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The Article of the Week is an article chosen by vote among Citizens as exemplifying various qualities we like to see in a ''Citizendium'' article; see our [[CZ:Approval Standards|article standards]]. It is chosen each week by vote in a manner similar to that of its sister project, the [[CZ:New Draft of the Week|New Draft of the Week]]

== Add New Nominees Here==

'''To add a new nominee or vote for an existing nominee,  click ''edit'' for this section and follow the instructions''' 

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== Transclusion of the above nominees (to be done by an Administrator) ==

* Transclude each of the nominees in the above "Table of Nominees" as per the instructions at [[Template:Featured Article Candidate]].
* Then add the transcluded article to the list in the next section below, using the {{tl|Featured Article Candidate}} template.

== View Current Transcluded Nominees (after they have been transcluded by an Administrator) ==

The next article (or draft) of the week will be the article with the most votes at 1 AM [[UTC]] on Thursday, 28 October, 2010.
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| article     = Smog
| supporters  = [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 22:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
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== Current Winner (to be selected and implemented by an Administrator) ==

''To change, click '''edit''' and follow the instructions, or see documentation at {{tl|Featured Article}}.''
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== Previous Winners ==

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{{rpr|Space (mathematics)}}
{{rpr|World of Warcraft}}
{{rpr|Social capital}}
{{rpr|Richard Condon}}
{{rpr|Natural gas}}
{{rpr|Stairway to Heaven}}
{{rpr|Cryptography}}
{{rpr|English spellings}}
{{rpr|Folk saint}}
{{rpr|Led Zeppelin}}
{{rpr|Locality of reference}}
{{rpr|Rabbit}}
{{rpr|Scarborough Castle}} (September 3)
{{rpr|The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order}} (August 27)
{{rpr|Mauna Kea}} (August 20)
{{rpr|Brute force attack}} (August 13)
{{rpr|Cruiser}} (August 5)
{{rpr|The Canterbury Tales}} (July 30)
{{rpr|Milpa agriculture}} (July 23)
{{rpr|Domain Name System}} (July 16)
{{rpr|Scuticaria}} (July 9)
{{rpr|Torture}} (July 2)
{{rpr|Miltonia}} (June 25)
{{rpr|Ancient Celtic music}} (June 18)
{{rpr|Bifrenaria}} (June 11)
{{rpr|Halobacterium NRC-1}} (June 4)
{{rpr|Animal}} (May 28)
{{rpr|Coal}} (May 21)
{{rpr|Johannes Diderik van der Waals}} (May 7)
{{rpr|Scientific method}} (Apr 14)
{{rpr|Korematsu v. United States}} (Apr 7)
{{rpr|Orchid}} (Mar 31)
{{rpr|Oliver Cromwell}} (Mar 24)
{{rpr|Wisconsin v. Yoder}} (Mar 17)
{{rpr|Conventional coal-fired power plant}} (Mar 10)
{{rpr|Battle of the Ia Drang}} (Mar 3)
{{rpr|Ether (physics)}} (Feb 24)
{{rpr|Large-scale trickle filters}} (11 Feb)
{{rpr|Homeopathy}} (28 Jan)
{{rpr|Microeconomics}} (14 Jan)
{{rpr|Speech Recognition}} (26 Nov)
{{rpr|Mashup}} (19 Nov)
{{rpr|Tux}} (14 Oct)
{{rpr|Hydrogen bond}} (7 Oct)
{{rpr|Lead}} (1 Sept)
{{rpr|DNA}} (8 July)
{{rpr|Augustin-Louis_Cauchy}} (1 July)
{{rpr|Vasco da Gama}} (24 June)
{{rpr|Phosphorus}} (17 June)
{{rpr|Crystal Palace}} (10 June)
{{rpr|Gross Domestic Product}} (3 June)
{{rpr|RNA interference}} (27 May)
{{rpr|Latino history}} (20 May)
{{rpr|Navy Grog}} (13 May)
{{rpr|Systems biology}} (6 May)
{{rpr|Steroid}} (22 Apr)
{{rpr|Lebanon}} (15 Apr)
{{rpr|Wheat}} (7 Apr)
{{rpr|Benjamin Franklin}} (1 Apr)
{{rpr|Coherer}} (25 Mar)
{{rpr|American Civil War|U.S. Civil War}} (18 Mar)
{{rpr|Life}} (11 Mar)
{{rpr|Petroleum refining processes}} (4 Mar)
{{rpr|Shirley Chisholm}} (20 Feb)
{{rpr|Telephone newspaper|Telephone Newspaper}} (4 Feb)
{{rpr|Wristwatch}} (28 Jan)
{{rpr|Korean War of 1592-1598}} (21 Jan)
{{rpr|Andrew Carnegie}} (11 January 2008)
{{rpr|Bowling}} (31 December 2007)
{{rpr|Architecture}} (December 6)
{{rpr|Civil society}} November 29
{{rpr|Joan of Arc}} (November 22)
{{rpr|Chemistry}} (November 15)
{{rpr|Albert Gallatin}} (November 8)
{{rpr|Prime number}} (November 1)
{{rpr|Tennis}} (October 25)
{{rpr|Rottweiler}} (October 18)
{{rpr|Theodor Lohmann}} (October 9)
{{rpr|William Shakespeare}} (October 2)
{{rpr|Edward I}} (September 25)
{{rpr|El Tío}} (September 18)
{{rpr|Scotland Yard}} (September 11)
{{rpr|Kilt}} (September 4)
{{rpr|U.S. Electoral College}} (August 28)
{{rpr|Butler}} (August 21)
{{rpr|Tony Blair}} (August 14)
{{rpr|Northwest Passage}} (August 7)
{{rpr|Literature}} (July 31)
{{rpr|Biology}} (July 25)
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== Rules and Procedure ==
=== Rules ===
* The article's status must be 0 or 1, i.e., only "Advanced Articles" may be nominated.
* Any Citizen may nominate an article.
* No Citizen may have nominated more than one article listed under "current nominees" at a time.
* The article's nominator is indicated simply by the first name in the list of votes (see below).
* At least for now--while the project is still small--you may nominate and vote for articles of which you are a main author.
* An article can be Article of the Week only once every six months.  Nominated articles that have won top honors should be removed from the list.
* Comments on nominations should be made on the article's talk page.
* The list of nominees should be kept below 20, or thereabouts. Articles with very few supporters and which have not gained any new supporters in the last two weeks or so may be deleted to make room for new nominees.
* Any ''editor'' may entirely cancel the nomination of any ''unapproved'' article in his or her area of expertise if, for example, it contains obvious and embarrassing problems.

