Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/1Q2022

Restoring older Featured articles to standard: 1Q 2022 summary

WP:URFA/2020 is a systematic approach to reviewing very old (VO) and old (O) featured articles (FAs) to ensure they still meet the FA standards. The goals are to:

• Review and encourage tune-ups on mostly compliant FAs that don't need a Featured article review (FAR)
• Identify deteriorated older FAs to submit to FAR
• List older FAs that are ready to be today's featured article (TFA) and help the TFA Coords check older FAs before running on TFA.

Progress

Monthly progress is recorded at this page. Since URFA/2020's launch, with 4,526 FAs needing a review:

• 245 FAs were Delisted at FAR (224 VO and 21 O).
• 184 FAs were deemed Satisfactory or declared "Kept" at FAR (123 VO and 61 O).
• FAs needing review were reduced from 77% of total FAs to 67%, with 91% of articles listed at URFA/2020 needing reviews.
• 79 editors made at least one notation in WP:URFA/2020, while others nominated, reviewed, and edited articles at WP:FAR.

These numbers do not encompass the full activity of URFA/2020. Once three experienced FA reviewers have deemed an FA 'Satisfactory' (not needing a FAR), it is moved to 'Kept or FAR not needed'. At quarter-end, hundreds of articles have received one or two 'satisfactory marks' or have been noted as having minor issues that should be addressed, work underway, or similar. An additional 155 articles were given notice of the need for a featured article review, and 34 were at FAR.

In January, the Signpost ran an article about the URFA/2020 project called "Forgotten Featured". In February, the project targeted articles that had two "Satisfactory" notations to find an editor to note the third satisfactory. Editors who nominated these articles for FAC were contacted on their talk page and invited to note if they were still updating and maintaining the article.

Project initiatives

The project's initiatives for 2022 are:

• Clear and complete the 2004–2006 list. Editing, reviewing or nominating at FAR to finish up these very oldest reviews would be most helpful.
• A notation for every article in the 2007 list.

How to help

If we continued this quarter's trend, it would take more than ten years to review the remaining FAs, which is why we need your help! Here are some ways you can participate:

• Review "your" articles: Did you nominate a featured article between 2004 and 2015 that you have continuously maintained? Check these articles, update as needed, and mark them as 'Satisfactory' at URFA/2020. If they no longer meet the FA standards, please begin the FAR process by posting your concerns on the article's talk page.
• Fix an existing featured article: Choose an article at URFA/2020 and bring it back to FA standards. Enlist the help of the original nominator, frequent FA reviewers, WikiProjects listed on the talk page, or editors that have written similar topics. When the article returns to FA standards, please mark it as 'Satisfactory' at URFA/2020.
• Nominate an article at FAR that has been 'noticed' of a FAR needed but issues raised on talk have not been addressed.
• Edit and review articles at FAR: FARC/FAR is a collaborative process. We encourage all editors to WP:BEBOLD and fix the concerns posted at FAR. We also need reviewers to list concerns so editors know what to fix. If no one is working to restore an article listed in the FARC phase, enter a "Keep" or "Delist" declaration.
• Review articles at URFA/2020: Experienced FA writers and reviewers are encouraged to help by marking articles as 'Satisfactory' or posting notices for FAR. Inexperienced reviewers are also needed; articles far from meeting the FA criteria can be noticed and eventually posted at FAR. This allows experienced editors to focus on articles not egregiously failing the FA criteria and allows more articles to be nominated at FAR.
• Organise "review-a-thons" with editors and Wikiprojects: Are there editors in your WikiProject that can help? Organise a contest with your Wikiproject to review and improve your project's FAs. The contest can even hand out barnstars and awards! Please post at WT:URFA/2020 if interested in hosting an event.

Older reports

The year-end 2021 report is here.

Other quarterly reports are here.

Feedback If you have any questions or feedback, please visit Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/1Q2022.