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Of course, the articles listed here do not have to stay here: please [[Wikipedia:Be Bold|be bold]] in updating and improving these pages, and help make them featured articles again. |
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Of the '''<onlyinclude>843</onlyinclude>''' articles that have lost featured status, the 35 that have been re-promoted are listed [[#Former featured articles that have been re-promoted|below]]. The articles in '''bold''' have been featured on the [[Wikipedia:Main Page|Main Page]]. |
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Revision as of 21:08, 29 March 2010
Former featured articles This page lists articles that used to be featured articles, but were demoted because they do not meet current featured article criteria. Featured articles can only be demoted through a consensus derived through discussion at the Wikipedia:Featured article review page. The removal discussions for the former featured articles listed below can be found in the featured article review archive. Of course, the articles listed here do not have to stay here: please be bold in updating and improving these pages, and help make them featured articles again. Of the 843 articles that have lost featured status, the 35 that have been re-promoted are listed below. The articles in bold have been featured on the Main Page. |
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Art, architecture and archaeology · Awards, decorations and vexillology · Biology · Business, economics and finance · Chemistry and mineralogy · Computing · Culture and society · Education · Engineering and technology · Food and drink · Geography and places · Geology, geophysics and meteorology · Health and medicine · History · Language and linguistics · Law · Literature and theatre · Mathematics · Media · Music · Philosophy and psychology · Physics and astronomy · Politics and government · Religion, mysticism and mythology · Royalty, nobility and heraldry · Sport and recreation · Transport · Video gaming · Warfare · Wikipedia Project pages · Re-promoted articles
Art, architecture and archaeology
Art competitions at the Olympic Games · Art in ancient Greece · Baroque · Buddhist art · Cathedral of Magdeburg · Salvador Dalí · Diego Velázquez · Fancy cancel · Graffiti · History of erotic depictions · Irish Houses of Parliament · Leonardo da Vinci · Oxyrhynchus · Palace of Westminster · Parthenon · Rembrandt · Robert Lawson (architect) · Xanadu Houses
Awards, decorations and vexillology
Flag of the Republic of China · Flag of South Africa
Biology
· Action potential Aquarium · Bioinformatics · Brolga · Chemical synapse · Cladistics · Cat · Coconut crab · Frog · Gray Wolf · Human · Introduction to evolution · Marginated Tortoise · Mixed-breed dog · Mitochondrial Eve · Pufferfish · Race (classification of human beings) · Sperm whale · U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program · Whale song
Business, economics and finance
€2 commemorative coins · Bank of China (Hong Kong) · Billboard · Celtic Tiger · Dime (United States coin) · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Euro · Gold standard · Labour economics · Mercantilism · Strategic management · Supply and demand
Chemistry and mineralogy
Alchemy · Ammolite · Damascus steel · Glass · Linus Pauling · Lysergic acid diethylamide · Paracetamol · Periodic table · Turquoise
Computing
Acorn Computers · Application programming interface · Architecture of Btrieve · Architecture of Windows NT · ASCII · Btrieve · C (programming language) · Central processing unit · Color Graphics Adapter · Commodore 64 · CUPS · Computer security · CPU cache · Data Encryption Standard · Emacs · Floppy disk · GNU/Linux naming controversy · History of computing hardware · HTTP cookie · Java (programming language) · Markup language · Microsoft Data Access Components · Mozilla Firefox · Quantum computer · Reduced instruction set computer · PaX · Phishing · Search engine (computing) · Sequence alignment · Spam (electronic) · Spyware · Ubuntu (operating system) · World Wide Web · X Window System · X Window System core protocol · Windows 2000 · Windows XP
