Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates

Featured and good topics in Wikipedia

A featured topic (FT) is a collection of inter-related articles in which at least half are featured articles or featured lists. The remaining articles must be at least good quality.

A good topic (GT) is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles) with a less stringent quality threshold than a featured topic.

This page is for the nomination of potential featured and good topics. See the featured and good topic criteria for criteria on both types of topic.

Before nominating a topic, nominators may wish to receive feedback by listing it at the Featured and good topics talk page. Nominators must be sufficiently familiar with the subject matter and sources to deal with objections during the FTC/GTC process. If you nominate something you have worked on, note it as a self-nomination. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the articles of the topic should consult regular editors of the articles prior to nomination. Nominators are expected to respond positively to constructive criticism and to make an effort to address objections promptly.

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Please review all the articles of the nominated topic with the featured and good topic criteria in mind before deciding to support or oppose a nomination.

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For a topic to be promoted to featured or good topic status, consensus must be reached that it meets the criteria. The FGTC coordinators are usually the ones to assess this consensus and close FGTC discussions. If there is a consensus to promote, the promote instructions are located here. If enough time passes without objections being resolved (at least one week), nominations will be removed from the candidates list and archived. Nominations will stay here for ten days if there is unanimous consent, or longer if warranted by debate.

Featured topic nominations

Paul Kelly

Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five.

Paul Kelly

3 articles

Awards and nominations

Discography

Contributor(s): Shaidar cuebiyar, Dan arndt

Comprehensive topic, not missing any articles. 750 h+ 02:25, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Scope is clear and it seems like everything that should be included is. Hey man im josh (talk) 10:56, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: I think the bands and accompanying musicians list should be included in a topic outlining Paul Kelly. It's one of the pages in the template which is specifically centred around Kelly's career. I also put all three of these articles in the above section of the template which is customary for music artists (e.g. David Bowie). Idiosincrático (talk) 14:37, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1989 (album) (4th supplementary nomination)

This topic is already featured. It is being re-nominated to add additional items. See Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/1989 (album) for discussions of the topic's previous nominations. The additional items are:

1989

15 articles

"Welcome to New York"

"Blank Space"

"Style"

"Out of the Woods"

"All You Had to Do Was Stay"

"Shake It Off"

"I Wish You Would"

"Bad Blood"

"Wildest Dreams"

"This Love"

"Clean"

"You Are in Love"

"New Romantics"

The 1989 World Tour

1989 (Taylor's Version) ^(subtopic)

i created the article for i wish you would, and promoted it to ga status. fortunately, it still has the required amount of featured articles for this ft to remain as a featured topic. yay brachy08 _{(chat here lol)} 02:03, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I am curious which recent event made "I Wish You Would" suddenly notable, and why the same notability would not extend to songs like "How You Get the Girl" (whose Taylor's version charted two spots lower in Canada and nine in the US) and "I Know Places" (three spots lower in Canada and five in the US). It would be preferable not to delay those, if they are notable already, just because there aren't enough FAs for the topic to remain featured.--N Ø 09:55, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hold for All You Had to Do Was Stay, which was GA-nominated just five days after the nomination. I would personally like to see the other two tracks on the standard edition join the topic together in the next addition. This really does not need to go through four different addition processes.--N Ø 14:28, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wait – per above. Idiosincrático (talk) 12:19, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Now that both All You Had to Do Was Stay and I Wish You Would can be added, the topic can remain featured. @Brachy0008: is there any movement on the creation of "I Know Places" and/or "How You Get the Girl"? Is there a reason why these articles don't exist, are the songs not notable enough, or have the articles simply not been made? Idiosincrático (talk) 01:32, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  we haven't dug up sources for i know places and how you get the girl yet. furthermore, if they are made, there would be a bit more issues keeping this a featured topic. the plan is to get bad blood to FA, then create articles for both i know places and how you get the girl, so yes, those articles are being held back a bit. brachy08 _{(chat here lol)} 02:50, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  update: i created the draft for i know places. brachy08 _{(chat here lol)} 23:47, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  Whether or not "How You Get the Girl" or "I Know Places" should have their standalone articles depends on notability. So far I think "I Know Places" may have its standalone article, not sure about "How You Get the Girl". Ippantekina (talk) 04:13, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – although I don't really like the thought of holding the creation of new articles for the sake of a topic's status, I see that there is little motivation in creating these articles at the moment. As a result I support the nomination per the current collection of Wiki's articles, as I guess you can't oppose based on articles people can't or are unwilling to make (again it could be that these songs aren't notable enough to even have articles). I think in future, if there are more articles to make for a potential topic, a GTC discussion should probably be delayed until the new articles are created. Idiosincrático (talk) 14:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - albeit we have to agree not every track is worth an article, specially those that need some extensive research to just get enough material to write about. Not that this subtracts from your dedication. igordebraga ≠ 02:28, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

