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The W Awards (Golden W Award and Platinum W Award) are elite accolades recognizing the highest ability to bring content to the masses. The original Golden W means that you've had content in all of the original areas of the Main Page: Today's featured article, In the news..., Did you know..., On this day..., and Today's featured picture. The Golden W predates the 2011 main page expansion plans by over a year, with only one recipient (TonyTheTiger) in that time. In 2011, both WP:FLs and WP:FSs were accepted to be added to the main page. FS eventually went inactive and never made it to the main page, but WP:TAFI was briefly added to the main page in 2013. To retain the spirit of the Golden W, a Platinum W award will be awarded to those who have added content to all areas of the main page at the time of the nomination.

For each of the main page areas, you must have been a major editor of the article and a major participant in the article's nomination for that area as applicable (POTD has no nomination and OTD has a sort of submission process for hooks that get evaluated). I.E., this is an award for not only creating meritorious content, but also for having the ability to maneuver it onto the main page. Thus, to earn this award you must be intimately involved in both the creation of the content and the process of getting the content onto the main page.

Content does not have to be featured at the time of the nomination and if it loses featured status after the award, the award status is unaffected because this award recognizes the achievement of the main page appearance rather than the featured content itself. You must document that you have made a successful contribution to each section of the main page, not that the content currently is featured.

Read the criteria below for achieving the Golden W Award. If you believe you meet the requirements, you may apply for this award via the "Nominations" section.

1. On 22 January 2010 @ 03:06, Noraft (talk · contribs) created a first draft of a Golden W Award image at File:Wikipedia-W-Award-(Laurels).jpg.
2. On 22 January 2010 @ 07:58, Noraft announced his intention to create a Golden W Award at WT:FOUR.
3. Subsequent discussion encouraged this pursuit.
4. On 23 January 2010 @ 11:23, Noraft proposed the Golden W award at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals page.
5. 13 February 2010 @ 19:12, TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) suggested userfying the proposal due to its lack of consensus.
6. On 9 March 2010 @ 15:46, Noraft created the Golden W Award page.
7. On 9 March 2010 @ 19:18, TonyTheTiger created the WP:GOLDENW shortcut.
8. On 11 March 2010 @ 12:11, Noraft userfied his proposal, which had garnered no consensus.
9. In March, TonyTheTiger and Noraft agreed on an image for the award on various talk pages and by email.
10. On 17 March 2010 @ 11:07, Noraft posted the current design of the original Golden W Award image at File:Golden W Award2.png.
11. On 20 March 2010, Noraft posted the current design of the original Golden W, with Laurels, image over the first draft of the original Golden W Award image. This award has not been issued as of March 31, 2011^[update].
12. On 8 April 2010 @ 10:04, Lampman (talk · contribs) made the first nomination.
13. On 10 April 2010 @ 03:46, TonyTheTiger made the first nomination that would lead to an award.
14. On 2 May 2010 @ Noraft promoted TonyTheTiger's nomination.
15. On 21 January 2011 at 11:01 PM (Chicago time), Noraft informed TonyTheTiger by email that he had become busy with real life and that TonyTheTiger should become proactive with the review process.
16. On 22 January 2011 @ 14:31, TonyTheTiger revised the WP:FP requirement to make it more inline with other awards and honors on wikipedia including WP:FOUR and WP:CUP.
17. During a series of edits on 31 March 2011 following the March 28 2011 signpost notice of the discussions to add FL and add FS to the main page, TonyTheTiger set forth the Platinum W Award.
18. On June 13, 2011 WP:TFL began its trial period of weekly lists on the main page as reported in Wikipedia Signpost.
19. July 23, 2014 Crisco 1492 earns 1st Platinum W award.

• WP:ITN has been on the Main Page since the September 11 attacks in 2001.^[1]
• WP:OTD has been on the Main Page since October 11, 2002.
• The earliest WP:TFA is February 22, 2004, according to Wikipedia:Today's featured article/2004.
• T:DYK dates back to February 22, 2004, when it looked like this.
• The earliest WP:POTD is May 14, 2004, according to Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2004.
• The earliest WP:TFL was June 6, 2011, according to Wikipedia:Today's featured list/June 2011.
• WP:TAFI appeared on the main page in from April 15, 2013 and was discontinued prior to the May 20, 2013 update.

If you you meet all the following requirements for this award, or you have contributions which have been scheduled to go on the main page, you may submit a nomination at the section below. Please note that awards are not conferred until after all contributions have actually gone live on the main page.

You must have an article that you created and/or significantly improved and nominated for Featured Article be displayed in the Today's Featured Article at the Main Page.
You must have an article that you created/substantially updated and nominated for In the News appear at the Main Page in that section, with you being credited.
You must have an article that you started/expanded fivefold be displayed at the Main Page as a Did You Know..., with you being credited.
You must have an article that you created or significantly improved and nominated for On This Day displayed on the Main Page.
You must have a picture that you created/substantially edited and nominated for Featured Picture be displayed in the Picture of the Day on the Main Page.

If you believe you meet all the requirements listed above, you may request the award following the instructions below. It would also be helpful if you reviewed one nomination and moved it to the log for each nomination that you have made.

Instructions

• Copy the following code and paste it to the bottom of the list at the "Current nominations" section below.

