Tolkien Gateway:Featured articles

Featured articles on Tolkien Gateway are considered to be our very best articles, as judged by its editors. They are the articles we take especial pride in, and show an example to the world of our very best work, and as a model to editors for how to write other articles. As such, featured articles are showcased on the Main Page.

To achieve the status of featured article, candidate articles must meet 10 criteria before being reviewed by editors of accuracy, completeness, referencing, length, and style according to our featured article criteria. Since introducing the nomination format in 2008, Tolkien Gateway has had a total of 10 featured articles out of 12,279 articles.

Nomination process

Main article: Tolkien Gateway:Featured articles/Nominations

All nominations take place at Tolkien Gateway:Featured articles/Nominations. The nomination process was formalised by User:Mith in 2011:

Any registered user can nominate an article for featured status. It should be well-written, complete, illustrated, and referenced and meet these specific criteria:

1. The text is entirely written by TG editors with correct English spelling, grammar and punctuation;
2. There are no outstanding maintenance templates on the article;
3. The article is well-referenced throughout, leaving the reader under no illusions as to where to source information themselves;
4. The article conforms to TG's Standards, as well as those laid out in the relevant Project;
5. The text is sprinkled with relevant images (including captions) of appropriate size - if necessary, including a gallery;
6. Articles are at least 5,000 bytes long;
7. Where applicable, contains sections of "History", "Portrayal in adaptations", "Other versions of the legendarium", "See also", "Etymology", "Genealogy", "Other names", etc;
8. Where applicable, full use has been made of relevant templates, e.g.: disambiguation, see also, main, navigation, pronounce, familytree, sequence;
9. Where applicable, contains interwiki links;
10. Preferably no red-links, but no more than half-a-dozen.

After nomination, an article should receive five votes with with no objections within a month or so; each user being able to cast one vote.

Should a nomination be successful, it is the responsibility of an administrators to update the Main Page and move the nomination to the archive.

History

Main article: Tolkien Gateway:Featured articles/Archive

Former featured articles remain in after they have stopped being featured on the Main Page. The dates below indicate when they were featured on the Main Page.

Article	Dates featured
Aragorn	1 June 2008	9 April 2009
Witch-king	9 April 2009	6 December 2009
Glamdring	6 December 2009	28 February 2011
Eriador	28 February 2011	24 June 2011
Smaug	24 June 2011	23 August 2014
Radagast	23 August 2014	25 December 2018
Thorin	25 December 2018	3 July 2020
Fingon	3 July 2020	2 January 2021
Mr. Bliss	2 January 2021	20 January 2022
Roverandom	20 January 2022	21 May 2022
Gurthang	21 May 2022	1 January 2023
Gondolin	1 January 2023	present

See also

• Featured quotes, for a similar process with quotations.