Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article

Unreviewed featured articles/2020 (URFA/2020) is a systematic approach to reviewing older Featured articles (FAs) to ensure they still meet the FA standards. Through 2025, with 4,526 very old (from the 2004–2009 period) and old (2010–2015) FAs initially needing review:

• 556 FAs were delisted at Featured article review (FAR).
• 322 FAs were kept at FAR or deemed "satisfactory" by three URFA reviewers. Hundreds more are marked as "satisfactory", but are awaiting three reviews.
• FAs needing review dropped from 77% of total FAs at the end of 2020 to 53% at the end of 2022.
• 19% of articles originally listed at URFA/2020 have been reviewed.

URFA is working to help maintain FA standards; for some, FAs are restored via FAR. For others, improvements are initiated when talk pages are noticed.

Examples of 2025 FAs that kept their status at FAR or were deemed "Satisfactory" at URFA/2020

Enzyme kinetics 2006 FA Massospondylus 2007 FA TFA Mar 26, 2026 Hydrogen 2006 FA TFA Sep 10, 2025 Mechanical Turk 2007 FA TFA Nov 30, 2025 Aspasia 2006 FA

There remain almost 4,000 old and very old FAs to be reviewed, and any little bit helps to improve our oldest FAs.

Ideas for how you can help are listed below and at the 2022 Signpost article:

• Review a 2004 to 2007 FA. With three "Satisfactory" marks, an article can be moved to the FAR not needed section.
• Review "your" articles: Did you nominate a featured article between 2004 and 2015 that you have continuously maintained? Check these articles, update as needed, and mark them as "Satisfactory" at URFA/2020. A continuously maintained FA is a good predictor that standards are still met, and indicates to reviewers that it is ready to be checked by a neutral editor. If they no longer meet the FA standards, please begin the FAR process by posting your concerns on the article's talk page.
• Review articles that already have one "Satisfactory" mark: more FAs can be indicated as "FAR not needed" if other reviewers take a look at those already indicated as maintained. If you find issues, you can enter them at the talk page.
• Fix an existing featured article: Choose an article at URFA/2020 or FAR and bring it back to FA standards. Enlist the help of the original nominator, frequent FA reviewers, WikiProjects listed on the talk page, or editors who have written similar topics. When the article returns to FA standards, please mark it as "Satisfactory" at URFA/2020 or note your progress in the article's FAR.
• Review and nominate an article to FAR that has been "noticed" of a FAR needed but issues raised on talk have not been addressed. Sometimes nominating at FAR draws additional editors to help improve the article that would otherwise not look at it. You can also look at the unreferenced sub-project, which lists articles that a script has indicated might have several unreferenced paragraphs: the script is not perfect, which is why human editors are needed to verify that the article truly does have uncited statements.

More regular URFA and FAR reviewers will help assure that FAs continue to represent examples of Wikipedia's best work. If you have any questions or feedback, please visit Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/2025 report. Z1720 (talk) 21:24, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Some ancient unreviewed FAs that have not run on the main page:

• Ico - 2008
• Jihad (song) - 2007
• Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo - 2008
• Matanikau Offensive - 2008
• 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident - 2008
• USS Iowa turret explosion -2009
• Abu Nidal - 2009
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest - 2010
• The Kinks - 2011

Harizotoh9 (talk) 08:09, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey, as a random buy who strolled onto this page, I think a the day after the day after tomorrow article would be nice. Also, a yesterday one would be nice, after all, who wouldn't reflect on yesterday. (Update: I also found May to be empty, but the time to fix, it is at your pace.) ~2026-16103-15 (talk) 20:34, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Day after tomorrow can be found at WP:ERRORS. The current month's queue can be found at most FA-related pages under "Today's featured article" and then "This month's queue". May is not yet scheduled, customarily we schedule a month at a time about a month in advance, thus May will be scheduled in late March or early April. Wehwalt (talk) 21:10, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

As for three days ahead, I don't find people are interested much in that. Happy to be proven wrong! Wehwalt (talk) 21:13, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

There are substantial problems with the article scheduled to appear as TFA on March 29th, as noted at Talk:Kreutz sungrazer#Confusing historical observations section. I commented there today, hoping that we might have a chance to rewrite that section before it appears on the main page, but I can't guarantee that's going to be ready. Can the article be rescheduled for a later date? Renerpho (talk) 18:28, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I can take it off but my usual practice is that if it needs to be taken off, it should not be scheduled again without a TFA/R. Wehwalt (talk) 19:35, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, that's a pity, but I think it would be for the better. Renerpho (talk) 23:36, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, it can't be helped. I have a replacement lined up. When it's ready, please nominate it. Wehwalt (talk) 01:36, 17 March 2026 (UTC)