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 Spy-cicle, 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

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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, Cyberbot I 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.

Featured topic nominations

Ipswich Town F.C. (1st supplementary nomination)

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

| discuss 9 articles Ipswich Town F.C.
History Portman Road List of seasons Hall of Fame List of players List of records and statistics Player of the Year List of managers European competition

1. Ipswich Town F.C. in European football

I am nominating the article "Ipswich Town F.C. in European football" to be part of the larger Ipswich Town topic. European competition is very important in the history of many football clubs, including Ipswich Town, who won the UEFA Cup back in 1981. Just recently, the article was promoted to GA status. Seeing as how the Liverpool topic includes the article for their history in Europe, I believe that this article should be added to the topic. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 00:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

• Contingent support: Seems a reasonable expansion of the scope. It looks to me like this new article is not currently linked from the main article's text (only in the navbox at the bottom), and that should really be corrected if it's an important enough facet of the topic to belong here. I give my support contingent on the new article being better incorporated into the main article. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 03:31, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Naruto volumes

| discuss 4 articles Naruto volumes
Part I Part II, (volumes 28–48) Part II, (volumes 49–72)

Contributor(s): Sephiroth BCR, 1989

This former featured topic has had significant changes made to all of the lists since it was demoted back at the end of 2013. Since the conclusion of Part II, all of the lists pertaining to the manga have been promoted to featured status, thus passing WP:FT?. I am personally a big fan of Naruto, so I hope to see this topic get promoted again. --KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 23:42, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

• Comment: The three subordinate articles seem to contain literally exactly the same content as the main list, just divided into three parts. It seems as though we either don't need the overview list or don't need the three shorter ones. I'm not sure this seems like a "topic" so much as two copies of the exact same material. What am I missing? -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 23:55, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

  The separate lists are transcluded in the Volumes article. I wonder if there’s some way for it to look like this again, while keeping it transcluded. Pinging Tintor2. 1989 (talk) 17:05, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

I tend to suck at making sublists. Normally, DragonZero used to help me when I messed up the sublist of D.Gray-man and Bungo Stray Dogs.Tintor2 (talk) 17:29, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

• Support @Bryanrutherford0 and Tintor2: The sublist transclusion has been fixed by DragonZero. 1989 (talk) 15:20, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this is something we're supposed to consider at WP:FTC, but it doesn't look to me like the overview list would pass WP:FLC as it now exists; it has a section that consists entirely of a hatnote and no text. I won't oppose this nomination over it, but this one doesn't make sense to me. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 19:22, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Section removed. 1989 (talk) 17:39, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure, and now the article seems to me to be incomplete (and thus not feature quality) because it doesn't cover those film comic tankōbon (despite mentioning them in the lead). Doesn't seem ready to me. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 19:22, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Removed. 1989 (talk) 19:57, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Current Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre championships (2nd supplementary nomination)

This topic is already featured. It is being re-nominated to add additional items. See Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Current Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre championships for discussions of the topic's previous nominations. The additional items are:

1. CMLL World Micro-Estrella Championship

The newly created CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship has been passed for GA and can be added to this Feature Topic to make sure it is comprehensive. MPJ-DK (talk) 02:02, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

• Comment Support: Something strange is going on here. CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship is not newly created and did not recently pass GA, but rather it is already a FL and already part of this topic since the topic's creation in 2017; it's already the top article in the right column that you just added it to a second time. Did you mean to add a different article? -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 03:24, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

• Bryanrutherford0 - what is going on is a brain fart on my part, I copied the link, but forgot to change "Mini" to "Micro". I am asking to add the CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Championship... and and I'm apparently a barely functioning idiot at times. Fixed the nomination, glad you are on the ball.MPJ-DK (talk) 04:39, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Got it, this looks like an appropriate addition to the topic, at GA quality. Supporting. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:12, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

• Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:28, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Good topic nominations

Politics of Croatia

| discuss 9 articles Politics of Croatia
Government Parliament President Elections Independence referendum Croatia–Serbia border dispute Croatia–Bosnia relations Croatia–Hungary relations

