Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Nomination Procedure

[edit] Adding nominations

1. Check the featured topic criteria and make sure the topic meets all of them before nominating.
2. Add the template {{FTCmain|ExampleTopicName}} to the talk page of the main article in the series. From there, click "leave comments".
   • (If you are resubmitting an article) Use the Move button to rename the previous nomination sub-page to an archive. For example, Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Plays by Shakespeare → Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Plays by Shakespeare/archive1.
3. Add the following text to the new page making sure to change all of the example text. Include as many articles as you wish:
   ===EXAMPLE TOPIC NAME===
   {{topicnom|[[EXAMPLE MAIN PAGE]]|[[EXAMPLE ARTICLE 1]] - [[EXAMPLE ARTICLE 2]] - [[EXAMPLE ARTICLE 3]]}}
4. Write your reason for nominating the topic below the heading, and save the sub-page.
5. Place {{Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/ExampleTopicName}} at the top of the list of nominees on this page by first copying the above, clicking "edit" on the top of the candidates page, and then pasting, making sure to add the name of the nominated topic. While adding a candidate, mention the name of the topic in the edit summary.
6. Finally, add the template {{FTC|ExampleTopicName}} to the talk page of each member article to let the editors of those articles know about the nomination.

[edit] Nominating new articles to an existing topic

1. Check the featured topic criteria and make sure the new articles meet all of them before nominating.
2. Create a new subpage at Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/ExampleTopicName/addition1.
   • (If subpage already exists) Change /addition1 to /addition2 or whatever the next free number is.
3. Add the following text to the new page making sure to change all of the example text. Include as many articles as you wish. In the last line (with the {{topicnom}} template), include both the existing topics and the new topics:
   ===EXAMPLE TOPIC NAME (supplementary nomination)===
   {{Add to topic|EXAMPLE TOPIC NAME}}
   #[[EXAMPLE NEW ARTICLE 1]]
   #[[EXAMPLE NEW ARTICLE 2]]
   {{topicnom|[[EXAMPLE MAIN PAGE]]|[[EXAMPLE ARTICLE 1]] - [[EXAMPLE ARTICLE 2]] - [[EXAMPLE ARTICLE 3]]}}
4. Write your reason for nominating the new articles below the heading, and save the sub-page.
5. Place {{Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/EXAMPLE TOPIC NAME/addition1}} at the top of the list of nominees on WP:FTC by first copying the above, clicking "edit" on the top of that page, and then pasting, making sure to add the name of the nominated topic. Make sure to change /addition1 to whatever number you used. While adding a candidate, mention the name of the topic in the edit summary.
6. Add the template {{FTCaddmain|ExampleTopicName|1}} to the talk page of the main article in the series, and {{FTCadd|ExampleTopicName|1}} to the talk page of each new member article. Replace the number 1 with the actual addition number. This lets the editors of those articles know about the nomination.
7. Finally, go to the original archived discussion of the topic's successful nomination at Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/ExampleTopicName and add the following to the bottom of the page after the discussion (changing the number of the addition as needed):
   ====Supplementary nominations====
   #[[Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/EXAMPLE TOPIC NAME/addition1]]
   
   • This last step is necessary because templates on articles' talk pages link to the original archived discussion of the topic's successful nomination, so it needs to have links to suplimentary nominations to allow future editors to examine the evolition of the topic as a whole.

• Expanding the topic may require a name change of the topic itself. In this case, use the new name for the nomination, keep the old discussion on its original page, and add a redirect from the [[Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/NEW TOPIC NAME]] page to the original. If the name change passes, change the template on the talk pages of every member article, new and old, to reflect the new name.

[edit] Too complicated?

If you are unable to follow the above procedure, add your topic and its articles on this page's talk page and mention that you would like to submit it, but that you don't know how. If someone else likes it, they will add it.