Battlestar Wiki:Featured articles
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Criteria for a Featured Article
A featured article should have the following attributes:
- The article should be well-researched with proper citations of sources.
- It needs to contain canonical information; non-canonical information should be avoided, unless it has a purpose such as to dispel a common misconception.
- If the article contains POV content, it must be deemed insightful by a majority of the community.
- The article must be properly copy-edited for grammar and style. See Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions.
- The article must be valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- The article should contain no "broken" links.
- The article must have images pertinent to the article, whether in the form of screencaptures, graphs, charts, or diagrams, to name a few.
- The article needs to be contain at least X words of content. While a short article is not necessarily a stub (see below), featured articles should contain enough substance to cover at least X words.
The following do not qualify as Featured Article candidates:
- Stubs
- Talk pages
- Anything in the Battlestar Wiki, Quotes, Sources, or User namespaces.
- Past, Current, or Future Featured articles that have been marked.
Identifying a Potential Featured Article
Featured Articles should be identified as such, so that a master list can be created. If you think an article should be a featured article on the front page, submit it first as {{featured article candidate}}.
Essentially, this would be done in the following way:
- A contributor tags an article page with {{featured article candidate}}, then adds a note to the corresponding article's talk page explaining their reasoning. A list could also be maintained here, either manually updated or as a link to a "feature candidate" category.
- Involved members of the community will then discuss the candidate article. Typically, they should be as constructively critical as possible.
- If the consensus is that the article is potentially of "feature" quality, then the discussion will evolve into modifying the article in such a way as to polish the article so as to achieve full "Featured Article" status.
- Once this is done, the article will be tagged {{featured article}}.