Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2016

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This page is the list of featured articles that were promoted in 2016, listed by the month in which they were promoted. This list includes the date the article was featured on the main page (see Wikipedia:Today's featured article) and the nominating user(s). Articles removed from featured status (see Wikipedia:Former_featured_articles) are indicated in ~~strikethrough font~~. This page is used as input for Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations.

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Promoted in December 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/December 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Devon County War Memorial	December 20, 2018	HJ Mitchell
\| Cliff Clinkscales	February 6, 2017	TempleM
\| Operation Infinite Reach		GeneralizationsAreBad
\| Belgium national football team	May 11, 2017	Kareldorado
\| Tidus	June 22, 2017	Tintor2
\| Banksia aculeata	May 13, 2018	Casliber
\| Jochen Rindt	January 23, 2017	Zwerg Nase
\| Nominative determinism	April 1, 2017	Edwininlondon
\| Tahiti rail	September 13, 2019	FunkMonk
\| Love, Inc. (TV series)	February 1, 2017	Aoba47
\| Bee-eater	February 3, 2021	Sabine's Sunbird & Jimfbleak
\| Alabama Centennial half dollar	August 26, 2019	Wehwalt
\| Montreal Laboratory	December 29, 2016	Hawkeye7
\| Dick Cresswell		Ian Rose
\| Gottlob Berger	January 6, 2020	Peacemaker67

Promoted in November 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/November 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| After the Deluge (painting)	April 27, 2024	Iridescent
\| Bradley Cooper	March 11, 2024	FrB.TG
\| Seri Rambai	March 19, 2017	Singora
\| The Pale Emperor	January 15, 2017	Homeostasis07
\| Ike Altgens	December 13, 2016	ATS
\| California State Route 76	June 20, 2020	Rschen7754
\| Super Mario Galaxy	November 1, 2017	Jaguar
\| SMS Mecklenburg		Parsecboy
\| Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce)	April 14, 2017	Kafka Liz & Ceoil
\| Night of January 16th	January 16, 2025	RL0919
\| Turbinellus floccosus	December 31, 2019	Casliber
\| Northampton War Memorial	November 11, 2019	HJ Mitchell
\| Giganotosaurus	July 30, 2017	FunkMonk
\| Aries (album)	March 20, 2020	Magiciandude
\| First Tennessee Park	December 30, 2018	NatureBoyMD
\| 2015 Formula One World Championship	February 21, 2021	Tvx1
\| Ghost Stories (magazine)	February 3, 2020	Mike Christie
\| Hands Across Hawthorne	May 29, 2017	Another Believer

Promoted in October 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Taylor Swift	August 23, 2019	FrB.TG & IndianBio
\| Sabrina Sidney	March 4, 2017	Worm That Turned & Staceydolxx
\| O. G. S. Crawford	October 28, 2017	Midnightblueowl
\| The World Before the Flood	August 4, 2022	Iridescent
\| Eurasian rock pipit	July 28, 2023	Jimfbleak
\| Allen Walker	February 4, 2017	Tintor2
\| Cleveland Centennial half dollar	December 1, 2021	Wehwalt
\| Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song)	October 26, 2017	Damien Linnane
\| Chad Harris-Crane	December 19, 2017	Aoba47
\| HMS Alceste (1806)		Ykraps
\| Turboliner	February 20, 2017	Mackensen
\| Ontario Highway 420	April 20, 2019	Floydian
\| Hope (Watts)	January 19, 2017	Iridescent
\| Secretariat (horse)	March 30, 2020	Montanabw & Jlvsclrk
\| Eega	July 6, 2017	Pavanjandhyala
\| Neal Dow	March 21, 2017	Coemgenus
\| ~~Heavy metals~~	November 13, 2016	Sandbh
\| Weird Tales	July 9, 2017	Mike Christie
\| SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse	October 18, 2018	Parsecboy
\| Divisional Cavalry Regiment (New Zealand)	November 20, 2016	Kges1901
\| Pallas's leaf warbler	August 30, 2017	Jimfbleak
\| Gomphus clavatus	April 27, 2018	Sasata & Casliber
\| European hare	August 11, 2019	LittleJerry & Chiswick Chap & Cwmhiraeth

