Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki:Article of the Month

Article of the Month is a short editorial piece that is shown on the main page. Each article will be displayed for at least 30 days. Anyone can write drafts for it! We accept multiple drafts for each month, so you may write competing articles. Use the button below to submit drafts. We suggest 50-200 words in its main content, but there is no hard limit. You may also discuss your ideas on our Discord, or on the Message Wall of article authors. The staff team will run procedures for article selection and modification when one or more article is ready. Your draft will be scheduled for staff approval at least 23 days after the last has been deployed, and the approval will last for 7 days. Author/Co-authors will be credited.

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Completed Articles

 * [Dec 2022] [Posted: 28 Dec] Gigantic Impact: The Giant's Sword by User:Lunatic Lunala
 * [Nov 2022] [Posted: 28 Nov] Top Of The Meta: The Terminator by an anonymous user
 * [Oct 2022] [Posted: 29 Oct] Dungeonized Dragon Armor: From Renowned to Irrelevancy. by User:M8thegod
 * [Sep 2022] [Posted: 18 Sep] Weirdly Unique: The Soul Whip by User:Lunatic Lunala
 * [Aug 2022] [Posted: 18 Aug] Pure Power: Tuxedos by User:Cuboidle
 * [Jun 2022] [Posted: 13 Jun] An Honest Review: The Flower of Truth by User:Lunatic Lunala
 * [May 2022] [Posted: 14 May] A Heated Debate: Frozen Blaze Armor and the Blaze Pet by User:Lunatic Lunala
 * [Mar 2022] [Posted: 18 Mar] Fall from grace - The Bonemerang by User:Lunatic Lunala
 * [Feb 2022] [Posted: 8 Feb] Unexpected Rarities — Unintentional Divine Items by User:Cuboidle
 * [Jan 2022] [Posted: 2 Jan] The Underlying Hero - The Healer by User:MonkeysHK
 * [Jul 2021] The Fallen Legend - The Pigman Sword by User:Southmelon
 * [May 2021] Hypixel SkyBlock Original Soundtracks by User:Southmelon

For Copy
To start a draft submission, write up your draft. Then, click the Submit Draft button and paste your submission. Press Submit to post on the talk page. Note that you have a limit of 2 unpublished drafts on the talk page. It is recommended to use the template Aotm for article creation.

Alternatively, you can customize your article style in anyway you like. For reference, this is the base format we used:





Regulations
The following policies can be further discussed with the Staff Team.


 * Why involve the Staff Team?
 * As AOTM can be submitted by anyone, we want to screen/improve the drafts before usage.
 * If there are multiple drafts, a way of selection should occur fairly.
 * To safeguard contents and content quality of the main page, we believe the staff team is the right group to approve and modify them.


 * Rules for Editors
 * A maximum of 3 drafts awaiting approval can be submitted.
 * An editor can take down a draft they have written and awaiting approval by request, unless it is in an approval session or is already approved.
 * If an editor wish to extend on another article, they have to submit a separate draft with a request to merge. If succeed, all authors who made substantial changes will be credited.
 * At any time, the staff team has the right to modify the format and wordings of the article to an extent that does not alter the original meaning.
 * We suggest 50-200 words for an AOTM article, but there is no hard limit. Editors can use any lengths depending on the content or their interest on that topic.
 * Contact the staff team for any problem.


 * Criteria for Removing an Article
 * If a draft has over half "Decline" votes in any approval session, it will be removed from future approval sessions.
 * If a draft has not been selected as Article of the Month 6 months after it has been submitted, and have entered at least 2 approval sessions, it will be removed from future approval sessions.
 * If a draft is non-Hypixel SkyBlock related, is too simple, is too subjective, or contains vulgar language, it will be removed from the draft submission page and from any approval sessions.
 * An article too similar to previous drafts without giving proper attributions to the author will be removed from the draft submission page and from any approval sessions.


 * Criteria for Starting an Approval Session
 * An AOTM can be deployed at anytime, but it will stay for at least 30 days.
 * For an approval session to start, it must have passed 23 days since the last AOTM is deployed and 3 days since the last approval session; There must be at least 1 draft submission at the time, and the articles voted on cannot be the same as the last approval session.
 * A maximum of 1 article from each editor will be taken for voting in a month. The earliest will always be chosen unless an author requests otherwise.
 * New draft submissions cannot be added to an approval session after it starts.


 * Approval Voting
 * When an approval session opens, a Discord Thread will be opened. All staff can see the thread and vote.
 * Voting will take 7 days. The sequence naming for the AOTM (e.g. Jan 2022) is the month of deployment.
 * For staff who want to see or modify the drafts, a drafting space will be open for us to view and modify articles. All staff can edit the articles, just don't start wars.
 * A vote message for each draft will be pinned, with the options of Favourite, Waitlist and Decline.
 * The Waitlist option is for "Support to give the article for a chance to participate future AOTM approval sessions, but it is not my favourite this month".


 * Determining Approved Draft
 * Only when Favourite is over half the total votes will a draft be approved. If >1 approved drafts, articles with most "Favourite" votes will be selected.
 * Otherwise, if Decline is over half the total votes, or it has been 6 months after the draft has been submitted and has entered at least 2 approval sessions, it meets the Criteria for Removing an Article. The article will not participate future approval sessions.
 * Otherwise, the article will be waitlisted for future approval sessions.
 * If there is more than one selected articles, a 24-hour tiebreaking vote will be held. The draft with the most vote will be approved. If there is a tie after the tiebreaking vote, one article will be picked using random number. Other drafts from the tiebreaker session will be unconditionally kept for future approval sessions.
 * The outcome of the vote can be 1 approved article, or no approved article.