Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates

Featured and Good topics in Wikipedia A featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles). A good topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles) with a less stringent quality threshold than a featured topic. This page is for the nomination of potential featured and good topics. See the good and featured topic criteria for criteria on both types of topic. If you would like to ask any questions about your topic and the featured topic process before submitting it, visit Wikipedia talk:Featured topic candidates. Before nominating a topic, nominators may wish to receive feedback by listing it at Featured topic questions. Nominators must be sufficiently familiar with the subject matter and sources to deal with objections during the FTC/GTC process. If you nominate something you have worked on, note it as a self-nomination. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the articles of the topic should consult regular editors of the articles prior to nomination. Nominators are expected to respond positively to constructive criticism and to make an effort to address objections promptly. The featured topic director, GamerPro64, or his delegate Juhachi, determine the timing of the process for each nomination. For a nomination to be promoted to FT or GT status, consensus must be reached for a group to be promoted to featured or good topic status. If enough time passes without objections being resolved, nominations will be removed from the candidates topic and archived. You may want to check previous archived nominations first: Purge the cache to refresh this page	Featured content: Featured articles Featured lists Featured pictures Featured sounds Featured portals Featured topics ← Good content: Good articles Good topics ← Good and featured topic tools: Topic criteria Topic candidates Topic removal candidates Nomination procedure Topic log Topics on the Main Page Former topics Topic questions
Nomination procedure To create a new nomination use the form below (e.g., Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Saffron/archive1) and click the "Create new nomination" button. Once the nomination page is created, remember to transclude it in the appropriate section below, to leave nomination templates on the talk pages of the articles nominated for the topic, and to create appropriate books (see Book:Jupiter for a good example). For detailed instructions on how to nominate topics or add articles to existing topics, see Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Nomination procedure. Supporting and objecting Please review all the articles of the nominated topic with the featured topic criteria in mind before deciding to support or oppose a nomination. Following the creation of the book, NoomBot will create a book report (see example) containing details about cleanup issues (only those that have been flagged with cleanup templates, so it may not pick up everything), and various tools to inspect external links or resolve disambiguation pages. It can be a good idea to check the report and inspect links to see if certain articles need some cleanup (doing this before the nomination is even better). To edit nominations in order to comment on them, you must click the "edit" link to the right of the article nomination on which you wish to comment (not the overall page's "edit this page" link). If you approve of a nomination, write '''Support''' followed by your reasons. If you oppose a nomination, write '''Oppose''' or '''Object''' followed by the reason for your objection. Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed. If nothing can be done in principle to fix the source of the objection, the objection may be ignored. To withdraw an objection, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it. For a topic to be promoted to featured topic status, consensus must be reached that it meets the criteria. If enough time passes without objections being resolved (at least one week), nominations will be removed from the candidates list and archived. Nominations will stay here for ten days if there is unanimous consent, or longer if warranted by debate.

Good topic nominations

Key video games (3rd supplementary nomination)

This topic is already featured. It is being re-nominated to add additional items. See Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Key video games for discussions of the topic's previous nominations. The additional items are:

1. Angel Beats! (visual novel)

I am nominating Key's latest title, Angel Beats! (visual novel), to satisfy criterion 3(c) regarding adding articles to the topic that are currently ineligible to be at least a GA. I had nominated the article for GA after the first volume was released, but the review failed on the basis that because it is an episodic game, the article will be ineligible for GA status until all six volumes are out. However, that is likely to take several years, as only a tentative release schedule of six months between each volume has been given so far, and that will probably change as time goes on. The GA review I linked acts as an individual quality audit stipulated by criterion 3(c), and the article has now been updated to include the recommended improvements.--十八 23:26, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

To be fair, if six months between instalments is the expected release pattern, I don't see any problem with the article satisfying GA criteria on those grounds. It clearly won't be outdated that quickly—we have featured content more prone to flux than that, after all—and seems of high enough quality to pass the bar on all other criteria. GRAPPLE ^X 23:32, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

GA reviewer here- I'd be tentatively willing to pass it as a "just the first episode" article if all the episodes aren't going to be close together; there just wasn't any information in the article regarding how spaced out the episodes are (probably because there hasn't been any announcements around that). If it really is going to be 6-12 months between episodes, I can revisit the GAN. --PresN 01:41, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

• Support - Well, since there's been no response, supporting as it meets criteria. --PresN 01:46, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas II You

Contributor(s): Calvin999

I believe that this topic meets the criteria because the album, all of it's singles, and one original composition are all good articles (five of which are recently promoted). The four singles plus "One Child" are all new, original compositions by Carey. I have not included covers on the track listing, primarily because those songs have been covered by a lot of people, some of which were carols or poems, and would only contain passing mentions of Carey's renditions. Furthermore, Carey made several into two-piece medleys, and so they are technically new songs and they do not need new a stand alone article as there wouldn't be info enough to warrant needlessly creating them just to bulk out the topic. -- — Calvin999 17:46, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

• In the past, covers have been required to be part of the topics: Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Like a Virgin/archive1. Nergaal (talk) 17:11, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

• Support - I don't beleive that articles on songs that Carey merely covered in the album, which are not primarily or substantively about those covers, need to be included in this topic. Unlike the topic Nergaal linked, Carey's versions are not the most famous versions of the songs, which are themselves classics. --PresN 01:48, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Thank you.  — Calvin999 09:05, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

National Trust properties in Somerset

Contributor(s): Rodw

This is a comprehensive topic of all the National Trust properties in the county. The lead list is FL and all 37 articles are now GA. --— Rod ^talk 19:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Rod, this is an impressive list. A couple of bits from me:

• In the blurb above, "These range from sites of Iron and Bronze Age occupations" - should this be "occupation"?
  • Yep done.— Rod ^talk 20:58, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
• The last sentence seems to have a verb missing.
  • Changed to includes...— Rod ^talk 20:58, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
• I'm not an expert on Featured Topic rules, and therefore very happy to be corrected (!), but the criteria page says that "At least one half (50%) of the items" must be "featured class (featured articles or featured lists), with a minimum of two featured items." I don't think this meets that criteria? Hchc2009 (talk) 19:32, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
  • That's why this is a nomination for Good Topic not Featured Topic. GT criteria are "All items are at least featured lists or good articles." This has one FL & all the rest are GA.— Rod ^talk 20:58, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

• • • It comes up with "featured topic" at the top though...? Hchc2009 (talk) 21:06, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
      • Director comment - It's always been like that. Just something to accept. GamerPro64 22:54, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

OK - happy with it at Good Topic level. Hchc2009 (talk) 16:55, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

So that's a Support then? GamerPro64 04:35, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

• Support - good and complete. And yeah, for historical reasons, the GTC and FTC processes are on the same page, and neither is so busy that it is a pressing need to pull them apart. --PresN 19:21, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support. Topic appears complete and meets the criteria. This is quite an achievement. Great work. – Rhain1999 ^{(talk to me)} 09:12, 9 November 2015 (UTC)