Forum:Change voting for featured article

I am, once again, proposing changes to featured articles, specifically in how we select them.

Right now, articles are nominated and voted on together. Once a month, the article with the most votes is chosen, while the runners-up continue to sit on the nominations list until they too have enough votes to win. The issue is, this system essentially guarantees that all articles placed on the list which are at least of adequate quality will eventually be featured. However, this system has a habit of selecting articles that aren't necessarily "good quality" but articles which have just been on the list for a long period of time.

I would like to use a different system, where each article is voted on individually. When an article is nominated for Featured Article, a vote would start which would last a decent length of time, probably 14 - 28 days. People can support or oppose a featured article nomination. At the end of the vote, if there is consensus, the article is added to the Featured Article queue. Several articles can be nominated for Featured Article and be added to the queue, and then be featured one at a time. This is similar to Wikipedia's system, except that they feature daily versus monthly for us.

Thoughts? --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 18:55, August 21, 2014 (UTC)