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Here we determine which articles are featured on Wikipedia:Featured articles. A featured article should exemplify Wikipedia's very best work. See what is a featured article for criteria.

If you nominate an article, you will be expected to make a good-faith effort to address objections that are raised. If you nominate something you have worked on, note it as a self-nomination. Please do not place more than one nomination at a time — this makes it difficult to do each article and its objections justice.

Procedure

The path to a Featured Article
  1. Start a new article
  2. Research and write a great article
  3. Check against the featured article criteria
  4. Get creative feedback (Peer review)
  5. Apply for featured article status
  6. Featured articles

Adding nominations

  1. Check the featured article criteria and make sure the article meets all of them before nominating; in particular, have one or more people thoroughly copy edit the text before you nominate it.
  2. Place {{fac}} on the talk page of the nominated article.
  3. From there, click on the "leave comments" link.
  4. (If you are resubmitting an article) Use the Move button to rename the previous nomination to an archive. For example, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Television → Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Television/archive1
  5. Place ===[[name of nominated article]]=== at the top.
  6. Below it, insert a standard heading such as self-nom, and if appropriate, add very brief information concerning the process of improving the article.
  7. Finally, place {{Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/name of nominated article}} at the top of the list of nominees on this page by first copying the above, clicking "edit" on the top of the page, and then pasting, making sure to add the name of the nominated article.

Supporting and objecting

Please read nominated articles fully before deciding to support or oppose a nomination.

  • To edit nominations in order to comment on them, you must click the "edit" link to the right of the article nomination on which you wish to comment (not the overall page's "edit this page" link).
  • If you approve of an article, write '''Support''' followed by your reasons.
  • If you oppose a nomination, write '''Object''' followed by the reason for your objection. Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed. If nothing can be done in principle to "fix" the source of the objection, the objection may be ignored. This includes objections to an article's suitability for the Wikipedia Main Page, unless such suitability can be fixed (featured articles, despite being featured, may be marked so as not to be showcased on the Main Page).
    • To withdraw an objection, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.

Consensus must be reached for an article to be promoted to featured article status. If enough time passes without objections being resolved, nominations will be removed from the candidates list and archived.

Featured article (FA) tools
See also: Improvement drive; Peer review; Featured Article Help Desk

Contents

Nominations

Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ed Gein Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Our Friends in the North Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Waterfall Gully, South Australia Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/War of the League of Cambrai Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/November (film) Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Boston, Massachusetts Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Glacier Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sylvanus Morley Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Belgium Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Atlantis Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1997 Pacific hurricane season Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Coffee Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Doctor Who missing episodes Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sokol space suit Template:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Human


Featured articles missing pictures

The following featured articles lack copyleft pictures and would greatly benefit from having one added:


Michel Foucault

One image, unverified. →Raul654 20:29, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

