Royal Wiki:Featured Articles

Featured articles are considered to be the best articles on the Royal Wiki as determined by the Royal Wiki's editors. Before being listed as a good article, articles must be nominated and voted upon for accuracy, neutrality, comprehensiveness, structure and style. This project is designed to help improve article quality on the Royal Wiki and reward good article editing and creation. At present, there are ' good articles out of a total of ' articles in the Royal Wiki. A small star on the top right corner of an article's page indicates that the article is of good quality.

Criteria
A featured article is one that is:
 * 1) Well-written: its prose is engaging, coherent, clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct. There should be a minimal number of red links.
 * 2) Comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details, is of substantial length but does not go into unnecessary detail, remaining focused on the main topic.
 * 3) Accurate: it is well-researched and its claims are verifiable and not in dispute.
 * 4) Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias.
 * 5) Illustrated: it should, where possible, be illustrated with appropriate images with succinct captions.
 * 6) Well-structured: it should have a concise introduction that summarises the topic and a system of hierarchical section headings with a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents.

Process
Before nominating an article, nominators may wish to receive feedback by asking an administrator. Nominators must be sufficiently familiar with the subject matter to deal with objections during the FA process. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult the author and/or regular editors of the article prior to a nomination. Nominators are expected to respond positively to constructive criticism and to make an effort to address objections promptly.

If a nominator feels that an article satisfies all the criteria, the article can be nominated by any user on the nomination page making sure that they provide the title of the article, a link to it and the signature of the nominating user. The article will then be reviewed by the community and voted on over a period of seven days after being nominated, with nominators and authors of the article being encouraged to respond to constructive criticism and to address objections promptly. While the number of votes in support or opposition are the main thing taken into account, the arguments on each side will also be considered.

Following the seven day period, an administrator will determine consensus of the community and it will either be approved or rejected. If an article is approved, the community deems that it satisfies the criteria and it will be listed as a featured article. If an article is rejected, the articles does not satisfy the criteria and an explanation of why will usually be provided by the reviewing users. Rejected articles should only be nominated again after one month following the previous nomination, if progress has been made to improve the article since.

Criteria
Please familiarise yourself with the following criteria prior to voting. A good article is one that is:
 * 1) Well-written: its prose is engaging, coherent, clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct.
 * 2) Comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details, is of substantial length but does not go into unnecessary detail, remaining focused on the main topic.
 * 3) Accurate: it is well-researched and its claims are verifiable and not in dispute.
 * 4) Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias.
 * 5) Illustrated: it should, where possible, be illustrated with appropriate images with succinct captions.
 * 6) Well-structured: it should have a concise introduction that summarises the topic and a system of hierarchical section headings with a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents.