Wikipedia:Featured and good topic criteria

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A featured topic is a collection of articles that represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a subject comprehensively and with items of consistently good quality. In addition to the meeting of the requirements for all Wikipedia articles by all of the constituents, a featured topic has the following attributes.

1. It is a set of similar, interrelated articles that cover a specific topic
   • (a) There are at least three distinct articles.
   • (b) The articles have a clear similarity with each other under a well-defined topical scope.
   • (c) All articles in the topic are linked together, preferably using a template, and share a common category or super-category.
   • (d) There is no obvious gap (missing or stub article) in the topic. A topic must not cherry pick only the best articles to become featured together.
2. The topic has an introductory and summary lead article.
3. Each article is of high quality, including references.
   • (a) A number of articles are featured class (featured articles or featured lists), dependent on the size of the topic (at least two featured class articles for the minimum size of three, at least three featured class articles for a size of nine, etc.).
   • (b) All other articles are good articles.
   • (c) Items that cannot achieve a high rating (as stated in 3.a and 3.b) due to their limited subject matter have passed an individual audit for quality which included a completed peer review with all important problems raised fixed. This can not be use to fulfill criterion 1.a.

Recommendations

In addition to the mandatory criteria above, it is recommended that all topics meet the following optional criteria:

• The structure of the articles is similar, with the same section titles and order where possible.
• The articles use a common infobox where appropriate.
• Each article should have been peer reviewed.
• The topic is not overly large. There is no maximum number of articles, but as a rule-of-thumb, a topic with more than 20 entries is typically divisible into sub-topics. For example, science fiction films would be too large a topic, but Star Trek films would be of appropriate scope. This rule-of-thumb does not apply to items in a series (every article from 1st Canadian Parliament to 39th Canadian Parliament could be included in one topic), or those dictated by geography (for example, states of the USA).
• The topic should not have any Good article nominations, Good article reassessment, Featured article candidates, Featured article review, Featured article removal candidate, Featured list candidates, or Featured list removal candidates when nominated for featured topic. Please have all required processes done before nominating.

Retention

• Featured topic status is dependent on the continued adherence to all criteria, including retention of high quality status by all of the constituents. If any of the criteria are no longer met, or any constituents lose quality status, such topics will be eligible for a featured topic removal nomination after a grace period. The grace period's length is as follows: Three months for a demotion of an article, and six months for a grandfather topic after a change to the requirements.