Promoted in September 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev)	December 21, 2016	Brianboulton
\| Stegoceras	February 26, 2018	FunkMonk & LittleJerry
\| Paul Palaiologos Tagaris	October 29, 2017	Cplakidas
\| Burke and Hare murders	September 11, 2018	SchroCat & Cassianto
\| Bud Dunn	October 26, 2016	White Arabian Filly
\| Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward	February 16, 2017	Famous Hobo
\| Josephine Butler	November 29, 2017	SchroCat
\| History of Liverpool F.C. (1985–present)		NapHit
\| Vladimir Lenin	November 7, 2017	Midnightblueowl
\| Vincent van Gogh	December 16, 2016	Modernist & Ceoil & Victoriaearle & John
\| Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161	October 19, 2016	Gerda Arendt
\| William Borah	December 30, 2017	Wehwalt
\| Lazarus Aaronson	February 18, 2018	P. S. Burton
\| Ride the Lightning	July 27, 2018	Retrohead
\| Cortinarius violaceus	May 22, 2019	Casliber & J Milburn
\| 2003–04 Arsenal F.C. season	October 22, 2016	Lemonade51
\| CMLL World Middleweight Championship	May 5, 2018	MPJ-DK
\| J. R. Kealoha	March 5, 2020	KAVEBEAR
\| St Botolph's Church, Quarrington	September 26, 2017	Noswall59
\| The Ecstatic	June 9, 2024	Teflon Peter Christ
\| Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed	January 23, 2018	Iridescent
\| Title TK	May 21, 2019	Moisejp
\| Yugoslav monitor Drava	October 21, 2021	Peacemaker67
\| Chicago Pile-1	December 2, 2017	Hawkeye7
\| The Left Hand of Darkness	October 23, 2016	Vanamonde93
\| 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division	November 26, 2017	EnigmaMcmxc
\| Bluebuck	November 17, 2016	FunkMonk & Sainsf & 7&6=thirteen
\| Yugoslav torpedo boat T1	December 15, 2023	Peacemaker67

Promoted in August 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Emma Stone	November 6, 2016	FrB.TG
\| California State Route 94	January 14, 2018	Rschen7754
\| Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?	September 26, 2016	Aoba47
\| Canadian National Vimy Memorial	April 9, 2017	Labattblueboy
\| No Me Queda Más	December 30, 2016	AJona1992
\| Science-Fiction Plus	July 10, 2018	Mike Christie
\| The Boat Races 2016		The Rambling Man
\| Wrestle Kingdom 9	January 4, 2017	Ribbon Salminen & Starship.paint
\| Rare Replay	August 4, 2017	Czar
\| Lynx (constellation)	August 10, 2017	Casliber
\| HMS Emerald (1795)		Ykraps
\| No. 91 Wing RAAF	October 20, 2016	Ian Rose
\| Millipede	November 10, 2016	Cwmhiraeth
\| Heffernan v. City of Paterson	April 26, 2017	Wugapodes
\| Slug (song)		Dream out loud
\| Mr. Dooley	September 12, 2021	Wehwalt
\| The Dawn of Love (painting)	August 8, 2018	Iridescent
\| An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory	September 20, 2016	J Milburn
\| Interstate 275 (Michigan)	January 14, 2017	Imzadi1979
\| Peter Martyr Vermigli	September 8, 2017	Jfhutson

Promoted in July 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/July 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Catherine Zeta-Jones	September 25, 2017	SchroCat & Krimuk2.0
\| SMS Körös	September 28, 2016	Peacemaker67
\| Theodore Komnenos Doukas	February 25, 2017	Cplakidas
\| Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar	February 13, 2019	Wehwalt
\| Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines	March 11, 2018	Hawkeye7
\| Margaret Lea Houston	April 11, 2017	Maile66
\| Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman	February 27, 2017	KAVEBEAR
\| 2008 UAW-Dodge 400	August 9, 2021	CatRacer22
\| The Man Trap	September 8, 2016	Miyagawa
\| Milos Raonic	September 9, 2016	Saskoiler
\| CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship	November 21, 2016	MPJ-DK
\| Impala	January 20, 2017	Sainsf
\| Agharta (album)	November 4, 2016	Teflon Peter Christ
\| Old Pine Church	August 20, 2016	West Virginian
\| Dr. No (novel)	August 20, 2022	SchroCat

