WP:FA says we have 3,740 FAs, but the number is incremented manually and subject to errors. To verify it, I checked each article in
Category:Wikipedia featured articles (populated by articlehistory) against each article in
Category:Featured articles (populated by the star template).
I found two anomalies:
- Æthelbald of Mercia was missing a star, apparently inadvertently removed by an editor.
- WP:FA may say 3,740 articles, but it actually lists 3,741 articles, one of which is a duplicate: Tokyo Mew Mew was mistakenly listed in two sections as a result of this edit, which no one caught.
After fixing both of these issues, the numbers all agree: we have 3,740 FAs.
I did a three-way check of WP:FA, Category:Featured articles, and Category:Wikipedia featured articles. I found four anomalies:
- Æthelbald of Mercia was again missing its star.
- 2nd Canadian Infantry Division was promoted at FAC in 2008. In 2012 the article was upmerged into 2nd Canadian Division. It should be properly demoted.
- Jefferson Davis had a botched articlehistory that prevented it from showing up in one of the FA categories.
- Ki Hajar Dewantara was falsely marked with the FA star.
The count of 4,093 is correct.
In late November 2012 it was discovered that some FAs re-promoted in 2012 had not been properly recorded as such at WP:FFA and given the {{ FA/BeenOnMainPage}} tag at WP:FA. Discussion took place at User_talk:SandyGeorgia/arch90#FFAs and at Wikipedia talk:FAC#Audit at WP:FFA needed. Several people helped bring both pages up to date.
I found two anomalies:
Several discrepancies were noted and fixed by others, as discussed here.
More discrepancies addressed here.
WP:FA says we have 3,740 FAs, but the number is incremented manually and subject to errors. To verify it, I checked each article in
Category:Wikipedia featured articles (populated by articlehistory) against each article in
Category:Featured articles (populated by the star template).
I found two anomalies:
- Æthelbald of Mercia was missing a star, apparently inadvertently removed by an editor.
- WP:FA may say 3,740 articles, but it actually lists 3,741 articles, one of which is a duplicate: Tokyo Mew Mew was mistakenly listed in two sections as a result of this edit, which no one caught.
After fixing both of these issues, the numbers all agree: we have 3,740 FAs.
I did a three-way check of WP:FA, Category:Featured articles, and Category:Wikipedia featured articles. I found four anomalies:
- Æthelbald of Mercia was again missing its star.
- 2nd Canadian Infantry Division was promoted at FAC in 2008. In 2012 the article was upmerged into 2nd Canadian Division. It should be properly demoted.
- Jefferson Davis had a botched articlehistory that prevented it from showing up in one of the FA categories.
- Ki Hajar Dewantara was falsely marked with the FA star.
The count of 4,093 is correct.
In late November 2012 it was discovered that some FAs re-promoted in 2012 had not been properly recorded as such at WP:FFA and given the {{ FA/BeenOnMainPage}} tag at WP:FA. Discussion took place at User_talk:SandyGeorgia/arch90#FFAs and at Wikipedia talk:FAC#Audit at WP:FFA needed. Several people helped bring both pages up to date.
I found two anomalies:
Several discrepancies were noted and fixed by others, as discussed here.
More discrepancies addressed here.