Table:Random good article

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I'd like to propose yet another section for the main page &mdash; the   section. Yes... A section called "Random good article".

Right now, we have 165 art icles in the new-article archive. I think this gives us a good variety for a refreshable section, like Wookieepedia has. New entries in the archive would automatically qualify for the good-article list. Featured articles would be ignored, as would the week's spotlight article. To join the list, older articles can undergo nominations (see below).

This wouldn't be the same as the good article described here, so we could rename that as "decent" and say that good articles are either "developed" or "decent".

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I don't know if we can use this for the randomiser. If not, we can install this.

The changes to the other sections are so we won't have a three-image column, which can be heavy on the eyes. After the crossover airs and the "Upcoming episode" section is discontinued (I'm trying to think of a worse word), we won't need this zigzag anymore, though we can keep the indenting. Because the crossover is not an episode of Futurama, I don't think the episode section needs a synopsis. If we ever want a synopsis, though, we can switch the episode section with the spotlight section, so that the synopsis won't be indented.

If you don't like "Created on", we can just not put anything there. We could use "First appearance", but then we'd have to reject a few articles.

Articles without an image wouldn't be considered good articles. Sanfazer (talk) 08:44, 14 December 2013 (CET).
 * We could potentially have an "Upcoming comic" section instead of the episode one during the "hiatus", that would require no gaps like the recent one where we have no idea what the next issue will be. Onto your actual question... We would definitely have to use the extension rather than the javascript to avoid forcing users to load all the images. I'm not a fan of the zig zag. As for actually doing this, I have no strong feelings one way or the other. - Quolnok (talk) 06:05, 14 January 2014 (CET)
 * I think the comic section is a good idea. Easy to implement, too.
 * We can always get rid of the zigzag, if you think that's better. Sanfazer: [ talk] 02:02, 15 January 2014 (CET).
 * A.K.A. Zoigzag. Sanfazer: [ talk] 10:15, 15 January 2014 (CET).

Random good article
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= Infosphere:Good articles =

This page lists articles that are considered good and thus are linked to in the Main Page's "Random good article" section. If you have ideas for pages that should be linked to, please add them on the nominations page.

The "Random good article" section debuted in 2013, with 150 articles.

List of good articles

 * (Most-recent additions first)