Promoted in June 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/June 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Amazing Stories Quarterly	March 10, 2018	Mike Christie
\| English Benedictine Reform	January 2, 2017	Dudley Miles
\| Requiem (Reger)	July 16, 2016	Gerda Arendt
\| Antlia	January 29, 2019	Casliber
\| Kalki Koechlin	January 10, 2017	Numerounovedant
\| Blast Corps	December 23, 2022	Czar
\| Nothomyrmecia	December 15, 2018	Burklemore1
\| Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia	October 20, 2019	Cyclonebiskit
\| Dorset Ooser	January 17, 2017	Midnightblueowl
\| Freida Pinto	October 18, 2016	Vensatry
\| Borscht	August 19, 2016	Kpalion
\| Portrait of Maria Portinari	November 15, 2018	Ceoil
\| The Good Terrorist	February 8, 2017	Bruce1ee
\| Nights into Dreams	July 5, 2016	Jaguar

Promoted in May 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| History of the New York Yankees	July 6, 2016	Giants2008
\| Michael Francis Egan	September 29, 2017	Coemgenus
\| God of War (franchise)	March 22, 2020	JDC808
\| George Tucker (author)	August 20, 2020	Hoppyh
\| Walt Disney	October 16, 2023	SchroCat
\| William Howard Taft	November 9, 2016	Wehwalt
\| Baleen whale	June 5, 2016	Dunkleosteus77
\| Reg Pollard (general)	January 20, 2018	Ian Rose
\| ~~William Harper (Rhodesian politician)~~	July 22, 2019	Cliftonian
\| New Wave of British Heavy Metal	January 25, 2025	Lewismaster
\| Hasan al-Kharrat	January 31, 2017	Al Ameer son
\| Isidor Isaac Rabi	July 29, 2017	Hawkeye7
\| Springbok	August 7, 2022	Sainsf
\| Lesser Antillean macaw	April 9, 2018	FunkMonk
\| Ficus rubiginosa	December 27, 2016	Casliber
\| Teleost	August 2, 2017	LittleJerry & Chiswick Chap & Cwmhiraeth
\| S. O. Davies	October 21, 2016	Brianboulton
\| From Russia, with Love (novel)	September 27, 2018	SchroCat
\| Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II	December 26, 2018	Nick-D
\| U.S. Route 16 in Michigan		Imzadi1979
\| Boise National Forest	March 29, 2017	Fredlyfish4

Promoted in April 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/April 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Djedkare Isesi	February 21, 2017	Iry-Hor
\| Knight Lore	June 19, 2019	Czar
\| Maxinquaye	February 20, 2018	Teflon Peter Christ
\| Gudovac massacre	April 28, 2017	Amanuensis Balkanicus
\| The Phantom Tollbooth	May 28, 2016	Wehwalt
\| Literary Hall	September 23, 2017	West Virginian
\| 7th Army (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)	April 6, 2017	Peacemaker67
\| Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin	May 6, 2017	Ceoil & Victoriaearle & Outriggr
\| Huguenot-Walloon half dollar	August 5, 2018	Wehwalt
\| 2007 Coca-Cola 600	May 27, 2021	CatRacer22
\| Senghenydd colliery disaster	October 14, 2019	SchroCat
\| No. 90 Wing RAAF	July 10, 2016	Ian Rose
\| George Bernard Shaw	March 17, 2017	Tim riley & Brianboulton
\| Spotted green pigeon	September 27, 2017	FunkMonk
\| Isopogon anethifolius	April 10, 2021	Casliber & Melburnian
\| Operation Ironside	January 8, 2017	ErrantX
\| Hartebeest	March 8, 2022	Sainsf

