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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 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 net supports. They are then moved to the holding area and from there into the schedule. Please add new successful entries to the holding area at the end of the section lists. Unsuccessful nominations can be archived after 21 days of no discussion or after 3 net opposing votes.

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.

Applied sciences and technology

Flesh

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

• Currently only a dictionary term, as a mere Wikipedia article. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 09:52, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

1. Oppose - I don't see how this can be expanded beyond a definition, considering that adding details would be a significant overlap with articles such as muscle. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 11:50, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Everyday life

Ice cream social

U.S. Navy personnel serving ice cream during an ice cream social

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Ice cream social – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Stub article with potential for improvements. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:22, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

1. Support - although the name "Ice cream party" would be much more known than "Ice cream social". Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 04:54, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Chicken nugget

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Chicken nugget – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - An average of 150 to 300 daily hits

• Need more nuggets of information. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 02:26, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Two chicken nuggets

1. Support – Easily expandable and receives lots of page hits (5,754 times in the last 30 days, as of this post). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:38, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
2. Support - Important food item and easily expandable. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 11:48, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

• Comment - adding hits... Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 06:13, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Geography

Sundarbans

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

• Largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world, article has room for improvement. Home of the Royal Bengal Tiger.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 07:21, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

1. Oppose Article is thoroughly written and well-referenced. I don't see any room for real improvement beyond possible expansion, but I also don't see any room for where the article can be expanded since its coverage it so thorough. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 11:54, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Geography of Iceland

Dettifoss, located in northeast Iceland. It is the largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m³/second.

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Geography of Iceland – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Start-class article with potential and opportunities for expansion and improvements. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:53, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

1. Support Easily expandable especially with regards to geology. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 11:51, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Climate of Argentina

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Climate of Argentina – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• Currently a C Class article with opportunities for expansion and improvement. Ssbbplayer (talk) 16:27, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Geography of Argentina

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Geography of Argentina – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• The article is currently a C class but it has a lot of potential for improvement and expansion. Ssbbplayer (talk) 16:27, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Mathematics and computer science

Broadband

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

• Could be expanded and improved. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:42, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

People/Companies and organisations/Products

George Lazenby

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George Lazenby – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• An Australian actor who played James Bond and the only not British Actor.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 07:26, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

• An association that covers the Whole of South Asia including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, with about 1.5 billion people living in it.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 07:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

1. Support Definitely needs more citations as well as copyediting. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 11:56, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Everett Stern

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Everett Stern – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

Article is all over the place needs serious copyediting and review, formatting errors, appears to have been written/edited by the author himself, person upon whom article is written isn't even that notable, would nominate for deletion if not for the HSBC scandal.Ladysif (talk) 16:48, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Philosophy and religion

Moral evil

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Moral evil – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - Just under 41 daily hits

• I can't believe an article about something so fundamental and universal can be a stub. It has one reference and is 1,368 bytes at the time of writing, and hasn't yet been given an importance rating. It hasn't been edited since last September. Rubbish computer 12:30, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

1. Support I cannot believe that this is a stub, and the only source someone could find is GCSE Bitesize (which is a revision website for 16-yr olds). Joseph2302 (talk) 11:46, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

• Comment: What I said about when it had last been edited is now inaccurate as I have edited it. Rubbish computer 10:31, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support This article really needs improvement. --Human3015 knock knock • 22:48, 1 July 2015 (UTC)