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Cover stories are articles that are randomly included on the main page as "featured articles".
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Nomination
To nominate an article:
- Place the template {{cover}} at the top of an article.
- Go to its talk page and start a new section titled "cover story".
- The first line of the section should say "(please do not archive this section)".
- List the reasons you think justify putting the article on the main page.
All nominated articles are automagically added to category:Cover story nominees.
Approval
If and when they are approved, the template should be modified to {{cover|approved}}. This will put the article in category:Cover story articles, and the first 800 /1000 or so characters from articles in that category will be randomly featured on the main page of RationalWiki.
Any templates within the first 1000 (ish) words of the article should be enclosed in <noinclude>--</noinclude>.
Any images within this area should also be carefuly examined to see if they will or might disrupt the formatting of the front page, if they might do so they should also be enclosed in the <noinclude>image</noinclude>. If {{cover|approved}} is the only one, this would look like this:
<noinclude>{{cover|approved}}</noinclude>.
All approved articles are automagically added to category:Cover story articles.
Rejection
Articles rejected for inclusion should have the template {{cover}} removed from the page. The discussion on the article's talk page should be marked as "not to be archived", and left in place through any subsequent archiving for future reference.
Altering cover articles
Cover articles make use of the <noinclude><includeonly> and </includeonly></noinclude> tags to make sure that only certain content is transcluded into the main page.
Surround the bits of code that apply to the article with "noinclude" tags, and the parts that need to be shown in the front page preview with "includeonly". For example, take the image and use "includeonly" for the placement and size parameter ("left|150px" for example)), to put it to the left on the front page and smaller than the default thumbnail size, and put "noinclude" around the caption, especially if it is long.
Any changes made to the header section may cause a problem - the front page only returns a certain number of characters so it can look wrong if this cuts off half way through a section header! To preview what a change may look like, there is a testing area where the look of all cover articles can be seen at a glance, rather than by repeatedly refreshing the main page until you spot the right article (be aware that you have to save the page for this to work, "preview" just won't work).