Battlestar Wiki:Featured articles

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Criteria for a Featured Article

A featured article should have the following attributes:

The article should be well-researched with proper citations of sources.
It needs to contain canonical information; non-canonical information should be avoided, unless it has a purpose such as to dispel a common misconception.
If the article contains POV content, it must be deemed insightful by a majority of the community.
The article must be properly copy-edited for grammar and style. See Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions.
The article must be valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
The article should contain no "broken" links.
The article must have images pertinent to the article, whether in the form of screencaptures, graphs, charts, or diagrams, to name a few.
The article needs to be contain at least 400 words of content. While a short article is not necessarily a stub (see below), featured articles should contain enough substance to cover at least 150 words.
All cites should be in the format using the Cite templates.

If the article has been marked a {{quality article}} it should be given more weight to others without it, but articles do not need the {{quality article}} status to become an FA.

The following do not qualify as Featured Article candidates:

Stubs
Talk pages
Silly pages
Anything in the Battlestar Wiki, Quotes, Sources, Template, or User namespaces.
Past, Current, or Future Featured articles that have been marked.
If an image from the wanted article is currently the featured picture, the article is disqualified until the image is not the featured picture.

The featured article should be decided before the 7^th day of the next month, which on the 7^th day the featured article should be changed. All nominations should be posted and narrowed down to 5 articles, within the first 6 days of the next month.

Identifying a Potential Featured Article

Featured Articles should be identified as such, so that a master list can be created. If you think an article should be a featured article on the front page, submit it first as {{featured article candidate}}.

Essentially, this would be done in the following way:

A contributor tags an article page with {{featured article candidate}}, then adds a note to the current debate session explaining their reasoning. A list could also be maintained here, either manually updated or as a link to a "feature candidate" category. Only 5 articles for the next month shall be in the process of becoming a feature article.
Involved members of the community will then discuss the candidate article. Typically, they should be as constructively critical as possible.
If the consensus is that the article is potentially of "feature" quality, then the discussion will evolve into modifying the article in such a way as to polish the article so as to achieve full "Featured Article" status.
Once this is done, the article will be tagged {{featured article}} and placed on the Main page. To do that, use the {{subst:FAT}} template to create the new featured article at Battlestar Wiki:Featured articles/Archive/ARTICLENAME - MONTH YEAR. Then edit the Main page sub-page here to point to the new archive. Moreover, update the archive here.
Previous featured article candidates will be marked with {{featured article candidate previous}} to indicate that they were previously nominated.