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Countdown:Featured articles
A featured article is of one The Countdown Wiki's finest articles. These are selected by the editors of The Countdown Wiki on this very page. A featured article could be a player, a game or a piece of terminology. The article should be of a certain length and preferably contain images and external links to make the article more readable.
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List of featured articles
- Category:Featured articles and Countdown:Featured article archives give a full list of these.
Proposed featured articles
- If we need more articles for the main page, let's think of a bunch of them. I'd go for Julian Fell, Ben Wilson, Martin Gardner (vanity!), Conor Travers, Harvey Freeman etc. Mglovesfun 21:26, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Yeah, maybe we should have a Project of the Week and try to bring some of those articles up to full strength for future FAs. We'd have to pick the more recent players I suspect, because for a lot of the older one we don't have any more than the scores. Soo 22:31, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Yes I could start that project right now, we need to decide how often to change the featured article. One thing I noticed is that the <ref></ref> doesn't seem to work on here, or doesn't that matter? As for players with games, there's me, Ben and Conor that all have round details. I will think more about which players have round details as well, and of course series and CofCs are another good source of FA's. Mglovesfun 13:35, 9 April 2008 (BST)
- Yeah, maybe we should have a Project of the Week and try to bring some of those articles up to full strength for future FAs. We'd have to pick the more recent players I suspect, because for a lot of the older one we don't have any more than the scores. Soo 22:31, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Graham Nash - there's now a photo and the articles a lot longer with more detail. Mglovesfun 17:25, 29 April 2008 (BST)
- Mark Tournoff is another possible one, although we nearly have enough for a year already. My next project will be to get the Paul Gallen article up to the same standard. Mglovesfun 15:35, 3 May 2008 (BST)
- Perhaps Stewart Holden? We need a June article, after all. Countdown Kid 11:32, 13 June 2009 (BST)
- I've done a lot of work to Series 60, which might well make it feature worthy. Also, I'm not particularly notable but I've savoured my vanity and given my contestant page a bit of a going over! As an aside, has anyone spotted my suggestion of a featured article symbol on Countdown talk:Featured articles? -- Crispy 13:26, 27 June 2009 (BST)
How to make a new proposal
Follow this edit link, or the one at the top of the page, and add your own suggestion. The name of the article should be placd between two square brackets to make a blue link (example: [[Jon O'Neill]]).
Future featured articles
When an article is featured, it is given a short write-up on the front page. This is not editable by ordinary users (the risk of vandalism to the front page is too high.) But we will post a draft here well in advance, so please feel free to edit that and who knows -- your words may appear on the front page!
Previous featured articles
- See also : Countdown:Featured article archives
October 2009
Stewart Holden (born 5 September 1979) was the champion of Series 51. He won eight consecutive heat games to secure octochamp status, amassing a total of 870 points to rank as #1 seed for the series. In the finals, he defeated Nicole Hutchings and Richard Pay to set up a grand final appearance alongside Steve Graston, who he beat by 104 points to 81. Following his success Holden had hoped to appear in the twelfth Championship of Champions. However, following a postponement on its recording Holden opted not to commit any further time to studying the ODE, instead posting on the c4countdown message board to announce his intention to retire from Countdown undefeated, in order to focus on his preferred game of Scrabble.
Holden, who holds the position of Publicity Officer for the Association of British Scrabble Players, launched Scrabble accessory business Tilefish in October 2005, which he owned until July 2008. In 2007, Holden was named as runner-up at the National Scrabble Championship held in London. More recently, he has compiled the weekly Scrabble puzzle which features in The Guardian newspaper. In spite of officially having retired Holden maintains strong links with Countdown, participating in three of the unofficial COLIN tournaments and writing content for the desktop Countdown puzzle calendar. (more...)
