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This page is the list of featured articles that were promoted in 2016, listed by the month in which they were promoted. This list includes the date the article was featured on the main page (see Wikipedia:Today's featured article) and the nominating user(s). Articles removed from featured status (see Wikipedia:Former_featured_articles) are indicated in strikethrough font. This page is used as input for Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations.

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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/December 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Devon County War Memorial December 20, 2018 HJ Mitchell
Cliff Clinkscales February 6, 2017 TempleM
Operation Infinite Reach GeneralizationsAreBad
Belgium national football team May 11, 2017 Kareldorado
Tidus June 22, 2017 Tintor2
Banksia aculeata May 13, 2018 Casliber
Jochen Rindt January 23, 2017 Zwerg Nase
Nominative determinism April 1, 2017 Edwininlondon
Tahiti rail September 13, 2019 FunkMonk
Love, Inc. (TV series) February 1, 2017 Aoba47
Bee-eater February 3, 2021 Sabine's Sunbird & Jimfbleak
Alabama Centennial half dollar August 26, 2019 Wehwalt
Montreal Laboratory December 29, 2016 Hawkeye7
Dick Cresswell Ian Rose
Gottlob Berger January 6, 2020 Peacemaker67
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/November 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
After the Deluge (painting) April 27, 2024 Iridescent
Bradley Cooper March 11, 2024 FrB.TG
Seri Rambai March 19, 2017 Singora
The Pale Emperor January 15, 2017 Homeostasis07
Ike Altgens December 13, 2016 ATS
California State Route 76 June 20, 2020 Rschen7754
Super Mario Galaxy November 1, 2017 Jaguar
SMS Mecklenburg Parsecboy
Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce) April 14, 2017 Kafka Liz & Ceoil
Night of January 16th January 16, 2017 RL0919
Turbinellus floccosus December 31, 2019 Casliber
Northampton War Memorial November 11, 2019 HJ Mitchell
Giganotosaurus July 30, 2017 FunkMonk
Aries (album) March 20, 2020 Magiciandude
First Tennessee Park December 30, 2018 NatureBoyMD
2015 Formula One World Championship February 21, 2021 Tvx1
Ghost Stories (magazine) February 3, 2020 Mike Christie
Hands Across Hawthorne May 29, 2017 Another Believer
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Taylor Swift August 23, 2019 FrB.TG & IndianBio
Sabrina Sidney March 4, 2017 Worm That Turned & Staceydolxx
O. G. S. Crawford October 28, 2017 Midnightblueowl
The World Before the Flood August 4, 2022 Iridescent
Eurasian rock pipit July 28, 2023 Jimfbleak
Allen Walker February 4, 2017 Tintor2
Cleveland Centennial half dollar December 1, 2021 Wehwalt
Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song) October 26, 2017 Damien Linnane
Chad Harris-Crane December 19, 2017 Aoba47
HMS Alceste (1806) Ykraps
Turboliner February 20, 2017 Mackensen
Ontario Highway 420 April 20, 2019 Floydian
Hope (Watts) January 19, 2017 Iridescent
Secretariat (horse) March 30, 2020 Montanabw & Jlvsclrk
Eega July 6, 2017 Pavanjandhyala
Neal Dow March 21, 2017 Coemgenus
Heavy metals November 13, 2016 Sandbh
Weird Tales July 9, 2017 Mike Christie
SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse October 18, 2018 Parsecboy
Divisional Cavalry Regiment (New Zealand) November 20, 2016 Kges1901
Pallas's leaf warbler August 30, 2017 Jimfbleak
Gomphus clavatus April 27, 2018 Sasata & Casliber
European hare August 11, 2019 LittleJerry & Chiswick Chap & Cwmhiraeth
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev) December 21, 2016 Brianboulton
Stegoceras February 26, 2018 FunkMonk & LittleJerry
Paul Palaiologos Tagaris October 29, 2017 Cplakidas
Burke and Hare murders September 11, 2018 SchroCat & Cassianto
Bud Dunn October 26, 2016 White Arabian Filly
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward February 16, 2017 Famous Hobo
Josephine Butler November 29, 2017 SchroCat
History of Liverpool F.C. (1985–present) NapHit
Vladimir Lenin November 7, 2017 Midnightblueowl
Vincent van Gogh December 16, 2016 Modernist & Ceoil & Victoriaearle & John
Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161 October 19, 2016 Gerda Arendt
William Borah December 30, 2017 Wehwalt
Lazarus Aaronson February 18, 2018 P. S. Burton
Ride the Lightning July 27, 2018 Retrohead
