Wikipedia:Featured list criteria
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) a featured list has the following attributes:
- Prose. It features professional standards of writing.
- Lead. It has an engaging leadthat introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria.
- Comprehensiveness.
- (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items.
- (b) statements are four kinds of material absolutely required to have citations.
- (c) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article.
- Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities.
- Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages.
- (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked.
- (b) Media files. It has are labeled accordingly.
- (c) Accessibility. It alternative (alt) text.
- (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting,
- Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit warsand its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.
See also
- Featured criteria:
- featured articles
- featured pictures
- featured topics