UESPWiki:Featured Articles

Featured articles are articles the site's editors deem to be of the highest quality and should be held up as an example for other articles. Articles are nominated for this status below. The site's editors then review the nominees for content, style, completeness, and overall quality and place their vote. High quality images can be nominated for featured status at Featured Images.

Previous nominations are archived here.

Featured Article Process

Nomination

Any registered member can nominate any article at any time. Nominated articles should be of high quality and meet the site's style guidelines. They will frequently be recently completed articles or articles that have just undergone a substantial rewrite, but older articles are also suitable candidates.

To nominate an article, list it on the bottom of this page with a three-tier heading, (===Example===), and briefly explain why you think the article should be given featured status.

Voting

After an article has been nominated, any registered member can vote to support or oppose each nomination. Each member can only vote once for a given article, but a member may change his/her vote by striking out the original vote and replacing it with the revised vote.

To vote on an article, state whether you support or oppose the article for featured article status. A vote should be in bold, and all votes must be signed. For example:
* '''Support''': <Comment> --~~~~ or
* '''Oppose''': <Comment> --~~~~

Commenting with your vote is optional, but if you oppose a nomination, please state how the article must be improved to get your support for featured status.

If you are not yet ready to vote but would still like to add your thoughts, you may use:

* '''Comment''': <Comment> --~~~~ or
* '''Question''': <Question> --~~~~

And fill in your concerns or questions.

Decisions

UESP Administrators will periodically make decisions on article nominations. Decisions will only be made if:

• The article has been nominated for more than seven days.
• Five or more votes have been placed.
• A clear consensus has been reached (either supported or opposed for featured status).

Nominations not meeting these criteria will be left open until a decision can be reached.

Articles whose nominations pass will receive featured article status on the front page for at least two weeks and receive a small bronze star () on the top right corner. If an article achieves featured status before the present featured article's two weeks expire, it must wait its turn.

Current Featured Article

• Lore:Grummite 21 December, 2019 - 21 January, 2020

Next

None.

