On November 4, Wikipedia's mainpage displayed, for the first time ever, two Featured Articles. Moreover, also for the first time, one of these had previously featured on the main page.
- After a failed Featured article candidacy in March 2008, User:Ferrylodge began to work on John McCain, and brought it to featured status in August 2008, with significant contributions from User:Wasted Time R: each have contributed about 1,000 edits as of November 2008.
- Barack Obama was brought to featured status in August 2004 by User:Meelar and this version appeared on the main page on August 18, 2004. The highest article contributors are User:HailFire, User:Tvoz and User:Bobblehead.
- The article retained featured status through four Featured article reviews: January 2007, July 2007, April 2008 and September 2008
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- Idea of double TFA on election day initiated by User:Remember on October 27 at WT:TFAR and discussed there..
- TFA/R discussion: Request added to WP:TFA/R on October 30 by User:SandyGeorgia, discussion archived at Wikipedia talk:TFAR#November 4a. By November 3, had 28 supports and 12 opposes, including concerns about ...
- ANI discussion of protection: [1]
- Wikipedia talk:TFAR#Raul's thoughts on the election-day TFA, on November 3, Raul654, the Featured article director, agreed to run the unprecedented double TFA and TFA which had already run on the mainpage, saying:[2]
Ok, so as I read this, ITN isn't going to do anything with the election until after midnight UTC. If that's the case, my largest worry is alleviated. My second worry is setting precedents with regard to featuring (A) two articles at once, or (B) featuring articles on the main page a second time, remain. However, I think this can be dealt with by me saying, here and now, that this is an extremely unusual thing that I have absolutely no intention or desire to repeat in the future. Does that satisfy everyone? Raul654 (talk) 22:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)