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The Four Award (clockwise from bottom-right: new article, did you know, good article, featured article)

The Four Award recognizes the persistence of Wikipedia editors who have taken care of an article from its humble beginnings through featured article status. The articles listed here have passed through all four stages of editorial development (creation, DYK, GA, FA), with the same author largely responsible for each stage. There are currently 867 Four Award–certified articles, written by 296 authors. Thus, about one in every 8,227 articles and one in every 8 featured articles is listed here.

The project serves as encouragement for people who have a strong interest in and/or a deep understanding of redlinked topics to advance them to a very high level of quality. The way the display of recognized articles is formatted in a sortable table, it also encourages experienced editors to take the time to research and develop those articles that they have created in the past but have neglected. Read the criteria below for achieving the Four Award. If you believe you hold the requisites, you may apply for this award via the nominations section. If you have any questions, please review the frequently asked questions and then post on the award's talk page.

There are three Four Award userboxes – }, }, and } – and another userspace template: }.

You must start a new article. You may begin from a redlink or convert a redirect, if the redirect was not previously an article in its own right.
You must have that same article that you started/created be displayed at the Did You Know... section of the Main Page. (You are not required to be someone who is credited for the DYK status, but you must be one of the people significantly responsible for the article meeting the DYK criteria.) The DYK nomination does not need to be made before the article becomes a Good Article.
You must significantly help in improving that same article that you started/created and was displayed at the Did You Know... section of the Main Page to Good Article status. (You are not required to be the person who nominated the article for GA status, but you must be one of the people significantly responsible for the article meeting the GA criteria.)
You must significantly help in improving that same article that you started/created, was displayed at the Did You Know... section of the Main Page and that you significantly helped achieve Good Article status, to Featured Article status, which it still retains.

If you believe an article meets all the requirements listed above, you may request the award following the instructions below. The article will be reviewed according to the reviewing instructions and the nomination will either be accepted or rejected. If any editor disagrees with the determination of a reviewer, please discuss the nomination on the FOUR talk page.

• Copy the code below and paste it to the bottom of the current nominations section. The user and comments parameters will not be necessary for most nominations.

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• Note: If your involvement in any of the article development processes (creation, WP:DYK, WP:GAN, WP:FAC) is unclear, please provide additional information (including diffs, if necessary) elaborating on your involvement and/or how you and the article meet the WP:FOUR criteria.

A Four Award can be awarded to multiple editors who collaborated throughout the creation and development of an article. Co-nominations are eligible if multiple editors can show significant collaboration through each step of the Four criteria: article creation, DYK, GAN, and FAC. With regards to the article creation step, collaboration can be shown by all editors providing significant contributions to the initial development of the article. The easiest way to do this is by creating a draft (either in the draft namespace or a user page) and then moving it to the mainspace after it has been initially developed. In regards to all the criteria, if it isn't clear that all editors contributed through all of the article development steps, please provide additional information (including diffs, if necessary) elaborating the constributions from each editor.

Article: Mongush Buyan-Badyrgy (talk, history)

New article: diff for creation DYK: Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/April#9 April 2025 and nomination GA: Talk:Mongush Buyan-Badyrgy/GA1 FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mongush Buyan-Badyrgy/archive1 BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:10, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Article: Early life and education of Donald Trump (talk, history)

New article: diff for creation DYK: Wikipedia:Recent additions/2026/January and nomination GA: Talk:Early life and education of Donald Trump/GA1 FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Early life and education of Donald Trump/archive1 elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 23:55, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Article: The Hand That Signed the Paper (talk, history)

New article: diff for creation DYK: Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2025/June#30_June_2025 and nomination GA: Talk:The Hand That Signed the Paper/GA1 FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Hand That Signed the Paper/archive1 MCE89 (talk) 16:16, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Article: Elizabeth Willing Powel (talk, history)

New article: diff for creation DYK: Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2020/February#21_February_2020 and nomination GA: Talk:Elizabeth Willing Powel/GA1 FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Elizabeth Willing Powel/archive1 --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 05:34, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Article: Yuan Shikai coinage (talk, history)

New article: diff for creation DYK: Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2024/September#19_September_2024 and nomination GA: Talk:Yuan Shikai coinage/GA1 FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yuan Shikai coinage/archive1 Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 08:23, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]