Wikipedia:Featured topic criteria
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A featured topic is a collection of articles that represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a given subject, comprehensively and with items of consistent quality. In addition to its constituents meeting the requirements for all Wikipedia articles, a featured topic has the following attributes:
- The articles should have a clear similarity with each other, should be in the same category, and should be grouped under one collective name that does not arbitrarily exclude items.
- The topic should have a lead article, which introduces and summarises the topic.
- There must be at least three separate articles.
- All articles in the series should be linked together, preferably using a template.
- There should not be any obvious gap (missing or stub article) in the topic.
- Each article should be of a good quality, including references. Not all articles need be featured class, but several should be. The rest must be all Good Articles or A class except where achieving such a class is impossible. Expect an audit of all articles not Featured or Good status to ensure that they are of a quality consistent enough with the other topics.
[edit] Recommendations
As well as these requirements, the following are recommended:
- The structure of the articles should be similar, having the same section titles and order where possible.
- The articles should use a common infobox when reasonable.
- Each article should have been peer reviewed.
- The topic should not be too big. There is no maximum number of articles, but as a rule-of-thumb any topic with more than 20 entries can likely be broken down into sub-topics. For example, Science fiction movies would be too large a topic, but Star Trek movies would be good. This rule-of-thumb does not apply to items in a series. For example, every article from 1st Canadian Parliament to 39th Canadian Parliament could be included in one topic.
