Wikinews:Featured article candidates
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This is where the Wikinews community selects new featured articles.
Featured articles should, at a minimum:
- Have pictures (they should make a good visual impression)
- Be well-written
- Cover the news event comprehensively
In addition, we should try to choose articles with these features:
- Good collaboration
- Quality original material
- Better coverage than mainstream outlets
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 successful candidates. See the archive directory for past nominations.
- There is no upper limit to how long a nomination can be open. Newly-featured articles are often featured on social media, so it is advisable not to close more than two or three in quick succession. Likewise, multiple articles in a single nomination are discouraged.
- Note: Do not nominate articles that have not yet been archived.
Candidates[edit]
Consider voting on previous nominations when you add an article to this list!
Please list new candidates at the top.
[OPEN] Iranian International Master Dorsa Derakhshani discusses her chess career with Wikinews[edit]
I reviewed this article. Kept my interest; the length did not become a problem for me, though I'm aware it's long. I thought when reviewing it, it was FA material, and now that we've had some time to absorb it, I still think so. --Pi zero (talk) 20:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Comments[edit]
Votes[edit]
Support as nominator. --Pi zero (talk) 20:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)- Support. I most certainly applaud such a close view into interesting and challenging, perhaps inspiring, biography. --Gryllida (talk) 06:10, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Support. This is a really interesting article and is one of the most in-depth articles I've seen on here (though that's not saying much :P). Seemplez 09:12, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
- Support fascinating and powerful BRS (Talk) (Contribs) 23:55, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Support as nominator. --- The following discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Not promoted. After being open for nine months —though we don't hurry these things— no emerging consensus to promote from experienced Wikinewsies. --Pi zero (talk) 20:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Deadly tornadoes rip through southern US, killing over 300[edit]
Yes, it is older than usual for an FA nomination, but: its a good article, covers the topic quite nicely and has a photo and a video.--Bddpaux (talk) 15:50, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Comments[edit]
Some of the writing is awkward (e.g "This outbreak of tornadoes is considered the deadliness since 1974" and "... the damage and human injury and death...". Looks good otherwise. Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 11:37, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
- Well, I figure "deadliness" is a clearly typo of "deadliest", no meaning change so can be fixed in the archives, and I did so. --Pi zero (talk) 13:56, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Votes[edit]
- Support as nominator Bddpaux (talk) 15:48, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
- Support following addressed comments Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 21:04, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support I'm sure this article would be on the Main Page --PutriAmalia1991 (talk) 00:53, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Comment Every article that is published is featured on the main page.
•–• 19:02, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Comment Every article that is published is featured on the main page.
Oppose I've hesitated over this; but I've an uncomfortable feeling the article is on the light side for FA status. Featured non-OR articles tend to be massive, like this (on my current device, the body is nine screens' worth of text); there are shorter ones, but they're still noticeably longer than the nominee. The shortest one I found was probably this (just over two screens of text), closely followed by this. --Pi zero (talk) 01:19, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Oppose I've hesitated over this; but I've an uncomfortable feeling the article is on the light side for FA status. Featured non-OR articles tend to be massive, like - The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
