Animalpedia:Featured articles

Featured articles are wiki articles that represents the best articles in Animalpedia has to offer. Featured articles are determined by the users. Please note that articles should be featured based on their content, not because you just like the subject.

Featured article criteria

 * 1) The article must be well-written and detailed: The article must have originally written content by editors (and doesn't contain info copied from other sites), no spelling errors and/or discernible grammar present. If the article is about an animal, the article should cover most details about the animal and describe it's appearance, habitat, diet, behavior, and history. The writing should be as neutral as possible. Improvement templates, such as the stub template, empty sections (except for gallery sections), and red-links, should not be present.
 * 2) The article must have a proper lead that gives a good summary of the topic: The first paragraph of the article should have a substantial summary that can be used to be on the main page. If about an animal, it should include general information about them.
 * 3) The article must have an appropriate number of images: In order to qualify as a featured article, the article, the article must have a minimum of 3 images, with succinct captions. In addition, featured articles can't contain poor quality images and/or poorly cropped images.
 * 4) The article must be well-researched: The article should contain at least one high-quality and properly sourced citation. The article should not contain information from unreliable sources.
 * 5) The article has a stable edit-summary: In order for the article to have a stable edit-summary, there should not have the content change constantly, and on-going edit war, the only exception is that in response to the featured article process.

Nominating and article
Before doing anything, make sure the article meets all the above criteria. In addition, please add a reason to vote, referring to the quality of the article rather than the articles subject. Once an article has been featured on the main page, it can not be featured again unless if there is no other featured articles in the queue. In addition, objectors will object the nomination with that disagree with the nomination, supplying with reasons.

If the article nomination, for a week, with at least 5 supports and no objections, then the article can qualify as a featured article.

Unfeaturing articles
Usually when an article becomes a featured article, it would keep that, however, there may be a case where an article may be unfeatured, such as including dated information. The process of unfeaturing an article is very similar to featuring an article.