[Foundation-l] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" English Wikipedia's featured article today

[Mike Christie]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:50 AM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/2/7 HaeB <haebwiki at gmail.com>
>
>  > Actually, the English Wikipedia's Featured Article Director
>
> What is that?
>
> > has stated
> > himself
>
> Why are not that decissions taken under community consensus?
>
>  > that some articles will not be featured on the main page
> > (although he prefers to keep that list short and it currently consists
> > only of the article "Jenna Jameson"):
> >
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/archive25#Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED_and_the_Main_Page
> >
> >
> I read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us that
> "Wikipedia has no editorial board". Why is there a person deciding what
> can't be shown in the main page?


There is currently an RfC on both the nature and occupancy of the role.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles/2012_RfC_on_FA_leadership

Mike