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This page is for my drafts of potential dispatch articles for the

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FAC Process Overview

The

Featured Article (FA). FAs exemplify Wikipedia's very best work and meet the FA criteria

. Everyone is encouraged to nominate articles to become FA, but those new to the process might find it a little daunting.

How do I know whether to nominate an article?

First, it might be wise to read through several

nominate it for FA status

.

Who reviews the articles?

Articles are reviewed by volunteers. Although some people regularly review FA candidates, others may review only one or two articles they are interested in. Volunteers find the article through several methods:

It's listing at
the FA Candidates Page
.
The
list of urgent FACs
, which is posted on many user talk pages and on the FAC talk page, to alert people to FA candidates which have few comments.
The notice on the article's talk page.
Notifications made at appropriate WikiProjects.

A nominator should be sure to notify the article's WikiProjects, but should be careful

House Martin

is a weird name for a person but it is actually a bird). Make sure the nomination text is spelled correctly and uses proper grammar, or reviewers may decide the article must be written poorly too and bypass your article. Overall, be polite and timely in responding to comments, or other reviewers may decide to move on to a different article.

When is the FA nomination over?

WP:IDONTLIKEIT

) may not be promoted. As the nominator addresses concerns, reviewers will often strike their objections and become either neutral or support the article. Candidates are usually given ample time to reach consensus, and if the nominator is actively working to address the more serious concerns a nomination will often remain open longer than one in which the nominator is not addressing concerns.

If your article was not promoted, don't be discouraged; that only means your article wasn't ready for FA status now, not that it never will be. Address any outstanding comments by reviewers, get another

League of Copyeditors

for a copyedit. When you feel you've done all the work you could on the article and it now meets the standards, nominate the article again.

If an article has not received enough comments to determine consensus, or if the comments have gotten so long that the FA Director and his delegates can no longer make sense of the page, a nomination may be restarted. This places that candidate back at the top of the list, with a clean FA comment page, to allow other reviewers to comment. In this case, it is acceptable to let the previous reviewer's know that the nomination has been restarted and they can comment again, but only if you remind all reviewers, and not just those who previously supported the article.

FAC History

shortest article promoted: [1] ??[2]

Development of the FAC process

Wikipedia:Brilliant Prose. In June 2003, Eloquence proposed that the system be modified to be more like a system on the German wikipedia. In the new consensus-gathering process, users could still nominate any article for Brilliant Prose status, although self-nominations were required to be seconded. If no objections were registered within one week, the article would be promoted. On July 6, 2003, three articles were simultaneously promoted to "Brilliant Prose" status as part of this new process^[1]

:

Aztalan State Park, a self-nomination from User:JohnOwens
Same-sex marriage nominated by Eloquence; primary contributor at the time was User:Montrealais
MKULTRA - nominated by Eloquence; primary contributors were User:The Anome, User:Kwertii, and User:Maury Markowitz

In November 2003,

Notes

^ All have since been delisted

[1] All have since been delisted

[1]