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The W Awards are elite accolades recognizing the highest ability to bring content to the masses. The original Golden W means that you've had content in all of the original areas of the Main Page: Today's featured article, In the news..., Did you know..., On this day..., and Today's featured picture. The Golden W predates the 2011 main page expansion plans by over a year, with only one recipient (TonyTheTiger) in that time. In 2011, both WP:FLs and WP:FSs were accepted to be added to the main page. FS eventually went inactive and never made it to the main page, but WP:TAFI was briefly added to the main page in 2013. As of 2024, TAFI was removed from the main page and was replaced with the WP:GA sector of Wikipedia (even though GAs are not featured on the main page, they still give more information to teach others).

For each of the main page areas, you must have been a major editor of the article or a major participant in the article's nomination for that area as applicable (POTD has no nomination and OTD has a sort of submission process for hooks that get evaluated). The purpose of this award is to teach and give information to others by getting things featured onto the Main Page.

Content does not have to be featured at the time of the nomination and if it loses featured status after the award, the award status is unaffected because this award recognizes the achievement of the main page appearance rather than the featured content itself. You must document that you have made a successful contribution to each section of the main page, not that the content currently is featured.

Read the criteria below for achieving the awards. If you believe you meet the requirements, you may apply for this award at § Current nominations.

Award List and Their Requirements

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Award list

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This list highlights each of the awards and what is needed for it's nomination.

Award image	Award	Needed for nomination
	Bronze W Award	An article featured at Today's featured article and 5 DYKs featured on the main page OR an article featured at Today's featured list and 5 DYKs featured on the main page.
	Silver W Award	An article featured at Today's featured article, an article featured at Today's featured list, and a photograph you created or nominated at Picture of the day.
	Golden W Award	Shortcut WP:GOLDENW WP:GOLDENW An article featured at Today's Featured Article, one featured on In The News, one featured in DYK, one featured in the On This Day, a picture featured on Picture of the day.
	Platinum W Award	Shortcut WP:PLATINUMW WP:PLATINUMW Everything in the Golden W twice, have two articles at Today's featured list, and any 2 articles featured (except a Featured Article) be a good article.

Criteria

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This list shows the criteria and its description for what it is. This is what is needed to be given any of the above awards.

You must have an article that you created and/or significantly improved and nominated for Featured Article be displayed in the Today's Featured Article or at the Main Page.

You must have an article that you created and/or substantially updated and nominated for In the News appear at the Main Page in that section, with you being credited.

You must have an article that you started and expanded fivefold be displayed at the Main Page as a Did You Know... , with you being credited.

You must have an article that you created or significantly improved and nominated for On This Day displayed on the Main Page.

You must have a picture that you uploaded or nominated for Featured Picture be displayed in the Picture of the Day on the Main Page.

You must have an article that you created and/or significantly improved and nominated for Featured list be displayed in the Today's Featured List or at the Main Page.

Have any of the articles featured on the Main Page (other than Featured Article) be a good article after the GA nomination.

BONUS: Have any Featured Topic featured on the Main Page