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There has often been discussion about whether very short articles can attain Featured article (FA) status. Some editors are opposed to short articles at Featured article candidates (FAC). Many bring up fair arguments, such as potential overflow of FACs, lack of reviewers, and loss of quality main page TFAs .
Many of the smaller articles are disambiguation pages not included here. As of March 11, 2012, these are the 1,067 of the 9,592 level 4 Wikipedia:Vital articles less than 9,000 bytes long, excluding {{disambiguation}} pages and articles rated B-Class or above in WikiProject talk page templates. Improving the stubs, start-, and C-class articles ...
Article with the most deletion discussions: [da] Gay Nigger Association of America (41 discussions) [db] Longest-running VfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Le Punching-Ball et la Vache à lait : La Critique universitaire nord-américaine face au Surréalisme, from 30 March 2004 to 23 July 2022 (18 years, 115 days).
The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 3 February 2025, there are 6,948,887 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.8 billion words (giving a mean of about 692 words per article).
A small bronze star on the top right corner of an article's page indicates for non-logged-in readers and most user settings that the article is featured. Additionally, if the current article is featured in another language version, a star will appear next to the language page link, in the list on the left of the page (see also Wikipedia ...
Wikipedia articles are in constant need of maintenance. This ranges from minor edits correcting spelling and grammar, to major updates reflecting new events and new source material. Some articles may require being rewritten after some time, especially articles created about recent events.
The longest and shortest pages in Category:Wikipedia good articles (in bytes, limited to the first 1000 entries); data as of 05:02, 30 June 2014 (UTC). Longest
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