History of the National Hockey League

The history of the National Hockey League begins with the end of its predecessor league, the National Hockey Association (NHA), in 1917. After unsuccessfully attempting to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, executives of the three other NHA franchises suspended the NHA, and formed the National Hockey League (NHL), replacing the Livingstone team with a temporary team in Toronto, the Arenas. The NHL's first quarter-century saw the league compete against two rival major leagues—the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and Western Canada Hockey League—for players and the Stanley Cup. The NHL first expanded into the United States in 1924 with the founding of the Boston Bruins, and by 1926 consisted of ten teams in Ontario, Quebec, the Great Lakes region, and the Northeastern United States. At the same time, the NHL emerged as the only major league and the sole competitor for the Stanley Cup; in 1947, the NHL completed a deal with the Stanley Cup trustees to gain full control of the Cup. The NHL's footprint spread across Canada as Foster Hewitt's radio broadcasts were heard coast-to-coast starting in 1933.

History of the National Hockey League

6 articles

1992–2017

Contributor(s): CosXZ, Scorpion0422, Resolute, Maxim

Meets all of the criteria. --Cos ^{(X + Z)} 17:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Perhaps the split discussion at Talk:History of the National Hockey League (1992–present)#Move to 1992–2017? that's been going on since February should be resolved first. There exists a draft at Draft:History of the National Hockey League (since 2017) which was worked on as recently as two days ago. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like there was support for a split and the draft is in good shape. Instead of being bold and moving the draft to main space myself, I've reached out to the draft creator here to see if they intend to move it to main space. They haven't edited in a few days, so we may need to be patient. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:25, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm one of the other editors on that draft, I've been meaning to port over content from Arizona Coyotes and Utah NHL team to fill out the currently-empty last section but haven't gotten around to it. Once that's done, the draft should be good to publish. The Kip ^(contribs) 17:43, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fully expanded the aforementioned section, improved coverage of Tampa Bay's B2B and added a section on Boston's record-breaking season as well. Let me know if anything else is needed. The Kip ^(contribs) 06:37, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just following up - @Hey man im josh, would I be good to move the draft to mainspace and perform the associated removals/page moves/template edits associated with doing so? Only issue is that 2017-present will then need to go through the GA process, which will hold up this FT nom. The Kip ^(contribs) 17:21, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@The Kip: I don't see any reason why not. There did seem to be a general consensus in favor of the split and it's well written, so I say shoot. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:23, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hey man im josh I've moved to mainspace and nominated it for GA in order to keep the ball rolling on this nom. I believe I've taken care of all the associated moves, edits, removals, etc - please let me know if I've missed anything. The Kip ^(contribs) 19:33, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hold – pending discussion and draft article status. Idiosincrático (talk) 03:15, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Just pointing this out—in order to cover all the articles relating to the History of the NHL, we would need to add History of the National Hockey League on television, History of the National Hockey League on United States television, and History of organizational changes in the NHL to the topic. XR228 (talk) 19:44, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I think the current list of articles is okay as they're the ones included in the NHL series template. By criteria 1.c, these articles are shared in a common template. There's probably an argument to make the series more sophisticated, but the articles you've mentioned could very well be compiled into other topics/series/templates. For example, the two television history articles could go under a National Hockey League on television lead with articles from the NHL on TV template. I just think the series template is clearly defined and this topic is a direct and complete representation of that, which is what we're after. Idiosincrático (talk) 14:59, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good topic nominations

Hypericum sect. Adenotrias

Hypericum sect. Adenotrias is a section of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae. It is made up of Hypericum aciferum, H. aegypticum, and H. russeggeri. Species in the section are shrubs up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall with smooth leaves and bark, and are the only species in Hypericum with heterostylous flowers. They are found around the Mediterranean coast, with H. aciferum restricted to the island of Crete and H. russeggeri present only in parts of Turkey and Syria. Plants of the section have a habitat among limestone and other calcareous rocks. While H. aegypticum has a wide and generally secure distribution, H. aciferum was evaluated as endangered several times since the 1980s although it is now considered only vulnerable because it is protected in part by a plant micro-reserve.