=== Voting ===
* To vote, add your name and date in the ''Supporters'' column next to an article title, after other supporters for that article, by signing <code><nowiki><br />~~~~</nowiki></code>. (The date is necessary so that we can determine when the last vote was added.) Your vote is alloted a score of 1.
* Add your name in the ''Specialist supporters'' column only if you are an editor who is an expert about the topic in question. Your vote is alloted a score of 1 for articles which you created and a score of 2 for articles which you did not create.
* You may vote for as many articles as you wish, and each vote counts separately, but you can only ''nominate'' one at a time; see above.  You could, theoretically, vote for every nominated article on the page, but this would be pointless.

=== Ranking ===
* The list of articles is sorted by number of votes first, then alphabetically.
* Admins should make sure that the votes are correctly tallied, but anyone may do this.  Note that "Specialist Votes" are worth 3 points.

=== Updating ===
* Each Thursday, one of the admins listed below should move the winning article to the [[#Current Winner|Current Winner]] section of this page, announces the winner on Citizendium-L and updates the "previous winning articles" section accordingly.
* The winning article will be the article at the top of the list (''ie'' the one with the most votes).
* In the event of two or more having the same number of votes :
** The article with the ''most specialist supporters'' is used. Should this fail to produce a winner, the article appearing ''first by English alphabetical order'' is used.<br />
** The remaining winning articles are guaranteed this position in the following weeks, again in alphabetical order. No further voting would take place on these, which remain at the top of the table with notices to that effect. Further nominations and voting take place to determine future winning articles for the following weeks.

== Administrators ==

These are people who have volunteered to run this program.  Their duties are (1) to ensure that this page remains "clean," e.g., as a given article garners more votes, its tally is accurately represented and it moves up the list, and (2) to place the winning article on the front page on a weekly basis.
To become an administrator, you need not apply anywhere.  Simply add your name below.  Administrator duties are open to editors and authors alike.

* [[User:Carl_Jantzen|Carl Jantzen]]
* [[User:Todd Coles|Todd Coles]]
* [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]]
* [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]]

==References==
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== See Also ==
* [[CZ:New Draft of the Week]]
* [[CZ:Markup tags for partial transclusion of selected text in an article]]
* [[CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon]]

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