Wikipedia:Featured sentences

Featured sentences in 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 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. On non-mobile versions of our website, a small bronze star icon () to the right of a sentence indicates that the sentence is featured, and on most smartphones and tablets you can also select "Desktop" at the very bottom of the page or "Request Desktop Site" in your browser's menu to see this line (do a search to find out how); additionally, if the current sentence is featured in another language, a star will appear next to the corresponding entry in the languages list in the sidebar to let you know.

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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

Some sentences are in sub-topics according to the larger topics

• Arts, culture, society, and humanities
• Astronomy
• Beauty pageants
• Computing
• Engineering
• Geography and places
  • U.S.
  • UK
  • other
• Global South
• Health and medicine
• Heraldry, honours, and vexillology
• Mathematics
• Meteorology
  • pre-1900s cyclones
  • 1900s cyclones
  • 1910s cyclones
  • 1920s cyclones
  • 1930s cyclones
  • 1940s cyclones
  • 1950s cyclones
  • 1960s cyclones
  • 1970s cyclones
  • 1980s cyclones
  • 1990s cyclones
  • 2000s cyclones
  • 2010s cyclones
  • 2020s cyclones
• Numismatics
• Physics
• Sports
  • Australian cricket team in England in 1948
  • other
• Technology
• Transport
• Video gaming
• Warfare
  • heroes
  • villains

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."

Featured sentences

• Cogito, ergo sum.
• For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
• James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
• That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is.
• Ask not what your encyclopedia can do for you; ask what you can do for your encyclopedia.
• The Moon is made of green cheese.
• Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes.
• When you start a discussion about an editor, you must notify them on their user talk page.
• Sections inactive for 47 hours are archived automatically by Lowercase sigmabot III.
• You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges.
• Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War.
• Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
• What?? Why did you revert my edit!!
• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
• General Jerryfoolery
• We're handy dandy men, we can make it work again.
• Kalia needs us. Rangers, GO!
• According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.
• The Reverend Sir Dr. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World, or Stephen Colbert, is the fictionalized persona of political satirist Stephen Colbert, as portrayed on the Comedy Central series The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and occasionally on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS.
• If you put a gun to my head and said, 'You have to come up with a story for Happy Feet 3,' I'd say shoot me.
• Oh No! There's a fish stranded on the beach! It's gonna suffocate! Here, I’ll help you!
  • Oh No! It washed up again!
    • Woah, a flying fish? Don’t worry buddy, let me put you back in the water
      • Oh No! It washed up again!
• Are chickens red or green?