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This is the selected article subpage of the Spaceflight Portal. This page contains details of how to nominate or create future selected articles. Selected articles can be any page related to spaceflight, with the exception of articles about people, which are covered by the selected biography section. Well written and illustrated articles have more chance of being chosen, but there are no requisites for selection, and selection is not constrained to featured or good articles.

Usage

The layout used to format these sub-pages is at Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Layout

  1. Add a new selected article to the next available subpage.
  2. Update "max=" to new total for its {{tl|Random portal component}} on the main page.

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Additions

Feel free to add any Featured or Good articles to the list above.

Archive

For older selected articles, please see the Archive, for Space exploration portal selected articles, see this archive.

How to add a selected article

  1. Click on the redlink in the current year's section of the table for the week that you want it to be the selected article
  2. Paste the template code into this new article:

{{subst:Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Template|article title|article description|image|image description}}

  1. Enter the title of the corresponding article in place of the text article title
  2. Enter the main text of your selected article entry in place of the text article description (remember to link to appropriate articles)
  3. Select a suitable image, and type its name it in place of the text image (omit the "Image:" prefix)

::Note: since this will be in the Portal: namespace, non-free images cannot be used.

  1. Enter a caption for the image in place of the text image description.
  2. Preview and save