WikiPedia:What is a featured article
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A featured article should:
- Exemplify Wikipedia's very best work. Represent what Wikipedia offers that is unique on the Internet.
- Be comprehensive, factually accurate, stable, and well-written. Read Great Writing and The Perfect Article to see how high the bar can be set.
- Comprehensive: Covers the topic in its entirety; does not omit any major facts or details.
- Accurate: Supports facts with specifics and external citations (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). Includes references, arranged in a ==References== section and enhanced by the appropriate use of inline citations (see Wikipedia:Cite sources).
- Stable: Should be mostly static, and not change rapidly from day to day.
- Well-written: Compelling, even "brilliant" prose—the former name for featured articles.
- Be uncontroversial in its neutrality and factual accuracy, and not have ongoing edit wars (see Wikipedia:Resolving disputes).
- Comply with the standards set in the style manual, as well as relevant WikiProjects. This includes having a lead section which is brief but sufficient to summarize the entire topic, headings and have a substantial, but not overwhelming table of contents (see Wikipedia:Section).
- Have images where appropriate, with good captions and acceptable copyright status. However, an article does not have to have a picture to be featured.
- Have an appropriate length. It should stay tightly-focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail, using summary style to cover sub-topics in other articles.*
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*Some people feel that if not enough can be said about the article's subject to reach a certain length, it should in most cases be merged into another article. However, excellent short articles are also accepted.ar:ويكيبيديا:ما هي المقالة المختارة es:Wikipedia:Qu es un artculo destacado zh:Wikipedia:条目质量标准参考
