Forum:How to: Write a recently featured article
Have you ever noticed how a lot of the featured articles sound pretty much the same? Well, have you? Do you wish you could do something to change all of that? Do you want to kill the next person that starts an article this way? Good! Then this is the Forum Topic for you! While this type of introduction is better than "George Bush was an alien from 200000 B.C. that ate only camel testicles.", it is becoming quite repetitive and annoying in its own right. Am I wrong? Of course I'm not. Stream of conciousness is great once in a while, but 4 of the last 5 featured articles have been in the stream of conciousness style, and 3 of those have started in the style that I started this post. In fact, it seems that EVERY How-To starts this way. Now, that's not completely true, but it's frequently how it goes. Frankly, I'm ready for something different. Who agrees? Anyone? Or am I alone in all of this? R 20:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Have you wondered why I very rarely vote "for" on a How-To? Have you always wanted to ask my where my pants are, and why they aren't on me? I'm no expert on How-To's, having written only one, but it's a cliche of the format. Have you ever wondered why I have no answers?...--Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 20:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Meh, I think it's kind of a fluke, or a fad... either way it'll pass, I wouldn't worry about it.
t o m p k i n s blah. ﺞوﻦ וףה ՃՄ ண்ஸ ފއހ วอฏม +տ trade websites 21:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yah, there have been fads in the past, like that time I nominated a picture I made several times to try and infuse some life into VFP. --Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 23:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- A lot of the articles do follow the same writing style, but there are a few exceptions that weren't self-reference articles. --~
01:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC) - Methinks it's popular because stream of consciousness pretty much does the work for you when it comes to jokes. Those of us who are real-life comedians transfer what we know about the art of making funnies to paper. All you have to do is read it as if the writer were actually speaking to you, and the funny bits practically jump off the screen and chew your eyebrows off. However, I agree that we should expand our sense of what good humor writing is, because I'm running out of eyebrows. --
02:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Eyebrows? You can have some of mine. As for stream of consciousness, it's debatable whether I had any in the first place. -- Hindleyite Converse 11:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Shameless whoring. Don't count me in! -- herr doktor needsAbrain
[scream!] 20:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC) - Or HowTo:Go to a random page --Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 13:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- Danf, I finally write a HowTo: article for possible VFH because it was suggested that it was "easy" and now something like this. Eh, I still like HowTo articles because they are quite funny. The one up there right now is funny and thats what it's supposed to be. HowTos may seem like they're getting stale, but do so many self-reference format articles that got featured aren't making the self-reference articles now boring? They're still good.--141.155.62.170 17:54, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Shameless Whoring Subsection
Be a maverick! Nominate and vote for Is a 1982 Mitsubishi Colt better than a Bugatti Veyron?! Or, if you like in-jokes, Article Huffing! Or just ignore me and my stupid overuse of exclamation marks, like everyone else! 
Sir Cs1987 UOTM. t. c 14:23, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
WHORE WHORE WHORE
eatyourdungeatyourdungeatyourdung
No n00b, it's eatyourdungeatyourdungeatyourdung Mr. Briggs Inc. 21:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Eh?