User blog comment:SpaceWeather/Putting a Few Featureds on Hiatus/@comment-1874924-20140826031609

Reopening this discussion. Since we somehow didn't officially close the categories we were going to close, and some of these categories now have nominations, we need to implement the quality control option. (Yes, we could close those categories retroactively, but I'd rather not.) The problem is that we never considered any specific proposals for how high the bar should be. That's what I aim to remedy now.

Back in the days when we had active participation in voting/nominating for the Features, there would be occasional months with little turnout. For most of this wiki's history, the lowest number of supporting votes for a Featured Story winner was four, with two or three stories sharing that dubious distinction, so that's the standard I propose to use. (Personally, I'd prefer to set the bar higher, but we have precedent for a four-vote minimum.) This assumes multiple candidates. I think the bar should be higher for unopposed nominations.

PROPOSAL: The leading vote getter on any Feature ballot must have a minimum of four supporting votes, or six supporting votes if running unopposed, to be considered an official winnter. If no candidate gets enough votes, then there will be no Feature in that category for that month. A disallowed "winner" is eligiible to run again.