Featured and Good topics in Wikipedia A featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles).A good topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles) with a less stringent quality threshold than a featured topic. This page is for the nomination of potential featured and good topics. See the good and featured topic criteria for criteria on both types of topic. If you would like to ask any questions about your topic and the featured topic process before submitting it, visit Wikipedia talk:Featured topic candidates. Before nominating a topic, nominators may wish to receive feedback by listing it at Featured topic questions. Nominators must be sufficiently familiar with the subject matter and sources to deal with objections during the FTC/GTC process. If you nominate something you have worked on, note it as a self-nomination. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the articles of the topic should consult regular editors of the articles prior to nomination. Nominators are expected to respond positively to constructive criticism and to make an effort to address objections promptly. The featured topic director, GamerPro64, or his delegate Juhachi, determine the timing of the process for each nomination. For a nomination to be promoted to FT or GT status, consensus must be reached for a group to be promoted to featured or good topic status. If enough time passes without objections being resolved, nominations will be removed from the candidates topic and archived. You may want to check previous archived nominations first: |
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Featured topic nominations
1961 Atlantic hurricane season
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1961 Atlantic hurricane season |
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- Contributor(s): Hurricanehink, 12george1, Cyclonebiskit, Coredesat
I didn't realize, but this topic fits the featured topic criteria, so I figured better late than never! --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:16, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support, though since this is the "1961" topic, you could probably pipe out the "(1961)" on Anna and Debbie. --PresN 17:45, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
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- Done, thanks! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:49, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Director Comment - This nomination has been going on for nearly a month with only one vote for support. There needs to be more discussion here so we can get a consensus or this will have to be closed as failed. GamerPro64 16:02, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
- I am not convinced Hurricane Anna (1961) deserves to be split as a stand-alone article. And my perennial question: are there any plans to eventually group storms by year regardless of basin? Or by decade? Nergaal (talk) 17:54, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
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- Anna was a major hurricane in a busy year, and had decent impacts, so there would probably be too much info to merge it. The eventual plan is to have a good topic for "Atlantic hurricane seasons", for which the various season articles would be sub-topics. Decade wouldn't work, as there isn't an article for "1960s Atlantic hurricane seasons". As it stands, 55% of all Atlantic season articles are good articles or better, including 80% since 1950. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:02, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
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- Anna doesn't really seem that major to me but whatever. As for an overview topic, I honestly don't think that would work very well. I vaguely remember some basin being split by 50 years or something like that, with a lead article covering only that period. Nergaal (talk) 19:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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- Looks like a great topic. I just have one question: what criteria was used to determine if a particular hurricane gets its own page? Mattximus (talk) 02:40, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hoo boy...didn't even know this was still going until a moment ago.
@Mattximus: The criteria is somewhat fluid, but the general consensus is that a storm can receive an article if it results in loss of life, notable damage, or is otherwise meteorologically significant (i.e. longevity, high intensity). It's also dependent upon the amount of information available, so storms in the Atlantic inherently tend to get articles more easily than other basins. As brought up by Nergaal, Anna is a borderline case but since it meets our base requirements we've kept it. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:38, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hoo boy...didn't even know this was still going until a moment ago.
- Support. While the main article features subjects not given their own separate articles, I'm convinced they're fine without needing spun out. Scope seems adequate. As is always the case with my FT/GT comments, I'm commenting on the topic; individual article assessment is for the GA/FL/FA processes. GRAPPLE X 13:59, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Good topic nominations
2012 Tour de France
4 articles
2012 Tour de France |
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All articles are GA with a FL. --BaldBoris 19:11, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
- Support. Logical and complete. As is always the case with my FT/GT comments, I'm commenting on the topic; individual article assessment is for the GA/FL/FA processes. GRAPPLE X 14:01, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- Support seems fine, but I wonder if the winner could also be included. Nergaal (talk) 22:22, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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- The 2012 Tour de France only takes up part of Bradley Wiggins and the race isn't all about him. Also, see Wikipedia:Featured topics/2009 Giro d'Italia, another Grand Tour. BaldBoris 23:45, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Key video games (3rd supplementary nomination)
This topic is already featured. It is being re-nominated to add additional items. See Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Key video games for discussions of the topic's previous nominations. The additional items are:
10 articles
Key video games |
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I am nominating Key's latest title, Angel Beats! (visual novel), to satisfy criterion 3(c) regarding adding articles to the topic that are currently ineligible to be at least a GA. I had nominated the article for GA after the first volume was released, but the review failed on the basis that because it is an episodic game, the article will be ineligible for GA status until all six volumes are out. However, that is likely to take several years, as only a tentative release schedule of six months between each volume has been given so far, and that will probably change as time goes on. The GA review I linked acts as an individual quality audit stipulated by criterion 3(c), and the article has now been updated to include the recommended improvements.--十八 23:26, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
- To be fair, if six months between instalments is the expected release pattern, I don't see any problem with the article satisfying GA criteria on those grounds. It clearly won't be outdated that quickly—we have featured content more prone to flux than that, after all—and seems of high enough quality to pass the bar on all other criteria. GRAPPLE X 23:32, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
- GA reviewer here- I'd be tentatively willing to pass it as a "just the first episode" article if all the episodes aren't going to be close together; there just wasn't any information in the article regarding how spaced out the episodes are (probably because there hasn't been any announcements around that). If it really is going to be 6-12 months between episodes, I can revisit the GAN. --PresN 01:41, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Merry Christmas II You
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- Contributor(s): Calvin999
I believe that this topic meets the criteria because the album, all of it's singles, and one original composition are all good articles (five of which are recently promoted). The four singles plus "One Child" are all new, original compositions by Carey. I have not included covers on the track listing, primarily because those songs have been covered by a lot of people, some of which were carols or poems, and would only contain passing mentions of Carey's renditions. Furthermore, Carey made several into two-piece medleys, and so they are technically new songs and they do not need new a stand alone article as there wouldn't be info enough to warrant needlessly creating them just to bulk out the topic. -- — Calvin999 17:46, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
- In the past, covers have been required to be part of the topics: Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Like a Virgin/archive1. Nergaal (talk) 17:11, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
National Trust properties in Somerset
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List of National Trust properties in Somerset |
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- Contributor(s): Rodw
This is a comprehensive topic of all the National Trust properties in the county. The lead list is FL and all 37 articles are now GA. --— Rod talk 19:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
- Rod, this is an impressive list. A couple of bits from me:
- In the blurb above, "These range from sites of Iron and Bronze Age occupations" - should this be "occupation"?
- The last sentence seems to have a verb missing.
- I'm not an expert on Featured Topic rules, and therefore very happy to be corrected (!), but the criteria page says that "At least one half (50%) of the items" must be "featured class (featured articles or featured lists), with a minimum of two featured items." I don't think this meets that criteria? Hchc2009 (talk) 19:32, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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- It comes up with "featured topic" at the top though...? Hchc2009 (talk) 21:06, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
- Director comment - It's always been like that. Just something to accept. GamerPro64 22:54, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
- It comes up with "featured topic" at the top though...? Hchc2009 (talk) 21:06, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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OK - happy with it at Good Topic level. Hchc2009 (talk) 16:55, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- So that's a Support then? GamerPro64 04:35, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
- Support - good and complete. And yeah, for historical reasons, the GTC and FTC processes are on the same page, and neither is so busy that it is a pressing need to pull them apart. --PresN 19:21, 12 October 2015 (UTC)