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Countdown:Featured articles
A featured article is of one the Countdownwiki's finest articles. These are selected by the editors of the Countdownwiki on this very page. A featured article could be a player, a game or a piece of terminology. The article should be of a certain length and preferably contain images and external links to make the article more readable.
Contents
List of featured articles
- Championship of Champions XI, chosen by User:Mglovesfun
- Championship of Champions XII, chosen by User:Reams
- Countdown, chosen by User:Reams
- Des chiffres et des lettres, chosen by User:Mglovesfun
- Jon O'Neill, chosen by User:Reams
- Conor Travers, chosen by User:Mglovesfun
Proposed featured articles
- If we need more articles for the main page, let's think of a bunch of them. I'd go for Julian Fell, Ben Wilson, Martin Gardner (vanity!), Conor Travers, Harvey Freeman etc. Mglovesfun 21:26, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Yeah, maybe we should have a Project of the Week and try to bring some of those articles up to full strength for future FAs. We'd have to pick the more recent players I suspect, because for a lot of the older one we don't have any more than the scores. Soo 22:31, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Yes I could start that project right now, we need to decide how often to change the featured article. One thing I noticed is that the <ref></ref> doesn't seem to work on here, or doesn't that matter? As for players with games, there's me, Ben and Conor that all have round details. I will think more about which players have round details as well, and of course series and CofCs are another good source of FA's. Mglovesfun 13:35, 9 April 2008 (BST)
- Yeah, maybe we should have a Project of the Week and try to bring some of those articles up to full strength for future FAs. We'd have to pick the more recent players I suspect, because for a lot of the older one we don't have any more than the scores. Soo 22:31, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Graham Nash - there's now a photo and the articles a lot longer with more detail. Mglovesfun 17:25, 29 April 2008 (BST)
- Mark Tournoff is another possible one, although we nearly have enough for a year already. My next project will be to get the Paul Gallen article up to the same standard. Mglovesfun 15:35, 3 May 2008 (BST)
How to make a now proposal
Follow this edit link, or the one at the top of the page, and add your own suggestion. The name of the article should be placd between two square brackets to make a blue link (example: [[Jon O'Neill]]).
Future featured articles
When an article is featured, it is given a short write-up on the front page. This is not editable by ordinary users (the risk of vandalism to the front page is too high.) But we will post a draft here well in advance, so please feel free to edit that and who knows -- your words may appear on the front page!
Previous featured articles
October 2008
Episode 4121 featured Matthew Shore and Mark Tournoff in the Championship of Champions XII first quarter-final. Shore had just beaten the previously unbeaten Chris Cummins and Tournoff had beaten Steve Graston. The game started gently with a six and three sevens, before Tournoff beat his opponent on the numbers game. After another seven, the game came alive with PAINTIEST in round 7, followed by OVERRUN and QUIETEN. A difficult numbers game failed to beat either player, and Tournoff was on a score of 86 out of a possible 86, while Shore was on 76, only dropping points on the first numbers game. In round 11, both players got another nine with HERNIATES and Tournoff had 104 out of a possible 104. In the next round, Tournoff missed PISTEURS opting for the invalid PURSIEST instead, and in the next round had FLOOK disallowed, although Shore had FORMAL for six anyway. After an easy numbers game ((25×10)+4+1) the players were on 117 and 114 with Shore leading by 3 points. The highest ever losing score was 111 by David Williams, losing to Chris Wills in the Championship of Champions XI and both players had already surpassed that, meaning that even if neither player got the conundrum, Tournoff would set the new highest losing score record with 114. Des Lynam informed them of this and the conundrum SILLYQUOO was revealed, solved in 1 second by Tournoff won won the game 124 - 117, 117 is still the highest ever losing score in a game of Countdown.
