Portal:United States/Selected article/candidates

Portal:United States selected article nominations and voting
This is the page for voting or making a nomination for an article to be showcased on Portal:United States for a given week. The nomination with the most votes in favor will be selected for showcasing. Nominations not selected for one week will remain here and be considered for the next week.

While other non-stub, good quality articles may be nominated, selected article candidates should preferably be nominated from the list of U.S.-related featured or good articles.

Procedure

 * Place nominations below.
 * Place tag on the article's talk page.

Nominations

 * Hurricane Katrina - a featured article but save for later please.
 * This is worth featuring here, but I agree on it being later (after peak hurricane season?). -- Aude ( talk contribs ) 01:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree. Later. -Ĭ₠ŴΣĐĝё 07:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I Love Lucy
 * This article doesn't officially have good article status, but looks close to it. -- Aude ( talk contribs ) 01:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Team America: World Police - perfect choice
 * This article also doesn't officially have good article status,  I think we should try to stick with articles that have at least that status.  I think there's plenty to choose from.  -- Aude  ( talk contribs ) 01:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * John W. Johnston - a GA article plange 03:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Household income in the United States - GA - informative but a bit dry.  Signature brendel  19:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Its well written but I don't think anyone would want to read it given that its subject and length sorry. -Ĭ₠ŴΣĐĝё 07:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Great Salt Lake - recently passed to GA status. --Lethargy 23:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Illmatic - a featured article but was recently on Wikipedia's Mainpage. Therefore, it is best that this be saved for later Chubdub 03:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Kinston Indians a GA baseball article. Kinston eagle 03:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * One of the best sports articles I've ever seen. -- Mr.crabby     (Talk)   16:40, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Plymouth Colony Recent FA pass, seems important overall to the U.S. portal... --Jayron32| talk | contribs 06:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * P.S. As an aside, I also nominated it here: Portal:United States/Nominate/Selected article Is there a reason there are 2 pages??? Shouldn't one redirect to the other?--Jayron32| talk | contribs 06:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Week 31/32 (August 4 - August 13)
1964 New York World's Fair - a Good Article and people think more of fairs, like state fairs, this time of year.

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Week 33 (August 14 - August 20)
American middle class - somehwat controversial but interesting and well referenced

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Week 34 (August 21 - August 27)
Bluegrass music - Undeniably USA... Good Article since 5 December, 2005

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Week 30/31 (July 24 - August 4)
Galveston Hurricane of 1900 selected.

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Week 29 (July 17 - July 23)
Grunge music was selected to be the featured article for July 17 - 23, 2006. (archived nom)

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Week 28 (July 10 - July 16)
Louisville, Kentucky was selected to be the featured article for July 10 - 16, 2006. (archived nom)

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