====((User|YOUR USERNAME HERE))====
:[[File:Symbol star FA gold.svg|25px]] '''FA''': [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/ARTICLE NAME]]
:[[File:Gnome_globe_current_event.svg|25px]] '''ITN''': ARTICLE NAME and nomination [DIFF]
:[[File:Symbol question.svg|25px]] '''DYK''': [[Wikipedia:Recent additions NUMBER]] and nomination [DIFF]
:[[File:Nuvola_apps_date.svg|25px]] '''OTD''': ARTICLE NAME and nomination [DIFF]
:[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|25px]] '''FP''': [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/PICTURE NAME]]
::~~~~

Current nominations

TonyTheTiger

FL: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Mr. Basketball USA/archive1 (TFL)

• Looks correct to me (assuming this is being added to those already included below). Tony started the list and nominated it, and it ran on the MP.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:46, 23 July 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• @Crisco 1492: Any further development on this? jp×g 02:53, 13 June 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Reviewing

Anybody may help in reviewing the nominations. If you would like to actively participate, you may add this page to your watchlist and follow the reviewing instructions below. Although you can nominate yourself to the list above, you should not be the final arbiter for nominations of your own editorial work or your own nominations.

Golden W Instructions

• If you review and the award is not applicable, remove the nomination and notify the user via their talk page that the nomination failed; don't forget to explain why and to encourage them to try again later when they feel they've done it right.
  1. Did the editor make the very first encyclopedic content edit for each article? This partially satisfies the requirements for FA, ITN, DTK, and OTD.
  2. If the editor did not make the very first encyclopedic content edit for one or more of the above articles:
  • In the case of FA, did the editor significantly improve and nominate it? (Look at the FAC discussion and the article history.)
  • In the case of FP, did the editor create or significantly improve and nominate it? (Check the WP:FPC discussion and WP:POTD archives on the date in question.)
  • In the case of ITN, did the editor substantially update and nominate it?
  • In the case of DYK, did the editor expand it fivefold, and was the editor credited with the DYK entry? (Check to see if the editor was involved in the DYK nomination by reviewing his/her user contributions. This can be done as follows: Go to the user contribution history. Click on older. The URL should now contain a YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format time for the newest contribution on that page. Change the date to a proper date to look for the DYK info. Then search for "Did You" or something like that. The author may not have been involved in the nomination, but may have been credited nonetheless so check his/her user talk page the same way if you do not find nomination involvement.

• If you review and the award is applicable, remove the nomination from this page and notify the user at their talk with the following template under a new section titled "Golden W Award": ((subst:User:Noraft/Golden W Award/Message)) which produces:

		Golden W Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Golden W Award for your contributions to each long-time section of the Main Page: a Featured Article at Today's Featured Article; articles listed on In The News, Did You Know and On This Day; and a Featured Picture at Picture of the Day. Your contributions to Wikipedia put you in a class of prolific, highly skilled editors.

• Finally, add the user to the Golden W Award records.

Platinum W Instructions

In addition to the Golden W checks above consider:

• 1. Did the editor make the very first encyclopedic content edit for each article? This partially satisfies the requirements for FA, FL, ITN, DTK, TAFI, and OTD.
  2. If the editor did not make the very first encyclopedic content edit for one or more of the above articles:
  • In the case of FL, did the editor significantly improve and nominate it? (Look at the FLC discussion and the article history.)
  • In the case of TAFI, did the editor significantly improve and nominate it? (Look at the editorial history during the TAFI and check the TAFI nomination page history.)

• If you review and the award is applicable, remove the nomination from this page and notify the user at their talk with the following template under a new section titled "Platinum W Award": ((subst:User:Noraft/Platinum W Award/Message)) which produces:

• Finally, add the user to the Platinum W Award records.

Reviewers

Add your name here if you wish to actively check this page for nominations and review them.

• TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs)

Users listed here have been awarded one or more Golden W Awards.

2010

May 2, 2010 TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) Gold

FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Inauguration of Barack Obama/archive4

ITN: Inauguration of Barack Obama [1]

DYK: Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December [2]

OTD: Chicago Board of Trade Building [3]

FP: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/20070616 Chris Young visits Wrigley (4).JPG

• N.B.: The above nomination is actually a faulty nomination. The award honors appearances on the main page. At that time, User:TonyTheTiger had already achieved 8 WP:TFAs, but First inauguration of Barack Obama would not make the main page until January 20, 2013. Tony was the nominator of three of the eight. The eight were, alphabetically, Campbell's Soup Cans (May 10, 2007, nom/FAC), Chicago Board of Trade Building (June 18, 2008 —/FAC), Cloud Gate (February 9, 2010 —/FAC), Jay Pritzker Pavilion (April 3, 2010 —/FAC), Prairie Avenue (December 27, 2009 nom/FAC), Richard Cordray (January 2, 2009 —/FAC), Saxbe fix (March 6, 2009 —/FAC), and Tyrone Wheatley (October 4, 2008, nom/FAC).
• N.B.: The above nomination is doubly faulty for a malformed ITN nomination, which was misplaced at P:CE. I believe my ruling today on a nomination like this by another would be that the malformed edit qualifies as editorial initiative of starting the nomination although it got moved. When this Award process begins to get more traffic, we can revisit this nomination.
• N.B.: Swapping in earliest DYK nom and archive for use in table that will probably be used as the display once other editors are recognized.

2014

July 23, 2014 Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs) Platinum

FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Roekiah/archive1 (TFA, nom)

ITN: Indonesian presidential election, 2014; nomination DIFF

DYK: Roekiah; Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012/August#26_August_2012 and nomination DIFF

OTD: Darah dan Doa and nomination (OTD)

FP: File:Semar Kris (alt) 3.jpg; Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Semar Kris redux, POTD

FL: List of literary works published in Asia Raja (nomination; TFL)

July 24, 2014 TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) Gold to Platinum

Same as #May 2, 2010 TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) Gold, plus

FL: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Mr. Basketball USA/archive1 (TFL)

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