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Criteria

Ideal AFI articles are:

  • Highly important topics. Anything that has top or high importance to a WikiProject is likely highly important.
  • Interesting to the general public. This can be evidenced by page views. Nominations with less than 200 views per day rarely succeed.
  • Needing of improvement, with expansion opportunity. Stubs, start-class, and short C-class articles are the most ideal for improvement. Give due consideration before nominating higher-quality (eg B-class) articles.
  • Not targets of controversy. Controversial articles, that is, articles that are the subject of heated discussion, edit warring, or questioned notability, can be very difficult to improve within a week. More often than not, these are also contentious topics, see below.
  • Not biographies of living people, medical topics, contentious, or otherwise non-ideal for new editors.[a]

Review process

  • Any user may vote on the suitability of nominations to be listed at AFI.
  • Please use the code #'''Support''' or #'''Oppose''', add your reasoning, and sign with ~~~~. You may also add comments. Improperly formatted votes may be missed by the bot.
  • MusikBot will mark nominations with at least 3 net support votes (3 more support votes than oppose votes) as approved and those with at least 3 net oppose votes as unapproved. The bot will automatically list successful nominations and archive all closed nominations.
  • Registered members of the project may choose to override the bot at their discretion in instances where straight vote totals do not appear to reflect community consensus.

Nominating an article

  1. Check that the article you want to nominate isn't already listed.
  2. Post the nomination at the top of the list in the appropriate category, using this code: 
    ===(Article title)===
{{AFI nom|article=(Article title)|class=unknown|hits=(Number of daily hits)}}
*(Nomination text) ~~~~
  3. Fill out the parts in parentheses. You can find an article's class on its talk page and its approximate daily hits using this tool.
  4. Please do not support your own nominations.
  1. [a]
    per Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adding this week's article for improvement to the Main page which adapted TWAFI to focus primarily on helping create new editors while also improving articles, and laid out these exclusionary criteria.

Nominations

Applied sciences and technology

Arts

Everyday life

Geography

Nagoya – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 905 daily hits

  • Vital 4 article. Most of the article is unsourced. Inconsistent use ComEng and AmEng among others. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 14:53, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
  1. Oppose, not much beginner editors can do about ComEng and AmEng, try wikiproject Japan. SVcode(Talk) 18:50, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

History and politics

Language and literature

Mathematics and computer science

Natural sciences

People/Companies and organisations/Products

Psychology

Positive behavior support – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 434 daily hits

  • This article has potential but needs a major copy edit and copyvio removal. It gets a decent amount of traffic and used to get more. I imagine people stumble upon this article accidentally not knowing what it is. -Wil540 art (talk) 14:26, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
  1. Oppose, per new consenus. SVcode(Talk) 14:22, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
  2. Support - per nom.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:48, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
  3. Oppose – Non-ideal for new editors, technical and medical related, full coverage would likely involve WP:MEDRS use. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 01:31, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
  4. Oppose – Not only MEDRS, but copyvio removal is not a task suitable for newcomers just starting to learn, and a flurry of editing might lead to the copyvio becoming harder to disentangle down the line. Chaotic Enby (in solidarity · talk · contribs) 09:01, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
  5. Oppose. I would've supported this if AFI wasn't limited to newcomer-friendly tasks, but it seems like we shot ourselves in the leg in making this topic unsuitable for AFI now. Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 06:23, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

no Not approved SVcode(Talk) 13:10, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Philosophy and religion

Society and social sciences

Stretcher bearer

Stretcher bearer – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 17 daily hits

  • This article needs to have more citations and more expansion. SVcode(Talk) 17:19, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
  1. Support - per nom.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:57, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Sport

Cycle sport

Cycle sport – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 141 daily hits

  • With the men's and women's Tour de France recently concluding, I think it would make sense if this Level 4 vital article be expanded. It has a "needs more citations" tag that's there for almost a decade, and the content after the History section could do some expansion. This article also seems good as a newcomer task, given how AFI now has the role of bringing new editors into Wikipedia per the RFC. Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 13:57, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

World Chess Championship 1978

World Chess Championship 1978 – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 64 daily hits

  • High-importance chess article of significant public interest featuring transcendental meditation, controversial yoghurt and black magic, however the story is barely covered in the article. I think the page views are potentially misleading as this would get a lot more attention if the article were better. Stockhausenfan (talk) 15:31, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
  1. Support - per nom.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:49, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

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