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The featured article criteria describe the broad standards an article must meet to become one of Wikipedia's featured articles. In particular, criterion 1b demands that a candidate must be "comprehensive," and thereby neglect no major facts or details and places the subject in context
. Applying this to biographical articles I have come up with the following guideline for me to support the featured article candidacy of any biographical article:
In order for me to support an FAC on it, in addition to fulfilling all of the other featured article criteria a biographical article must make non-passing mention of the subject's birth and childhood, and if the subject is deceased his or her later life and death.
What this, in turn, means is the subject of this essay below.