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This is where the Wikinews community selects new featured articles.

• Featured article criteria – please see WN:WIAFA.

• Add suggestions for new articles below. If you are the author, or an author, please include a note that it is your own work. Please justify why you think an article should be featured.

• Nominations are discussed for a minimum of seven days. Please discuss each nomination and try to come to a consensus before listing an article on Wikinews:Featured articles. Please add {{FAC}} to listed articles' talk pages, and add {{FA}} to articles that have passed this on the article. See the archive directory for past nominations.

• Note: Do not nominate articles that have not yet been archived.

Candidates

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[OPEN] Thousands take to streets protesting 'ratbag's Bedroom Tax

This is an article where I have strong opinions on the news reported upon. So, I concentrated on getting lots of images; and, on drawing the accompanying text from mainstream reports rather than let my opinions overly colour the reportage.

I found that challenging, but I think - particularly when you look at the photos - this is an excellent record of "what actually happened". So, I'd say I'm putting this forward as what I'd hope is an "ideal" photoessay for Wikinews. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:24, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Votes

• Support. Up-front about why I'm proud of this piece of work, and I'm happy to have any sort of "robust" discussion of why Wikinews should do work like this. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:24, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support. There are many photos which are of very good quality. I also live in the UK and the rest of the media did not cover this too well and this really gets the message across well through a photo-essay/news article style. --Computron (talk) 15:38, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support A fine piece of work. It does bring up an interesting point. For Category:Photo essays, the principle I (in consultation with others) have tended to follow is that a true photo essay has very little text content, other than photo captions; its text alone typically wouldn't qualify it as a minimal standalone article. Here we have an article whose text content is far above the minimal article threshold — but not within an astronomical unit or so of FA range. So that in supporting this for FA, I'm also acknowledging that the pictures carry most of the weight of the article, despite the nontrivial text. --Pi zero (talk) 16:04, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support Per the comments above. Good work. Worthy of additional recognition. --LauraHale (talk) 00:29, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

[OPEN] North Korea's rising tensions: Wikinews interviews Scott Snyder and Dr Robert Kelly

The article in question being in interview form was written during a period when North Korea was issuing threats of nuclear warfare to the United States and South Korea, two other news articles on Wikinews were written about the ongoing rhetoric and I managed to acquire the expertise of two specialists in this area.

The first specialist, Scott Snyder from the Council on Foreign Relations and secondly, Dr Robert Kelly from Pusan National University in South Korea who specialises in North Korean studies and security and who was, at the same time appearing on news outlets such as Al-Jazeera, BBC World, Sky News and CNN. I think with the latter individual the commentary was quite interesting and some questions asked via Skype as well. The news article gave Wikinews the ability to produce unique coverage from important individuals/specialists which no other news agency had.

It took a lot of hard work, and then to come up with unique questions and transliterate - and subsequent to being published was translated into 11 different languages and used on other language Wikinews's. I asked Pi zero about this and he was unsure because of the lack of photos, but North Korea is seclusive and Wikimedia Commons had no photos. I guess that it meets the other three requirements, being formatted correctly, well-written, and covers the news event comprehensively without rambling well. I am also the author of the said interview news article. --Computron (talk) 21:04, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Votes

• Support It's taken me a while to settle my mind about this. The pictures are definitely its weakest element, but there are pictures of both interviewees, allowing that one has a publicity shot while the other has captured video segments of interview. And truthfully, I've heard serious discussions of the North Korea situation by experts, that felt not up to the weight class of this. --Pi zero (talk) 16:20, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support I think that this coverage demonstrates one of the major benefits of original reporting. It is a good interview on a topic of international importance. I would love to see more of this kind of reporting from the reporter. It was well done, and I can forgive the picture element. --LauraHale (talk) 00:28, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support We have so little rel informative news coming out about North Korea, this makes for a good, though small, insight into the nation. I wish more of these articles would get more attention. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 23:34, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

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Closed as successful. —Mikemoral♪♫ 21:32, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikinews interviews Irene Villa

What can I say, this was a pleasure to write (self-nom) for it was a really interesting conversation with a remarkable woman. I think it meets the criteria for FA. Raystorm (talk) 21:07, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Comments

• It's a shame there was only one picture to go with it. --Pi zero (talk) 23:20, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Votes

• Support As the interviewer. This was the first English language interview Irene Villa had given. The interview covered questions she had not been asked by the traditional Spanish media. The article touched on her politics to a degree but also focused on the sport aspect, which is why the interview done and part of a series of articles about. The only limiting factor is the pictures in that there is only one.

--LauraHale (talk) 21:52, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

• Support This was a great interview. A fine example of what Wikinews can achieve. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:05, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
• Support A little weak in terms of photos (and that is a given requirement for FA). However, given the broad and sweeping scope of the interview itself, and the value of the subject/person etc., I say 'yes'. --Bddpaux (talk) 17:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

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