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'''''To edit the Featured Article page, see [[Weezerpedia:Featured article|here]]'''''.
'''The Featured Article section of Weezerpedia''' provides a short summary of an article, and is changed every month. Weezerpedia depends on its volunteer editors to keep our Main Page dynamic and current. We need your help finding and formatting new content for each month's featured article!


The Featured Article section of Weezerpedia provides a short summary of an article, and is changed every 2 to 3 weeks.  It pulls its data from a template page that can be changed to showcase different Weezerpedia articles.
==Instructions==
===1. Pick a month that hasn't been edited yet===
[[:Category:Incomplete featured content]] is a list of months that haven't been claimed by an editor yet - take a look!


Let's say, for purpose of an example, that August 2022 hasn't been picked yet. When you navigate to it, it will look something like this:


[[Image:Incomplete featured article screenshot.png|500px|left|thumb]]<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
===2. Choose an article===
Choose an article that you would like to showcase on the Main Page of Weezerpedia for the month you've picked. '''Be sure that it is [[Weezerpedia:Style Guide|up to Weezerpedia's standards]]'''. If it isn't, edit it!
====What should I feature?====
Featured content can be:
*Topical - maybe Weezer or a related band is putting out a new record this month.
*Thematic - we often pick holiday-themed articles around the end of the year.
*Something you've edited or read lately that you think would represent the wiki well to a larger audience.
*Or anything else...
**If you don't know which article to choose, feel free to ask for suggestions in our [https://discord.gg/GCFFrkqy22 Discord server]!
*'''The only pages that you can not choose as a Featured Article are song pages or images.'''


==Instructions==
===3. Create the "Headline"===
===1. Choose an article===
There is a headline above every featured item [[Main Page]]. For articles, it reads ''Featured Article: <u>ARTICLE NAME</u>''. This needs to be changed if you are changing the featured article.
Choose an article that you would like to showcase on the Main Page of Weezerpedia. '''Be sure that it is [[Weezerpedia:Style Guide|up to Weezerpedia's standards]]'''. If it isn't, edit it! If you want to change the Featured Article on Weezerpedia but don't know which article to choose, see [[Weezerpedia:Featured content]] and choose an article from there. '''The only pages that you can not choose as a Featured Article are song pages or images.'''<br><br>
 
Click "Edit" on the month you've chosen to edit. It should look like this:
 
<pre>
{{Incomplete featured content}}
<noinclude>[[Category:Weezerpedia]] [[Category:Featured content August 2022]]</noinclude>
</pre>
 
You can leave that bottom line (everything between the "noinclude" tags) alone. Delete the text <nowiki>{{Incomplete featured content}}</nowiki> - that's the code that gave you the goofy Rivers-falling-down gif. Replace that text with:
 
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[YOUR ARTICLE NAME]]}}
</pre>


===2. Change the "Headline"===
If we use ''[[Maladroit]]'' as an example...
There is a headline above every featured article and song on the [[Main Page]]. For articles, it reads ''Featured Article: <u>ARTICLE NAME</u>''. This needs to be changed if you are changing the featured article.


Click "Edit" on the [[Weezerpedia:Featured article|Featured Article]] page. Look at the second line of the article. It should look like this:
<pre>{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}</pre>


<pre>{{Featured article headline|OLD ARTICLE NAME}}</pre>
The page will look like this:


Delete the old article title and put your new article title in it's place.
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}


To use ''[[The Kitchen Tape]]'' as an example, you will make the second line of the article look like this:
===4. Pause to Preview===
To quote [[User:Deckra]]:
[[Image:Preview preview preview.png|thumb|left|300px]]<br><br><br><br><br><br>
It's always a good idea to preview your pages as you go. Take a moment to pause and make sure everything is coming out okay so far. There are three buttons at the bottom of your editing box - click the middle one!
[[Image:Preview button.png|thumb|left|300px]]<br><br><br><br><br><br>
Everything look okay?
===5. Add an image===
If the answer was yes, the next step is to find an image to accompany your article. You can do this by adding the following code right below your "headline" code:
<pre>
[[Image:IMAGE NAME.FILE TYPE|IMAGE SIZEpx|right|link=ARTICLE NAME]]
</pre>