Culture and society
Assassination · Bathing machine · Black Seminoles · Boy Scouts of America membership controversies · British African-Caribbean community · Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act · David Helvarg · Freemasonry · Gender role · Kibbutz · Kitsch · Korean name · Mail · Mandan · Imagery of nude celebrities · Pashtun people · Pet skunk · Prostitution · Prostitution in the People's Republic of China · Same-sex marriage · Sociocultural evolution · Spring Heeled Jack · Swastika · Virginia Tech massacre · Yuan (surname)
Education
Academia · Caulfield Grammar School · Cornell University · Hopkins School · Peer review · Rajshahi University · Wikipedia
Engineering and technology
Automatic number plate recognition · Beverage-can stove · Canon T90 · Compact Cassette · Crash test dummy · AC power plugs and sockets · Eifel Aqueduct · Electronic amplifier · Enigma machine · Fountain pen · Horseshoe · Isambard Kingdom Brunel · Jarmann M1884 · Jet engine · Kammerlader · Krag-Jørgensen · Krag-Petersson · Mini · Mini Moke · Pattern welding · Phonograph cylinder · Plug-in hybrid · Radar · Saturn V · Spacecraft propulsion · Speech synthesis · Telephone exchange · Three Laws of Robotics · Typewriter · Zuiderzee Works
Food and drink
Absinthe · Beer · Black pepper · Butter · Cheese · Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Norman Borlaug · Paleolithic diet · Single malt Scotch · Tea
Geography and places
Aztalan State Park · Bhutan · Buckinghamshire · Cambodia · Cape Town · Carlsbad Caverns National Park · Chinatown · City status in the United Kingdom · Colditz Castle · Dogpatch USA · Dundee · Éire · Enclave and exclave · Geography of India · Goa · Golden Gate Park · Great Mosque of Djenné · Historic counties of England · Hong Kong · Isan · Jerusalem · Johannesburg · Kalimpong · Kerala · Ladakh · Lastovo · Libya · Louisville, Kentucky · Malwa (Madhya Pradesh) · Marshall, Texas · Montparnasse · Moorgate · Mumbai · Nepal · National parks of England and Wales · Newark, New Jersey · Niagara Falls · Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta) · Pakistan · People's Republic of China · Piccadilly Circus · Principality of Sealand · Provinces of Thailand · Rondane National Park · San Jose, California · Sarajevo · Sheffield · Sikkim · South Africa · Suburbs of Johannesburg · Vancouver · Whitstable · Zambezi
Geology, geophysics and meteorology
2004 Atlantic hurricane season · 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake · Cyclone Tracy · 1900 Galveston hurricane · Eldfell · Geologic time scale · Geyser · Hurricane Floyd · Hurricane Katrina . 1755 Lisbon earthquake · Meteorological history of Tropical Storm Allison · Mount Pinatubo · Plate tectonics · Weather lore
Health and medicine
AIDS · Anabolic steroid · Asthma · Baby Gender Mentor · Bloodletting · Breastfeeding · Cystic fibrosis · Gene · Lesch–Nyhan syndrome · Médecins Sans Frontières · Prostate cancer · Pneumonia · Severe acute respiratory syndrome · Stuttering
History
1993 Russian constitutional crisis · Adoption in ancient Rome · Athanasius Kircher · Attila the Hun · Behistun Inscription · Penny (English coin) · Carl G. Fisher · Franklin B. Gowen · Che Guevara · Columbine High School massacre · Congo Free State · Dayuan · Dreyfus affair · Eureka Stockade · Ferdinand Magellan · First Crusade · Franks · Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy · Habsburg Spain · Helen Gandy · History of Alaska · History of Arizona · History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 · History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 · History of Central Asia · History of Germany · History of Greenland · History of the Jews in Poland · History of Limerick · History of the Netherlands · History of New Jersey · History of Portugal (1777–1834) · History of post-Soviet Russia · History of Russia · History of Scotland · Hrafnkels saga · East India Company · Indo-Greeks · Indus Valley Civilization · Italian Renaissance · Julius Caesar · Ku Klux Klan · Leopold and Loeb · Llywelyn the Great · Mark Antony · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi · Muhammad Ali Jinnah · 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak · Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth · Project MKULTRA · Sassanid Empire · September 11 attacks · Sheikh Mujibur Rahman · Sino-Soviet split · Space Race · Sun Yat-sen · Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 · W. Mark Felt · William Nelson Page · Ziaur Rahman
