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Below is a list of articles which I've taken through the various Wikipedia processes together with the dates they achieved a particular milestone. They range from newly created or expanded pages nominated for the Did You Know section on the Main Page, to more established articles that were submitted for Good and Featured content. I have either created or significantly contributed to many of the subjects listed here, and articles which I've taken through more than one process appear in each of the appropriate tables.

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Featured articles (FAs) are considered to be the best articles Wikipedia has to offer, as determined by its editors, and are used as a benchmark for writing other content. To reach Featured Article status, an article must meet the Featured Article criteria, which requires its subject matter to be accurate, neutral, complete, and well-written. They are reviewed as Featured Article candidates by experienced editors, and if promoted have a chance to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured article.

# Article title Date promoted
1 Royal National College for the Blind[1][2][3] 18 August 2010
2 Murder of Joanna Yeates[4] 1 April 2012
3 A Journey[5] 6 July 2012
4 Jo Stafford 24 August 2013

Good Articles

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Good articles (GAs) are articles regarded as being of good quality, but not yet qualified as having the quality for featured article status. To attain Good Article status an article must satisfy the Good Article criteria and go through the Good Article nomination process.

# Article title Date listed
1 2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes 9 April 2010
2 Premiership of Gordon Brown 29 April 2010
3 A Journey[6] 10 January 2011
4 Murder of Joanna Yeates 23 December 2011
5 Philip Smith 27 July 2012
6 Smooth Radio (2010) 25 November 2012
7 Murder of Celine Figard 9 January 2013
8 The Girl 17 January 2013
9 Jo Stafford 14 February 2013
10 2010 United Kingdom government formation 25 February 2013
11 1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions 4 July 2013
12 Johann Lamont 23 February 2014
13 Benefits Street 13 March 2014
14 Helen Rollason 5 January 2015
15 The National[7] 4 July 2015
16 Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2014 5 July 2015
17 Helen McEntee 18 September 2016

Did You Know

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Did You Know (DYK) is a section that appears on the Main Page, showcasing some of Wikipedia's newest or recently expanded content. Articles which are submitted to Did You Know undergo an informal assessment before featuring in the section. Articles appearing in this list are largely self-nominations unless otherwise stated. For a list of DYK alerts (which include the facts that appeared on the main page), see User:This is Paul/DYK facts.[8][9]

Created and expanded DYKs

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# Article title Date featured
1 ATV Today[10] 28 March 2009
2 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike 16 October 2009
3 Winter of 1990–1991 in Western Europe 1 December 2009
4 All in the Mind 9 December 2009
5 Rupert Hamer 22 January 2010
6 Fern Britton Meets... 11 February 2010
7 Motorway man 20 February 2010
8 Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom 21 February 2010
9 Weekend Wogan[11] 24 March 2010
10 Parkinson's Sunday Supplement[11] 24 March 2010
11 Coronation Street Live (2000)[12][13] 11 May 2010
12 Five Daughters[12] 11 May 2010
13 Helen Grant 13 May 2010
14 Britain's Economy: Cameron and Clegg Face the Audience 26 August 2010
15 Saint Endelienta 4 September 2010
16 A Journey 17 September 2010
17 Pope John Paul II's visit to the United Kingdom 29 September 2010
18 Jo Andrews 5 October 2010
19 The Secrets of Scientology[14] 8 October 2010
20 The Jo Stafford Show (1961) 22 March 2011
21 Justine Thornton 10 April 2011
22 Don't Scare the Hare 4 May 2011
23 Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris 12 May 2011
24 Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend 17 May 2011
25 The Street That Cut Everything 26 May 2011
26 Julie Welch 16 June 2011
27 The Teddy Bear Master 16 July 2011
28 Ian Oliver[15] 18 July 2011
29 Iain Blair 28 July 2011
30 Jacquie de Creed 7 August 2011
31 The Hunt for Tony Blair 11 September 2011
32 Peter Joslin 14 October 2011
33 The Jack Docherty Show 18 December 2011
34 George H. Marshall 21 December 2011
35 Barbara Sturgeon 8 January 2012
36 Murder of Jacqueline Thomas 27 February 2012
37 Interviews Before Execution 6 April 2012
38 Jenny McCudden 13 August 2012
39 Smooth 70s[16][17] 1 September 2012
40 Absolute Radio 70s[16][17] 1 September 2012
41 Murder of Celine Figard[18] 13 September 2012
42 Britannia Unchained 21 September 2012
43 Sky Movies 007 HD 28 October 2012
44 Salvage 20 November 2012
45 Ron Ball 11 December 2012
46 A Is for Acid 27 December 2012
47 Bill Longmore 5 February 2013
48 The Girl[19] 8 February 2013
49 Jack Taylor[20] 17 March 2013
50 Michael Norgrove 15 April 2013
51 Murder of Helen McCourt[21] 28 April 2013
52 Kuwait Airways Flight 422 19 June 2013
53 1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions 1 July 2013
54 Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela[22] 12 January 2014
55 Dark store 28 January 2014
56 Johann Lamont[23] 26 February 2014
57 Invictus Games 9 March 2014
58 Rona Fairhead[24] 2 October 2014
59 The National 29 November 2014
60 Helen Rollason 26 January 2015
61 UKIP: The First 100 Days[25] 25 March 2015
62 Per Holknekt[26] 3 July 2015

