FamilySearch Wiki:Featured article criteria

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A &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Featured Articles"&gt;featured article&lt;/a&gt; exemplifies our very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:List of policies#CONPOL"&gt;policies regarding content&lt;/a&gt; for all FamilySearch Wiki articles, it has the following attributes. It is—


 * 1) *(a) well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard;
 * 2) *(b) comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
 * 3) *(c) well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature. Claims are &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Verifiability"&gt;verifiable&lt;/a&gt; against high-quality &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Verifiability#Reliable_sources"&gt;reliable sources&lt;/a&gt; and are supported by inline citations &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:When to cite"&gt;where appropriate&lt;/a&gt;;
 * 4) *(d) neutral: it presents views &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Neutral point of view"&gt;fairly and without bias&lt;/a&gt;; and
 * 5) *(e) stable: it is not subject to ongoing &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Edit war"&gt;edit wars&lt;/a&gt; and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process.
 * 6) It follows the &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style"&gt;style guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, including the provision of—
 * 7) *(a) a lead: a concise &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Purpose and Appropriate Topics"&gt;lead section&lt;/a&gt; that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
 * 8) *(b) appropriate structure: a system of hierarchical &lt;a href="Help:Section"&gt;section headings&lt;/a&gt; and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents; and
 * 9) *(c) consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes (&lt;a href="https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Cite_Your_Sources_(Source_Footnotes)"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;) or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1) —see &lt;a href="Citations (Mills Style)"&gt;citing sources&lt;/a&gt; for suggestions on formatting references; for articles with footnotes, the &lt;IMG class=FCK__MWTemplate src="https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif" width=1 height=1 _fckfakelement="true" _fckrealelement="3" _fck_mw_template="true"&gt; format is recommended. The use of citation templates is not required.
 * 10) Media. It has &lt;a href="Help:Selecting images for the Wiki"&gt;images&lt;/a&gt; and other media where appropriate, with succinct &lt;a href="Help:Naming conventions"&gt;captions,&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"&gt;acceptable copyright status&lt;/a&gt;. Images included follow the &lt;a href="FamilySearch Wiki:Image Approval Policies"&gt;images for the Wiki image use policy.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"&gt;Non-free&lt;/a&gt; images or media must satisfy the &lt;a href="Access Codes"&gt;criteria for inclusion of non-free content and&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Access_Codes"&gt;be labeled accordingly&lt;/a&gt;.
 * 11) Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail (see &lt;a href="https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:Editing_pages"&gt;summary style).&lt;/a&gt;

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