Wikipedia:Featured sentences

Featured sentences in Wikipedia

This star symbolizes the featured content on Wikipedia.
This star symbolizes the featured content on Wikipedia.

Featured sentences are considered to be some of the best sentences Wikipedia has to offer, as determined by Wikipedia's editors, and they are used by editors as examples for writing other sentences, but before being listed here, sentences are reviewed as featured sentence candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured sentences criteria; most featured sentences were previously good sentences (which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of criteria), and it's important to note that there are currently [needs update] featured sentences out of approximately 204,523,642 sentences on the English Wikipedia (about 0% or one out of every gazillion sentences), plus sentences that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured sentence review.

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Featured sentences

Criteria

A featured sentence exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professionalish standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing, and in addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it is well-written, meaning that its prose is practically poetry, comprehensive, meaning that it comprises the entirety of a featured article, well-researched, meaning that the nominator thinks it's well-researched, neutral, meaning that it says nothing important enough for anyone to disagree with it, stable, meaning that it has not been modified since January 1, 2007, compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy or a clever enough plagiarism that no one catches it, and of a reasonable length, meaning somewhere between two and two hundred words.

Contents

Today's featured sentence: "Imagine for just a moment a world in which every single one of the human beings on the planet earth without exception or exclusion can freely and openly share without restriction or censorship in the grand total sum of all knowledge ever created at any point in history by humankind in the history of humanity's presence on the planet known to humans as earth."

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