 * Bonneville Salt Flatlands
 * Möbius dragstrip
 * Big Boy Karate
 * New New Jack City
 * Thingly Wiggly
 * Lords of Flatbush
 * City Zoo
 * Pick-N-Eat
 * Smithsimian Art Gallery
 * Colobus Circle
 * Bonobo & Associates
 * Technology lab
 * Futurama: The Complete Series
 * Albert Einstein
 * Prism railroad
 * Parolee's Choice Bus Lines
 * Band-Ape
 * Hal's Roach Bombs
 * Fleur de Liz Parfum
 * Harry Potter
 * The Flowering Inferno
 * Discount petting zoo
 * NNY Recreation Center
 * NNY Bus Terminal
 * James Bond
 * Luna Parking
 * Luna Park carny
 * Volume 8
 * Time shelter
 * Time button
 * Taste of NNY Gourmet Food Fair
 * Bronx Zoo
 * Ultra Guy's Custom Diamonds
 * János
 * Ultra Guy
 * St. Koch's Cathedral
 * Vampire State Building
 * Limburger King
 * Burger King
 * Emilia Clarke
 * Tara Strong
 * Tonya
 * Greg
 * Zindy
 * Marianne
 * Coronation Oath: Vol. 1
 * Webster's New Abridged Becktionary
 * Fry meme
 * Ken Keeler's head
 * Cavitar Toothpaste
 * Dan McMasters
 * Blorgulax
 * Jackie Jr.
 * For Your Eyes Mainly
 * Bill and Keith
 * Dances of the Ancient Bronx
 * ‎A Child's Garden of Space Legends
 * True Stories of Courageous Animals
 * Fry's breakdancing crew
 * Let's go already!
 * Digby's old spaceship
 * Jedi
 * Long-range scanner
 * Digby's new spaceship
 * Radio-cranial dream injector
 * Planet Z-7
 * Fry's house
 * Fry's old apartment
 * Shazam
 * O'Grady's Pub
 * Digby
 * Mount Shushmore
 * Booby Tuesday's
 * Texan scientists
 * Tex 1138's employee
 * Sewer mailman
 * Pinuporks
 * Burt Ward's head
 * Adam West's head
 * Texas
 * Momsanto
 * Bean salesman
 * Parts 'n' Crafts
 * Little Drunk Sheila
 * Jake the Dog
 * Stan
 * Fry's cousin
 * Carlos
 * Tex 1138's
 * Sargaseous Sea
 * YouTube
 * S.S. Miami Muy Caliente
 * Concept art
 * Mobile app
 * Blip gang
 * Floatwell
 * Captain of the S.S. Miami Muy Caliente
 * Peoples α
 * St. Hope's Charity Hospital for Robot Orphans
 * Vulture preview clip
 * Johnny's parents
 * Johnny
 * Alejandro
 * Robert Wagner's head
 * Satan
 * Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonite
 * The Tragic Pan
 * Charles
 * General Extermulo
 * Last clone of Agnew
 * Simpsorama
 * Micky
 * Commentary:Ghost in the Machines
 * Futurama Comics: To Infinity!
 * Don't Go Taking my Heart!
 * Fermion-barrier heat-exclusion spray
 * Helium miners
 * Count Bankula Vampire Bank
 * Bank vampire
 * Mystic aldermen of the sun
 * Farnsworth Lanes
 * Fast Frank Brogan
 * The Rusty Rail
 * Dr. Daniel Zenus' robot
 * Cookie
 * T.G.I. Folky's
 * T.G.I. Friday's
 * Fourth Omicronian invasion of Earth
 * 11-Worth Variable-Security Prison
 * Silicon Red
 * Lyndon B. Johnson's head
 * Dr. Brutalov
 * Omicron Vet Clinic
 * Detective Klaus Mandela
 * Omicronian handbook
 * Rational Archives
 * Gabriel
 * Jeffersons Memorial
 * Prairie elephants
 * Yellow car
 * Moon worms
 * Minx
 * Glorianimous 3
 * Pimparoo
 * Impound Lot 136
 * Christopher Colobus
 * Tartar House Five
 * Fry-Bender relationship
 * Penelope
 * Wong Island

Guidelines for good articles
Good articles should meet the following criteria.
 * Must have at least one image.
 * Should not be a featured article.
 * Should not be one of the articles in the Main Page's "What's new?" section. When these articles leave the section, they are added to the random-article generator without having to pass nominations.
 * Should not be marked with one of the two cleanup templates.
 * Probably other stuff, too.

Nominations

 * The following section is an example.

Luna Parking
Nominated on 13 December, 2013.


 * Sanfazer

= Infosphere talk:Good articles =

You can use this page to question the quality of current good articles.

Similar notes can be made on the talk pages for Infosphere:Featured articles (since at the moment we're not doing anything like this) and Infosphere:Spotlight.


 * You can use this page to question the quality of upcoming featured articles.
 * You can use this page to question the potential of upcoming spotlight articles.

These talk pages would also be linked to from their respective project pages.

I'll make an extra featured-article nomination this week so we can say we have upcoming featured articles.

= Template:Good =

There can also be a. ( would redirect to it.)

It'd be nice if someone could make one of these rockets in a different colour&mdash; I'm sorry. One of these Planet Express ships in a different colour. Why not red?

Ballot
As for the little rocket, I *MAY* have the original SVG somewhere, but it was years ago. I'll run a search and see if it turns up. If I have it, then changing colors is trivial. --Buddy (talk) 12:42, 26 January 2014 (CET)


 * Nice. Let's hope it does. Sanfazer: [ talk] 17:23, 26 January 2014 (CET).