Hypericum sect. Adenotrias

4 articles

Hypericum aciferum

Hypericum russeggeri

Hypericum aegypticum

Contributor(s): Fritzmann2002

Similar to my previous topic nomination of Hypericum sect. Androsaemum, this is a topic on a small botanical section of plants in the genus Hypericum. All articles in the topic have been promoted to Good Article Status. Thank you! Fritzmann (message me) 19:17, 9 September 2024 (UTC) --Fritzmann (message me) 19:17, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: a full set of articles in a closed, well-defined scope. Good work! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 20:37, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good job. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 21:22, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Idiosincrático (talk) 04:11, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fearless (Taylor Swift album)

Fearless is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on November 11, 2008. A country pop album, Fearless was inspired by Swift's adolescence and addresses love and heartbreak. The album has sold 12 million copies worldwide. In the United States, it spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and was certified Diamond.

Fearless

15 articles

"Fearless"

"Fifteen"

"Breathe"

"You're Not Sorry"

"The Way I Loved You"

"Forever & Always"

"The Best Day"

"Change"

Fearless Tour

Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Contributor(s): Ippantekina, Gained, Ipodnano05, PM800

All articles within scope are FA or GA. --Ippantekina (talk) 09:57, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any reason you're not including the three tracks from the international album? They're actually all already promoted (1 FA, 2 GAs). Either way, I support since everything in scope appears to be promoted. Hey man im josh (talk) 10:53, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Those tracks were released initially as part of Swift's 2006 album so they wouldn't fit here. Ippantekina (talk) 14:51, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – without international tracks. Idiosincrático (talk) 15:03, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support: All the notable tracks, the tour, and the re-recording. Looks complete! Good work! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 20:41, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ain't WP:TAYLOR a dedicated bunch. Impressive! igordebraga ≠ 03:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Panzer Dragoon series

Panzer Dragoon is a series of video games developed and published by Sega. The games are rail shooters, except for one role-playing game. Each follows a protagonist who rides an armored flying dragon, fighting human and monstrous enemies in a post-apocalyptic world. The Panzer Dragoon games have received positive reviews for their art design, visuals, sound design, and atmospheric settings. The series consists of four mainline games and one handheld spin-off.

Panzer Dragoon series

6 articles

Panzer Dragoon

Panzer Dragoon II Zwei

Panzer Dragoon Mini

Panzer Dragoon Saga

Panzer Dragoon Orta

Contributor(s): Bryan Rutherford, Popcornduff, Roberth Martinez, Folken de Fanel

All notable games in the series are now rated GA or FA, along with the series overview article. Thanks to Popcornfud, KGRAMR, and Folken de Fanel, who got the titles I didn't! --Bryan Rutherford (talk) 16:50, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 17:36, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Scope is clear and it seems like everything that should be included is. Hey man im josh (talk) 10:46, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support: great stuff. Idiosincrático (talk) 15:09, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support good job. Only missing a topic image, maybe take a dragon from Commons or ask someone to do a wordmark similar to the logo on the Panzer Dragoon page? igordebraga ≠ 03:27, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I think the imitation wordmark would be best; I found a suitable font, so I'll try to make something tonight and add it. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:33, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 22:37, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2023–24 College Football Playoff

The 2023–24 College Football Playoff was a single-elimination postseason tournament that determined the national champion of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the tenth edition of the College Football Playoff and involved the top four teams in the country as ranked by the College Football Playoff poll. The playoff consisted of two semifinal games, played at the Sugar Bowl and the Rose Bowl, with the winners of each advancing to the national championship game. Each participating team was the champion of its respective conference: No. 1 Michigan from the Big Ten Conference, No. 2 Washington from the Pac-12 Conference, No. 3 Texas from the Big 12 Conference, and No. 4 Alabama from the Southeastern Conference. Michigan and Washington won their respective semifinal games and Michigan won the national championship game, 34–13, to secure their first outright national championship since 1948.