Language and linguistics
Aramaic language · American English · Aryan Invasion Theory (history and controversies) · Bengali language · Ido · Laal · Leet · Mandarin Chinese · Names of the Greeks · Noam Chomsky · Portuguese language · Russian language · Split infinitive · Taiwanese Hokkien · Vowel · Voynich manuscript · Vulgar Latin
Law
Article One of the United States Constitution · Common scold · Constitution of May 3, 1791 · Copyright · Dred Scott v. Sandford · Equal Protection Clause · First Amendment to the United States Constitution · French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools · Lawrence v. Texas · Murder of James Bulger · Negligence · Paragraph 175 · Section summary of the USA PATRIOT Act, Title II · Separation of powers under the United States Constitution · Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs · Supreme Court of the United States · Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution · United States Bill of Rights · United States Constitution · USA PATRIOT Act, Title III, Subtitle A
Literature and theatre
African-American literature · Alliterative verse · Augustan drama · Augustan literature · The Brothers Karamazov · Calvin and Hobbes · The Cantos · Chuck Palahniuk · Crime fiction · Cyberpunk · Douglas Adams · English poetry · Ernest Hemingway · Foundation series · The Giver · H. P. Lovecraft · Irish poetry · Irish theatre · Isaac Asimov · Jonathan Wild · Kazi Nazrul Islam · The Lord of the Rings · Medieval literature · Middle-earth · Modernist poetry in English · Muhammad Iqbal · Nella Larsen · Objectivist poets · The Old Man and the Sea · Oroonoko · Peterborough Chronicle · American poetry · The Protocols of the Elders of Zion · Restoration comedy · Robert A. Heinlein · Rudyard Kipling · Syed Ahmed Khan · Samuel Beckett · A Tale of a Tub · Thomas Pynchon · "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" · Thunderball · Turkish literature · Villain · William Monahan · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Mathematics
Ackermann function · Algorithm · Carl Friedrich Gauss · Computational complexity theory · Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace · Fractal · Game theory · Illegal prime · Margin of error · Metrication · Paul Erdős · Prisoner's dilemma · Pythagorean theorem · Regular polytope · Triangle · Trigonometric functions · Vacuous truth
Media
Alfred Hitchcock · All your base are belong to us · Andrew Van de Kamp · Arrested Development (TV series) · Avatar: The Last Airbender · BBC television drama · Blackadder · Blackface · Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) · Captain Marvel (DC Comics) · Characters of Kingdom Hearts · Cheers · Coronation Street · Countdown (game show) · Dawson's Creek · Doctor Who · Karen Dotrice · Excel Saga · Felix the Cat · Gremlins · Have I Got News for You · Henry Fonda · Hong Kong action cinema · Humphrey Bogart · Ian McKellen · Jaws (film) · Jim Henson · Julia Stiles · Kung Fu Hustle · Lindsay Lohan · Manos: The Hands of Fate · Martha Stewart · Memory Alpha · Nineteen Eighty-Four · Not the Nine O'Clock News · Padmé Amidala · Ran · Scooby-Doo · Serial Experiments Lain · Sesame Street · Spoo · Star Trek · Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace · Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones · Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith · TARDIS · The Boondock Saints · The Office (US TV series) · The West Wing · Triumph of the Will · Uma Thurman · V for Vendetta (film) · Western (genre) · WGA screenwriting credit system
Music