Contributor(s): Jon698 Tomobe03 Potočnik

Currently there are nine separate GA quality articles that involve Croatia politics that includes its independence referendum, its government, and some of its foreign relations. --Jon698 (talk) 00:44, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose: This topic doesn't seem complete. Surely it should include Constitution of Croatia, as well as Judiciary of Croatia, neither of which is currently a GA? Counties of Croatia might also belong here (it's a FL). Likewise, if the topic is going to include Croatia's other neighbor relations, then it should also include Croatia–Serbia relations and Croatia–Slovenia relations (which aren't GAs), and if it's going to include Croatia–Serbia border dispute, then it also needs Croatia–Slovenia border disputes. Featured Topic Criterion 1(d) says that there must be "no obvious gaps (missing or low-quality articles) in the topic. A topic must not cherry pick only the best articles to become featured together." You can propose what you want the scope of the topic to be, but then all articles within that scope must exist and be GA or better. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 01:05, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
• Speedy oppose I was about to thank you for your work on this having written my comments but the unfortunately retired User:Tomobe03 appears to have written all of these, not sure how you'll be able to respond to my suggestions... This is a poor selection of articles. Prime Minister of Croatia needs to be included since he's the primary political and government leader. Why have "Croatia-Bosnia relations" shown but piping to Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia when there's literally Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia relations? And why Hungary but not Croatia–Serbia relations or Croatia–Slovenia relations? With such a broad topic there can be discretion in what's included toward being comprehensive (should the judiciary count in politics/government?) but this isn't well-defined. I'd say leave out foreign affairs altogether and make it on domestic politics, but besides PM you'd need at least Constitution of Croatia and probably Speaker of the Croatian Parliament. (duplicative comment using reply-link lol) Reywas92^Talk 01:37, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose - Agree with Bryan Rutherford and Reywas92 that the articles in this topic seem broad, random and incomplete. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 23:31, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose - the comment "Currently there are nine separate GA quality articles that involve Croatia politics" implies that the nominator is working under the misunderstanding that you can group together GAs relating to a topic and nominate them, even if they don't cover the whole of the topic, which unfortunately is definitely the case here....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:25, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

CMLL World Lightweight Championship (1st supplementary nomination)

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

1. Kawato San

• Had originally listed this as returning to GT status, but turns out it was never demoted (I thought it was) so I am submitting this to ADD Kawato San to the existing topic.
• Bryanrutherford0 and Armbrust you both commented on the other submission, I invite you to comment here instead.MPJ-DK (talk) 19:09, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

• Support: Straightforward addition of the newest title-holder. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 23:27, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Briarcliff Manor (2nd supplementary nomination)

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

1. First American International Road Race

| discuss 19 articles Briarcliff Manor, New York

History of Briarcliff Manor Timeline of Briarcliff Manor Walter W. Law Briarcliff Lodge Briarcliff Farms Scarborough Historic District Beechwood (Vanderlip mansion) Sleepy Hollow Country Club All Saints' Episcopal Church Briarcliff Manor Public Library Briarcliff Manor Fire Department Scarborough (Metro-North station) Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District Briarcliff College Briarcliff High School Dr. Holbrook's Military School Scarborough Day School Trump National Golf Club Westchester

I am nominating the newly-created First American International Road Race article to be added to this list of notable subjects related to Briarcliff Manor. Thank you. ɱ (talk) 18:10, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Weak oppose: I'm not sure I completely grasp the scope of this topic (it strikes me that "Scarborough Historic District" should perhaps be its own topic, and then the properties in that district would make better sense in that topic than here), but I suppose this race makes as much sense here as "Beechwood" does. If it is to be added, then the new article needs to be actually put into the topic box above. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 18:26, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Hey - yeah perhaps from the names it might be hard to put the pieces together. But if you read any of the Briarcliff history books, they focus on each of the village's historic sites above (many of which are in the Scarborough Historic District, Beechwood included). The road race is mentioned in every one of these books as one of the most prominent events centered in Briarcliff in the early 1900s, only a few years after it was founded. ɱ (talk) 19:52, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Maybe, but my point is that, if that's true (about the importance of the race to the history of Briarcliff Manor), then it was already true when the topic was first proposed, which means the topic was incomplete at that point and should never have been promoted. It looks to me as though this new article is really part of the subtopic "History of Briarcliff Manor" and doesn't belong in this main topic. After thinking this over, I'm shifting my vote to "weak oppose". I'll reiterate that it looks to me like this topic needs to be rethought, with all the individual historic sites within the historic district being moved into a subtopic. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 01:12, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

CMLL World Light Heavyweight Champions

The CMLL World Light Heavyweightt Champions is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion. It was originally created in 1991 for the 92 kg (203 lb) and 97 kg (214 lb) weight division. The topic includes ever wrestler who has held the championship at one point in time.