<pre>{{Featured article headline|The Kitchen Tape}}</pre>
That is probably a bit confusing to look at, but it will make sense when we plug stuff in, using ''Maladroit'' as our example:
<pre>
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
</pre>


which gives you:
*"Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg" tells the wiki to pull up the ''Maladroit'' album art.
*"200px" renders the image at a particular size - 200 pixels in height!{{citation needed}}
**(we're gonna want to preview this once we've tried it - sometimes 200px is too big and you can adjust as needed)
*"right" is like right-justifying text in Google Docs - it makes the image stick to the right side of the page.
*"link=Maladroit" is some fancy coding. It makes it so when someone clicks the image, it takes them to the Maladroit page! Without that coding, clicking the image would take you to [[:File:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|this page]].


{{Featured article headline|The Kitchen Tape}}
Take a look:<br>
-->


===3. Clear out old stuff, paste in new stuff===
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
*Delete all the information from the previous Featured Article, but '''''DO NOT DELETE''''' any text within the formatting ''<nowiki><noinclude>   </noinclude></nowiki>''. Anything within that formatting is there to help people edit that page, or to place the page in a category.<br><br>
*Copy significant information from the article, and paste it into the Featured Article page. Often times the first 4 or 5 paragraphs are used.<br><br>
As is required with all Weezerpedia articles, '''make sure the first words that you use on the Feautred Article page are the following:''' <pre>'''[[Article Name]]''' is/are/was/were..."</pre>


Be sure to make the first words an [[Help:Links|internal link]] to the article you're featuring by placing two brackets around it. For example, if "''[[The Kitchen Tape]]''" was going to be used as the Featured Article, the first line of the Featured Article text that you should be able to read on the Main Page should be... <pre>'''''[[The Kitchen Tape]]''''' is the name of [[Weezer|Weezer's]] second demo tape and first proper album.</pre>
So far, our code looks like this:
:which gives you...<br><br>
<pre>
::"'''''[[The Kitchen Tape]]'''''" is the name of [[Weezer|Weezer's]] second demo tape and first proper album.
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
</pre>


:Except for the brackets around the page's name, this formatting is probably already set up on the page. You will probably only need to copy it.<br><BR>
====5.1 But my page doesn't have a photo!====
That's okay. Take a look through [[Gallery]] and find something relevant. If you're having trouble finding something useful, feel free to ask for assistance in the Discord help channel.
===6. Article "lede"===
"Lede" is fancy wiki/journalism talk for the first sentence of your article. We format it to draw the reader's attention there:


===4. Make edits for redundancy and style===
<pre>'''Article Name''' is/are/was/were..."</pre>
These edits should be made ''only to the Featured Article page'', and not the actual article. For example, if you were to copy the first few paragraphs from The Kitchen Tape, your article would '''incorrectly''' look like this:


----
Generally, you can copy and paste the lede from the article you're featuring. With ''Maladroit'' as our example, it will come out looking like this:
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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
<pre>'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.</pre>
| Name        = The Kitchen Tape
| Type        = demo
| Artist      = Weezer
| Cover      =
| Released    = 1992
| Recorded    = 1992
| Genre      = Alternative Rock
| Length      =
| Label      = Independent
| Last album  =
| This album  = ''The Kitchen Tape''<br>(1992)
| Next album  = ''[[Weezer's third demo]]''<br>(1992)
}}


::"'''''The Kitchen Tape'''''" is the name of [[Weezer|Weezer's]] second demo tape and first proper album.  It was recorded in an attempt to create a "serious" demo to hand around local clubs in attempts to generate "a buzz."
Which looks like this:


::'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.


