/@comment-1859057-20110723021228

I'm not an avid wiki user (although I was a founding contributor to the Cam article) but I'd like to put in my $.02 nonetheless, since Eric suggested I comment here.

Why not choose featured articles as Wikipedia does, based on the quality of the article? There could be a special "featured article candidates" page, where any editor can nominate an article to be featured. Then, other editors discuss the article's worthiness to be featured. THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS A VOTE because "voters" must give reasons for their vote, based on a set of criteria for being well-written.

For more information, see the following relevant pages on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_criteria (Wikipedia's Featured Article criteria)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates (Wikipedia's Featured Article candidates & discussion page)