  • The best thing I could find was this book cover [1] is has a decent pic and is a good size, usable as fair use.--nixie 11:37, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
  • If it's a book cover, are you sure you've got the right to reproduce it here? Buffyg 14:42, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Only as fair use. --nixie 00:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • And since the article isn't about the book, we can't rightly claim fair use. Gmaxwell 19:40, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Um, no, that's not true. →Raul654 22:11, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • Since you've made no argument to consider, I am left only to criticize your judgment on these matters. Lets not forget who uploaded Image:Morissette_-_Ironic.ogg and insisted that it was public domain. Gmaxwell 23:37, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Please show me where it says in title 17 that fair use of a given work only applies to criticisms/summaries of that work. Hint - it doesn't at all. It does say that it is acceptable "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" - any and all of which might cover this article. →Raul654 23:44, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • Fair use is fine for all of those activities, but only when the activity is related to the work in question. These uses are not a free pass to copy, if it were the case why would schools spend any money at all on educational materials, and why would newspapers pay such high prices for the use of AP photographs. Fair use is intended to protect public discourse and the expansion of knowledge, it does this by allowing access to unique and important works where there could be little acceptable replacement when copyright would otherwise allow the copyright holder to deny such access. As such, it is almost always the case that fair use needs to be directly related to the specific work whos copyright we are infringing. This same reasoning is why it is not permissible to take a microphone manufacturers product images to make a point on pressure transducers. Gmaxwell 00:15, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • "Fair use is fine for all of those activities, but only when the activity is related to the work in question." - would you care to cite the place on that page where it says this? I see no mention of it. →Raul654 00:19, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Do you have westlaw access? Almost every case on the use of copyrighted material in satire is decided on this aspect of fair use. Again, complex analysis of the law isn't needed here, if your simplistic decoding of the rules were true no school or news agency would ever need to pay for copyrighted works... which is clearly not the case. Gmaxwell 01:33, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • This is complete lunacy. If fair use were to be interpretted that way, which is incredibly narrower than anyone would think, it stands to reason that there would be something *actually written into the law* that says that. Some kind of limiting clause, like "for purposes such as criticism ..." except where the use is outside the scope of the original work. So, please cite something more substantive than 'IANAL and the law doesn't really say this but here's how I think should is interpreted.' →Raul654 01:47, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't know what more to say but you are completely wrong. The position you are advocating would make any use of copyrighted material in wikipedia into fair use, a view which is consistent with your other dealings with copyright, but a view we can clearly reject as false. You've still failed to answer my simplified argument on educational use. As far as citations, see "Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.", "Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, Inc.", "Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. Penguin Books USA, Inc.". A core consideration for fair use is Is the use of the work transformative?, that is Are we parodying, criticizing, or otherwise commenting on the copyrighted work. If we are not, it is much less likely that our use is fair use. Gmaxwell 02:30, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • The image has been added to the article. Stop cluttering this page. If you want to debate copyright policy, do it at Template:Bookcover or some related page, please. --brian0918™ 4 July 2005 03:15 (UTC)
  • Interestingly, my father (who got his PhD in Philosophy from Fribourg and has a lot of connections to the European academic scene in the field) may get me a free (as in GFDL) photo of Foucault. I just hope he finds one of reasonable quality. More on this in a week or so. User:Phils/sig 4 July 2005 19:52 (UTC)
    • Any joy? Pcb21| Pete 07:58, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
      • We're still searching hard, but I currently have a lot less time to devote to Wikipedia. I hope this changes after September. User:Phils/sig 00:02, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Miles Davis

Has two (rather low quality) pictures - a fair use and a noncommerical-wikipedia-only image. It's crying out for something a bit better. (If peeing you're pants is cool, I'm Miles Davis - Billy Madison) →Raul654 05:15, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Will this do? I'll have to check for availability. 24.254.92.184 23:26, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
  • that was an unsigned me. Jobe6 23:27, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • A number of images to album covers have been added since this article was first nominated. Mamawrites & listens</font> 10:15, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
There is a sculpture of Miles Davis in Montreux. I have a photo of it but it's so poor you can't even make out the facial features. violet/riga (t) 10:21, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't think it's that your photo's poor. I haven't seen it personally, but looking at this picture, it's quite apparent there just are no facial features depicted.--Pharos 07:54, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Sociocultural evolution

The article has several portraits of important contributors and one nice, but only partially relevant and controversial graph. None of those pictures would be appopriate for the main page. It is quite hard to find any graphic related to this social theory - how can you *draw* evolution of the society, especially when there are many subtheories with very different ideas for x axis? I have been thinking about 1) creating a new pic merging all the portraits 2) finding something relevant, like the picture we now have in Sociology article. Any help appreciated. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 14:00, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

  • What about a nice simple drawing illustrating the difference between unilineal and multilineal evolution? Cultural anthropologists do just love cute diagrams; I don't mean anything hypertechnical, just something to illustrating differing concepts.--Pharos 07:07, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
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