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This page hosts nominations for featured text status in accordance with the Featured text guidelines. A featured text should exemplify Wikisource's very highest standards of accuracy. If you nominate a text, you will be expected to make a good-faith effort to address objections that are raised. Any established user may nominate a text or vote (as long as it matches the criteria). Every month the nomination with the highest support ratio, weighted in favour of nominations with more numerous votes (equation forthcoming), will be chosen as featured text. All nominations with under 70% support after a week will be archived. The most promising nominations (up to 10) will be carried over to the next week, during which time established users may continue to place votes.

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Date	Text
2006 January February March April May June July Gettysburg Address August Dulce et Decorum est September The Time Machine October — November Elegie II December Come not, when I am dead
2007 January After Death February Anthem for Doomed Youth March Resignation letter (Roosevelt) April Darkness May Lights June Arithmetic on the Frontier July — August Cole's Old English Masters. John Opie September Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration October — November — December —
2008 January The Black Cat February Balade to Rosemounde March The Late Mr. Charles Babbage, F.R.S. April South Africa Act 1909 May United States patent X1 June — July — August ACLU v. NSA Opinion September The Wind in the Willows October Early Settlers Along the Mississippi November Coker FOIA documents December —
2009 January George Washington's First State of the Union Address February — March Transcript of the 'friendly fire' incident video April J'accuse May German Instrument of Surrender June A specimen of the botany of New Holland July Fatal fall of Wright airship August Charles von Hügel September Flight 93 Cockpit Transcript October A Description of a City Shower November The Fight at Dame Europa's School December Descriptive account ... of King George's Sound
2010 January The English Constitution February Omnibuses and Cabs March Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper April Diary of ten years May Anthony Roll June Celtic Fairy Tales July The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke August A Study in Scarlet September Makers of British botany October The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. November — December Houston: Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea
2011 January No Treason February — March Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures April The Velveteen Rabbit May Poems by Wilfred Owen June — July Stops of Various Quills August A Witch Shall Be Born September Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine October — November — December —
2012 January — February Picturesque New Guinea March Flatland April Shaving Made Easy May — June — July Popular Science Monthly August Homes of the London Poor September Mexico, as it was and as it is October Special: Halloween November Bull-dog Drummond December Black Beauty
2013 January Proclamation 95 February Rambles in New Zealand March The Art of Nijinsky April A Jewish State May Amazing Stories, no. 1 June Laura Secord: A Study in Canadian Patriotism July Magic August Tracks of McKinlay and party across Australia September The Yellow Wall Paper October November December
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1. Ensure that the text meets all the featured text criteria and style guidelines. Nominations that are flagged as not meeting the criteria will be unlisted after 24 hours, unless the criteria are met in that time.
2. Note the nomination on the talk page by adding the template {{featured text candidate}}.
3. Begin a discussion at the bottom of this page. Note your reason for nominating the text.

See also

• Proofreading

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• If you believe an article meets all of the criteria, write Support followed by your reasons.
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• Failed nominations
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• Passed nominations
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  2. Place {{featured}} on top of the work's main page {{header}} template.
  3. Place {{featured talk|July 2013}} at the top of the work's main talk page (changing the numbers to the appropriate date if not next month).
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Nominations

For older nominations, see the archives.

Vanity Fair

I know it's a little way off yet but Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray would be a good featured text for December. Thackeray died in December 1863, making this December the 150th anniversary of his death. On top of that, Vanity Fair was a PotM earlier in the year. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 01:08, 19 May 2013 (UTC)