Removing Good and Featured Topics in Wikipedia If you feel a topic on Wikipedia:Featured topics or a topic on Wikipedia:Good topics should no longer be there, then this is the place to nominate it for demotion. Only topics that do not adhere to the good or featured topic criteria should be listed. Objections raised must be actionable. Do not nominate topics that have recently been promoted (such complaints should have been brought up during the candidacy period on Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates), or topics that have recently survived a removal attempt—such nominations are likely to be removed summarily. Once a topic has been nominated on this page for ten days, it will be removed from the list of featured topics if the consensus is to remove, and added to the list of former featured topics. All discussions will be logged at Wikipedia:Featured topic removal candidates/archive. |
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Nomination procedure
Supporting and objectingPlease read all the articles of the nominated topic fully before deciding to support or oppose a nomination.
Consensus must be reached for a topic to be removed from featured status. If enough time passes without objections being resolved, nominations will be removed from the candidates list and archived. As a general guide, new topics will remain on here for at least 10 days to allow for comment, and must have at least 4 remove votes (although consensus and lack of major objections are also important) for removal. |
Topics nominated for removal
Saint Kitts and Nevis at the Olympics
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Unlike the previous removal candidacy for the GT, a required article in Saint Kitts and Nevis at the 2020 Summer Olympics is missing over two months after the event and is merely at start-class, definitely meaning this topic does not meet criterion 3.b. --K. Peake 21:24, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove: Definitely a necessary article for this topic. Hard to keep something like this up to date! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 21:33, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Djibouti at the Olympics
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The article Djibouti at the 2020 Summer Olympics is not GA nominated yet over three months after the event and is merely at start-class, meaning this topic fails criterion 3.b. strongly. --K. Peake 21:15, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove: Definitely a necessary article for this topic. Hard to keep something like this up to date! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 21:32, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Tuvalu at the Olympics
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The article Tuvalu at the 2020 Summer Olympics is not GA nominated yet over three months after the event and is even a stub, meaning this topic fails criterion 3.b. heavily. --K. Peake 20:03, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove: Definitely a necessary article for this topic. Hard to keep something like this up to date! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 20:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Carnivàle
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The article Characters of Carnivàle lost its featured article status a month ago, so the topic is no longer complete. RunningTiger123 (talk) 18:57, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove. Having a look at the issues raised at FAR, this has a long hill to climb to regain its status, far more than any realistic grace period could provide. ᵹʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 19:10, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove: Yes, it doesn't look like anyone is trying to restore the list to FL, and the topic falls without it. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 19:36, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove this list provides notable information about the topic, so its status being lost warrants demotion. --K. Peake 07:04, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Characters of Halo
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The main article has been reclassified as a list, which resulted in its demotion from GA status (since lists can't be Good Articles), so, unless and until someone successfully runs it as a FL, the topic is now incomplete. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 12:25, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove. Fairly academic. Looks like David Fuchs is doing some work to tighten it up and if they wish to bring it to WP:FL I can withdraw this !vote pending assessment but as things stand it's clearly incomplete. ᵹʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 02:42, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
- Remove the article not being a FL at this point would be like the same for an artist's discography in a GT dedicated to it --K. Peake 17:53, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
Islands of Scotland
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St Kilda, Scotland was demoted on 26 June 2021, there is no effort to change that, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:16, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
- Keep: It looks to me as though the St. Kilda archipelago is within the scope of List of outlying islands of Scotland, and so should probably never have been part of this topic proposal in the first place. Maybe it can be done without? -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 17:26, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
- Keep per Bryan Rutherford. I had to think about it a bit, but they are quite right. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:50, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
- I don't have an opinion about the scope but a quick look indicates that some of the lists contain verifiability issues and original research, which I've flagged on List of freshwater islands in Scotland. (t · c) buidhe 03:10, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
- Comment while I do not think St Kilda is an article that truly belongs here, I do agree that the Outlying Islands article has noticeable issues. However, it should be subject to a FA review before I potentially vote for demotion, as the user(s) may resolve any issues within a decent amount of time. --K. Peake 14:15, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Millennium Park
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McDonald's Cycle Center was demoted on 19 June 2021, there is no effort to change that, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:10, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
- Remove: I don't feel absolutely clear about the scope of this topic, but the previous promoters evidently judged that the Cycle Center article belonged here. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 17:23, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
- Remove the McDonald's Cycle Center is in the corner of the park and even has its own sub-section in the main article, therefore the topic is definitely incomplete without this addition. --K. Peake 08:49, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election