2023–24 College Football Playoff

4 articles

2024 Sugar Bowl

2024 Rose Bowl

2024 College Football Playoff National Championship

I've been working on this on-and-off since the championship game in January and I'm very pleased to have all four articles now at GA status. This is a good topic nomination and my first GT/FT nomination. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 23:53, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noting that 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings is also in Category:2023–24 College Football Playoff. Any thoughts on the 4 team season articles for the 4 teams involved in these games being included in the scope? Hey man im josh (talk) 01:17, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hey man im josh I assume the ranking article is included in the category solely because the CFP rankings are listed there, since they don't have a separate article. As for the team season articles, I would argue against adding them because the playoff itself as an entity comprises just the games. While the teams, of course, do participate in the games, my instinct would be that the teams would not belong in this topic. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:26, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I thought I'd ask to pick your brain on it a bit. I get your line of thinking and I do agree that technically it's a set if you're considering just the playoff structure. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support without ranking inclusion. The rankings in the category kinda throws it slightly out of whack. But it's clear that the articles listed only cover the play-off matches outlined in the template. Maybe you could make the topic more specific by titling it "2023–24 College Football Playoff games"? Idiosincrático (talk) 15:19, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Microphones studio albums

The Microphones were an American indie folk, indie rock, and experimental band, founded and fronted by Phil Elverum. The band released 4 studio albums between 1999 and 2003. Elverum later returned to the project with its final album, Microphones in 2020.

The Microphones studio albums

6 articles

Don't Wake Me Up

It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water

The Glow Pt. 2

Mount Eerie

Microphones in 2020

Contributor(s): PerfectSoundWhatever (x5), DMT Biscuit

All Microphones studio albums now have been brought to featured/good status, making this eligible for good topic status. A long-term project of mine. --— PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I take it that if all studio albums are GA or better, then Blood is erroneously listed as such? mftp dan ^oops 03:13, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a limited edition compilation album: "An oddity in itself, Blood is a super-limited collection". [1] — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 12:28, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Very well, I have boldly changed the parameter on the page in question. mftp dan ^oops 21:40, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Unsure if the Miscellaneous albums should also be part of this nomination? MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 15:10, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "miscallaneous"? I might be able to answer your question. mftp dan ^oops 21:40, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MarioSoulTruthFan: Just like how Donda 2 (demo), Late Orchestration (live), and Can't Tell Me Nothing (mixtape) aren't included in Kanye's topic, this topic only includes studio albums.

Here's a breakdown of all the Microphones albums:

Don't Wake Me Up (album), It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water, The Glow Pt. 2, Mount Eerie (album), and Microphones in 2020 are studio albums. They are distinguished due to their relatively wide release and reissues; their heightened attention from critics and audiences; and their more developed instrumentation and concepts.

Many of the other albums are not notable (including one I redirected).

There are two versions of Tests (album), one being a demo cassette, the other is a compilation album.
Blood (The Microphones album) and Little Bird Flies into a Big Black Cloud are limited-copy albums. The former is something between a B-sides collection and a demos album, and the latter is a highly stripped back record, essentially a side project for dedicated fans.
Song Islands is a compilation album.

Feel free to read more with sources at The Microphones discography. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 21:10, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The compilations album such as Song Islands, Tests and Blood. On the other hand, Little Bird Flies into a Big Black Cloud it is a studio ablum per wiki and sources on the article. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 17:22, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What source/quote specifically calls Little Bird as a studio or main album? It is distinguished by being small and limited edition.

Phil Elverum himself does not consider it to be a "main" Microphones album. See [2]. Listing the "official Microphones albums", he includes the 5 studio albums above and 2 compilations. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 21:45, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another good quote from Elverum:

Phil Elverum doesn’t see Little Bird Flies Into A Big Black Cloud so much as a record as an exercise in “anti-production,” a counterpoint to his developed sound experiments. “We’re only talking about it because the Internet came around and leveled out the accessibility of everything,” he says. “It now has the same size thumbnail as all the other albums. But I like to have things available and not seem exploitative of cultivated scarcity. I still think this record is only worth 400 copies, but I also like saying, ‘Here’s everything. You get to decide how many copies it’s worth.'" [3] — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 22:18, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"If anything, Little Bird is essentially a stripped-down Microphones album" - source 1 MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 16:13, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Seems complete within the scope set by the title. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Idiosincrático (talk) 15:25, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support igordebraga ≠ 03:36, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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