::{| style="border:0; margin: 0px;" width="100%" cellspacing="0"
*The five quotation mark thingys <nowiki>'''''</nowiki> italicize and bold the word "Maladroit." We always bold the subject of a page, and we're italicizing it here as well because it's the name of an album. If it ''wasn't'' an album, you'd just put three <nowiki>'''</nowiki> quotation marks around it, giving you '''Maladroit'''.
| valign="top" style="padding:0px; border:0px solid #ffffff; margin-bottom:0px;" |
*The double brackets <nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki> around words make "internal links" to other pages on Weezerpedia.
<div style="font-family: Times New Roman sans-serif; font-size: 160%; padding:0px; background-color:#ffffff; border-bottom:1px solid #affffff; text-align: left;">Recording process
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</div>
<div style="background:#ffffff; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%; padding:0.0em 0.0em 0.0em 0.0em;">
|}
::''The Kitchen Tape'' was mostly recorded on [[August 2]], [[1992]] in [[The Garage]], but the drums were recorded in the kitchen of the [[Amherst House]]. Accordingly, it was nicknamed ''The Kitchen Tape''. The demos were recorded using frontman [[Rivers Cuomo's]] 8-track tape recorder.


::Bootlegs of this demo have surfaced, however only five were surfaced through a copy of the original. Two other songs from the tape ([[Undone - The Sweater Song]] and [[Only in Dreams]]) were released officially on [[The Blue Album]] Deluxe Edition bonus disc, ''Dusty Gems And Raw Nuggets''.  ''The Kitchen Tape'''s version of "Say It Ain't So" and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" have not been bootlegged or officially released.
Gathering all our code up again, here's what our page looks like:


<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.
</pre>


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===7. Article body===
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====7.1 Pick the text you want====
Here's where you get the most creative license as an editor. Pull content from your page that you think will help give a "nutshell" version of the topic. ''Maladroit'' is a longer article than most, so we can sift through it a bit to pull out the following:


<pre>
Immediately following the release of ''The Green Album'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]], leading to a protracted legal battle.<ref>Pollack, Marc, and Simutis, David. "UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT: You Need A Scorecard To Keep Track, So We've Provided One" ''Hits Daily Double''. 3 July 2001. https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=274861&title=UNDER-NEW-MANAGEMENT</ref><ref>RIVERS CUOMO, an individual; PAT WILSON, an individual; BRIAN BELL, an individual; and MIKEY WELSH, an individual; collectively and professionally known as “WEEZER” vs. ATLAS/THIRD RAIL MANAGEMENT, INC., a California corporation; and PAT MAGNARELLA, an individual, https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TAC/2001-21%20Rivers%20Cuomo%20et%20al%20v%20Atlas%20Third%20Rail%20mgmt%20inc.pdf</ref> According to [[Karl Koch]], the firing was a "statement of intent" and [[Rivers Cuomo]] felt that the band didn't need management, and could simply fund their next album with their own money and pay themselves back when the album sold.<ref name="vaultdive1">Weezer Fan Club Vault Dive #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDgekROuac</ref>


Between legs of the Midget Tour, the band recorded more demos at [[Steakhouse Demos|Steakhouse Studios]] in late October, and [[Cello Demos|Cello Studios]] in early November. The set of unmastered demos from these sessions would be jokingly referred to by the band as "[[The Black Album (2001)|The Black Album]]". During this period, the band also revived the moniker "[[Goat Punishment]]" to perform a series of shows, including one recorded and [[Weezer concert: 10/24/2001 - Los Angeles, CA|broadcast for the HBO program ''Reverb'']].


It was the first album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]] after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]], the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album has ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
</pre>


:'''Do not include''' the following things in Featured Articles in order to maintain appropriate style: album info boxes, song info boxes, section headlines, track listings, external links, or "see also" sections.
'''This looks like shit, no? We need to...'''
:'''Omit for redundancy:''' Without those section headlines, two out of the first three sentences of the article would begin with "The Kitchen Tape." Using pronouns and the like, make minor rewrites to sentences and prevent this monotony. ''Only make these edits to the Featured Article page, not the actual article.''
====7.2 Make edits for style====
:The article should look more like this:
There are a lot of things inside articles that we don't need on the main page. These include: infoboxes (those tables full of info at the top right hand corner of most pages), section headlines, track listings, "external link" sections, and "see also" sections.


