User talk:Carcharoth/Featured article numbers

My manual look through the archives (well, really a trawl through the subpages of FAR) has thrown up the following:
 * Featured article review/Global warming/Archive1 - seems to be a stray older FAR that never really got anywhere. Was moved there when a new FAR was initiated. That later FAR is at Featured article review/Global warming/archive1.
 * My count (in a spreadsheet, not manually!) indicates that there have been at least 688 FARs (not including the currently active ones). What surprised me is that only 30 articles have had two FARs (by which I mean there are 30 FAR pages ending in 'archive 2'). I expected the number of second FARs to be higher, but in a way that speaks well of the process (i.e. articles that are saved at FAR are rarely, if ever, renominated, and if they get promoted again later, they obviously meet the higher standards). There is one page (Barack Obama) that has had a third and fourth FAR and is currently on its fifth, but you mentioned that previously, so that is no surprise there.
 * I say "at least" because there are 8 'archive1' pages without a corresponding 'placeholder' page (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 22 active FARs (see below), and 32 'placeholder' pages that don't have an archive (e.g. here and here), and 38 'other' pages (redirect, misdirected FAC nominations, etc.). So if those other pages are FARs that haven't been moved to an archive or FARs moved to an archive with no page left behind, that might increase the number to around 750 FARs.
 * Some of those 32 are ones that were demoted. I'm aware that if an article is demoted, there is less likely to be a need for the FAR page to be archived for a new review (that would only happen if it got promoted to FA again), but maybe clearing the pages would be a good idea in any case in case those articles did get promoted again and so needed a place to be reviewed? This is something that would take a lot of work though, so would likely need a bot. Also, some of the eight pages I listed above are FARs where the articles were kept, and thus the pages do need clearing (is this done at the time or can it wait until a new FAR comes along?).
 * Of the 22 articles on FAR when I looked (09/11/2008), 16 were first-time FARs, while 6 were reviews where previous reviews had kept the article (they are all on their second FAR, even the Intelligent design one, where the first FAR archive was a null case).
 * Some pages are just weird. Featured article review/Gladiator seems to be an attempt at a FAC.
 * Total FAR numbers are actually at Featured article review/archive, though not added up. From July 2006 to October 2008, it is a total of 720 FARs. My figure above (wasn't aware that the numbers were recorded in the archives) was a range from 688 to 788.

New FARs at time of survey

 * Featured article review/Asthma
 * Featured article review/Augustan drama
 * Featured article review/Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway
 * Featured article review/Comet Hale-Bopp
 * Featured article review/Cornell University
 * Featured article review/Government of Maryland
 * Featured article review/H.D.
 * Featured article review/Kreutz Sungrazers
 * Featured article review/Mercantilism
 * Featured article review/Michel Foucault
 * Featured article review/Russian–Circassian War
 * Featured article review/Speed of light
 * Featured article review/Vowel
 * Featured article review/Waterfall Gully, South Australia
 * Featured article review/William Nelson Page
 * Featured article review/Xenu

Subsequent FAR running at time of survey

 * Featured article review/Barack Obama
 * Featured article review/Damon Hill
 * Featured article review/Final Fantasy X
 * Featured article review/Intelligent design
 * Featured article review/Pashtun people
 * Featured article review/Sarajevo

'archive4' pages

 * Featured article review/Barack Obama/archive4

'archive3' pages

 * Featured article review/Barack Obama/archive3

'archive2' pages

 * Featured article review/(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/archive2
 * Featured article review/1996 United States campaign finance controversy/archive2
 * Featured article review/A Tale of a Tub/archive2
 * Featured article review/Architecture of Windows NT/archive2
 * Featured article review/Asperger syndrome/archive2
 * Featured article review/Athanasius Kircher/archive2
 * Featured article review/Barack Obama/archive2
 * Featured article review/Belgium/archive2
 * Featured article review/Bob Dylan/archive2
 * Featured article review/Bulbasaur/archive2
 * Featured article review/Chess/archive2
 * Featured article review/Exploding whale/archive2
 * Featured article review/Final Fantasy VII/archive2
 * Featured article review/Free will/archive2
 * Featured article review/Intelligent design/archive2
 * Featured article review/Korean name/archive2
 * Featured article review/Manuel I Komnenos/archive2
 * Featured article review/Mariah Carey/archive2
 * Featured article review/Microsoft/archive2 - premature nomination
 * Featured article review/Monty Hall problem/archive2
 * Featured article review/MTR/archive2
 * Featured article review/Nepal/archive2
 * Featured article review/Palazzo Pitti/archive2
 * Featured article review/Schizophrenia/archive2
 * Featured article review/Spoo/archive2
 * Wikipedia:Featured article review/Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones/archive2
 * Featured article review/Super Mario 64/archive2
 * Featured article review/The Adventures of Tintin/archive2
 * Featured article review/William III of England/archive2
 * Featured article review/World War I/archive2