"A Day in the Life" · "A Hard Day's Night (song)" · Blues · Charles Ives · Concept album · "Cool" (song) · Donegal fiddle tradition · Dream Theater · Duran Duran · Eurovision Song Contest · "Get Back" · Gram Parsons · Gramophone record · Guqin · Hip hop music · Himno Nacional Mexicano · "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" · "I Want to Hold Your Hand" · Illmatic · Iron Maiden · The Jackson 5 · Jazz · Johnny Cash · Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) · The KLF · k-os · Lollapalooza · Louis Armstrong · Madonna (entertainer) · Mandy Moore · Marilyn Manson (band) · Metal umlaut · Miles Davis · Mor lam · Music of Minnesota · Music of Nigeria · National Anthem of Russia · Nightwish · Phil Collins · Pink Floyd · Porgy and Bess · Roy Orbison · Saxophone · Schabir Shaik trial · "She Loves You" · Simon & Garfunkel · Sly and the Family Stone · Smile (Brian Wilson album) · Social history of the piano · Igor Stravinsky · New Radicals · The Temptations · Timpani · Vanilla Ninja · "Weird Al" Yankovic · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Woody Guthrie · Yesterday
Philosophy and psychology
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi · Frankfurt School · Law of Demeter · Ludwig Wittgenstein · Michel Foucault · Milgram experiment · Omnipotence paradox · Paradox · Parapsychology · Psychosis · Søren Kierkegaard
Physics and astronomy
Albert Einstein · ATLAS experiment · Black hole · Carl Sagan · Comet · Cold fusion · Galileo Galilei · Isaac Newton · Open cluster · Quantum mechanics · Rainbow · Richard Feynman · J. Robert Oppenheimer · Roche limit · Soap bubble · Speed of light
Politics and government
2004 Democratic National Convention · Washington gubernatorial election, 2004 · Abraham Lincoln · Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. · Bruce Johnson (politician) · Bruno Kreisky · House of Commons of Canada · Charles Graner · Canadian federal election, 1993 · Commonwealth of Nations · Convention on Psychotropic Substances · Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) · European Union · Franklin D. Roosevelt · George Brown, Baron George-Brown · Gough Whitlam · Government of Maryland · Governor-General of India · House of Commons of the United Kingdom · House of Lords · Hugo Chávez · Hutton Inquiry · Indian Standard Time · James K. Polk · Japanese general election, 2003 · Jean Schmidt · John Major · L. Paul Bremer · Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2006 · Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 · Liberal Party (Utah) · Libertarian socialism · Libertarianism · Lord Chancellor · Margaret Thatcher · Mark Latham · Mordechai Vanunu · Nicolas Sarkozy · Parliament of Canada · Parliament of the United Kingdom · Political correctness · President of Ireland · President of the United States · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · Propaganda · Ralph Yarborough · Reginald Maudling · Republic of China presidential election, 2004 · Robert Walpole · Senate of Canada · Sid McMath · Single transferable vote · Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives · Theodore Roosevelt · Tom Brinkman · Tony Blair · Tynwald Day · Electoral College (United States) · United States Congress · United States House of Representatives · United States Senate · Voter turnout · Voting system · Władysław Sikorski · Yoweri Museveni · Zionism
Religion, mysticism and mythology
Anno Domini · Authorized King James Version · Cardinal Richelieu · Bible code · Buddhism · Christianity · Christmas · Ebionites · End time · Father Damien · Golden plates · Greco-Buddhism · Hebrew calendar · Hinduism · History of Buddhism · Holy Prepuce · Knights of Columbus · Names of God in Judaism · Noah's Ark · Original sin · Papal conclave · Papal Tiara · Fred Phelps · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Shroud of Turin · Sikhism · Sons of Noah · Space opera in Scientology scripture
Royalty, nobility and heraldry
· Anne of Great Britain Canadian Heraldic Authority · Charles I of England · Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava · George II of Great Britain · Gunnhild, Mother of Kings · Henry VIII of England · Hereditary peer · History of the Peerage · Louis XIV of France · Mary I of England · Peerage · Prince-elector · Stanisław Koniecpolski · Sverre of Norway · Victoria of the United Kingdom · William the Silent
