Wikipedia:Former featured articles

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Former featured articles

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 Wikipedia: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: be bold in updating and improving these pages, and help bring them back to featured article status.

Of the 466 articles that have lost "featured" status, the 24 that have been re-promoted are listed below.

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[edit] Art, architecture, and archaeology

Art competitions at the Olympic Games · Art in ancient Greece · Baroque · Buddhist art · Diego Velázquez · Fancy cancel · Graffiti · Leonardo da Vinci · Oxyrhynchus · Parthenon · Rembrandt

[edit] Awards and decorations

Flag of the Republic of China · Flag of South Africa

[edit] Biology and medicine

Aquarium · Bioinformatics · Bloodletting · Brolga · Chemical synapse · Cladistics · Cat · Gene · Gray Wolf · Human · Lesch-Nyhan syndrome · Mixed-breed dog · Mitochondrial Eve · Pufferfish · Race · Severe acute respiratory syndrome

[edit] Business, economics, and finance

Billboard (advertising) · Celtic Tiger · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Euro · Gold standard · Labour economics · London congestion charge · Strategic management · Supply and demand

[edit] Chemistry and mineralogy

Alchemy · Damascus steel · Glass · Linus Pauling · Lysergic acid diethylamide · Periodic table · Turquoise

[edit] Computers and video games

Application programming interface · Architecture of Btrieve · Bishōjo game · Bulbasaur · BZFlag · C (programming language) · Central processing unit · Color Graphics Adapter · Commodore 64 · Common Unix Printing System · Computer security · CPU cache · Emacs · Floppy disk · GNU/Linux naming controversy · Golden Age of Arcade Games · Goomba · Java (programming language) · Lakitu · Markup language · Quantum computer · Reduced instruction set computer · Search engine · Spam (electronic) · Spyware · Super Mario 64 · Torchic · Ubuntu (Linux distribution) · Wario · World Wide Web

[edit] Culture and society

Assassination · Bathing machine · Breastfeeding · Cannabis rescheduling in the United States · Freemasonry · Gender role · Kibbutz · Kitsch · Mail · Mandan · Nude celebrities on the Internet · Pet skunk · Prostitution · Same-sex marriage · Spring Heeled Jack · Swastika

[edit] Education

Academia · Caulfield Grammar School · Peer review · Wikipedia

[edit] Engineering and technology

Beverage-can stove · Domestic AC power plugs and sockets · Electronic amplifier · Fountain pen · Horseshoe · Jet engine · Pattern welding · Radar · Spacecraft propulsion · Speech synthesis · Telephone exchange · Zuiderzee Works

[edit] Food and drink

Beer · Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Single malt Scotch · Tea

[edit] Geography and places

Aztalan State Park · Bath, Somerset · Bhutan · Buckinghamshire · Carlsbad Caverns National Park · Chetwynd, British Columbia · Chinatown · Colditz Castle · Dogpatch USA · Éire · Enclave and exclave · Geography of India · Goa · Golden Gate Park · Great Mosque of Djenné · Historic counties of England · Johannesburg · Lastovo · Montparnasse · Moorgate · Newark, New Jersey · Niagara Falls · Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Georgia) · People's Republic of China · Piccadilly Circus · Principality of Sealand · Rondane National Park · San Jose, California

[edit] Geology, geophysics, and meteorology

Geologic time scale · Geyser

[edit] History

1993 Russian constitutional crisis · Adoption in ancient Rome · Attila the Hun · Behistun Inscription · British one penny coin (pre-decimal) · Columbine High School massacre · Dayuan · Dreyfus affair · Eureka Stockade · Ferdinand Magellan · Franks · Habsburg Spain · History of Alaska · History of Central Asia · History of Germany · History of the Netherlands · History of Russia · History of Scotland · Honourable East India Company · Indus Valley Civilization · Julius Caesar · Leopold and Loeb · Mark Antony · Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 · Project MKULTRA · September 11, 2001 attacks · Sino-Soviet split · Space Race · Sun Yat-sen · Sydney Riot of 1879 · Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

[edit] Language and linguistics

American English · Aryan Invasion Theory (history and controversies) · Leet · Mandarin (linguistics) · Noam Chomsky · Portuguese language · Russian language · Split infinitive · Vulgar Latin

[edit] Law

Copyright · Dred Scott v. Sandford · First Amendment to the United States Constitution · Lawrence v. Texas · Murder of James Bulger · Negligence · Supreme Court of the United States · Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution

[edit] Literature and theatre

The Brothers Karamazov · Chuck Palahniuk · Crime fiction · Cyberpunk · English poetry · Ernest Hemingway · Foundation series · The Giver · H. P. Lovecraft · Irish theatre · Isaac Asimov · Medieval literature · Middle-earth · Nella Larsen · Poetry of the United States · "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" · Thunderball · Villain · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[edit] Mathematics

Ackermann function · Algorithm · Computational complexity theory · Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace · Fractal · Illegal prime · Margin of error · Metrication · Paul Erdős · Pythagorean theorem · Regular polytope · Triangle · Vacuous truth

