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Suitable articles at the Article nomination board are likely to appeal to a wide variety of editors, and have sufficient potential for improvement: Stub-Class, Start-Class and C-Class articles are ideal for nomination.

Articles and lists nominated here can be about any topic on Wikipedia. To encourage diversity, nominations are listed under the following topical areas:

• Applied sciences and technology
• Arts
• Everyday life
• Geography
• History and politics
• Language and literature
• Mathematics and computer science
• Natural sciences
• People/Companies and organisations/Products
• Philosophy and religion
• Society and social sciences
• Sport

Be bold! Articles here can can be edited at any time by all users, regardless of project membership status. As such, this page also functions as a general noticeboard for English Wikipedia. All nominations will be automatically archived by MusikBot once they are closed, and successful nominations are automatically listed at the Articles for improvement page.

Articles

The following are nominations to become a today's article for improvement (TAFI) entry. Please do not nominate an article unless you are fairly certain that it meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Any nomination of an article that does not meet this criteria may be removed. Any user may nominate and support or oppose an article below, however only members of this project may close nominations as successful or unsuccessful.

Successful nominations have few or no objections and at least 3 supports. They are then moved to the holding area and from there into the schedule. Please add new entries to the holding area at the end of the section lists, to maintain chronological sorting (so that older entries there are scheduled first). Unsuccessful nominations can be archived after 21 days of no discussion.

Please be sure to sign nominations with four tildes: ~~~~

Instructions

Suggested criteria

Though there are no firm criteria, in general, ideal AFI articles are:

• Highly important topics. Anything that has top or high importance to a WikiProject is likely highly important.
• Interesting to the general public. This can be evidenced by page views. Nominations with less than 200 views per day rarely succeed.
• Needing of improvement, with expansion opportunity. Stubs; start-class, and short C-class articles are the most ideal for improvement. Give due consideration before nominating higher-quality articles.
• Not targets of controversy. Keep in mind that controversial articles (articles that are the subject of heated discussion, edit warring, or questioned notability) can be very difficult to improve within a week.

Review process

• Any user may vote on the suitability of nominations to be listed at AFI.
• Please use the code #'''Support''' or #'''Oppose''', add your reasoning, and sign with ~~~~. You may also add comments. Improperly formatted votes may be missed by the bot.
• MusikBot will mark nominations with at least 3 net support votes (3 more support votes than oppose votes) as approved and those with at least 3 net oppose votes as unapproved. The bot will automatically list successful nominations and archive all closed nominations.
• Registered members of the project may choose to override the bot at their discretion in instances where straight vote totals do not appear to reflect community consensus.

Nominating an article

1. Check that the article you want to nominate isn't already listed.
2. Post the nomination at the top of the list in the appropriate category, using this code:

   ===(Article title)===
   {{AFI nom|article=(Article title)|class=unknown|hits=(Number of daily hits)}}
   *(Nomination text) ~~~~
   

3. Fill out the parts in parentheses. You can find an article's class on its talk page and its approximate daily hits using this tool.
4. Please do not support your own nominations.

Arts

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

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Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (game show) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• One of the greatest games hows of all time, based on arguably the most successful and popular edutainment franchises in the world (Carmen Sandiego, the 90's TV program Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? had won a huge amount of awards and ran for many years, yet has a woeful fancrufty article with practically no good references considering there are so many books and journal articles and newspapers out there that talk about this geography-based trivia show in detail.Coin945 (talk) 17:33, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support – could do with a good purge. C679 21:21, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

• Comment - what is a purge? Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 05:34, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
• @Qwertyxp2000: A refresh or an update. Find more here. ///EuroCarGT 23:08, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Oppose - too much prose for improvement. For another reason, it is not very well known, eh? Who knows this show? Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 00:56, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Aerophone

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Aerophone – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• It lacks many words. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 05:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Applied sciences and technology

Water treatment

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Water treatment – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:08, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
2. Support. Lacks the worldwide view. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 02:23, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Wired communication

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Wired communication – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 48 daily hits

• Nominated by: NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:36, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Everyday life

Naan

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Naan – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 530 daily hits

• Nominated by: NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:07, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --^Melody _Lavender 19:42, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Psychedelic drug

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Psychedelic drug – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Nature documentary

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Nature documentary – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:38, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Musician

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Musician – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:15, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:47, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Nightlife

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Nightlife – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 101 daily hits

• Easily expandable. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:21, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --///EuroCarGT 04:02, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
2. Support. Agree. Need some significances too. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 02:31, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
3. Support 222.155.220.142 (talk) 05:41, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Tandoor bread

