Wikinews:Featured article candidates

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This is where the Wikinews community selects new featured articles. This has nothing to do with any of the leads placed on the main page.

• Featured article criteria – please see WN:WIAFA.

• Add suggestions for new articles below. If you are the 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.

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[edit] Wikimania 2008: MediaWiki use in the U.S. Department of State

Funny thing was, I'd not thought of this one for ages. I ended up using it as an example of MediaWiki usage on LinkedIn. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 02:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] "Friday the 13" Buffalo, New York snow storm in pictures

Something a little unusual. I think this should become our first featured WN:PHOTOESSAY. Here, it is the quality of the photographs and not the text that should be judged. I'm sure we can all agree that they are quite magical. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:24, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

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• Comment Great photos spoiled by the suckiness of gallery code. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 17:41, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

• Comment - I think the gallery should come before everything else since they comprise the main subject of the article. Not sure if this counts as a major content change, though. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:02, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

  That might help; I'd suggest for photoessays the lede not be so long that it pushes the gallery out of sight. Say you want to do that as, "lede, gallery, story continued" then I'd recommend the lede end with a "Continued..." link that skips the gallery and goes to the rest of the story. I don't think rearranging this article in that way qualifies as a significant content change. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:07, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

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• Support I had to fix some grammar issues, otherwise this was a good read. Not a lot of prose but it makes up for it with images. I don't see what's especially wrong with the gallery code, it looks ok to me. Tempodivalse [talk] 19:02, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support I've had my grumble above - I dislike the gallery display. The complete piece is good though, and a great deal of work went into making it detailed, interesting, and comprehensive. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 02:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] City to sue owner of partially collapsed 19th century livery in Buffalo, New York

This was the climax of a great string of OR. Touch short, but amazing work nonetheless. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 16:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

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• Comment I'd hardly call ~15 paragraphs "short". --Brian McNeil / ^talk 17:39, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

THe general standard I've seen here lately is 10kb. It's right on that line. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:41, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] US, UK investigators seek 777 engine redesign to stop repeat of London jet crash

Although this is shorter than many FAs, I'm pretty sure this is the best English language coverage of this from any news source - that's both mainstream press and a specialist publication or two. That has to count for something. Apart from one or two pieces lifted from the Beeb, this came entirely from original sources, which are quite in-depth pieces of work and had to be read in full. (Disclaimer: some pieces, I forget which, were lifted from the NTSB) Further, I put a lot of work into trying to make a dry and technical pice into something that would appeal to a wider audience without sensationalising (Daily Fail style) or going light on detail (Guardian et al style). I'm forced to admit that I wasn't much of a team player on this one, however Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 21:36, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

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• Neutral I appreciate that this took a lot of effort and time to write, and the style of writing is quite good, but I just don't think it's big enough, especially with no OR and limited images. Also, I'd prefer featured articles to be our own work, whereas this is partially lifted from the NTSB reports. It's a solid, above-average piece, i'm just unsure it's FA quality. Tempodivalse [talk] 23:01, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
• Weak support It helps to give you a good visual impression of what's going on, but it is a bit on the short side.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rayboy8 (talk • contribs)
• Support—your assertion that "this is the best English language coverage of this from any news source" appears to be true, and makes this—although it is on the short side—the kind of work we need to showcase. Dendodge _T\^C 18:53, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support as per Rayboy8 --RockerballAustralia (talk) 03:31, 26 November 2009 (UTC)