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A featured list exemplifies our very best work. It covers a topic that lends itself to list format (see MOS:LIST) and, in addition to meeting the requirements for all Wikipedia content (particularly naming conventions, neutrality, no original research, verifiability, citations, reliable sources, living persons, non-free content and what Wikipedia is not) a featured list has the following ...
Fiction and real life: List of fictional dogs is a list of fictional creatures, whereas List of individual dogs is a list with real-life examples. Note that the lead section of each list explains what criterion or criteria that list's entries meet.
Ensure that the criteria for inclusion in the list are neutral and based on widely accepted definitions of terms. Both clear criteria and adherence to these criteria must take priority over any praise or condemnation an editor may feel is implied by membership. Some lists cover characterizations that can be considered negative.
List items should be formatted consistently in a list. Unless there is a good reason to use different list types in the same page, consistency throughout an article is also desirable. Use sentence case by default for list items, whether they are complete sentences or not. Sentence case is used for around 99% of lists on Wikipedia.
Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example Future: A topic for which details are subject to change often. The article covers a future topic, e.g., a forthcoming election or album release, and article content may change as new information arises. Amount of meaningful content varies over time as the projected event draws near.
This quality assessment criteria has been developed by WikiProject articles for creation as a standard guidelines for quality assessment. WikiProject Writing has placed article examples for several examples sections of the criteria, but we still need help improving articles to featured article status and featured list status.
{{List entries are all notable}}--- an easy-to-use variant of this template, if the list criterion is WP:CSC#1. {{People from place list criteria}}--- another variant for common criteria for "List of People from Place" articles {{Terrorist incident list criteria}}--- specialized version for terrorist incidents {{List missing criteria
inclusion in collections that have indiscriminate inclusion criteria (i.e. attempt to include every existing item instead of selecting the best, most notable examples), such as databases, archives, directories, dictionaries, bibliographies, certain almanacs, coverage of purely local events, incidents, controversies (see also #Audience below),