Some I nominated

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# Article title Date featured
1 Frank Chacksfield[27] 2 February 2010
2 Liquid nitrogen cocktail[28] 17 October 2012
3 Skyfall[29][30] 23 October 2012

In the news

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The In the news (ITN) section appears on the main page and serves to direct readers to articles that have been substantially updated to reflect recent or current events of wide interest.[31]

# Article title Date featured
1 Winter of 2009–2010 in Europe December 2009
2 Cumbria shootings June 2010
3 Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI February 2013
4 Lyra McKee April 2019
5 Nick Sheridan March 2024

Editing milestones

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An editing milestone is reached when an editor has reached a particular number of edits.

# Article title Milestone Date of edit
1 Janet Anderson 100,000th edit 26 August 2019

Notes

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  1. ^ Royal National College for the Blind, actually my first attempt at an FA nomination, made history as one of several promoted on 18 August 2010 which took Wikipedia to the milestone of 3,000 Featured Articles.
  2. ^ I was asked to submit Royal National College for the Blind for FA by PaulLargo, who had to go on an indefinite Wikibreak due to work commitments.
  3. ^ Royal National College for the Blind appeared as Today's Featured Article on 19 October 2011.
  4. ^ Murder of Joanna Yeates is a co-nomination with BabbaQ, who did a lot of the early work on this article.
  5. ^ A Journey appeared as Today's Featured Article on 6 May 2013.
  6. ^ Although I did not nominate A Journey for GA, I had contributed significantly to its content and was invited to be a co-nominee by Wackywace.
  7. ^ Although I wrote most of this article, The National was actually nominated for Good Article status by JJARichardson, but I wanted to help get it promoted.
  8. ^ Individual DYK alerts appear for every article apart from Parkinson's Sunday Supplement because a separate alert was not generated for it.
  9. ^ The Ian Blair entry should link to Iain Blair the writer rather than Ian Blair the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
  10. ^ ATV Today was nominated for DYK by HowardBerry.
  11. ^ a b Weekend Wogan and Parkinson's Sunday Supplement appeared as a double DYK fact on 24 March 2010.
  12. ^ a b Coronation Street Live (2000) and Five Daughters are not a double DYK, but happened to appear on the Main Page on the same day.
  13. ^ The DYK entry for Coronation Street Live (2000) appeared under the article's original title, which was Coronation Street: 40th anniversary live episode.
  14. ^ The Secrets of Scientology was nominated for DYK by Cirt.
  15. ^ In its DYK entry Ian Oliver appeared alongside Craig Oliver, an article I wrote in December 2010, but which was not put forward for the section at the time of its creation.
  16. ^ a b Smooth 70s and Absolute Radio 70s appeared as a double DYK fact on 1 September 2012.
  17. ^ a b The hook for this DYK entry – "... that Smooth 70s is the UK's only national 1970s radio station, while Absolute Radio 70s claims to be the UK's only station dedicated to the decade?" – was described as "inscrutably clever" by one user.
  18. ^ Having reviewed Murder of Celine Figard for DYK, BrownHairedGirl described it as "the best article I have seen amongst the DYK nominations".
  19. ^ The Girl, a biopic of events in the life of Alfred Hitchcock was coincidentally a DYK on the day Hitchcock – another film about the director – opened at cinemas in the UK.
  20. ^ Jack Taylor was started by GonbeFAN, then expanded and nominated by me.
  21. ^ Murder of Helen McCourt was started by BabbaQ, who very kindly added me as a co-nominee after I did some work on it.
  22. ^ Started by Another Believer, Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela was nominated for DYK by Tentinator, and I was one of several editors who received credit for their contributions.
  23. ^ Johann Lamont was the first newly promoted Good Article I submitted to DYK. It was started some years ago by PatGallacher, then expanded and taken through the GA process by me.
  24. ^ Rona Fairhead was a collaboration between myself, Ilovetonga and HJ Mitchell, and nominated for DYK by HJ Mitchell.
  25. ^ UKIP: The First 100 Days was a collaboration between myself and The Almightey Drill, and nominated by The Almightey Drill.
  26. ^ Per Holknekt was created and expanded by BabbaQ, but I was a co-nominee as one of several users to assist with a copyedit.
  27. ^ I nominated Frank Chacksfield for DYK after it was expanded by Ghmyrtle.
  28. ^ Liquid nitrogen cocktail was created by Geau, then expanded and nominated for DYK by me.
  29. ^ Skyfall was created by Igordebraga and Caladonia, and nominated for DYK by Hahc21 and myself.
  30. ^ Skyfall appeared on the main page on 23 October 2012 to coincide with the premier of the 23rd James Bond film, Skyfall.
  31. ^ Note that more specific dates do not appear here since In the news topics can be featured for several days.
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