Shortcut: WP:FAC/ar

The decision to close a FAC is made by the FA director, Raul654, or his delegates, SandyGeorgia and Karanacs. They indicate this decision by removing the nomination page from the Featured article candidates page, and adding it to either:

1. archived nominations, for articles that are not promoted, or
2. featured logs and the featured articles page, for articles that are promoted to featured status.

Some time later, a bot will mark the nomination page closed, and update the article talk page. Please do not update articlehistory or the talk page yourself, as that will stall the bot and create extra work. The delay in bot processing of the FAC closing can range from minutes to a few days; editors will know if an article was featured or archived by checking the archived nominations or the featured log.

1. If the article was not promoted, there is nothing editors need to do; the bot will update the talk page. Specifically, there is no need to remove the {{featured article candidates}} template or update the {{articlehistory}} template; the bot will do that.
2. If the article was listed at FA by the featured article director, it has been promoted and you can add the star to the article, by adding {{featured article}} to the bottom of the article page (unless the bot has already done that). The bot will do everything else, viz., it will upgrade Project assessments, close the FAC, remove the {{featured article candidates}} template, and update ArticleHistory.

The bot does not promote or fail nominations; it updates articlehistory and talk pages after the featured article director promotes or archives nominations.

Articles that are not promoted can be resubmitted after Opposers agree that the issues raised during the FAC process have been addressed.

[edit] FAR closing

Similarly, the decision to close a FAR is made by the FA director, Raul654, or his delegates, Marskell, Joelr31 and YellowMonkey. They indicate this decision by removing the nomination page from the Featured article review page, and adding it to the featured article review archive. Editors will know if the article was kept or delisted by checking the archive; the {{featured article review}} template should remain in place until the bot processes the close and adds the event to {{articlehistory}}.