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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 featured and good topic criteria for criteria on both types of topic. If you would like to ask any questions about your topic and the featured/good topic process before submitting it, visit Wikipedia talk:Featured and good topic candidates.

Before nominating a topic, nominators may wish to receive feedback by listing it at Featured and good 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 and good topics director, GamerPro64, or his delegates Aza24 and Bryan Rutherford, 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.

To contact the FTC director and delegates, please leave a message on the FTC talk page, or use the {{@FTC}} notification template elsewhere.

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Nomination procedure[edit]

To create a new nomination use the form below (e.g., Wikipedia:Featured and good 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. For detailed instructions on how to nominate topics or add articles to existing topics, see Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Nomination procedure.


Supporting and objecting[edit]

Please review all the articles of the nominated topic with the featured and good topic criteria in mind before deciding to support or oppose a nomination.

  • 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. Supports that clearly evaluate the criteria will be weighted more than those that do not.
  • 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 or good topic status, consensus must be reached that it meets the criteria. The FGTC delegates are usually the ones to assess this consensus and close FGTC discussions. If there is a consensus to promote, the promote instructions are located here. 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.

Featured topic nominations[edit]

1989 (album) (2nd supplementary nomination)[edit]

This topic is already featured. It is being re-nominated to add additional items. See Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/1989 (album) for discussions of the topic's previous nominations. The additional items are:

  1. Clean (song)
  2. 1989 (Taylor's Version)

With the newly-promoted FA Welcome to New York (song) and two newly-created GAs Clean (song) and 1989 (Taylor's Version), this topic fortunately still satisfies the criteria of a Featured Topic, so here's the second addition nomination to formalize the inclusion of two new articles. Cheers, Ippantekina (talk) 02:27, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Support. All the articles look very good and well-defined.
Gained (talk) 11:33, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Support: I do understand the rationale for the oppose arguments, but I believe 1989 and the re-recording are separate enough to warrant separate topics. Having a separate topic for the re-recording with the songs released specifically on that album makes the most sense to me as I think combining everything together could be potentially misleading. Aoba47 (talk) 02:54, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]


  • Closed with consensus to add two new articles. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Nota bene* There was an issue that prevented the promotion bot from promoting this topic. Please solve the issue and run the bot again. The error description is: {{t|User:NovemBot/Promote}} template missing from page. NovemBot (talk) 17:05, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Good topic nominations[edit]

Topic removal candidates[edit]

Actinides[edit]

Unfortunately it fails criterion 3.b as Uranium is no longer a WP:FA and the article isn't being worked on to get it back to a FA level. It is past the three month grace period as the article was demoted on August 5, 2023. -- ZooBlazer 01:11, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Champions[edit]

The title has been held for over a year by Micro Gemelo Diablo I but his article is little more than a stub and nobody seems to be working to get it to GA status -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:31, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Current Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre championships[edit]

Due to the demotion of CMLL World Heavyweight Championship and no efforts to bring it back to GA or FA, the topic fails criterion 3b (All items are at least featured lists or good articles). The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1(The Garage) 18:33, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Australian cricket team in England in 1948[edit]