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Tandoor bread – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 31 daily hits

• Nom - NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:45, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support - Evad37 [talk] 08:58, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

• Comment Naan being the more well-known term is probably a higher priority article. Gets more hits as well but as expected is better quality (start-class instead of stub). Gizza ^(t)(c) 06:33, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support DaGizza is right. Naan should also be nominated, I'd support it. :) --^Melody _Lavender 19:11, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Kilt

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Kilt – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1200 daily hits

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 05:38, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --Melody Lavender (talk) 07:59, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
2. Support ///EuroCarGT 04:02, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Taffy (candy)

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Taffy (candy) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• I nominate this candy article. What about the significances? No support information is there. Just a plain old description. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 06:50, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Haribo

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Haribo – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 9755 daily hits

• How about this one? Too short. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 06:53, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support It is too short, per nom, and is quite notable. It needs a lot of work towards it. EMachine03 (talk) 22:37, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Geography

Honshu

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Honshu – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 9647 daily hits

This article is a start class and level 4 vital. It needs a lot of work. EMachine03 (talk) 22:24, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - I'd like to see the origins of words. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 03:32, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Surveying

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Surveying – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1000 daily hits

• Nom: I've been working on this one so it touches on all areas of surveying, I could do with help for layout, readability and citations to make it really good. I can help with many technical questions. TBP25 (talk) 22:00, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support--^Melody _Lavender 10:38, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Ventura Boulevard

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Ventura Boulevard – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 33 daily hits

• Nom: NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:30, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Oppose not really a general topic. ///EuroCarGT 00:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

History and politics

History of North America

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History of North America – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Surprisingly only start class. Rated as one of Wikipedia's 1000 most important articles. --^Melody _Lavender 06:15, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:30, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Language and literature

Prose

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Prose – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Should be interesting to expand. Vital article level 3. ^Melody _Lavender 19:34, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

1. Support. Lacks what each other types of prose are.

Buzzword

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Buzzword – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - About 300 daily hits

• This article can easily fill its belly with more prose and explanation. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 07:30, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

1. Support 222.155.220.142 (talk) 06:48, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Mathematics and computer science

Centimeter

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Centimetre – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 276 daily hits

• This article is rated high-importance in the measurement project, yet is only a start class article. Considering how many people use the unit daily, we should have more about it in the article. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (parlez) @ 15:47, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --^Melody _Lavender 10:35, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
2. Oppose – looks to me like the Metre article has a load of stuff which could be cloned across, but on the other hand the reader can already click. C679 21:13, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
3. Support EMachine03 (talk) 22:48, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Natural sciences

Aquatic animal

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Aquatic animal – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 309 daily hits

• Nominated by: NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:35, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Essential fatty acid

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Essential fatty acid – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --^Melody _Lavender 19:15, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Nutrient

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Nutrient – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 15682 daily hits

• This article lacks the recycling of nutrients. "Nutrients are recycled by natural processes" my teacher says. Especially the macronutrients. Lacks how nutrients get reused too. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 02:24, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:37, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
2. Support --^Melody _Lavender 19:16, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
3. Support 222.155.220.142 (talk) 05:40, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

List of life sciences

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List of life sciences – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Adding nomination per new discussion occurring at WT:TAFI. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:01, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Boil

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Boil – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 599 daily hits

• Needs some more detailed information about how they develop and their cycle. You can comment and say what is else to add too. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 03:46, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
• Comment - Hello? Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 20:11, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

1. Support 222.155.220.142 (talk) 05:40, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Intraoral dental sinus

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Intraoral dental sinus – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 44 daily hits

• Otherwise known as a gumboil. This article is just horrible! There is a very lack of knowledge of dental health and dermatology health . Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 02:44, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Marble

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Marble – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1068 daily hits

• Too much jargon. Not enough chemistry stuff either. Shall I put this nomination here, or in applied sciences? Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 02:54, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Society and social sciences

Archetype

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Archetype – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --^Melody _Lavender 19:16, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Dystopia

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Dystopia – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --^Melody _Lavender 19:17, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Politician

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Politician – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Election

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Election – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:47, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --^Melody _Lavender 19:17, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Blackmail

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Blackmail – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Nom. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:15, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1. Support --C679 08:08, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
2. Support - looks empty to me. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 03:03, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Fair Trading Act 1986

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Fair Trading Act 1986 – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• This article lacks detailed description. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 08:37, 26 November 2014 (UTC)