Wikipedia:Former featured articles

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 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 1,666 articles that have lost featured status, the 72 that have been re-promoted are listed at the bottom of the page. The articles in bold have been featured on the Main Page.

Featured content:

• Featured articles ←
• Featured lists
• Featured pictures
• Featured topics

Featured article candidates (FAC)

• Featured article criteria
• Featured article log
• Featured article statistics

Featured article review (FAR)

• Former featured articles
• Unreviewed featured articles/2020

Today's featured article (TFA):

• This month's queue
• About Today's featured article
• Recent TFAs and statistics
• Current TFA requests
• Potential TFA requests
• TFA oddities
• Most viewed TFAs
• Featured articles yet to appear as TFA
• Script to track TFA recent changes

Featured article tools:

• Mentoring for FAC
• Nominators of featured articles promoted
• Recent changes to featured articles
• Random featured article