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This set of college and university article advice is intended to apply to all university and higher-education college articles (and some related articles). While the advice presented here is well-suited for the vast majority of such articles, alternate approaches and exceptions have been taken, often the result of national educational differences.
You can ask questions. The history of an article and the process around how it was written are transparent. Major additional weaknesses: Articles vary wildly in quality and comprehensiveness. At any given moment, an article may be in a vandalized state (rare, but not negligible). Biases are unpredictable.
When you create a new article, you have two choices. Either is fine, but we recommend the first -- you will have more likelihood of others joining you to help build up the article! Create a stub in the main article namespace, and then gradually build it up during the next few weeks, with input from classmates and instructors; or
Examples of instructors leading assignments that are good models to learn from include Brianwc, who has successfully run a multi-semester program at a law school; jbmurray, who had students take articles up to good and featured status; and Biolprof, who had graduate students peer review each other's contributions multiple times.
An A-class article is often considered as a transition between good article and featured article status. It was originally created to serve as a buffer between B-class and featured article, though now it saw limited use by some large Wikiprojects. An example is the Battle of Nam River and its review in June 2014.
If you are good at writing, and know a lot about a specific topic, it's possible. Create an article, ask for feedback to it, make sure it meets the Wikipedia:Featured article criteria and ask if it's good enough to be a featured article.
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There are 47 topics in which every article is featured if possible. In the topic boxes below: indicates that the article is a featured article or featured list. indicates that the article is a good article. indicates that the article is an audited article of limited subject matter or inherent instability.