At the moment I don't have the time (or probably the skill) to get any articles up to Featured Article status. However my current goal is to try and get a few articles up to Good Article status this year.
Useful things edit
Wikipedia:Good article criteria Wikipedia:What the Good article criteria are not Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles
Farnham edit
There is quite a bit to do.
Easy stuff edit
- Check all references
- Replace broken ones
- Expand bare links with a citation template
- Ensure that there are some offline references
- Ensure that sources are reliable
- Check images
- Check suitability of current images
- Check captions of current images
- Find relevant images from commons
- Check the licensing status of all images
Intermediate stuff edit
- Check neutrality
- Remove POV
- Formalise tone
- Remove peacock words
- Check original research
- Remove any unsourceable OR
- Reword sourceable OR
- Ensure all potentially controversial statements are well sourced
- Ensure POV sources are replaced or remove the problem text
- Check copyright status of blocks of text
- Google every block of text
- Check large blocks against nearby sources
- Any text in public domain should be marked as such
- Manual of style
- Lead section
- Layout
- Words to watch
- List incorporation
Hard stuff edit
- Prose
- Clear and concise
- Encyclopedic tone
- Addresses main aspects of the topic
- Remove unnecessary detail -> WP:Summary style