Proposal to add criteria 1f to Wikipedia:Featured article criteria
editWikipedia:Copyrights is core Wikipedia policy, and applies to all content. Likewise, this expectation also applies to featured articles, although this is not explicitly stated in the current featured article criteria. I propose adding criteria 1f to the featured article criteria, in the same manner that the expectation that nominated articles comply with the copyright policy is codified in the good article criteria. A proposed wording of this new criteria would be:
compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy: it contains content summarized from sources in Wikipedia's own words (except for brief quotations) and is free of plagiarism and too-close paraphrasing.