FamilySearch Wiki:Featured article candidates

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Here, we determine which articles are to be featured articles (FAs). FAs exemplify FamilySearch Wiki's very best work and satisfy the FA criteria. All editors are welcome to review nominations.

Before nominating an article, nominators may wish to receive feedback by listing it at Peer review. Nominators must be sufficiently familiar with the subject matter and sources to deal with objections during the FAC process. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article prior to a nomination. Nominators are expected to respond positively to constructive criticism and to make an effort to address objections promptly.

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An article should not be on Featured article candidates and Peer review or Good article nominations at the same time. Please do not split FAC review pages into subsections using header code (if necessary, use bolded headings).

An editor is allowed to be the sole nominator of only one article at a time; however, they may have two nominations active if they are a conominator on at least one of them. If a nomination is archived, the nominator(s) should take adequate time to work on resolving issues before re-nominating. None of its nominators may nominate or conominate any article for two weeks unless given leave to do so by a delegate; if such an article is nominated without asking for leave, a delegate will decide whether to remove it. Nominators whose nominations are archived with no (or minimal) feedback will be given exemptions.

The FA committee determines the timing of the process for each nomination. For a nomination to be promoted to FA status, consensus must be reached that it meets the criteria. Consensus is built among reviewers and nominators; the committee determines whether there is consensus. A nomination will be removed from the list and archived if, in the judgment of the committee:

  • actionable objections have not been resolved;
  • consensus for promotion has not been reached;
  • insufficient information has been provided by reviewers to judge whether the criteria have been met; or
  • a nomination is unprepared, after at least one reviewer has suggested it be withdrawn.

It is assumed that all nominations have good qualities; this is why the main thrust of the process is to generate and resolve critical comments in relation to the criteria, and why such resolution is given considerably more weight than declarations of support.

Nominations

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Blackfeet Indians

Family History Activities for Children: 3-11

Family History Activities for Children: 12-?

  • Need to feature one of the adopt-a-page pages - Illinois for example

 Proposed Article Here

Greece

 Jo Daviess County, Illinois 

Johnson County, Illinois

Abbeville County, South Carolina

Papua New Guinea

Document AS YOU GO!

Pike County, Illinois

Perry County, Illinois

Montgomery County, Illinois

Indians of Idaho

Hawaii Research Helps

New Netherland

Champaign County, Illinois

United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865

Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Introduction to the Netherlands Search Strategies

Italy Civil Registration- Vital Records

How to Prepare to Visit the Family History Library in Salt Lake City

Maryland, United States, Births 1776-1849

How to Find a Coat of Arms or Crest

Luxembourg

How to Cite FamilySearch Collections

How to Locate Your Ancestor in the United States

How to Guess Where to Start

Monroe County, Illinois

United States Naturalization and Citizenship

Massac County, Illinois

Marion County, Illinois

Guessing the Easiest to Research Person and Event

Solving Tough Research Problems—Overcoming Brick Walls

Madison County, Illinois

Norway

McDonough County, Illinois

McHenry County, Illinois

BSA Genealogy Merit Badge

Pulaski County, Illinois

England Probate Records

Randolph County, Illinois

Ireland Emigration and Immigration

Luxembourg

Saline County, Illinois

Shelby County, Illinois

Washington County, Illinois

Wayne County, Illinois

Japan

Italy

Williamson County, Illinois

Ireland

United States Church History

Carroll County, Indiana

Clay County, Indiana

Hungary

Wyoming

Denmark

Czech Republic

Croatia

Proposed articles already featured

FamilySearch Research Wiki: Why I Participate

featured - 22 Jul 2011

Scotland

featured - 27 Jul 2011

Germany

featured - 21 Jan 2010

New York Census

featured - 21 Jan 2010

Pacific Island Guide to Family History Research

featured - 21 Jan 2010

China including the link to the research guides that are in Chinese

featured - 9 Apr 2010

Family History Library

featured - 30 Aug 2010