[edit] Media

Alfred Hitchcock · All your base are belong to us · Andrew Van De Kamp · Blackadder · Coronation Street · Dawson's Creek · Have I Got News for You · Humphrey Bogart · Ian McKellen · Jim Henson · Julia Stiles · Lindsay Lohan · Martha Stewart · Memory Alpha · Nineteen Eighty-Four · Not the Nine O'Clock News · Star Trek · Uma Thurman · Western (genre) · WGA screenwriting credit system

[edit] Music

A Day in the Life · A Hard Day's Night (song) · Concept album · Donegal fiddle tradition · Dream Theater · Duran Duran · Get Back · Gram Parsons · Gramophone record · Hip hop music · Heavy metal umlaut · I Want to Hold Your Hand · Illmatic · Iron Maiden · Jazz · Johnny Cash · Lollapalooza · Louis Armstrong · Madonna (entertainer) · Marilyn Manson (band) · Miles Davis · Roy Orbison · Saxophone · She Loves You · Simon and Garfunkel · Smile (Brian Wilson album) · Social history of the piano · Igor Stravinsky · The Beatles · The Temptations · Timpani · This Charming Man · Vanilla Ninja · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[edit] Philosophy and psychology

Al-Razi · Frankfurt School · Law of Demeter · Milgram experiment · Paradox · Psychosis

[edit] Physics and astronomy

Albert Einstein · ATLAS experiment · Black hole · Carl Sagan · Cold fusion · Cyclone Tracy · Galileo Galilei · Quantum mechanics · Rainbow · Richard Feynman · Robert Oppenheimer · Soap bubble · Weather lore

[edit] Politics and government

2004 Democratic National Convention · Abraham Lincoln · Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. · Bruno Kreisky · Charles Graner · Commonwealth of Nations · Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) · European Union · Gough Whitlam · House of Lords · Hugo Chávez · Hutton Inquiry · Japanese general election, 2003 · Jean Schmidt · John Major · L. Paul Bremer · Liberal Party (Utah) · Libertarian socialism · Libertarianism · Lord Chancellor · Margaret Thatcher · Mark Latham · Nicolas Sarkozy · Parliament of Canada · Political correctness · President of Ireland · President of the United States · Propaganda · Ralph Yarborough · Republic of China presidential election, 2004 · Robert Walpole · Sid McMath · Single transferable vote · Speaker of the British House of Commons · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives · Tony Blair · Tynwald Day · United States Electoral College · United States House of Representatives · Mordechai Vanunu · Zionism

[edit] Religion and beliefs

· Authorized King James Version Cardinal Richelieu · Bible code · Buddhism · Christianity · Christmas · End times · Father Damien · Greco-Buddhism · Hebrew calendar · Hinduism · Holy Prepuce · Names of God in Judaism · Original sin · Papal conclave · Papal Tiara · Fred Phelps · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Sons of Noah · Space opera in Scientology scripture · Vampire

[edit] Royalty, nobility, and heraldry

Canadian Heraldic Authority · Charles I of England · George II of Great Britain · Henry VIII of England · Hereditary peer · James II of England · Louis XIV of France · Mary I of England · Peerage · Prince-elector · Sverre of Norway · Victoria of the United Kingdom · William the Silent

[edit] Sport and recreation

Anatoly Karpov · Baseball · Blackjack · Bullfighting · Fanny Blankers-Koen · Garry Kasparov · Go (board game) · Lego · Lottie Dod · Montreal Canadiens · Olympic Flame · Olympic Games · Paul Morphy · Poker · Pub quiz · Rock, Paper, Scissors · Seabiscuit · Steer wrestling · Steve Dalkowski · Sudoku · Summer Olympic Games · Suzanne Lenglen · Ted Radcliffe · Weight training · Xiangqi

[edit] Transport

Air Force One · Auto rickshaw · Bicycle · Ford Mustang · London Underground · Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 · Montréal-Mirabel International Airport · RMS Titanic · Road transport · Ryanair · Space elevator · Volkswagen Type 2 · Wigwag (railroad) · Zeppelin

[edit] War

Attack on Pearl Harbor · Battle of Alesia · Battle of Aljubarrota · Battle of Leyte Gulf · Battle of Normandy · Battle of the Somme · Convair B-36 · Cristero War · Erich von Manstein · F-35 Lightning II · Husein Gradaščević · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson · Invasion · Iraqi insurgency · Military history of the Soviet Union · Nuclear weapon · Operation Market Garden · Origins of the American Civil War · Peloponnesian War · Poison gas in World War I · Richard O'Connor · Submarine · Tank · Trench warfare · War elephant · White Rose · World War I

[edit] Wikipedia Project Pages

Wikipedia:FAQ · Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states


[edit] Former featured articles that have been re-promoted

Autism · Belgium · Bodyline · Crushing by elephant · DNA · Definition of planet · Doom · Evolution · Fermi paradox · Hero of Belarus · Hubble Space Telescope · Io (moon) · Joshua A. Norton · The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask · Max Weber · Octopus card · Pashtun people · Platypus · Poetry · Representative peer · Ridge Route · The Simpsons · Venus

Provinces of Thailand (re-promoted to featured list)

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.

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