Cortinarius violaceus May 22, 2019 Casliber & J Milburn
2003–04 Arsenal F.C. season October 22, 2016 Lemonade51
CMLL World Middleweight Championship May 5, 2018 MPJ-DK
J. R. Kealoha March 5, 2020 KAVEBEAR
St Botolph's Church, Quarrington September 26, 2017 Noswall59
The Ecstatic June 9, 2024 Teflon Peter Christ
Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed January 23, 2018 Iridescent
Title TK May 21, 2019 Moisejp
Yugoslav monitor Drava October 21, 2021 Peacemaker67
Chicago Pile-1 December 2, 2017 Hawkeye7
The Left Hand of Darkness October 23, 2016 Vanamonde93
38th (Welsh) Infantry Division November 26, 2017 EnigmaMcmxc
Bluebuck November 17, 2016 FunkMonk & Sainsf & 7&6=thirteen
Yugoslav torpedo boat T1 December 15, 2023 Peacemaker67
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Emma Stone November 6, 2016 FrB.TG
California State Route 94 January 14, 2018 Rschen7754
Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King? September 26, 2016 Aoba47
Canadian National Vimy Memorial April 9, 2017 Labattblueboy
No Me Queda Más December 30, 2016 AJona1992
Science-Fiction Plus July 10, 2018 Mike Christie
The Boat Races 2016 The Rambling Man
Wrestle Kingdom 9 January 4, 2017 Ribbon Salminen & Starship.paint
Rare Replay August 4, 2017 Czar
Lynx (constellation) August 10, 2017 Casliber
HMS Emerald (1795) Ykraps
No. 91 Wing RAAF October 20, 2016 Ian Rose
Millipede November 10, 2016 Cwmhiraeth
Heffernan v. City of Paterson April 26, 2017 Wugapodes
Slug (song) Dream out loud
Mr. Dooley September 12, 2021 Wehwalt
The Dawn of Love (painting) August 8, 2018 Iridescent
An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory September 20, 2016 J Milburn
Interstate 275 (Michigan) January 14, 2017 Imzadi1979
Peter Martyr Vermigli September 8, 2017 Jfhutson
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/July 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Catherine Zeta-Jones September 25, 2017 SchroCat & Krimuk2.0
SMS Körös September 28, 2016 Peacemaker67
Theodore Komnenos Doukas February 25, 2017 Cplakidas
Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar February 13, 2019 Wehwalt
Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines March 11, 2018 Hawkeye7
Margaret Lea Houston April 11, 2017 Maile66
Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman February 27, 2017 KAVEBEAR
2008 UAW-Dodge 400 August 9, 2021 Z105space
The Man Trap September 8, 2016 Miyagawa
Milos Raonic September 9, 2016 Saskoiler
CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship November 21, 2016 MPJ-DK
Impala January 20, 2017 Sainsf
Agharta (album) November 4, 2016 Teflon Peter Christ
Old Pine Church August 20, 2016 West Virginian
Dr. No (novel) August 20, 2022 SchroCat
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/June 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Amazing Stories Quarterly March 10, 2018 Mike Christie
English Benedictine Reform January 2, 2017 Dudley Miles
Requiem (Reger) July 16, 2016 Gerda Arendt
Antlia January 29, 2019 Casliber
Kalki Koechlin January 10, 2017 Numerounovedant
Blast Corps December 23, 2022 Czar
Nothomyrmecia December 15, 2018 Burklemore1
Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia October 20, 2019 Cyclonebiskit
Dorset Ooser January 17, 2017 Midnightblueowl
Freida Pinto October 18, 2016 Vensatry
Borscht August 19, 2016 Kpalion
Portrait of Maria Portinari November 15, 2018 Ceoil
The Good Terrorist February 8, 2017 Bruce1ee
Nights into Dreams July 5, 2016 Jaguar
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
History of the New York Yankees July 6, 2016 Giants2008
Michael Francis Egan September 29, 2017 Coemgenus
God of War (franchise) March 22, 2020 JDC808
George Tucker (politician) August 20, 2020 Hoppyh
Walt Disney October 16, 2023 SchroCat
William Howard Taft November 9, 2016 Wehwalt
Baleen whale June 5, 2016 Dunkleosteus77
Reg Pollard (general) January 20, 2018 Ian Rose
William Harper (Rhodesian politician) July 22, 2019 Cliftonian
New Wave of British Heavy Metal January 27, 2017 Lewismaster
Hasan al-Kharrat January 31, 2017 Al Ameer son
Isidor Isaac Rabi July 29, 2017 Hawkeye7
Springbok August 7, 2022 Sainsf
Lesser Antillean macaw April 9, 2018 FunkMonk
Ficus rubiginosa December 27, 2016 Casliber
Teleost August 2, 2017 LittleJerry & Chiswick Chap & Cwmhiraeth
S. O. Davies October 21, 2016 Brianboulton