Previous Featured Articles

Article	Dates Featured
Lore:Wulfharth	21 November, 2019 - 21 December, 2019
Online:Vakka-Bok Xanmeer	19 October, 2019 - 21 November, 2019
Legends:Solo Arena	19 September, 2019 - 09 October, 2019
Lore:Riften	16 July, 2019 - 19 September, 2019
Lore:Summerset Isle	16 November, 2018 - 16 July, 2019
Redguard:Observatory	12 October, 2018 - 16 November, 2018
Online:Earl Leythen	12 September, 2018 - 12 October, 2018
Lore:Sword-singers	9 July, 2018 - 12 September, 2018
Lore:Yokuda	1 April, 2018 - 9 July, 2018
Legends:Cloudy Dregs Inn	17 November, 2017 - 1 April, 2018
Morrowind:Balmora	10 September, 2017 - 17 November, 2017
Skyrim:Alduin's Bane	13 April, 2017 - 10 September, 2017
Skyrim:Mzinchaleft	28 February, 2017 - 13 April, 2017
Skyrim:Music	3 December, 2016 - 28 February, 2017
Skyrim:Construction	24 September, 2016 - 3 December, 2016
Skyrim:Ancano	3 September, 2016 - 24 September, 2016
Lore:Almalexia (god)	28 July, 2016 - 3 September, 2016
Oblivion:Amusei	18 June, 2016 - 28 July, 2016
Lore:Sancre Tor	16 May, 2016 - 18 June, 2016
Lore:Snow Elf	15 April, 2016 - 16 May, 2016
Skyrim:Mountain Climbing	4 January, 2016 - 15 April, 2016
Lore:Necromancy	22 November, 2015 - 4 January, 2016
Dragonborn:Dragonborn (quest)	15 October, 2015 - 22 November, 2015
Online:Pets	8 August, 2015 - 15 October, 2015
Skyrim:Erandur	1 July, 2015 - 8 August, 2015
Skyrim:Sheogorath	29 May, 2015 - 1 July, 2015
Daggerfall:Vampirism	27 April, 2015 - 29 May, 2015 (revoked October 2016)
Skyrim:Balgruuf the Greater	25 March, 2015 - 27 April, 2015
Lore:Skyrim	23 February, 2015 - 25 March, 2015
Lore:Sheogorath	20 January, 2015 - 23 February, 2015
Lore:Imperial Legion	15 December, 2014 - 20 January, 2015
Skyrim:Frostflow Abyss	27 September, 2014 - 15 December, 2014
Skyrim:Arniel Gane	27 August, 2014 - 27 September, 2014
Lore:Tiber Wars	27 July, 2014 - 27 August, 2014
Skyrim:Thonar Silver-Blood	24 June, 2014 - 27 July, 2014
Lore:Potema	28 May, 2014 - 24 June, 2014
Skyrim:Isran	24 April, 2014 - 28 May, 2014
Skyrim:Lost to the Ages	22 March, 2014 - 24 April, 2014
Lore:Nerevar	22 February, 2014 - 22 March, 2014
Skyrim:Chillrend	22 January, 2014 - 22 February, 2014
Dragonborn:Neloth	22 December, 2013 - 22 January, 2014
Lore:Scourge	20 November, 2013 - 22 December, 2013
Skyrim:Thieves Guild (faction)	20 October, 2013 - 20 November, 2013
Oblivion:Glarthir	19 September, 2013 - 20 October, 2013
Dragonborn:Lost Legacy	19 August, 2013 - 19 September, 2013
Skyrim:Ulfric Stormcloak	18 July, 2013 - 19 August, 2013
Skyrim:Darkness Returns	18 June, 2013 - 18 July, 2013
Dragonborn:The Final Descent	18 April, 2013 - 18 June, 2013
Skyrim:Irkngthand	16 March, 2013 - 18 April, 2013
Shivering:Jyggalag	11 February, 2013 - 16 March, 2013
Skyrim:Easter Eggs	9 January, 2013 - 11 February, 2013
Skyrim:Dragon	29 November, 2012 - 9 January, 2013
Skyrim:Delphine	29 October, 2012 - 29 November, 2012
Skyrim:Thalmor	28 September, 2012 - 29 October, 2012
Skyrim:Legate Rikke	27 August, 2012 - 28 September, 2012
Skyrim:Cicero	24 July, 2012 - 27 August, 2012
Skyrim:Forsworn	3 May, 2012 - 24 July, 2012
Skyrim:Forbidden Legend	30 April 2012 - 3 May 2012
Lore:Khajiit	30 March, 2012 - 30 April, 2012
Skyrim:The Black Star	21 February, 2012 - 30 March, 2012
Skyrim:The Only Cure	10 December, 2011 - 21 February, 2012
Lore:Vivec (god)	20 November, 2011 - 10 December, 2011
Oblivion:The Path of Dawn	16 October, 2011 - 20 November, 2011
Shivering:Syl	30 July, 2011 - 16 October, 2011
Daggerfall:Journey to Aetherius	30 June, 2011 - 30 July, 2011
Morrowind:Vivec	30 May, 2011 - 30 June, 2011
Books:The Infernal City	28 April, 2011 - 30 May, 2011
Shivering:Golden Saint	January 2011 - April 2011
Shadowkey:Glacier Crawl	November 2010 - January 2011
Morrowind:Seyda Neen	October 2010 - November 2010
Lore:Septim Dynasty	July 2010 - October 2010
Oblivion:Janus Hassildor	May 2010 - July 2010
Oblivion:Arcane University	February 2010 - May 2010
Lore:Black Marsh	December 2009 - February 2010
Oblivion:Rosethorn Hall	October 2009 - December 2009
Oblivion:Adanrel	May 2009 - October 2009
Oblivion:Creatures	January 2009 - May 2009
General:Playing DOS Installments under DOSBox	November 2008 - January 2009
Morrowind:Armor Artifacts	September 2008 - November 2008
Oblivion:Houses	July 2008 - September 2008
Oblivion:Artifacts	June 2008 - July 2008
Oblivion:Traps	May 2008 - June 2008
Oblivion:Classes	October 2007 - May 2008
Lore:Daedric Alphabet	November 2006 - October 2007
Lore:Khajiit	August 2006 - November 2006 (revoked August 2011)

Nominations and Votes

Lore:Imperial Legion

This has been featured before but that was 6 years ago, a lot of work has gone into this page since. I've been focusing on this particular lore page for the last 6 months and think it's high quality. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Imperial_Legion vs https://en.uesp.net/w/index.php?title=Lore:Imperial_Legion&diff=1411915&oldid=1411769 (2014)

