Wikipedia:Featured article candidates

This page works similar to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, only the other way around: If a page is listed here for a week with no objections, it is added to the Brilliant prose list. If there are objections, they have to be worked out, until a nearly unanimous consensus is reached.

If you nominate a page to which you have contributed all or a large majority of content, then it must be seconded by at least one more person in order to be accepted. Some people may object to self-nominations on principle.

Current nominations

• Superconductivity Alex.tan 14:06 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Crushing by elephant - Very readable article, all the more amazing for its assembly by a number of different contributors (or, possibly, rotating IP addresses). -- ESP 07:08 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Gruesome! But still a great article. --mav 07:19 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Victor Lustig - An interesting story, well told. -- Gaurav 19:27 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • I'm afraid I object. It's copied almost in toto -- with some wikified modifications -- from the public domain document linked at the end of the page. I'm not saying it's not good -- it is quite good -- but I don't know if it really should be highlighted as "brilliant prose". I can be convinced otherwise, of course. -- ESP 07:04 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Lollapalooza - Great article. --mav

• Bathing machine -- Never knew this existed before (you silly Britons!). Nice read! --mav
  • Seconded. --Eloquence 23:06 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • In agreement. --Polaris999 08:04 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)

• Lawrence v. Texas - in particular I like the way it treats the opinions of the dissenting judges calmly and fairly. Martin 19:21 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Good work, but I think it could use a little more info about the reactions to the case, both within and outside the gay movement. --Eloquence 02:32 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Provinces of Thailand and the associated provincial subpages - a magnificent effort that synthesizes a body of information that one would be unlikely to find in most encyclopedias; and this is mainly the work of a single individual; very impressive IMO. Bill 15:24 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Love the work, but shouldn't we wait until all the articles are there? This is no objection. --Eloquence 02:32 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Damascus steel and pattern welding -- lovely. -- The Anome 13:07 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Self-nominations (need to be seconded)

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Recently added to brilliant prose

• Aztalan State Park: I put in an article on an area park which is a midwest Native American town going back over a millennium, making it pretty unique. Included some minor bits that were the result of my own firsthand observation. And if I only had a digital camera.... -- John Owens 23:14 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Looks fine to me. I haven't checked the facts, though. --Eloquence 23:31 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • As a non-contributor to the article, I second the nomination. A well-written, informative article. Pete 10:31 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Same-sex marriage and linked pages - seems fairly complete and accurate to me. --Eloquence 22:56 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• MKULTRA - excellent example for how a public domain text can grow into a decent article. Controversial subject, yet the article sticks to the facts. --Eloquence 23:02 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Recently removed

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