Wikipedia:Former featured articles

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Former featured articles

This page lists articles that used to be featured articles, but were demoted because they do not meet current featured article criteria. Featured articles can only be demoted through a consensus derived through discussion at the Wikipedia:Featured article review page. The removal discussions for the former featured articles listed below can be found in the featured article review archive.

Of course, the articles listed here do not have to stay here: please be bold in updating and improving these pages, and help make them featured articles again.

Of the 570 articles that have lost "featured" status, the 30 that have been re-promoted are listed below. The articles in bold have been featured on the Main Page.

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[edit] Art, architecture and archaeology

Art competitions at the Olympic Games · Art in ancient Greece · Baroque · Buddhist art · Diego Velázquez · Fancy cancel · Graffiti · History of erotic depictions · Leonardo da Vinci · Oxyrhynchus · Palace of Westminster · Parthenon · Rembrandt · Robert Lawson (architect)

[edit] Awards, decorations and vexillology

Flag of the Republic of China · Flag of South Africa

[edit] Biology and medicine

AIDS · Aquarium · Bioinformatics · Bloodletting · Brolga · Chemical synapse · Cladistics · Cat · Gene · Gray Wolf · Human · Lesch-Nyhan syndrome · Marginated Tortoise · Mixed-breed dog · Mitochondrial Eve · Pufferfish · Race (classification of human beings) · Severe acute respiratory syndrome · Sperm Whale · Stuttering · U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program

[edit] Business, economics and finance

Billboard (advertising) · Celtic Tiger · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Euro · Gold standard · Labour economics · Strategic management · Supply and demand

[edit] Chemistry and mineralogy

Alchemy · Damascus steel · Glass · Linus Pauling · Lysergic acid diethylamide · Periodic table · Turquoise

[edit] Computing

Acorn Computers · Application programming interface · Architecture of Btrieve · Architecture of Windows NT · ASCII · Btrieve · C (programming language) · Central processing unit · Color Graphics Adapter · Commodore 64 · Common Unix Printing System · Computer security · CPU cache · Emacs · Floppy disk · GNU/Linux naming controversy · Java (programming language) · Markup language · Quantum computer · Reduced instruction set computer · PaX · Search engine (computing) · Spam (electronic) · Spyware · Ubuntu · World Wide Web · X Window System · X Window System core protocol · Windows 2000 · Windows XP

[edit] Culture and society

Assassination · Bathing machine · Breastfeeding · Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act · Freemasonry · Gender role · Kibbutz · Kitsch · Korean name · Mail · Mandan · Nude celebrities on the Internet · Pet skunk · Prostitution · Same-sex marriage · Sociocultural evolution · Spring Heeled Jack · Swastika

[edit] Education

Academia · Caulfield Grammar School · Hopkins School · Peer review · Rajshahi University · Wikipedia

[edit] Engineering and technology

Beverage-can stove · Crash test dummy · Domestic AC power plugs and sockets · Electronic amplifier · Fountain pen · Horseshoe · Jet engine · Pattern welding · Phonograph cylinder · Radar · Saturn V · Spacecraft propulsion · Speech synthesis · Telephone exchange · Typewriter · Zuiderzee Works

[edit] Food and drink

Beer · Cheese · Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Single malt Scotch · Tea

[edit] Geography and places

Aztalan State Park · Bhutan · Buckinghamshire · Cape Town · Carlsbad Caverns National Park · Chinatown · Colditz Castle · Dogpatch USA · Éire · Enclave and exclave · Geography of India · Goa · Golden Gate Park · Great Mosque of Djenné · Historic counties of England · Johannesburg · Lastovo · Marshall, Texas · Montparnasse · Moorgate · Nepal · National parks of England and Wales · Newark, New Jersey · Niagara Falls · Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Georgia) · People's Republic of China · Piccadilly Circus · Principality of Sealand · Provinces of Thailand · Rondane National Park · San Jose, California · South Africa

[edit] Geology, geophysics and meteorology

Cyclone Tracy · Galveston Hurricane of 1900 · Geologic time scale · Geyser . 1755 Lisbon earthquake · Plate tectonics · Weather lore

