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This page facilitates the review of featured articles and the subsequent removal of the featured status of those that still fail to meet the featured article criteria after the review process.

There are two categories in the process: the featured article review (FAR) and featured article removal candidate (FARC) lists. Articles cannot be listed directly as FARCs; they must first undergo a FAR. The ideal outcome of the review period is to have concerns addressed and the review closed without progressing to the FARC list. However, articles will be sent to the removal list if additional time is needed to maintain FA standards.

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Featured article reviews (FARs)

FARs are intended to facilitate a range of improvements to FAs, from updating and relatively light editing—including the checking of references and their formatting—to addressing more involved issues, such as a failure to meet current standards of prose, comprehensiveness and POV.

When listing here, a nominator must specify these criteria and may propose remedies. The nomination should last two to three weeks, or longer where changes are ongoing and it seems useful to continue the process. Here, reviewers do not declare "keep" or "remove". If the consensus is that the deficiencies have been addressed, the review is closed; if not, the article is placed on the FARC list. A nomination need not be made with the goal of removal. Minor reviews of articles that are generally up to standard, but may require a copy-edit, are welcome. If an article you are watching is moved to the FARC list, do not be alarmed; extensions are always granted if requested and people are working.

Older FAs are held to the current standards. Articles that were recently promoted should not be listed here (three months is typically regarded as the minimum interval between promotion and listing here, unless there are extenuating circumstances).

Nominators are asked to improve an article that they nominate for review to the best of their ability.

Please do not add reviews for pages that are Today's Featured Article or listed as one of the three recently featured.

Nominating an article for FAR

1. Place {{FAR}} (upper case) at the top of the talk page of the nominated article. Write "FAR listing" in the edit summary box. Hit "Save page".
2. From there, click on the "add a comment" link.
3. Place ===]=== at the top of the subpage.
4. Below this title, write your reason(s) for nominating the article, specifying the FA criterion/criteria that are at issue. Hit "Save page".
5. Click here, and place at the top of the list of nominated articles, {{Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/name of nominated article}}, filling in the exact name of the nominated article. Hit "Save page".
6. Notify relevant parties by adding {{subst:FARMessage|Articlename}} to relevant talk pages (insert the article name). Relevant talk pages include the main contributors to the article (identifiable through the article stats script), the editor who originally nominated the article for Featured Article status (identifiable through the Featured Article Candidate link in the Article Milestones), and any relevant WikiProjects (identifiable through the talk page banners, but there may be other Projects that should be notified). Leave a message at the top of the FAR indicating notifications completed.

NB If an article has already been through the FAR/C process, use the Move button to rename the previous nomination to an archive. For example, Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Television → Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Television/archive1

Featured article removal candidates (FARCs)

Articles are listed as FARCs only after undergoing a review in the Featured article review section.

Reviewers may declare "keep" or "remove", supported by substantive comments that focus on the outstanding deficiencies in relation to the FA criteria. Reviewers who declare "remove" should be prepared to return towards the end of the process to strike out their objections if they have been addressed.

If, after a period of review, the deficiencies have not been addressed and there is no obvious momentum to do so, the FA status is removed. If consensus has emerged that the changes have brought the article back to standard, the review is closed.

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