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[edit]I can't remember if I've seen this or not, but is there a place to see an old FA, as it looked like the main page? Obviously, the history/preview, but more a way of seeing the snapshot as a whole? ——Serial Number 54129 16:22, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Not quite sure what you mean. We have Main Page history for the part on the Main page. If you mean the complete article, I'd not know something at present, but for GAs, we have a link to the reviewed version, and I think it would be feasible to write a link to the version as it appeared somewhere in article history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:42, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Fantastic! The Main Page History is exactly what I was thinking. I really do thank you. I'd nearly scratched a whole in my hair, to be sure. ——Serial Number 54129 17:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- I love to hear that - preventing that hole ;) - It's written twice, to get the changes (RD, DYK), the next will be WP:Main Page history/2024 April 4b. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:44, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Fantastic! The Main Page History is exactly what I was thinking. I really do thank you. I'd nearly scratched a whole in my hair, to be sure. ——Serial Number 54129 17:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
About topic links following blurbs
[edit]Quick question: I've seen links to featured topics at the end of TFA blurbs when the article in question is a member of that topic, but does the same apply to good topics? I notice that the {{TFAFULL}} template only has language for the former. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:54, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- No. Only featured topics. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:23, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks; that's about what I thought, but it couldn't hurt to make sure. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:32, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Why was this TFA featured twice?
[edit]24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger was featured 8 years ago and with an average of 1 TFA a day that means ~3000 Featured Articles were shown on home page in this time range. As of today we have around 6,000 Featured Articles. Do you know how many other articles were TFA'd multiple times and or not shown at all? I imagine this has been discussed before, so would be happy to read prior discussions about this too. Thank you all for the work you do! ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 02:27, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Shushugah There is a list of FAs that have never been on the main page at WP:FAMP. It currently has 714 listed, although this includes large clusters in topics such as soccer/association football and military ships that will have to be spaced out every so often to avoid having the same topic matter on the main page too often. WP:FASTATS shows FA promotions/demotions by year; we haven't had 365 new FAs promoted in a year since 2013 according to that. It's standard practice to have a few reruns that were last on the main page 5 years or more ago several times a month. Hog Farm Talk 02:36, 25 August 2024 (UTC)