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This page is for the nomination and discussion of articles that may be potentially included in Memory Alpha's list of featured articles. A featured article is an especially well-written, informative, and comprehensive article that covers all available information on a subject. If you feel one of our articles meets this criteria, you may suggest it here in accordance with the nomination policy. For a list of articles previously nominated, see the archive.

To bring up a current featured article for review, please see the review procedure.

To nominate an article, start a new discussion under "Nominations without objections" with a heading named for the article you want to suggest. Provide an appropriate picture and a two- to three-paragraph summary of the article. This is usually the article's lead-in if possible, and should not contain any links, except to the article itself. This is what will be displayed on the main page and in the portals if the nomination is successful. Followed that by a brief reason why you feel the article should be featured.

Sample format:

=== <article> ===
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'''[[<article>]]''' <summary>
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<reasoning> - <signature>

Once this is done, a notice that the article has been nominated as a featured article candidate should be added to the article in question by inserting {{fan}} at the top of the page, above any other templates except the article type template.

When you are commenting on a nomination, please take the time to read the entire article before you decide whether to Support or Oppose the nomination. Nominations with objections should be moved to the appropriate section until they are resolved.

When supporting or opposing an article, please use a bullet point (by adding a * before your comment) without any indent so these will be easy to find later. General comments should be indented as usual, and, as always, please sign your nominations and comments with "~~~~".

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Nominations without objections

Kelvin type

The Kelvin-type USS Kelvin

The Kelvin-type was a class of Federation starship in the 23rd century. Ships of this class were operated by Starfleet in the 2230s.

Comprised of enough room to carry a crew of at least 800, the Kelvin-type contained at least thirteen decks. It had a single ventral warp nacelle housing the ship's warp drive engine, an upper saucer section topped by a central dome, and a topmost secondary hull, which featured a single shuttlebay at the aft and a navigational deflector at the front.

The low warp nacelle had an unusual extra exhaust at its aft end, which lit up when the nacelle was energized. An impulse drive was also at the aft of the saucer section. The navigational deflector had an extremely thin emitter at its center, surrounded by a circle that was completely black in the middle but had a blue petal-like pattern at its fringe, retaining the black as a background. The forward end of the nacelle had a ring that looked similar but was primarily colored gold.

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Self-nomination: I strongly believe this article fits the FA criteria. --Defiant 01:10, June 12, 2012 (UTC)

• Support the article, but oppose the blurb. A quick look at any of the other blurbs should have been enough to know that blurbs only contain a link to the article in question, as previously discussed. Also, this blurb has little to do with the type itself, as it reads more like a blurb for the USS Kelvin, right down to the picture only being labeled as that ship. While blurbs should usually be the first few paragraphs, in this case a different section should be used instead of the history section. - Archduk3 13:06, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

Well, as far as I can see, you're the only editor here who has been fixating over this "blurb" idea. If it's so easy to do, I don't see why you couldn't have done it yourself, rather than just leaving the message that it needed a blurb and then criticizing my efforts to add one! I'm sorry that I even tried. --Defiant 13:45, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

With blurbs recently having been approved by the community, I'm also interested in getting this one right, though I'm unsure about exactly how to, due to the policy pages being unclear about them. Also, thanks for your comments so far, but the FA nomination policy page currently states, "If you approve of an article, write Support followed by your reasons," so is there any chance you could disclose some reasoning for your support vote? --Defiant 18:51, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

I've now had a go at rewriting the blurb. Is it any better? --Defiant 19:04, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

Blurbs have not been recently approved by the community, just by you, as the consensus you're claiming is now enough is actually less than the one you claimed wasn't. Since that is now stated for the record, my reasoning for supporting the article is I "believe this article fits the FA criteria". I would have just placed a "〃" in my original statement, but I don't believe in this strongly enough to warrant that. The blurb is also now acceptable. - Archduk3 19:49, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

Haha! Thanks for those compliments; you made me laugh. :) Any more comments from other users? --Defiant 20:18, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

Comment-Shouldn't there be a quick note after the first sentence "In 2233, a vessel of this type, the USS Kelvin, was deployed near Klingon space. " that she has returned that year to earth, as Kirk was born in Iowa in the prime universe? Or at least something like "She shortly thereafter returned to Federation space, where one of her female crew members disembarked in order to give birth."--Sennim 10:16, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

I suspect that would entail speculation, as we don't canonically know that, in the prime reality, the Kelvin didn't rendezvous with another starship that delivered Winona Kirk and her unborn baby to Earth. From what the writers have stated, this is not what they intended, though that bg info seems more suitable for the page about the Kelvin itself, where you can currently find such info. --Defiant 11:31, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

• Support-You're right of course got my ship and type mixed up:)--Sennim 13:10, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

Cool; no worries! I'm basically happy to address any and all comments on how this page could be further improved, though I personally can't think of any ways. Thanks for your vote. --Defiant 14:30, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

The article is indebted to James Clyne for okaying the use of his Kelvin-type bridge concept artwork, so a big thanks to him. Any other comments and/or votes? --Defiant 18:20, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

• Support - excellent work.–Cleanse ^{( talk | contribs )} 06:32, June 23, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the votes so far. Would anyone else like to make another? --Defiant (talk) 02:12, June 28, 2012 (UTC)

• Support. Meets the criteria. 31dot (talk) 03:03, June 28, 2012 (UTC)