Promoted in March 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/March 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Nelson's Pillar	March 24, 2023	Brianboulton & Carcharoth
\| Typhoon Nabi	August 29, 2018	Hurricanehink
\| Rejoined	October 30, 2021	David Fuchs & Miyagawa
\| Heterodontosaurus	May 12, 2018	FunkMonk & Jens Lallensack
\| Margaret Murray	July 13, 2023	Midnightblueowl
\| Persona (series)		ProtoDrake
\| Thunder (mascot)	September 14, 2016	Montanabw & Atsme
\| Monroe Edwards	June 27, 2018	Ealdgyth
\| The Oceanides	June 4, 2017	Sgvrfjs
\| Isopogon anemonifolius	April 30, 2020	Casliber & Melburnian
\| William Sterndale Bennett	April 13, 2016	Smerus
\| Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4	April 4, 2021	Gerda Arendt & Thoughtfortheday
\| Passenger pigeon	September 1, 2016	FunkMonk & 7&6=thirteen
\| History of York City F.C. (1980–present)	November 16, 2018	Mattythewhite
\| Serpin	April 2, 2016	Evolution and evolvability
\| Sexuality after spinal cord injury	February 3, 2017	delldot
\| Westminster Assembly	July 1, 2018	Jfhutson
\| Siege of Sidney Street	August 30, 2016	SchroCat
\| ~~Mortara case~~	June 21, 2016	Cliftonian
\| Sonam Kapoor	June 9, 2016	FrB.TG
\| U.S. Route 25 in Michigan	September 26, 2018	Imzadi1979
\| Hex Enduction Hour		Ceoil

Promoted in February 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Persoonia terminalis	December 17, 2017	Casliber & Checkingfax & Koavf
\| Jumping Flash!	March 30, 2016	Jaguar
\| Calutron	September 5, 2016	Hawkeye7
\| House of Plantagenet	May 29, 2016	Norfolkbigfish
\| Michael Hordern	October 3, 2019	Cassianto
\| William McKinley presidential campaign, 1896	November 3, 2016	Wehwalt
\| 70th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)	October 10, 2018	EnigmaMcmxc
\| Baron Munchausen	October 29, 2016	Lemuellio
\| William Etty		Iridescent
\| The Last of Us	June 14, 2017	Rhain1999
\| Migration of the Serbs (painting)	December 2, 2016	23 editor
\| Black American Sign Language	November 18, 2016	Wugapodes
\| Hurricane Juan (1985)	February 20, 2019	Hurricanehink
\| Jacob van Ruisdael	March 10, 2016	Edwininlondon
\| History of Liverpool F.C. (1959–85)	July 21, 2016	NapHit
\| Triturus	September 6, 2016	Tylototriton

Promoted in January 2016

:See logs at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/January 2016

Article	Main page date	Nominator
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\| Handel's lost Hamburg operas	January 17, 2024	Brianboulton
\| Allah jang Palsoe	March 15, 2017	Crisco 1492
\| South Park: The Stick of Truth	August 6, 2021	Darkwarriorblake
\| Juan Manuel de Rosas	March 30, 2017	Lecen & Astynax
\| Killer Instinct Gold	November 25, 2016	Czar
\| Temperatures Rising	May 3, 2017	Jimknut
\| Union Station (Erie, Pennsylvania)	December 3, 2016	Niagara
\| Palmyra	March 2, 2020	Attar-Aram syria
\| Isabella Beeton	March 12, 2016	SchroCat
\| Banksia caleyi	October 13, 2019	Casliber
\| Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar	January 11, 2020	Wehwalt
\| Peresvet-class battleship		Sturmvogel 66
\| Norodom Ranariddh	June 9, 2018	Mr Tan
\| Yugoslav monitor Sava	July 29, 2024	Peacemaker67
\| Albert Ketèlbey	August 9, 2016	SchroCat & Tim riley
\| Panggilan Darah	June 30, 2017	Crisco 1492
\| Seiken Densetsu 3	August 2, 2020	PresN
\| Mayabazar	March 27, 2017	Pavanjandhyala & Ssven2 & Kailash29792

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