Featured articles are considered to be some of the best articles Wikipedia has to offer, as determined by. They are used by editors as examples for writing other articles. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed asfor accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our. Many featured articles were previously(which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of criteria). There are6,566featured articles out ofarticles on the English Wikipedia (about0.1% or one out of every 1,040 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at.
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