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=== Featured articles ===
=== Featured articles ===
{{rpr|Buddhist councils}} (February 10 — 16, 2012)
{{rpr|Buddhist councils}} (February 16 — 23, 2012)
{{rpr|Synapsid}} (February 10 — 16, 2012)
{{rpr|Synapsid}} (February 10 — 16, 2012)
{{rpr|Cowdray House}} (February 3 — 10, 2012)
{{rpr|Cowdray House}} (February 3 — 10, 2012)

Revision as of 22:27, 14 February 2013

Featured Article is an award given weekly to a high-quality Citizendium article.

Chunbum Park is the current Featured Articles maintainer.

Note on editing Featured Articles (8 August 2011)

You are encouraged to fix any errors you find in our Featured Articles. Do note however, that changes made to the current Feature at CZ:Featured article/Current do not automatically apply to the main article. The /Current page is blanked once a week to make room for the next Feature. For your contribution to be permanent, you need to make the change in the main article as well, i.e. the topmost link in the list below. Thank you. Johan Förberg

Formal policy

EC Decision D-2011-014, 28 February 2011:

The welcome page of the Citizendium shall display one or two featured articles.

If no other system of choosing and displaying articles is employed, then at least one article shall be chosen from our Approved articles on a rotating basis and shall thereafter be changed at least once a week.

Remark: This replaces the "Article of the Week" and the "New Draft of the Week" for the time being, or until another feature is installed.

Archive

List of previously featured articles.

Before May 4, 2011, there were two distinct categories of featured articles, which are archived separately.

Featured articles

  • Developed Article Buddhist councils [r]: Local, national, regional or international gatherings of Buddhist leaders to discuss matters of religious doctrine or tradition, comparable, in the view of some, to Christian councils, synods or ecumenical councils. [e] (February 16 — 23, 2012)
  • Developing Article Synapsid [r]: Class of animals that includes early mammals and everything similar to mammals, than to other living amniotes, classically described as mammal-like reptiles [e] (February 10 — 16, 2012)
  • Developed Article Cowdray House [r]: A 16th-century Tudor mansion badly damaged by fire in 1793. The ruins have been open to the public since the early 20th century. [e] (February 3 — 10, 2012)
  • Developing Article Mission San Gabriel Arcángel [r]: A former religious outpost established in 1771 on the west coast of North America in the present-day State of California by Roman Catholics of the Franciscan Order under the direction of the Spanish crown. [e] (January 29 — February 3, 2012)
  • Developing Article Mission San José [r]: A former religious outpost established in 1797 on the west coast of North America in the present-day State of California by Roman Catholics of the Franciscan Order under the direction of the Spanish crown. [e] (January 19 — 29, 2012)
  • Developing Article Hypercholesterolemia [r]: Presence of an abnormally large amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the circulating blood. [e] (January 8 — 19, 2012)
  • Developing Article Diabetic neuropathy [r]: Negative effects on the nervous system that can be caused by diabetes mellitus, some of which may necessitate amputation. [e] (December 30 — January 8, 2012)
  • Developed Article Railroads in California [r]: A brief history of the network of interconnected independent rail transport systems located throughout the Union's thirty-first state and how they shaped the region's development. [e] (December 22 — 30, 2012)
  • Developed Article Robert Burns [r]: The National poet of Scotland (1759-96); writer of Auld Lang Syne. [e] (December 15 — 22, 2012)
  • Developed Article Wonders of the world [r]: Lists of especially remarkable artificial or natural structures of worldwide importance [e] (December 8 — 15, 2012)
  • Developing Article Silent letters in English [r]: English letter or letters within a particular word, which are not heard in the pronunciation of the word, but appear in the spelling—and the opposite. [e] (December 1 — 8, 2012)
  • Developing Article Fiscal policy [r]: Policy concerning public expenditure, taxation and borrowing and the provision of public goods and services, and their effects upon social conduct, the distribution of wealth and the level of economic activity. [e] (November 24 — December 1, 2012)
  • Developed Article Liquefied natural gas [r]: Natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4) that has been converted into liquid form for ease of transport and storage. [e] (November 17 — 24, 2012)
  • Approved Article Industrial cooling tower [r]: Heat rejection systems used primarily to provide circulating cooling water in large industrial facilities. [e] (November 10 — 17, 2012)
  • Approved Article Steam generator [r]: A device that uses a heat source to boil liquid water and convert it into its vapor phase, referred to as steam. [e] (November 6 — 10, 2012)
  • Developed Article Fenske equation [r]: An equation for calculating the minimum number of theoretical plates needed to separate a binary feed stream by a fractionation column operated at total reflux (i.e., meaning that no overhead product is being withdrawn from the column). [e] (October 28 — November 6, 2012)
  • Approved Article Pompeii [r]: A Roman city buried by a volcanic eruption A.D. 79. The city is now an important archaeological site. [e] (October 20 — 28, 2012)
  • Developing Article Potassium in nutrition and human health [r]: Role of dietary potassium and its associated bicarbonate-generating organic ions in human physiology and in preventive and therapeutic medicine. [e] (October 13 — 20, 2012)
  • Developing Article Pulmonary embolism [r]: Blocking of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by an embolus. [e] (October 6 — 13, 2012)
  • Developed Article Spanish missions in California [r]: A series of twenty-one religious outposts and associated support facilities established by Spaniards of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823, in order to spread the Catholic faith among the local Native American populations. [e] (September 30 — October 6, 2012)
  • Approved Article Set theory [r]: Mathematical theory that models collections of (mathematical) objects and studies their properties. [e] (September 24 — 30, 2012)
  • Developing Article Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e] (September 15 — 24, 2012)
  • Developing Article Acute coronary syndrome‎ [r]: Set of signs and symptoms related to the heart, due to myocardial ischemia. [e] (September 7 — 15, 2012)
  • Developing Article Emergence (biology) [r]: The exhibition of novel collective phenomena in living systems stemming from a complex organization of their many constituent parts. [e] (August 31 — September 7, 2012)
  • Developed Article Food reward [r]: The brain mechanisms involved in reinforcing feeding behaviour. [e] (August 24 — 31, 2012)
  • Approved Article NMR spectroscopy [r]: The use of electromagnetic radiation, in the presence of a magnetic field, to obtain information regarding transitions between different nuclear spin states of the nuclei present in the sample of interest. [e] (August 16 — 24, 2012)
  • Dokdo [r]:
  1. REDIRECT Dokdo (Takeshima)/Definition [e] (August 10 — 16, 2012)

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