'archive1' pages without placeholder

 * Featured article review/Bob Dylan/archive1 - placeholder
 * Featured article review/El Lissitzky/archive1 - placeholder
 * Featured article review/History of Test cricket from 1877 to 1883/archive1 - placeholder
 * Featured article review/Modernist poetry in English/archive1 - placeholder
 * Featured article review/Natalee Holloway/archive1 - placeholder
 * Featured article review/United States Constitution/archive1 - placeholder
 * Featured article review/Virtuti Militari/archive1 - placeholder
 * Featured article review/Watchmen/archive1 - placeholder

Placeholder pages without an archive

 * Featured article review/Ace Books - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Ackermann function - archive1
 * Featured article review/Albert Einstein - archive1
 * Featured article review/Anarcho-capitalism - archive1
 * Featured article review/Antarctica - archive1
 * Featured article review/Autism - archive1
 * Featured article review/Bath - redirect
 * Featured article review/Batman - archive1
 * Featured article review/Bishōjo game - archive1
 * Featured article review/Bruce Edward Johnson - redirect
 * Featured article review/C (programming language) - archive1
 * Featured article review/C programming language - redirect
 * Featured article review/Corey Mitchell - incorrect listing
 * Featured article review/Crab Nebula - postponed nomination
 * Featured article review/Cúcuta - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Doom - redirect
 * Featured article review/Evanescence - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Evansville, Indiana - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Finnish Civil War - premature nomination
 * Featured article review/Ford Mustang - archive1
 * Featured article review/Fritz the Cat (film) - malformed or frivolous FAR
 * Featured article review/Gladiator - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Gramophone record - archive1
 * Featured article review/Grand Forks, North Dakota - redirect to peer review
 * Featured article review/H.P. Lovecraft - redirect
 * Featured article review/Hero of Belarus - archive1
 * Featured article review/Hinduism - archive1
 * Featured article review/History of the Jews in Poland - redirect
 * Featured article review/Homo floresiensis - archive1
 * Featured article review/Humphrey Bogart - archive1
 * Featured article review/Indian Institutes of Technology - archive1
 * Featured article review/Japan Airlines - redirect to FAC
 * Featured article review/Java (programming language) - archive1
 * Featured article review/Java programming language - redirect
 * Featured article review/Jaws (film) - frivolous FAR
 * Featured article review/Jim Henson - archive1
 * Featured article review/Joshua A. Norton - archive1
 * Featured article review/Jurassic Park (film) - frivolous FAR
 * Featured article review/Kalarippayattu - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Linus Pauling - archive1
 * Featured article review/List of French monarchs - redirect to FLRC
 * Featured article review/List of The Simpsons episodes - redirect to FLRC
 * Featured article review/Manchester United F.C. - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Mary I of England - archive1
 * Featured article review/Meteorological history of Hurricane Ivan - rapid demotion after promotion at FAC was challenged
 * Featured article review/Military history of Puerto Rico - archive1
 * Featured article review/Omnipotence paradox - archive1
 * Featured article review/Parliament Act - redirect
 * Featured article review/Phishing - archive1
 * Featured article review/Polish-Soviet War - archive1
 * Featured article review/Polish–Soviet War - redirect
 * Featured article review/Prince (musician) - wasn't a featured article
 * Featured article review/Psychosis - archive1
 * Featured article review/Race - archive1
 * Featured article review/San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge - redirect
 * Featured article review/Sonic the Hedgehog (character) - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Space opera in Scientology doctrine - redirect
 * Featured article review/Special effect - redirect to FAC
 * Featured article review/Supply and demand - archive1
 * Featured article review/The Divine Comedy - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Wikipedia:Featured article review/The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - archive1
 * Featured article review/The Muppets' Wizard of Oz - possibly malformed nomination
 * Featured article review/Thomas Cranmer - misdirected FAC nomination
 * Featured article review/Thunderball - archive1
 * Featured article review/Tuberculosis - archive1
 * Featured article review/Vancouver - premature FAR
 * Featured article review/Vanilla Ninja - archive1
 * Featured article review/W. B. Yeats - redirect
 * Featured article review/Wario - archive1