Fails criterion 3b due to Keith Miller being demoted from GA in June with no discernible effort to return the article to GA/FA status. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:38, 11 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Arsenal F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as Arsenal F.C. 1–2 Manchester United F.C. (1999) is not currently at least a WP:GA, making the topic incomplete. It doesn't appear anyone is working on getting it to GA and it is past the three month grace period, as the article was created in March 2023. Idiosincrático (talk) 03:25, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Final Fantasy series[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as Final Fantasy XVI is not currently at least a WP:GA, making the topic incomplete. It doesn't appear anyone is working on getting it to GA and it is past the three month grace period, as the game was released on June 22, 2023. ZooBlazer 22:41, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@ZooBlazer: I'd intended to bring it to GA sooner, but...stuff happened. I've been doing some tidying/trimming/expansion. If I could get it to GA in the next week or two, would that suit? If not, then we can follow previous procedure for when XV didn't make GA in time. --ProtoDrake (talk) 20:45, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@ProtoDrake I'm willing to hold off for now if you get the article nominated in the next 2 weeks. ZooBlazer 21:02, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
t Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 02:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@OlifanofmrTennant This will be on hold until the article either passes or fails the GA review. ZooBlazer 04:14, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Defer to GAN, keep if promoted and remove if not. Queen of Hearts ❤️ (no relation) 23:37, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Queen of Hearts and ZooBlazer: FFXVI is now GA. --ProtoDrake (talk) 20:21, 21 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In which case, keep. Queen of Hearts ❤️ (she/they 🎄 🏳️‍⚧️) 20:29, 21 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I now Support adding Final Fantasy XVI to the topic now that it is a GA. -- ZooBlazer 02:26, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@ZooBlazer: May've been premature, but I've opened a supplementary nomination for it if you want to voice your support there. --ProtoDrake (talk) 09:48, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@ProtoDrake Oops I forgot to reply. I think we just have to wait for the delegates to remove this and maybe log the results in the article histories, but I'm not 100% sure. -- ZooBlazer 18:53, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@WP:FTC director and delegates: Can one of you archive this please? It was made before the supplementary nomination which was promoted today. -- ZooBlazer 05:45, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It will need tweaking to indicate that it now has 17 articles. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:30, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Done. Idiosincrático (talk) 02:48, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hardy Boyz[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as Matt Hardy is no longer a WP:GA and the article isn't being worked on to get it back to a GA level. It is past the three month grace period as the article was demoted on June 15, 2023. ZooBlazer 22:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

BBC Sports Personality of the Year[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year is no longer a WP:FL and the article isn't being worked on to get it back to Featured. It is past the three month grace period as the article was demoted on June 11, 2023. -- ZooBlazertalk 18:32, 24 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

EFL League Two play-offs[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as 2023 EFL League Two play-off final is not a WP:GA, isn't being worked on, and is past the three month grace period. (This match was played on 28 May 2023.) Armbrust The Homunculus 18:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Support delisting – real shame but I'm afraid it is the reality of these types of topics, gotta keep up with every year. Idiosincrático (talk) 05:08, 18 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Remove per nom. Queen of Hearts ❤️ (no relation) 23:39, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Remove It's a bummer when these large topics fall behind. -- ZooBlazer 06:58, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

EFL League One play-offs[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as 2023 EFL League One play-off final is not a WP:GA, isn't being worked on, and is past the three month grace period. (This match was played on 29 May 2023.) Armbrust The Homunculus 18:37, 5 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Remove per nom. Queen of Hearts ❤️ (no relation) 23:40, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

EFL Championship play-offs[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as 2023 EFL Championship play-off final is not a WP:GA, isn't being worked on, and is past the three month grace period. (This match was played on 27 May 2023.) Armbrust The Homunculus 18:32, 5 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Remove per nom. Queen of Hearts ❤️ (no relation) 23:40, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Alexandra Stan studio albums[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as Rainbows (album) is not a WP:GA, isn't being worked on, and is past the three month grace period. (While the album was released on 29 April 2022, an article was only created on 22 May 2023‎.) Armbrust The Homunculus 18:23, 5 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

1997 Atlantic hurricane season[edit]

Hurricane Danny (1997) was demoted on 30 April 2023, and there is no effort to change that, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:47, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Battles of the Greco-Persian Wars[edit]

Battle of Lade was demoted on 28 April 2023, and there is no effort to change that, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:42, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Inna albums[edit]

Fails criterion 3.b as Just Dance (Inna album) is not a WP:GA, isn't being worked on, and is past the three month grace period. (The second half of the album was released on 14 April 2023.) Armbrust The Homunculus 17:46, 10 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

2002 Atlantic hurricane season[edit]

Hurricane Gustav (2002) was demoted on 4 March 2023, and there is no effort to change that, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:39, 10 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

1997 Pacific hurricane season[edit]

Hurricane Nora (1997) was demoted on 4 March 2023, and there is no effort to change that, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:33, 10 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]