Wikipedia:WikiProject Featured articles/FA-Team

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In 2008, an ace editing unit was sent to ANI by a rogue admin for a MoS-violation they didn't commit. These editors promptly assumed good faith and escaped via the IRC. Today, still wanted by The Cabal, they survive as champions of content quality.

If you have a treasured article, if no one else can help, and if you can find reliable sources, then maybe you can hire...

...The FA-Team.[citation needed]

Okay, that was the draw, but this team has a serious purpose too: improving an article to FA standard is not easy, and there are plenty of obstacles and not enough support. The purpose of the FA-Team is to link and coordinate editors who want to help overcome the obstacles and provide support to all those who want to write great articles. We also believe that contributing to Wikipedia should be fun, and that is the spirit in which the team has been created.

There are many things the FA-Team can help with. What we can't do, however, is add substantial content or find references: as suggested above, editors who would like FA-Team help need to have access to reliable sources and use them to create and improve article content.

If you have an article you think would make a good FA-team Mission, propose it here.

Team members and specialities

 * — Being the first on the list despite other members shameless attempt to make it to the top.
 * — General, all-around pain in the butt that will pick apart an article for every single flaw (articles supported by this user have a 100% success rate); limited time availability, but still available upon request. Grammar chequer (spell check doesn't catch everything!),
 * — References and research (I have the privilege of easy access to one of the largest library systems in the world, so ping away if you need a source!), some MOS, general formatting, some copyediting (although many of those listed here are far more talented than me at this!).
 * — anything biological..(snigger), layout, copyediting, greek & latin translation etc.
 * Formerly Meldshal42 and LordSunday. I'm known for a variety of things in article writing. But my best is either prose or references. I love my preciouses.
 * — Refs n' Prose, highly detailed point-by-point article analysis. Whatever you do, DO NOT ask me about dashes – you won't enjoy the aftermath.
 * — Good with video game articles in general, and finding print sources; brilliant prose writer, 1st-class.
 * — reference formatting, some MoS.
 * — article editing and copyediting (including images and related copyrights, tables, markup and the Manual of Style); article assessment (particularly Good articles )
 * — Helping out with whatever needs help
 * — I do GARs, FARs, and when there's a sentence that needs a reference, I do multiple searches for one.
 * — templates, lead section, occasional imperfect copy-editing, formatting citations and references, image copyright and fair use issues, and even dashes.
 * Copy editing; MoS; history, especially military history; GAN, ACR and FAC. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:05, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * — Plain English.
 * — client turned provider ;). Willing to help out generally, above all with articles in the Humanities. Once library fines are paid, may even help with sources. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 03:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * – MoS, copyediting, source checking
 * — I'll fix any dash you could possibly want.
 * (Ling.Nut)
 * (Marskell)
 * – Referencing, copyediting, MOS fixes.
 * Mkdw talk — FA nominations, city FA, formatting, and WikiProjects.
 * — Well-versed in MoS (the dashes in this section are wrong), source finding (I have access to JSTOR as well as numerous other databases, and several large libraries), source checking, ref formatting. I'm deeply involved in various review processes, so I can read it/fix it like people at FAC would. But please, no science.
 * — references, formatting, MoS fixes, copyediting?
 * — Prose, prose, prose. Writing is my thing, MOS and references are not. Ask me about either of the latter and you'll live to regret it.
 * — references, weasel words, and jargon words.
 * — pilot, typo's, layout, copyediting, style.
 * — Heya, whya not, it looks lika ita coulda be fun. Ima writer, you know, one a dem writa guys. (Specific areas: Volcanology, by extension mountains too.)
 * — natural sciences especially physics; access to large amounts of reference material; ref templates.
 * — All the normal copyedit stuff, science topics and engineering topics, scouring the academic databases for sources, I tend to be bored and have lots of free time on my hands.
 * Skomorokh — Philosophy and politics, arcana and emergent phenomena, reference scouring and footnoting.
 * — serves Devonshire tea.
 * — access to large amounts of reference material; experienced in working with and organizing collaborations of editors.

(Please add/remove your name to/from the alphabetical list, using User plus, if you do/don't support the goals of the FA-Team. It is also helpful to know how actively you can contribute, and what your areas of expertise are. Editors who support the FA-Team goals, but are unable to be actively involved for now, are welcome to add their username in brackets.)

Goals

 * Help anyone, anywhere bring an article successfully to Featured article standard, by providing WP:MoS-compliance and copyediting assistance, advice on the featured article criteria, and support through FAC.


 * Work with individual WikiProjects to improve articles towards featured article standard.

Proposed missions
If you have a mission idea you'd like to propose, list it here.

Current missions

 * Mission 7: The FAT gets fatter
 * Objective: Get some high-importance food and drink articles to FA.
 * Mission coordinator: Mm40?
 * Status: Work starting on coffee

Past missions

 * Mission 6: No Hey Banda — the Biology of Latino Literature
 * Objective: assist the North of the Rio Grande WikiProject and WikiProject AP Biology 2008 in improving articles towards featured article status.
 * Mission coordinator: Geometry guy
 * Status: Osteochondritis dissecans, Banker horse and Phagocyte are now featured articles.


 * Mission 5: Solar solicitude/solidarity
 * Objective: assist Solar energy and Scattered disc (and possibly other solar-related articles) towards FA status, encouraging collaboration across the spectrum.
 * Mission coordinator: Geometry guy
 * Status: Scattered disc is a featured article; Solar energy has been improved, but mostly copyediting.


 * Mission 4: Vacation in the Everglades
 * Objective: support multiple Everglades-related articles.
 * Mission coordinator: Awadewit
 * Status: Four featured articles. Everglades itself is now a GA.


 * Mission 3: Save Wikipedia from Itself
 * Objective: assist multiple single articles on their long and winding roads towards featured status.
 * Mission coordinator: Multiple
 * Status: Félix Houphouët-Boigny now a GA.


 * Mission 2: Return of King Arthur from Avalon
 * Objective: assist WP:KA in bringing King Arthur back to life to featured article status.
 * Mission coordinator: Wrad.
 * Status: A featured article: see the FAC review.


 * Mission 1: Murder, madness and mayhem.
 * Objective: assist WP:MMM in improving twelve articles on Latin American literature towards featured article status.
 * Mission coordinator: Wrad.
 * Status: Three featured articles, and eight good articles produced during this mission.

FA-Team Analysis
For discussion on how the FA-Team could do an even better job, please comment here.

Why the FA-Team is ace
We occasionally receive accolades for our work and we greatly appreciate them, but most of all we judge our success by the articles we help bring to FA, and the editors we encourage to feel the buzz of writing top quality articles.

Editors who have caught the FA wave after working with the FA-Team

 * User:Abarratt — "I think I might be addicted to Wiki for life."
 * User:Jbmurray — Dive in, Academia!
 * Cam — (worked alongside User:EyeSerene during several assessments of Battle of Verrières Ridge)

Featured articles with FA-Team support

 * FAC
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 * FAC

Good articles with FA-Team support

 * (April 12, 2008)
 * (April 9, 2008)
 * (April 7, 2008)
 * (July 22, 2008)
 * (April 17, 2008)
 * (March 30, 2008)
 * (April 21, 2008)
 * (April 10, 2008)
 * (April 17, 2008)
 * (August 26, 2008)
 * (November 14, 2008)
 * (November 19, 2008)
 * (December 5, 2008)
 * (December 5, 2008)
 * (December 24, 2008)