This is a maintenance page for the Featured article (FA) processes. It displays mismatches between articles labeled as Featured articles and those listed at the Featured Article page (the official record of FAs). For articles appearing on this list, it is likely that a mistake has been made, or vandalism has occurred, or a step in the review process has been forgotten. Ideally the first four sub-headers should be empty.
Fambot automatically overwrites the old version and generates a new page every Monday at 12:30 (UTC). Manually deleting entries as they are fixed is acceptable since the new report will reflect corrections. Manual edits like adding entries, inline comments or changing the section headers are overwritten when Fambot next runs.
Mismatches can occur for a variety of reasons and are usually easy to resolve. Editors who are not familiar with the FA processes, or with the template {{Article history}} (which tracks article milestones) can post questions at Wikipedia talk:Featured articles or Template talk:Article history.
In Category:Featured articles but not Category:Wikipedia featured articles
[edit]These articles have the {{featured article}} template on the article page (rendering the bronze star in article space 
), but are not listed as having been promoted via the Featured article candidates (FAC) process. Checking the history of the article may reveal how this has occurred. Possible reasons include:
- The {{Featured article}} template has been added to the article when no review has been conducted. This is the most common reason and usually happens when a new editor copies content from an existing FA and doesn't remove the template. Sometimes it is added by editors who do not understand the FA process. In this case just remove the {{Featured article}} template from the article. You may wish to inform the editor who added the template of the nomination process, and how to check the article talk page for the Article milestones template.
- The article has been promoted as an FA, but the FAC page has been deleted from the article's talk page. A search of the talk page history should allow the FAC to be located and reinstated.
- The article has been delisted at Featured article review (FAR), but the {{featured article}} template has not yet been removed.
- The article has been delisted without a FAR. A community reassessment needs to be done for the article to be delisted. An incorrect delisting can be reverted and the editor responsible referred to the FAR page.
- The
current statusfield is empty in the {{Article history}} template. It needs to say|currentstatus=FAfor the article to be placed in the Wikipedia featured articles category.
In Category:Wikipedia featured articles but not Category:Featured articles
[edit]These articles are listed as promoted at FAC, but do not have the {{Featured article}} template on the article page. Possible reasons include:
- The {{Featured article}} template has been removed. In this case, after verifying the Article milestones are correct on the article talk page, just add the {{Featured article}} template near the top of the article or revert to the version that contained the template. Sometimes this can be the result of vandalism so it might pay to check the recent page history.
- FACbot has missed adding the {{Featured article}} template. It can be added manually.
- The article has been delisted at FAR, but the {{article history}} template has not been added. Unfortunately there is no automatic means to update or add the article history and it has to be done manually.
- The article has been redirected to another article. Make sure the redirection is not vandalism. If it is a legitimate redirect it can no longer be a featured article. Please post an inquiry to the talk page at Featured article review for assistance.
- The
current statusfield still says "FA" in the {{Article history}} template after an article was delisted at FAR. It should say|currentstatus=FFAfor the article to be removed from the Wikipedia featured articles category.
In Category:Featured articles but not on Wikipedia:Featured articles and On Wikipedia:Featured articles but not in Category:Featured articles
[edit]This will occur when:
- The {{Featured article}} template has been added to or removed from the article without a review.
- An article has been added to or removed from Wikipedia:Featured articles without a review.
- The delisting or promotion process is incomplete, possibly because the change in status has not been processed by FACbot.
- There are hidden characters in the article name.
Check the status of the article and either replace or remove the {{Featured article}} template, or correct Wikipedia:Featured articles, or wait up to 24 hours for the bot process to complete.
In a subcategory Category:FA-Class articles but not a Featured article
[edit]This class of errors is not tracked by Fambot. To find articles that were erroneously tagged as FA-class, follow these steps:
- Go to this query and modify the format option of the output tab to "Wiki".
- Run the query and copy the output list into your sandbox.
- Create an AWB list of the "links of page" from your sandbox.
- Add a find-and-replace to AWB to set
class=FAandclass = FAto justclass=.
If you want to add an extra check, convert your sandbox list to articles, and then do another PetScan run to filter for pages that are missing {{featured article}}.