[edit] History

1993 Russian constitutional crisis · Adoption in ancient Rome · Athanasius Kircher · Attila the Hun · Behistun Inscription · British one penny coin (pre-decimal) · Carl G. Fisher · Che Guevara · Columbine High School massacre · Congo Free State · Dayuan · Dreyfus affair · Eureka Stockade · Ferdinand Magellan · Franks · Habsburg Spain · History of Alaska · History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 · History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 · History of Central Asia · History of Germany · History of Greenland · History of the Jews in Poland · History of the Netherlands · History of post-Soviet Russia · History of Russia · History of Scotland · Honourable East India Company · Indo-Greek Kingdom · Indus Valley Civilization · Italian Renaissance · Julius Caesar · Ku Klux Klan · Leopold and Loeb · Mark Antony · Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 · Project MKULTRA · Sassanid Empire · September 11, 2001 attacks · Sino-Soviet split · Space Race · Sun Yat-sen · Sydney Riot of 1879 · Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

[edit] Language and linguistics

American English · Aryan Invasion Theory (history and controversies) · Leet · Mandarin (linguistics) · Noam Chomsky · Portuguese language · Russian language · Split infinitive · Voynich manuscript · Vulgar Latin

[edit] Law

Article One of the United States Constitution · Copyright · Dred Scott v. Sandford · First Amendment to the United States Constitution · Lawrence v. Texas · Murder of James Bulger · Negligence · Separation of powers under the United States Constitution · Supreme Court of the United States · Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution · United States Bill of Rights

[edit] Literature and theatre

The Brothers Karamazov · Chuck Palahniuk · Crime fiction · Cyberpunk · English poetry · Ernest Hemingway · Foundation series · The Giver · H. P. Lovecraft · Irish poetry · Irish theatre · Isaac Asimov · Medieval literature · Middle-earth · Nella Larsen · The Old Man and the Sea · Poetry of the United States · A Tale of a Tub · "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" · Thunderball · Villain · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[edit] Mathematics

Ackermann function · Algorithm · Carl Friedrich Gauss · Computational complexity theory · Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace · Fractal · Game theory · Illegal prime · Margin of error · Metrication · Paul Erdős · Prisoner's dilemma · Pythagorean theorem · Regular polytope · Triangle · Vacuous truth

[edit] Media

Alfred Hitchcock · All your base are belong to us · Andrew Van de Kamp · Blackadder · Blackface · Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) · Coronation Street · Countdown (game show) · Dawson's Creek · Have I Got News for You · Henry Fonda · Humphrey Bogart · Ian McKellen · Jim Henson · Julia Stiles · Lindsay Lohan · Martha Stewart · Memory Alpha · Nineteen Eighty-Four · Not the Nine O'Clock News · Scooby-Doo · Star Trek · Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace · Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones · The Office (US TV series) · Uma Thurman · Western (genre) · WGA screenwriting credit system

[edit] Music

"A Day in the Life" · "A Hard Day's Night (song)" · Charles Ives · Concept album · Donegal fiddle tradition · Dream Theater · Duran Duran · "Get Back" · Gram Parsons · Gramophone record · Guqin · Hip hop music · Heavy metal umlaut · "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" · "I Want to Hold Your Hand" · Illmatic · Iron Maiden · The Jackson 5 · Jazz · Johnny Cash · Lollapalooza · Louis Armstrong · Madonna (entertainer) · Marilyn Manson (band) · Miles Davis · Nightwish · Porgy and Bess · Roy Orbison · Saxophone · Schabir Shaik trial · "She Loves You" · Simon & Garfunkel · Smile (Brian Wilson album) · Social history of the piano · Igor Stravinsky · The Beatles · The Temptations · Timpani · Vanilla Ninja · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[edit] Philosophy and psychology

Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi · Frankfurt School · Law of Demeter · Ludwig Wittgenstein · Milgram experiment · Paradox · Psychosis

[edit] Physics and astronomy

Albert Einstein · ATLAS experiment · Black hole · Carl Sagan · Cold fusion · Galileo Galilei · Quantum mechanics · Rainbow · Richard Feynman · Robert Oppenheimer · Roche limit · Soap bubble

