Wiki143:Former featured articles

Former featured articles File:Featured article star - cross.svg This page lists articles that used to be featured articles, but were demoted because they do not meet current featured article criteria. Featured articles can only be demoted through a consensus derived through discussion at the Featured article review page. The removal discussions for the former featured articles listed below can be found in the featured article review archive. Of course, the articles listed here do not have to stay here: please be bold in updating and improving these pages, and help make them featured articles again. Of the 1,746 articles that have lost featured status, the 76 that have been re-promoted are listed at the bottom of the page. The articles in bold have been featured on the Main Page. Featured content: Featured articles ← Featured lists Featured pictures Featured topics Template:If April Fools Featured article candidates (FAC): Featured article criteria Featured article log Featured article statistics Featured article review (FAR): Archived FARs Former featured articles Unreviewed featured articles/2020 Today's featured article (TFA): This month's queue About Today's featured article Recent TFAs and statistics Current TFA requests Potential TFA requests TFA oddities Most viewed TFAs Featured articles yet to appear as TFA Script to track TFA recent changes Featured article tools: Mentoring for FAC Nominators of featured articles promoted Recent changes to featured articles Template:Random page in category

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Art, architecture and archaeology Biology Business, economics and finance Chemistry and mineralogy Computing Culture and society Education Engineering and technology Food and drink Geography and places Geology and geophysics Health and medicine Heraldry, honors, and vexillology History Language and linguistics Law Literature and theatre Mathematics Media Meteorology Music Philosophy and psychology Physics and astronomy Politics and government Religion, mysticism and mythology Royalty and nobility Sport and recreation Transport Video gaming Warfare Wikipedia Project pages Former featured articles that have been re-promoted

Notes: Articles in bold are articles that have been featured on the Main Page. The Wikipedia Project Pages are anomalies – not actual articles, but pages that were considered "brilliant prose" and were subsequently listed as "featured" when the featured article process began. Autism, Belgium, Chetwynd, British Columbia, Emperor Norton, Execution by elephant, Fermi paradox, Hero of Belarus, Lead(II) nitrate, London congestion charge, Madonna, Olympic Games, Pashtuns, Poetry, and Max Weber were promoted and demoted twice, and are thus listed twice.