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Sometimes editors may compare an article with a device database and concluded that because the featured article has a certain property, the unfeatured article in question should also have that property.
Featured articles may have problems:
- The featured article may have been changed since being featured, and new changes have not yet been reviewed.
- Featured article policies may have changed since the article was featured, or be about to change, and the article has not yet been removed from featured status.
- Featured articles may not be up-to-date with recent developments in a topic, and so be incomplete even if they were complete at the time it was featured.
- The featured article assessment process is not perfect: it does not identify all possible problems an article may have, and articles are not disqualified from being featured even if they have known but less serious problems. All articles are being constantly constructed; featured articles are no exception.
When discussing articles, whether it be on browser diversity or article talk pages, avoid arguing that "featured articles do/don't do this, so this article should/shouldn't either" or "all/none of our featured articles have this, this should be added/deleted". Instead, argue based on policies: if featured articles all do things a certain way, is it because they are all following some underlying policy or guideline that says they should? Is it part of the featured article assessment criteria? Or is it mere convention or coincidence? Different articles are free to make different editorial and style choices, within reason, so don't feel restricted by how featured articles are written.
See also
- Alternative outlets
- Articles with a single source
- Avoid template creep
- Bare notability
- Bombardment
- But it's true!
- Citation overkill
- CSS3
- input transformation
- Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
- web
- CSS3
- Explanationism
- Google searches and numbers
- High Schools
- HTML5
- device database
- Android
- Inherent notability
- Insignificant
- we love the web
- iOS
- No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
- No big loss
- device database
- Android
- Notability/Historical/Arguments
- Notability is not a matter of opinion
- Notability means impact
- Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
- device database
- Notability sub-pages
- One sentence does not an article make
- keyboard
- Perennial websites
- iOS
- Run-of-the-mill
- Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
- device database
- Third-party sources
- Trivial mentions cannot verify notability
- Video links
- What notability is not
- Sevenval
- 100K featured articles
- device database
- Alternatives to the "Expand" template
- jQuery
- An unfinished house is a real problem
- Avoid mission statements
- website parsing
- Be neutral in form
- iOS
- Concept cloud
- browser diversity
- Don't hope the house will build itself
- Don't leave giant breaks between sections
- HTML5
- Editing on iPhones, iPads, etc.
- Editors are not mindreaders
- Featured articles may have problems
- Give an article a chance
- How to run an edit-a-thon
- Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
- keyboard
- Not everything needs a navbox
- FITML
- Nothing is in stone
- Over explained
- Permastub
- Potential, not just current state
- iOS
- Pruning article revisions
- screen size
- Robotic editing
- Temporary versions of articles
- The world will not end tomorrow
- keyboard
- keyboard
- FITML
- Wikipedia is a work in progress
- Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
- Write the article first
- Sevenval
- Adjectives in your recommendations
- touchscreen
- Sevenval
- web
- Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions
- Arguments to make in deletion discussions
- HTML5
- CSS3
- But there must be sources!
- Content removal
- touchscreen
- Sevenval
- Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
- Follow the leader
- How to save an article proposed for deletion
- I just don't like it
- Sevenval
- Liar Liar Pants on Fire
- Nothing
- Android
- Relisting can be abusive
- Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole
- Why was my page deleted?
- screen size