• Support: As Nominator --Imperialbattlespire (talk) 23:25, 7 February 2020 (GMT)
• Comment: You did a great job working on this article and it's definitely close to being featured. However, before I vote, I'd still like to see some changes. While there are an excessive amount of sources on this page, I actually think it's still not enough. Many of the legions that are listed are not sourced or don't even have a description. The Artifact section is a bit small without describing why they are considered important for the legion and neither is there a source for any of them. Images are great, maybe some shuffling could make them even better (or pulling some of them from the gallery). Anyway, I'm confident that this one will be ready in a short while. --Ilaro (talk) 23:37, 7 February 2020 (GMT)

• Support: I just noticed it's already been featured before, but it changed a lot and it's definitely worth being featured in its current state. --Ilaro (talk) 17:00, 8 February 2020 (GMT)

• Oppose: There's precedent to revoke the status of a featured article and it be renominated, as was the case with Lore:Khajiit, which had insufficient votes in the nomination and was pushed anyway and later revoted. We also had a case where Daggerfall:Vampirism was nominated and a year later saw its status revoked because the article was significantly edited by KINMUNE to the point where it was clearly evident it wasn't the best it could be, and it never saw its status revisited in a nomination. Precedent clearly exists to revisit older FAs based on the quality of the article at the time versus the amount of work it needed to be updated. However, I don't see the case to be made here, and I'll explain.

We're not writing and reviewing an article about a no-longer-existing topic like the Legion's real-world Roman analog, which has a more or less set history to it to report on. This is an article for an ever-evolving game series. After so many years and lore developments brought on by ESO, Blades, etc, this article, as well as all of our other FAs particularly in Lore, will sooner or later become obsolete and need an update. That aside, any FA, even on Wikipedia, it is foolish to suggest once it hits FA it's in that perfect state where there's nothing further to be improved. There's always something. Great work was done by Imperialbattlespire and any other contributors, and their dedication to the article is worth noting, but it's already been featured and I see no reason to re-feature it, nor do I see a case to revoke and renominate like our prior precedent established. The article was in a really high-quality state as it was before ESO, Blades, etc and in our ever evolving TES lore there's always eventually going to be new information, so we can't even look at DF:Vampirism, a decades old game's article, and say "it was significantly improved so clearly it wasn't good enough then, because that information was static and just nonexisting.

Again, it's a very good article, and credit to everyone who puts their hard work into it. I'm not saying it shouldn't be a featured article, just that the fact that it evolved with the times as all articles do doesn't mean it needs to be re-featured because its original FA status has never been in question and it's always been a high quality article. -damon  ^{talk ♥ contribs} 21:44, 8 February 2020 (GMT)

• Support:Im of the mindset that just because it was featured before doesn't mean it cant be featured again. As future games expand more and more on lore, drastic changes will occur depending on how much information was added. A good example is the khajiit lore page which has had a huge amount of information added since the furstocks were portrayed in ESO:Elsweyr as well as khajiiti culture, but was a featured article prior to the expansion of lore.Zebendal (talk) 00:36, 9 February 2020 (GMT)

Comment: I hate to derail the nomination with a philosophical debate or anything silly, but while there's no reason why it can't be re-featured, there are reasons why it shouldn't. I'd prefer a one-time feature and that's it, because if we want to showcase the UESP's quality, we should be focusing more on expanding articles that need it and letting them be in the limelight. Not to downplay the work put into this article, but what's stopping everyone from polishing a couple of already great and already previously featured articles and nominating them over and over to feature instead of focusing on articles that need the love and are not great and showcasing what users can accomplish to improve articles that already need it? Featuring over and over the same Rolodex of articles doesn't showcase everything the wiki or even the series as a whole has to offer. Legion has had its limelight and it's time to move on and showcase other articles and other subjects. -damon  ^{talk ♥ contribs} 01:12, 9 February 2020 (GMT)

• Support: Seems like a very strong candidate. --AKB ^{Talk Cont Mail} 21:47, 18 February 2020 (GMT)

• Support: Having helped ImpBat a little with this page on Discord, I can attest to just how much effort he has put into this project research-wise, and wiki-wise. I think the humongous diff between the old page and now speaks for itself, definitely worthy of a FA. Thal-J (talk) 23:25, 19 February 2020 (GMT)

Lore:Argonian

• Support: The Argonian lore page was greatly expanded with the inclusion of murkmire lore and tells an origin story from helstrom ancestor lizards, to evolving with the aid of the hist into xanmeer dwelling people, and to their fall into their mudhut dwelling architecture. Architecture is noted, subraces are noted, their way of thinking, etc. --Zebendal (talk) 05:37, 19 February 2020 (GMT)
• Support: Agreed, the article is coherent and well-rounded. --MolagBallet (talk) 18:32, 19 February 2020 (GMT)