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==Consensus on FA candidates==
I'm looking for a page that explains why featured articles have their nomination mentioned on their talk pages.

To me it seems to be more logical to do this on top of the article in question, like with cleanup and deletion notices. I actually nominated an article which has already been featured because of this. But obviously a consensus has been reached. Can anyone point me to further reading about this and explain why this is the case? - [[User:MacGyverMagic|MGM]] 07:08, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)
:This was discussed before, and I think that discussion took place on [[Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates]]. Basically, it was obvious to everyone that marking a page as "featured" at the top was quite intrusive on the article, and so it was decided to tag the talk page only. [[User:Raul654|&rarr;Raul654]] 07:13, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)

Might I suggest a less obstrusive picture on top of the article to announce FA candidateship? Maybe a star labelled FAC or FA (once they've been featured. Make the Wikipedia a bit more colorful... - [[User:MacGyverMagic|MGM]] 22:31, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)