Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pruning instructions

After one week, anyone may promote candidates to Wikipedia:Featured articles, or remove candidates that have failed.

Promoting a candidate to featured status

Only articles without unresolved objections should be promoted to featured status, unless there is a strong consensus otherwise.

1. Add a link to the article in the proper category on Wikipedia:Featured articles.
2. On the article talk page, replace the {{fac}} template with {{featured}}.
3. Move the discussion to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log.

Removing a candidate with unresolved objections

1. On the article talk page, either remove the {{fac}} template or replace it with {{fac-contested}}.
2. Move the discussion to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations.

Sending a candidate to peer review

Only do this if there is a consensus to send the candidate to peer review. There are two ways to accomplish this:

• Move the entire discussion to Wikipedia:Peer review.
• If the discussion is lengthy, move it to the article's talk page and post a brief listing on Wikipedia:Peer review.