Sport and recreation
Anatoly Karpov · The Ashes · Blackjack · Brian Close · Denis Law · Bullfighting · Cricket · Fanny Blankers-Koen · Formula One · Garry Kasparov · Go (game) · History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883 · History of Test cricket from 1884 to 1889 · Lego · Lottie Dod · Monopoly (game) · Montreal Canadiens · Nellie Kim · New England Patriots · Olympic Flame · Paul Morphy · Poker · Pub quiz · Rock-paper-scissors · Seabiscuit · Steer wrestling · Steve Dalkowski · Sudoku · Summer Olympic Games · Suzanne Lenglen · Ted Radcliffe · Weight training · Xiangqi
Transport
Air Force One · Auto rickshaw · BC Rail · Ben Gurion International Airport · Bicycle · Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport · Căile Ferate Române · Canadian Pacific Railway · Civil Air Patrol · DeLorean DMC-12 · El Al · Ford Mustang · Indian Railways · London Underground · Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 · Montréal-Mirabel International Airport · Panama Canal · Pan American World Airways · Rail transport in India · RMS Titanic · Road transport · Ryanair · San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge · Space elevator · SS Andrea Doria · TGV · Volkswagen Type 2 · Warren County Canal · Wigwag (railroad) · Zeppelin
Video gaming
3D Monster Maze · Bishōjo game · Bulbasaur · BZFlag · Doom (video game) · Final Fantasy IV · Final Fantasy VII · Golden age of video arcade games · Goomba · Lakitu · Link (The Legend of Zelda) · Metal Gear Solid · Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee · Supreme Commander (video game) · Torchic · Wario
Warfare
Able Archer 83 · Algerian Civil War · Attack on Pearl Harbor · AK-47 · Battle of Alesia · Battle of Aljubarrota · Battle of the Bulge · Battle of Hampton Roads · Battle of Inchon · Battle of Jutland · Battle of Leyte Gulf · Battle of Smolensk (1943) · Invasion of Normandy · Battle of the Somme · Battle of Warsaw (1920) · Blitzkrieg · Chemical warfare · Convair B-36 · Cristero War · Defense of Sihang Warehouse · Erich von Manstein · F-35 Lightning II · First Battle of the Stronghold · Husein Gradaščević · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson · Imperial Japanese Navy · Invasion · Invasion of Poland · Iowa class battleship · Iraqi insurgency · Kargil War · Karl Dönitz · Lord's Resistance Army insurgency · Military history of Canada · Military history of the Soviet Union · Military brat (U.S. subculture) · Nuclear weapon · Operation Market Garden · Origins of the American Civil War · Peloponnesian War · Poison gas in World War I · Puerto Ricans in World War II · Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) · Richard O'Connor · Russian–Circassian War · Russian Ground Forces · Siege · Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941) · Soviet invasion of Poland · Submarine · Tank · Trench warfare · USS Bridgeport (AD-10) · Virtuti Militari · War elephant · War of the Spanish Succession · Warsaw Uprising · Warsaw Uprising (1794) · White Rose · World War I
Wikipedia Project pages
Wikipedia:FAQ · Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states
Former featured articles that have been re-promoted
Autism · Baseball · Bath, Somerset · Belgium · Bodyline · Chetwynd, British Columbia · Execution by elephant · DNA · Definition of planet · Evolution · Fermi paradox · Hero of Belarus · Hubble Space Telescope · Io (moon) · James II of England · Emperor Norton · Lead(II) nitrate · The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask · London congestion charge · Max Weber · Octopus card · Olympic Games · Pashtun people · "Pilot" (House) · Platypus · Poetry · Representative peer · Ridge Route · The Simpsons · Super Mario 64 · Sydney Riot of 1879 · The Beatles · "This Charming Man" · Vampire · Venus
Notes: Articles in bold are articles that have been featured on the Main Page. The Wikipedia Project Pages are anomalies – not actual articles, but pages that were considered "brilliant prose" and were subsequently listed as "featured" when the featured article process began. Pashtun people was promoted and demoted twice, and thus listed twice.