Team Fortress Wiki:Featured articles (Classic)

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Featured articles

Featured articles exemplify some of the best written and most informational articles on Team Fortress Wiki. Featured articles must adhere to the featured article criteria below.

Featured articles are determined and rotated by the staff.

Criteria

  1. A featured article is—
    • informative: it should contain both helpful and useful information;
    • comprehensive: it should be complete, without omission of major facts or details;
    • accurate: it should be factually accurate, and sourced where appropriate.
  2. It should also be—
    • well-written: the prose of the article is engaging, and of a professional standard;
    • properly styled: the article should follow all conventions in the Style guide;
    • stable: the article should not be currently undergoing any major revisions or edit wars;
    • of appropriate length: the article should stay focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail.
  3. Its use of media should be—
    • referential: images should be used as a source of reference;
    • to clarify: images should be used to help illustrate a point;
    • informational: images should be used to display additional information.
    • Media used on a featured article must be appropriately licensed and include source information on the file description page.
  4. A featured article must also be—
    • well-connected:
      • by linking to all relevant articles;
      • by linking to reliable outside sources where appropriate.

Current featured articles

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Nomination procedure

To nominate an article—

  1. Ensure that the article meets the criteria.
  2. Add a new section to the Current nominations section below, and include a link to the article and a statement from you about it.
  3. Add {{Featured article candidate}} to the talk page of the article.

Anyone is free to nominate any article they consider to meet the featured criteria.

Current nominations

Concussion grenade

I hope you don't mind, I went ahead and implemented the Featured article system and chose the Concussion grenade as it's a staple tool of the classic Fortress. i-ghost 06:40, 7 October 2011 (PDT)

"Armor (Classic)" for next Featured article?

The current Featured Article has been featured for the last few years. The least we could do is update it once, eh? I propose the "Armor (Classic)" page. Here's my reasoning:

  • It's one of the more complete TFC pages.
  • So far the pattern (if you could even call it that) has been features present in Classic but not the current game. Making the next Featured Article "Armor (Classic)" would fit in nicely.
  • Adding a new Featured Article might breathe new life into the TFC section, if only a slight amount.

So, thoughts? Alert.pngThis page has been defiled by Jboby1! (U|T|C)Alert.png 05:46, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Demoman

Its been 14 years since there has been a new featured article for the Team Fortress Classic Wiki. I feel like the Demoman (Classic) is a good candidate for the following reasons:

  • Its informative about his role and functions within the game, well-written, properly-styled, and without a doubt stable (there has only been 16 edits on this article in the past 10 years).
  • The Classic Demoman's ability to open up alternative paths on maps is a very distinct ability compared to the TF2 counterparts that is interesting for readers to learn about.
    • Pipebombs and Grenade Launchers for this game also operate opposite to how they do in TF2 and since this article directly relates to them its an interesting extension of this article to learn about.
  • Has a lot of connections to movement due to the number of explosives he connects connecting to the movement article.
  • Links to the standard TF2 wiki via the comic trivia and the "Blast Blocker" Demoman cosmetic item.

Thoughts? User Fisherboy800 Fisherboy.gifUser Fisherboy800 User Talk Page.gifUser Fisherboy800 Contributions.gif 20:57, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

I don't see much merit in the last point, but it is missing a visualisation of the unused texture. I do intend to add those, though.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 21:02, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
Yes, and it would probably do good with an example of a route the Demoman can create to help emphasis the ability he has, but if these things were added I think it would work great. For the merit of the last point, I just added it as an example of how the article is well-connected. User Fisherboy800 Fisherboy.gifUser Fisherboy800 User Talk Page.gifUser Fisherboy800 Contributions.gif 21:07, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
I think those are map-specific so it's not really necessary. For the other points, which I forgot to mention, the first one is pretty much just standard but I do think it's a +1. The second/third point is just that the Demoman is interesting, not that it is necessarily well-written or featured. The fourth point is another +1, and the fifth point I mentioned before.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 21:15, 12 November 2025 (UTC)