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| * Widely covered:{{refn|name=widely covered}} 2 points | * Widely covered:{{refn|name=widely covered}} 2 points | ||
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* "Vital" article: 4 points{{refn|name=vital}} | ||
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| | Topics are considered widely covered if they have 20 or more equivalent articles in other-language Wikipedias | | Topics are considered widely covered if they have 20 or more equivalent articles in other-language Wikipedias | ||
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| | Points are awarded if the article appears at ] or one of the sub-lists at ]; about 10,000 articles in total. | |||
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| {{refn | name = requestor | {{refn | name = requestor | ||
| | Regardless of how a previous TFA was chosen, the bonus point is only for those who have never had any FA on which they have significantly worked appearing as Today's Featured Article. | | Regardless of how a previous TFA was chosen, the bonus point is only for those who have never had any FA on which they have significantly worked appearing as Today's Featured Article. Nominators unconnected with the article do not need to worry about whether someone else could claim the point. | ||
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Articles suggested here must already be featured articles that have not previously appeared on the Main Page. Articles do not have to be suggested to appear on the Main Page. Requests must be for dates within the next 30 days that have not yet been scheduled. There may be no more than ten requests on this page for specific dates, and two requests for nonspecific dates. If there are already twelve articles requested and if the article that you would like to request has a point value higher than the request with the lowest point value, you may replace it according to the instructions below. Today's featured articles (TFAs) are chosen by the featured article director, Raul654, or his delegates (Dabomb87, Gimmetoo and Bencherlite). Requests are not the only factor in scheduling the TFA (see Choosing Today's Featured Article); the final decision rests with Raul654. Please confine requests to this page, and remember that community endorsement on this page does not mean the article will appear on the requested date. See also User:Raul654/Featured article thoughts. It is helpful to put the request, with the estimated point score (see below), up for discussion on the talk page pending template up to 90 days before the requested date; requestors should return to move the request to this page during the 30-day timeframe if the article has enough points to replace another article. If you have an exceptional request that deviates from these instructions (for example, an article making a second appearance as TFA, or a "double-header"), please ask Raul654 on his talk page rather than making the request here. Purge the cache to refresh this page – Table of Contents – Check TFAR nominations for dead links – Alt text |
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Calculating points: Points are the sum of choices for each of the following six criteria:
Notes
Adding requests: The article must not have been previously featured as Today's Featured Article. History shows that articles with five or more points are almost never replaced. Accordingly, you must wait until there are 20 days or fewer before nominating such an article, to avoid tying up a slot for a long period of time, and to allow other articles their chance. If you are not one of the article's primary editors, it is considerate to notify the primary editors on their user talk pages of the TFA nomination, or if primary editors are no longer active, to add a message to the article talk page. Please nominate only one article at a time. Nominations are ordered by requested date below the summary chart. The archive of previously featured articles is here. If there are already ten date-specific requests or two nonspecific requests, and the article you propose to add has more points than one of the articles already requested, you may remove a request and add yours (explaining in your post the claimed point total) according to the following:
Suggested formatting: The request should have a blurb that uses the same formatting as the ones used on the main page; see today's example. Specifically: format it as one paragraph only; omit reference tags, alternative names, and extraneous bolding; trim birth/death dates to year only; link to the article title in bold; and limit total length (including spaces and markup) to roughly 1200 characters or fewer. The blurb should be preceded by a lead image when available; fair use images are not allowed. Use the following markup style for the image:
Nonspecific date article: Up to two articles may be nominated by the community for use on an unspecified date, rather than being requested for a specific date. TFAs proposed for unspecified dates may be replaced by articles which have higher numbers of points, according to the following rules:
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