Here are some important ways to "clean up" your text before the article body is finished:
*Delete all "references" in the article
**We try to cite our sources as best we can in normal articles, but we don't need to do this on the Main Page. References cut up a lot of the text we've just copied and make it all-but-impossible to read - you'll see article and document names contained within <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags in it, like in the first sentence:
<pre>
Immediately following the release of ''The Green Album'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]], leading to a protracted legal battle.<ref>Pollack, Marc, and Simutis, David. "UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT: You Need A Scorecard To Keep Track, So We've Provided One" ''Hits Daily Double''. 3 July 2001. https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=274861&title=UNDER-NEW-MANAGEMENT</ref><ref>RIVERS CUOMO, an individual; PAT WILSON, an individual; BRIAN BELL, an individual; and MIKEY WELSH, an individual; collectively and professionally known as “WEEZER” vs. ATLAS/THIRD RAIL MANAGEMENT, INC., a California corporation; and PAT MAGNARELLA, an individual, https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TAC/2001-21%20Rivers%20Cuomo%20et%20al%20v%20Atlas%20Third%20Rail%20mgmt%20inc.pdf</ref>
</pre>
We can delete everything between the aforementioned <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags, giving us:
<pre>
Immediately following the release of ''The Green Album'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]], leading to a protracted legal battle.
</pre>
*When something is referred to for the first time in an article, it should be an internal link. We need to make an edit to the above sentence to correct for this:
<pre>
Immediately following the release of ''The Green Album'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]], leading to a protracted legal battle.
</pre>
''The Green Album'' needs an internal link, so we'll add those brackets <nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki> around it:
<pre>
Immediately following the release of ''[[The Green Album]]'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]], leading to a protracted legal battle.
</pre>
*Make edits for style.
**Our third paragraph makes a lot of sense in the context of the actual ''Maladroit'', but is pretty confusing in this new context:
<pre>
It was the first album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]] after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]], the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album has ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
</pre>
Let's change it to make more sense:
<pre>
''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
</pre>


Once we've made all these clean-up edits, our whole article will look like this:
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.


Immediately following the release of ''[[The Green Album]]'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]], leading to a protracted legal battle. According to [[Karl Koch]], the firing was a "statement of intent" and [[Rivers Cuomo]] felt that the band didn't need management, and could simply fund their next album with their own money and pay themselves back when the album sold.


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The band recorded demos for the album in [[2001]], between legs of the [[Midget Tour]] in 2001. This included sessions at [[Steakhouse Demos|Steakhouse Studios]] in late October and [[Cello Demos|Cello Studios]] in early November. During this period, the band also revived the moniker "[[Goat Punishment]]" to perform a series of shows, including one recorded and [[Weezer concert: 10/24/2001 - Los Angeles, CA|broadcast for the HBO program ''Reverb'']].
----
::'''''The Kitchen Tape''''' is the name of [[Weezer|Weezer's]] second demo tape and first proper album. It was recorded in an attempt to create a "serious" demo to hand around local clubs in attempts to generate "a buzz."


::This album was mostly recorded on [[August 2]], [[1992]] in [[The Garage]], but the drums were recorded in the kitchen of the [[Amherst House]].  Accordingly, it was nicknamed ''The Kitchen Tape''.  The demos were recorded using frontman [[Rivers Cuomo's]] 8-track tape recorder.
''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
</pre>


::Bootlegs of this demo have surfaced, however only five were surfaced through a copy of the original. Two other songs from the tape ([[Undone - The Sweater Song]] and [[Only in Dreams]]) were released officially on [[The Blue Album]] Deluxe Edition bonus disc, ''Dusty Gems And Raw Nuggets''.  ''The Kitchen Tape'''s version of "Say It Ain't So" and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" have not been bootlegged or officially released.
Starting to look less shitty! Here's what that comes out to when we hit preview:
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{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.