From Russia, with Love (novel) September 27, 2018 SchroCat
Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II December 26, 2018 Nick-D
U.S. Route 16 in Michigan Imzadi1979
Boise National Forest March 29, 2017 Fredlyfish4
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/April 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Djedkare Isesi February 21, 2017 Iry-Hor
Knight Lore June 19, 2019 Czar
Maxinquaye February 20, 2018 Teflon Peter Christ
Gudovac massacre April 28, 2017 23 editor
The Phantom Tollbooth May 28, 2016 Wehwalt
Literary Hall September 23, 2017 West Virginian
7th Army (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) April 6, 2017 Peacemaker67
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin May 6, 2017 Ceoil & Victoriaearle & Outriggr
Huguenot-Walloon half dollar August 5, 2018 Wehwalt
2007 Coca-Cola 600 May 27, 2021 Z105space
Senghenydd colliery disaster October 14, 2019 SchroCat
No. 90 Wing RAAF July 10, 2016 Ian Rose
George Bernard Shaw March 17, 2017 Tim riley & Brianboulton
Spotted green pigeon September 27, 2017 FunkMonk
Isopogon anethifolius April 10, 2021 Casliber & Melburnian
Operation Ironside January 8, 2017 ErrantX
Hartebeest March 8, 2022 Sainsf
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/March 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Nelson's Pillar March 24, 2023 Brianboulton & Carcharoth
Typhoon Nabi August 29, 2018 Hurricanehink
Rejoined October 30, 2021 David Fuchs & Miyagawa
Heterodontosaurus May 12, 2018 FunkMonk & Jens Lallensack
Margaret Murray July 13, 2023 Midnightblueowl
Persona (series) ProtoDrake
Thunder (mascot) September 14, 2016 Montanabw & Atsme
Monroe Edwards June 27, 2018 Ealdgyth
The Oceanides June 4, 2017 Sgvrfjs
Isopogon anemonifolius April 30, 2020 Casliber & Melburnian
William Sterndale Bennett April 13, 2016 Smerus
Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 April 4, 2021 Gerda Arendt & Thoughtfortheday
Passenger pigeon September 1, 2016 FunkMonk & 7&6=thirteen
History of York City F.C. (1980–present) November 16, 2018 Mattythewhite
Serpin April 2, 2016 Evolution and evolvability
Sexuality after spinal cord injury February 3, 2017 delldot
Westminster Assembly July 1, 2018 Jfhutson
Siege of Sidney Street August 30, 2016 SchroCat
Mortara case June 21, 2016 Cliftonian
Sonam Kapoor June 9, 2016 FrB.TG
U.S. Route 25 in Michigan September 26, 2018 Imzadi1979
Hex Enduction Hour Ceoil
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Persoonia terminalis December 17, 2017 Casliber & Checkingfax & Koavf
Jumping Flash! March 30, 2016 Jaguar
Calutron September 5, 2016 Hawkeye7
House of Plantagenet May 29, 2016 Norfolkbigfish
Michael Hordern October 3, 2019 Cassianto
William McKinley presidential campaign, 1896 November 3, 2016 Wehwalt
70th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) October 10, 2018 EnigmaMcmxc
Baron Munchausen October 29, 2016 Lemuellio
William Etty Iridescent
The Last of Us June 14, 2017 Rhain1999
Migration of the Serbs (painting) December 2, 2016 23 editor
Black American Sign Language November 18, 2016 Wugapodes
Hurricane Juan (1985) February 20, 2019 Hurricanehink
Jacob van Ruisdael March 10, 2016 Edwininlondon
History of Liverpool F.C. (1959–85) July 21, 2016 NapHit
Triturus September 6, 2016 Tylototriton
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See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/January 2016
Article Main page date Nominator
Handel's lost Hamburg operas January 17, 2024 Brianboulton
Allah jang Palsoe March 15, 2017 Crisco 1492
South Park: The Stick of Truth August 6, 2021 Darkwarriorblake
Juan Manuel de Rosas March 30, 2017 Lecen & Astynax
Killer Instinct Gold November 25, 2016 Czar
Temperatures Rising May 3, 2017 Jimknut
Union Station (Erie, Pennsylvania) December 3, 2016 Niagara
Palmyra March 2, 2020 Attar-Aram syria
Isabella Beeton March 12, 2016 SchroCat
Banksia caleyi October 13, 2019 Casliber
Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar January 11, 2020 Wehwalt
Peresvet-class battleship Sturmvogel 66
Norodom Ranariddh June 9, 2018 Mr Tan
Yugoslav monitor Sava July 29, 2024 Peacemaker67
Albert Ketèlbey August 9, 2016 SchroCat & Tim riley
Panggilan Darah June 30, 2017 Crisco 1492
Seiken Densetsu 3 August 2, 2020 PresN
Mayabazar March 27, 2017 Pavanjandhyala & Ssven2 & Kailash29792