Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4848837-20170113224208

This is the first of at least two related suggestions designed to inspire more works to be completed as part of the Year of Ambition.

I think if we really want to call this the Year of Ambition, our standards need to be raised. We need to shoot for goals we never had before. When we make up an alien, or a series, or a character, we should be thinking beyond just the potential for it being featured for a month or featured for year, but for them actually being memorable. We should be working on elements that are new, interesting, and actually fully developed. We should be working on accepting only out of ourselves the very best we expect out of TV, movies, or books (and believe me, not much of those actually shoot high themselves).

So I think it's time to change the qualifications for Featureds, starting with Featured Series. These are the current Series Requirements, pulled from its page:
 * It must be an active series; 3 months or more with no activity is considered inactive.
 * Nominating a cancelled series is allowed, just as long as the writer doesn't choose to take down the episodes.
 * It must have a strong navigation structure, making it easy to find the series' aliens, characters, and episodes, even if the episodes are on another page. The easiest way to do this is to make a category for your series.
 * The series must be at least two months old and have four episodes completed.
 * The series must have at least decent grammar.

These are my proposed changes:
 * Any nominated series, including canceled series, must have a full season (consisting of at least 10 episodes completed) completed.
 * Any nominated miniseries (those consisting of less than 10 episodes and only one season) must be completed. Canceled miniseries are ineligible.
 * Any nominated series must abide by wiki rules, including having proper spelling and grammar.
 * The series must, at the very least, have lists detailing all aliens, characters, episodes, and other strong series elements. (These other elements do not need pages, but as a wiki, it would help.)

(Because of the requirement for at least a full season, I don't think the inactivity rule needs to stay. Even if they go on a hiatus or disappear from the wiki, there's still a great display of their work.)

As always, be open to discussion, whether you're for, against, or on the fence about the suggestion o/

(Congrats again to Mig and CaT for their work making featureds for 2016. But can you do it again?) 