Immediately following the release of ''[[The Green Album]]'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]], leading to a protracted legal battle. According to [[Karl Koch]], the firing was a "statement of intent" and [[Rivers Cuomo]] felt that the band didn't need management, and could simply fund their next album with their own money and pay themselves back when the album sold.


The band recorded demos for the album in [[2001]], between legs of the [[Midget Tour]] in 2001. This included sessions at [[Steakhouse Demos|Steakhouse Studios]] in late October and [[Cello Demos|Cello Studios]] in early November. During this period, the band also revived the moniker "[[Goat Punishment]]" to perform a series of shows, including one recorded and [[Weezer concert: 10/24/2001 - Los Angeles, CA|broadcast for the HBO program ''Reverb'']].


<br>
''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
*'''Try to keep article length between 200 and 300 words'''. This is not a strict guideline, but it is recommended.<br><Br>


===5. Add an image===
===8. Place the necessary links at the bottom the page===
The image should be around '''150px''' wide and aligned to the '''right'''. The following text will place an image correctly:
All featured content has some formatting at the bottom of the page. This is intended to:
#Allow readers to "read more" and navigate to the full article being featured
#Edit the featured article section themselves
#Check out past featured articles.


<pre><nowiki>[[Image:PICTURE NAME|150px|right]]</nowiki></pre>This gives you an image like this (see right):
It looks like this:
[[Image:Weezer Pinkerton.jpg|150px|right]]
[[Image:Featured article links screenshot.png|thumb|left|200px]]<br><br><br><br>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
===6. Place the necessary links at the bottom the page===
There should be links at the bottom that allow users to easily see the full article and edit the Featured Article section. Find the second to last line in the entire article. It should read:


<pre>{{Featured article links|OLD ARTICLE NAME}}</pre>
The code you need to type out for this is super easy:


Replace ''OLD ARTICLE NAME'' with your new article name
<pre>{{Featured article links|YOUR ARTICLE NAME}}</pre>


Using [[Video Capture Device]] as an example page, this code...
Using ''Maladroit'' again, this code...


<pre>{{Featured article links|Video Capture Device}}</pre>
<pre>{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}</pre>


...will give you the little links you see at the far right of this page:<br><br>
...will give you the little links you see at the far right:<br><br>
{{Featured article links|Video Capture Device}}
{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}


<br>
<br>


===7. Tag the talk page, add the featured article category===
===9. Tag the talk page, add the featured article category===
Tag the talk page of the article that you are featuring with a Featured Article template. Every time an article is featured on Weezerpedia, a record must be made of it. This is done by typing the following text at the top of the talk page of an article:
Tag the talk page of the article that you are featuring with a Featured Article template. Every time an article is featured on Weezerpedia, a record must be made of it. This is done by typing the following text at the top of the talk page of an article:
<pre>{{Featured article|MONTH NAME AND DAY|YEAR}}</pre>
<pre>{{Featured article|MONTH NAME AND DAY|YEAR}}</pre>
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Weezerpedia does this because the "previous featured articles" link that you added earlier is a link to this category page, and, if you don't add your page to that category, it won't appear in that list.
Weezerpedia does this because the "previous featured articles" link that you added earlier is a link to this category page, and, if you don't add your page to that category, it won't appear in that list.


===8. Preview the page first===
===10. Preview the page first===
Before you save anything, preview your page by clicking "Show preview." You're saving content that's going to appear on the Main Page, so it better be perfect!
Before you save anything, preview your page by clicking "Show preview." You're saving content that's going to appear on the Main Page, so it better be perfect!


===9. Pat yourself on the back!===
===11. Pat yourself on the back!===
Thank you for helping Weezerpedia! Weezerpedia can only grow if people like you help edit and contribute to it. Thanks for your effort!
Thank you for helping Weezerpedia! Weezerpedia can only grow if people like you help edit and contribute to it. Thanks for your effort!


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