2008/11/7 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
Maybe we could rotate them twice per day, giving each FA 12 hours on the main page. Then we wouldn't be increasing the amount of clutter there. The first screenful is the most important thing, many readers will never scroll down when they visit that page.
Obviously the recent double feature was necessary for neutrality, but we don't need to extend that precedent to cases where neutrality does not apply.
In some ways, I think the double-header can be better than alternating FAs. If the blurbs are kept short, and the layout is set up correctly, it looks really quite tidy; I only saw the main page once or twice on the 4th, but as I recall it looked clear and neat.
That said, it really relies on the two articles being related. [[Delhi]] and [[London]] would make for a coherent section; [[Delhi]] and [[Henry VIII of England]] wouldn't. For an unrelated pair, you'd probably have to seperate it out into two adjacent sections.
When we discussed double-FAs before, we were thinking of two unrelated topics - perhaps picking related pairs would be a good way forward, instead? Articles on two linked people, two battles, two chemical elements, two animals, two cities...