Guanajuato has been scheduled for 11 March without any support votes. There are issues with the article, and we should consider a replacement. In my opinion, we should raise the bar for scheduling a nominated article. At the very least, there should be one support vote from someone else than the nominator, and no serious issues mentioned. We can consider to nominate Iquitos and put Guanajuato on hold, at least if someone else than yours truly would give it a support vote. /Yvwv (talk) 22:55, 19 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

It looks like a lot has been updated in the Iquitos article, but some of the See and Do listings still need updating, as do some of the prices in "Get around." Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:22, 20 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

There are concerns about civil unrest in Peru. Do we have other placeholders? /Yvwv (talk) 13:02, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

In the schedule we now have nothing but European articles in the DotM section from May to September - five months straight! I think that we should have at least one article from somewhere else in-between, the easiest would be to add that to July's slot - it would result in 2 European+1 from elsewhere+2 European.

Where to look for a replacement? Weather-wise suitable non-European destinations for July can be found in temperate parts of North America (we have a ton of not yet featured U.S. articles) and Asia, plus the tropics south of the Equator where it's dry season.

Vilnius of goes on the main page soon so that one we should not move. Out of Brocken, Glasgow, Lyon and Tirana one needs to be postponed or slushed (if it's not Glasgow, Glasgow would be moved to the vacated slot). Ypsilon (talk) 11:04, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Jakarta/Central needs a few updates, but should that replace one of the four European features after Vilnius? I'll nominate the article once I've updated it. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:19, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Sure, Jakarta could work. First I was looking at Glacier National Park (Montana) but if we'd run that, it should preferably not be featured in the same month as Tombstone Territorial Park (another North American national park). Ypsilon (talk) 11:29, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Tombstone TP is also more up-to-date (I wrote almost all of it from scratch last November) than Glacier National Park, Montana, though I don't know if Glacier National Park should be featured as a DotM or OtBP, but barring a few updates, it looks feature-worthy to me. I was also going to suggest Daintree Rainforest for one in the Asia–Pacific region, but we featured its respective state article last southern winter. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Finished updating the eat section, started drink (will finish tmr) and will update sleep once I get some sleep. @Veracious:, any other thoughts on Central Jakarta before I nominate it? SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 13:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

We have touched on the dilemma of quality versus diversity before. Hopefully we can agree that a featured article should always be at guide-level quality, with no exception just to represent a country or continent. When we have a surplus of guide-level articles, we can aim for more geographic diversity. Europe is at its finest from May to September (though the inland of the Mediterranean countries might be too hot), but we also have enough guide-level articles from North America and other continents to avoid long streaks of European destinations. /Yvwv (talk) 14:06, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Yes, Europe (and the parts of it we cover best - UK, Netherlands, Germany and the Nordic countries - in particular) are best visited in these months, and we should use these months to feature them. Actually, during Northern Hemisphere mid-summer the weather is also suboptimal in most parts of the world where English Wikivoyage has a weak coverage so there's even more reason to run articles from Europe then. Perhaps three or so European articles for each feature type (DotM, OtBP, FTT) would be optimal but not as much as five. Let's add SHB's Jakarta suggestion and/or look if one of the many unfeatured American guide articles could be nominated also. Ypsilon (talk) 14:48, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

@SHB2000: Hmm, i'll try to do some cleanup... Veracious (talk) 06:35, 18 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks to SHB2000, we now have a good non-European candidate - Jakarta/Central - and as mentioned I think we could place it in July's DotM slot to have 2 European+1 non-European+2 European. Out of the European DotM noms, Tirana seems to have the lowest support. We could place Tirana on hold (remove from schedule), move the Glasgow-Lyon couple one month forward and place Jakarta/Central in July's slot. How about that? Ypsilon (talk) 15:34, 20 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

LGTM; thanks for coming up with an alternate solution, Ypsilon! SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 22:03, 20 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Ypsilon: It might be too late to make any major scheduling changes now, but I just realised that if we include OtBPs and FTTs, we would have one feature from Europe for 6 consecutive months (from Klaksvík, FO, to Glasgow, but it's 7 if you consider Ankara as semi-European). My first instinct was to swap Belgian coast by tram with Rail travel in Japan so we have one month where this long continuous streak is broken up, but I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 08:44, 22 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

I don't see it as a problem that there's something in some category from Europe every month. If we start cutting down European OtBPs and FTTs, in a way the many European DotMs stand out even more. Ypsilon (talk) 16:16, 22 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

I just updated the OtBP section to show Longyearbyen, as usual it took half an hour with finding the file names for the banners, and the names and authors of their source photos etc. and getting everything copied and pasted in the right place. Possibly it had want faster if I'd been doing this every week and a half like André did when he took care of this until a few years ago. But I'm wondering if it would be possible to streamline the process somehow. Making some of the steps automatic like Template:Discover, maybe omitting some steps, having a link from the banner to the original photo already when the banner is created..? Ypsilon (talk) 20:02, 14 August 2023 (UTC)Reply