[edit] Politics and government

2004 Democratic National Convention · Abraham Lincoln · Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. · Bruce Johnson (politician) · Bruno Kreisky · Canadian House of Commons · Charles Graner · Commonwealth of Nations · Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) · European Union · Gough Whitlam · Governor-General of India · House of Commons of the United Kingdom · House of Lords · Hugo Chávez · Hutton Inquiry · James K. Polk · Japanese general election, 2003 · Jean Schmidt · John Major · L. Paul Bremer · Liberal Party (Utah) · Libertarian socialism · Libertarianism · Lord Chancellor · Margaret Thatcher · Mark Latham · Nicolas Sarkozy · Parliament of Canada · Parliament of the United Kingdom · Political correctness · President of Ireland · President of the United States · Propaganda · Ralph Yarborough · Reginald Maudling · Republic of China presidential election, 2004 · Robert Walpole · Senate of Canada · Sid McMath · Single transferable vote · Speaker of the British House of Commons · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives · Tom Brinkman · Tony Blair · Tynwald Day · Electoral College (United States) · United States Congress · United States House of Representatives · United States Senate · Mordechai Vanunu · Zionism

[edit] Religion, mysticism and mythology

Anno Domini · Authorized King James Version · Cardinal Richelieu · Bible code · Buddhism · Christianity · Christmas · Ebionites · End time · Father Damien · Golden plates · Greco-Buddhism · Hebrew calendar · Hinduism · Holy Prepuce · Names of God in Judaism · Original sin · Papal conclave · Papal Tiara · Fred Phelps · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Shroud of Turin · Sons of Noah · Space opera in Scientology scripture

[edit] Royalty, nobility and heraldry

Canadian Heraldic Authority · Charles I of England · George II of Great Britain · Henry VIII of England · Hereditary peer · History of the Peerage · Louis XIV of France · Mary I of England · Peerage · Prince-elector · Sverre of Norway · Victoria of the United Kingdom · William the Silent

[edit] Sport and recreation

Anatoly Karpov · The Ashes · Baseball · Blackjack · Denis Law · Bullfighting · Fanny Blankers-Koen · Formula One · Garry Kasparov · Go (board game) · Lego · Lottie Dod · Monopoly (game) · Montreal Canadiens · New England Patriots · Olympic Flame · Olympic Games · Paul Morphy · Poker · Pub quiz · Rock-paper-scissors · Seabiscuit · Steer wrestling · Steve Dalkowski · Sudoku · Summer Olympic Games · Suzanne Lenglen · Ted Radcliffe · Weight training · Xiangqi

[edit] Transport

Air Force One · Auto rickshaw · Bicycle · Civil Air Patrol · De Lorean DMC-12 · Ford Mustang · London Underground · Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 · Montréal-Mirabel International Airport · RMS Titanic · Road transport · Ryanair · Space elevator · TGV · Volkswagen Type 2 · Wigwag (railroad) · Zeppelin

[edit] Video gaming

Bishōjo game · Bulbasaur · BZFlag · Doom (video game) · Final Fantasy VII · Golden Age of Video Arcade Games · Goomba · Lakitu · Metal Gear Solid · Torchic · Wario

[edit] Warfare

Attack on Pearl Harbor · Battle of Alesia · Battle of Aljubarrota · Battle of Jutland · Battle of Leyte Gulf · Invasion of Normandy · Battle of the Somme · Convair B-36 · Cristero War · Erich von Manstein · F-35 Lightning II · First Battle of the Stronghold · Husein Gradaščević · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson · Invasion · Iraqi insurgency · Karl Dönitz · Military history of the Soviet Union · Nuclear weapon · Operation Market Garden · Origins of the American Civil War · Peloponnesian War · Poison gas in World War I · Richard O'Connor · Submarine · Tank · Trench warfare · War elephant · White Rose · World War I

[edit] Wikipedia Project pages

Wikipedia:FAQ · Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states

[edit] Former featured articles that have been re-promoted

Autism · Bath, Somerset · Belgium · Bodyline · Chetwynd, British Columbia · Crushing by elephant · DNA · Definition of planet · Evolution · Fermi paradox · Hero of Belarus · Hubble Space Telescope · Io (moon) · James II of England · Emperor Norton · Lead(II) nitrate · The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask · London congestion charge · Max Weber · Octopus card · Pashtun people · Platypus · Poetry · Representative peer · Ridge Route · The Simpsons · Super Mario 64 · "This Charming Man" · Vampire · Venus

Notes: Articles in bold are articles that have been featured on the Main Page. The Wikipedia Project Pages are anomalies – not actual articles, but pages that were considered "brilliant prose" and were subsequently listed as "featured" when the featured article process began.