Contributor(s): MPJ-DK

This covers a complete topic, the chamionship, a list article and every single person to win the championship is of GA quality. There have been a total of 15 champions over the last 29 years, adding a new champion every 1.5 years on average - so the task of getting another champion article to GA is not an overwhelming task --MPJ-DK (talk) 19:05, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

• Support: The championship, the list, and all past & present title holders, with a navbox and category. Looks like it's all there! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 20:38, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
• Support: a clearly defined scope, articles about the championship and a complete list of champions, even including the unofficial champion Aquarius. Meets criterion (1)(c) by Template:CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship and meets (2) and (3). — Bilorv (talk) 19:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Topic removal candidates

MediEvil series

| discuss 5 articles MediEvil series
MediEvil MediEvil (2019) MediEvil 2 MediEvil: Resurrection

I am nominating this topic because it fails criterion 3.b due to MediEvil (2019 video game) not being a Good Article. GamerPro64 20:05, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

• Remove:The new game's article is not close to being a Good Article, and with its release date in October we're solidly past the three-month grace period. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 22:20, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
• Remove: The 2019 remake isn't a GA and is nowhere near GA quality right now. Namcokid47 ^(Contribs) 02:07, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

1957 Atlantic hurricane season

Hurricane Audrey was delisted in May 2017, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:31, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

• Regretful remove: The concerns at Audrey's GAR appear valid, and though it looks like significant work has been done on the article since it was delisted, it's not currently nominated at GAN. Unless someone steps in to put Audrey back up at GAN and see it through, the topic will have to be delisted.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryanrutherford0 (talk • contribs) 23:11, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

New York and New Jersey campaign

Turtle (submersible) was delisted in March 2019, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:21, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

• Comment: It doesn't actually look to me as though that article is necessary for the scope of the topic. The Turtle is only mentioned once in the overview article, as a curious aside; it seems clear that it didn't significantly impact the course of the campaign. I would say that that article probably never really belonged in this topic. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 23:24, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Constitution of the Roman Republic

Executive magistrates of the Roman Republic was delisted in November 2019, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:12, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

• Remove: The topic needs some sort of article covering the magistrates, and the concerns raised at the article's GAR seem legitimate. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 23:19, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
• Remove per Bryan Rutherford. Gog the Mild (talk) 09:55, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Asteroid belt

| discuss 5 articles Asteroid belt
Ceres 2 Pallas 4 Vesta 10 Hygiea

Ceres (dwarf planet) was delisted in September 2019, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:37, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

• Remove: A real shame, but the topic can't stand without Ceres, and the concerns raised at its WP:FAR are legitimate. Hopefully Ceres is brought back up to date soon! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:41, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
• Remove per Bryan Rutherford. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:11, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Dwarf planets

| discuss 8 articles Dwarf planets
Ceres Plutoids Pluto Eris Makemake Haumea IAU definition of planet

Ceres (dwarf planet) was delisted in September 2019, and without it the topic fails criterion 3.b. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:36, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

• Remove: A real shame, but the topic can't stand without Ceres, and the concerns raised at its WP:FAR are legitimate. Hopefully Ceres is brought back up to date soon! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:41, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
• Remove per Bryan Rutherford. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:12, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Category 5 Pacific hurricanes

Fails criterion 3.b as Hurricane Lane (2018) and Hurricane Willa are not WP:GA, are not being worked on, and are past the three month grace period (the official National Hurricane Center reports were both released on 2 April 2019[1][2]). Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:44, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Comment - In Lane's case I would argue that the final tropical cyclone report is not yet out (see Page 1), since the CPHC has not yet completed its analyses of Lane in the central Pacific where it peaked.Jason Rees (talk) 15:30, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

It is out now. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 18:23, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

• Remove, even if some allowance for timing was made for Lane, Hurricane Willa is not a GA at this point. MPJ-DK (talk) 02:14, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

  @MPJ-DK: It has been a month since you posted this, but KN2731 just added around 16 kB to the article, moved from a page called GAN prep. Seems like it will be at GAN soon. Kees08 (Talk) 19:20, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

  I asked KN2731 if he could merge the content that Oof-Off and I worked on and use my research to expand the article. With my research and the new sources KN finds, it should be up for GAN in the near future. Btw, I nominated Lane for GAN. Noah^Talk 00:20, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

  @Kees08: I am not seeing Hurricane Willa nominated for GA? Am I seeing that wrong? Since it's not even a GAN and we're two months past the 3 month window, I am afraid my comment stands. MPJ-DK (talk) 02:44, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

  @MPJ-DK: Usually in cases like this, an extension can be made as long as articles are actively being moved towards satisfying the requirements. Lane is at GAN right now and Willa should be there in short order. Noah^Talk 03:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

  I am all for extensions being made, the removal candidate does not seem to have a lot of support, so I have no problem with giving the authors a reasonable amount of time to get it to GAN. Whatever ya'll think is "reasonable" MPJ-DK (talk) 03:16, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay, KN's laptop broke at the end of February and it appears to be fixed now so he should be able to resume work on the article. It appears he has quite a bit of information prepped for the article now. Noah^Talk 17:03, 6 March 2020 (UTC)