Featured articles are articles that are considered in the Toaru Majutsu no Index wiki, is a well written article that, according to according to its editors and contributors, requires or demands enough particular attention that it should be featured on the main page of the wiki. The purpose of a featured article is to show a well written article, or to show an interesting article to the readers, or to garner attention for a neglected article.
They are used as examples and guidelines on how articles are written in this wiki. Although, there is still no exact basis on how articles can become featured, other than the Manual of Style, a featured article has most of these things (based off Wikipedia's Featured article critera):
- Well written
- Comprehensive
- Well-researched
- Neutral
- Not subject to massive changes or edit wars
- It is properly structured
- It is uses consistent citations, references and footnotes
- A suitable amount of images, with appropriate captions and thumbnail sizes.
- It is suitable in length and properly summarized.
Once an article is nominated for being a featured article, it will be voted by editors and contributors if they see the article fit for being a featured article. Afterwards, a golden pentagram, a magic array, will be on top right corner of an article's page that would indicate that the article is featured.
The opening paragraph and a picture would be written (and would similarly, put into an archive) for the article in the This month's featured article, as can be seen below, which is regularly edited each month for the sake of a new featured article.
For nominations go to the Featured article candidates page. This page displays a list of articles that are currently featured.
This month's featured article
Each month the wiki chooses an article to be featured on the main page of the wiki, at which point, they are required to make an opening line for the article. Most often, the opener is copied directly off the article itself, but it is not required, as such, an editor can make an entirely new opener for the article. The most important part is that it properly introduces the article.
Below is this month's Featured article:
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 The original cover of Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 1. From the most recent part of the story to the very start, with the date of the 20th anniversary approaching, the Featured Article this time is for where it all began; Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 1. Its story introduces a world of both science and magic, the primary setting of Academy City where advanced technology and scientifically-developed espers are commonplace, and main protagonist Kamijou Touma, the high school boy plagued by misfortune whose right hand dispels the supernatural. It covers his first meeting with Index, the nun with a perfect memory and the contents of 103,000 grimoires in her head, and the initial events which result from it. When magic and science cross paths, the story begins... Kamachi Kazuma's debut work as a light novel author, it marks the start of the original Toaru Majutsu no Index series (later referred to as the 'Old Testament') as well as the overall Toaru series. First published on April 10th 2004, the volume was coincidentally(?) released one hundred years to the date when the alleged dictation of the Book of the Law's contents to Aleister Crowley was completed. Recently featured: Pneuma-less Shell | |
Archives – More Featured Articles... |
Archive
The openers for the articles that have been featured are archived for each year.
Plot and Lore
Terminology
Ability Body Crystal • Amakusa-Style Remix of Church • Angel • Church of England • Grimoire • GROUP • Gungnir • Norse Mythology • Multi Active Rescue • Power Curriculum Program
Characters
Aiwass • Aleister Crowley • Aureolus Izzard • Cendrillon • Fräulein Kreutune • Kihara Enshuu • Laura Stuart • Matthai Reese • Misaka 9982 • Mitsuari Ayu • Ollerus • Orsola Aquinas • Othinus • Shokuhou Misaki • Thor • Yakumi Hisako
Locations
Endymion • Imaginary Number District–Five Elements Institution • Third Resource Recycling Processing Facility • Windowless Building
Story Arcs and Events
Academy City Invasion Arc • Acqua of the Back Arc • British Halloween • Document of Constantine Arc • Hawaii Invasion Arc • Index Arc • Magic God Othinus Arc • Level 6 Shift attempt on Misaka Mikoto • Sisters Arc
Media
Light Novels
Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test
Anime
Toaru Majutsu no Index Movie: Miracle of Endymion