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William Goebel was demoted on 26 June 2021, there is no effort to change that, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:03, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Remove: the topic is definitely incomplete without one of the two main candidates. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 17:20, 29 September 2021 (UTC)- The problem appears to have been resolved. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 02:53, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – @Armbrust and Bryanrutherford0: I have attempted to resolve the issues for William Goebel was delisted as FA, and this article is currently a Good Article Nominee. For the time being till someone takes it for review, can this removal candidacy be placed on hold? Thanks! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 13:56, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
- Sure, if you've got it at GAN, then we'll wait to see the outcome of that process. Good luck! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:14, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
- Yes just to echo the above, myself and the other coordinators have no issue in holding until a GAN process can take place Thank you for taking the initiative! Aza24 (talk) 22:53, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Aza24 and @Bryanrutherford0 – Happy to inform that William Goebel just passed it GA nomination, and is listed as a good article! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 20:02, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
- Yes just to echo the above, myself and the other coordinators have no issue in holding until a GAN process can take place Thank you for taking the initiative! Aza24 (talk) 22:53, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
- Sure, if you've got it at GAN, then we'll wait to see the outcome of that process. Good luck! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:14, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
- Keep William Goebel has since become a GA, making the rational choice of nominating for removal no longer hold valid. --K. Peake 07:19, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Phedina
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The main article, Phedina, has been turned into a redirect to one of the included articles. This leaves just two articles (1a) and no lead article (2). CMD (talk) 14:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
- Remove: With Brazza's Martin removed from the genus, this topic no longer exists, unfortunately. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:30, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
- Remove, per Bryan. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:36, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
- Remove, per Bryan. AryKun (talk) 07:45, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- Remove, per Bryan. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 21:34, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
- Remove. I had a poke around the subject—bearing in mind the only birds I'd recognise are on a menu—to see if there would be some other way to restructure these featured articles in a topic that could conceivably be salvaged within a realistic time frame, but it seems no grouping that would include both wouldn't also include a substantial number of other, non eligible, articles too, unfortunately. 𝄠ʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ X 12:42, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
- Remove, per Bryan; this no longer has enough substance to meet FT. Hog Farm Talk 19:22, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- Remove, not only has the main article become a redirect, but without it a new topic would only be two articles. --K. Peake 07:31, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
John Morrison and the Miz
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The Bella Twins has been delisted after a GAR. I don't know anything about this topic, but seemingly these twins were connected in some in-universe story with the two wrestlers who are the subject of the topic. Oddly, the main article in the topic doesn't mention the twins once that I can see, so maybe they never needed to be in the topic at all? I don't feel competent to judge. Maybe the twins should just be removed from the topic, and the rest of it could stand without them; if not, then I guess the topic is now incomplete without that article and fails criterion 1(d). Anyone who knows more about this subject area care to weigh in? -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:07, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I am not familiar with this topic area but the original nominator stated The Bella Twins was included in this topic because they/were managers for John Morrison and the Miz (link). The article in question mostly has dead link issues, too much in-universe info according to the GAR nom, and lead issues so it could be possibly be salvable if an editor has the time. Whether or not it belongs in the topic, per the precedent at related professional wrestling topic teams at WP:GT, probably yes as they do include the manager within the topic. I have also pinged the professional wrestling wikiproject [1]. Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 00:53, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- Remove per my above comment, article is no longer GA and appears to be needed for this topic. Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 17:07, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- Comment - The article used to include a mention of Nikki Bella as the team's manager. In July 2018, it was decided to remove the "In wrestling" section from articles, which had formerly included such information as managers and signature/finishing moves. People objected to the section as a "cruft magnet" that attracted unsourced information, so it was decided to remove the section entirely from every one of thousands of articles, even if it was properly cited. This came with an assurance that, of course, no information would be lost, as people would undoubtedly rewrite the information into prose sections. As you point out, this has not been done. I know this explanation doesn't solve the problem, but it might clear up part of the mystery. GaryColemanFan (talk) 05:40, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- Comment - The Bella Twins were managers of the tag team. Which is weird, since this information isn't included in prose in the article (also, they were part of a feud against The Colóns), but in the In wrestling section instead, that was deleted because many reasons, like high level of vandalism or being very hard to source. About the Bella Twins article itself, I tried to remove no notable stuff and in-universe information, but since I'm on the beach, I can't work with the sources. I asked to close it, imrpove the sources in September and open a GAN again.--HHH Pedrigree (talk) 07:29, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
- Keep – not only is the main article lacking any mentions of The Bella Twins, but I can confirm as a current viewer of WWE that their partnership with John Morrison and The Miz is not still in existence, therefore it was only temporary so does not need to be part of the topic. --K. Peake 20:55, 10 October 2021 (UTC)