Wikipedia talk:Featured list criteria
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Latest comment: 18 days ago by Very Polite Person in topic Comprehensiveness question
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What kind of page is this?
editI'm trying to write an essay on the art of listmaking, and this is the best page I've seen so far.
I would like to add it to my references, organized by type or resource.
What is this page: a guideline, a policy, a project page, anything else? Selbstporträt (talk) 22:11, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
- As per above, "The project page associated with this talk page documents an English Wikipedia policy. It describes a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow." These are the official rules/criteria for the Featured List process. --PresN 01:57, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Comprehensiveness question
editHi, it's a (very) long way from any nomination but I've been importing tons of my built up notes from the past year to make User:Very Polite Person/draft/Outline of artificial satellites. The criteria say, where practical, a complete set of items
, so I'm assuming I'll be on the "annotated" side of the line? There's like 2000-3000 related articles (give or take). — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 02:46, 10 June 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, I'd say "where practical" is going to be doing some work there. We don't have a lot of featured Outline lists, but I think it's more reasonable to focus on categories/notable individual items rather than every single satellite, especially when it's "Outline of artificial satellites", not "List of artificial satellites". --PresN 15:41, 10 June 2026 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm going to be linking to a few of Lists of... there, and then summarizing those. I was even thinking about seeing if there is a nice top-of-page template indicating that spells out "data in some sections here may be rapidly outdated by changes to linked articles", or make one if that doen't exist.
- If you have a second, I was curious about nesting standards as they seem a bit variable (and then the MCU outline leans heavily into tables).
- I took off the TOC limit template just now: User:Very Polite Person/draft/Outline of artificial satellites
- So that's the current TOC-based nesting. But what about this style?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Very_Polite_Person/draft/Outline_of_artificial_satellites#Navigation_2
- With indent nesting? Or should we combine when possible? — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 17:25, 10 June 2026 (UTC)