FA category audit

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16 Nov 2012
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WP:FA says we have 3,740 FAs, but the number is incremented manually and subject to errors. To verify it, I checked each article in Category:Wikipedia featured articles (populated by articlehistory) against each article in Category:Featured articles (populated by the star template).
I found two anomalies:

  • Æthelbald of Mercia was missing a star, apparently inadvertently removed by an editor.
  • WP:FA may say 3,740 articles, but it actually lists 3,741 articles, one of which is a duplicate: Tokyo Mew Mew was mistakenly listed in two sections as a result of this edit, which no one caught.

After fixing both of these issues, the numbers all agree: we have 3,740 FAs.

03 Nov 2013
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I did a three-way check of WP:FA, Category:Featured articles, and Category:Wikipedia featured articles. I found four anomalies:

The count of 4,093 is correct.

Repromoted FAs audit, Nov–Dec 2012

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In late November 2012 it was discovered that some FAs re-promoted in 2012 had not been properly recorded as such at WP:FFA and given the {{FA/BeenOnMainPage}} tag at WP:FA. Discussion took place at User_talk:SandyGeorgia/arch90#FFAs and at Wikipedia talk:FAC#Audit at WP:FFA needed. Several people helped bring both pages up to date.

FAs without ArticleHistory audit, 06 Mar 2013

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I found two anomalies:

Articles with the template but not listed at WP:FA, and the reverse, Aug 2014

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Several discrepancies were noted and fixed by others, as discussed here.

Numbers reconciliation and falsely marked FAs, Nov–Dec 2014

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More discrepancies addressed here.