This sortable list of Unreviewed featured articles organized by the date of the last FAC or FAR was compiled on 2020-11-20 by USer:SD0001 and User:SDZeroBot. It was culled to include only extant FAs last reviewed before 2016—five years ago or more.

The process of reviewing dated FAs started in 2020 with 4,526 FAs listed: 2,179 last reviewed in 2004–2009 (very old FAs), and 2,347 last reviewed 2010–2015 (old FAs). The tallies are automatically adjusted as articles are reviewed.

A chronological list of only those articles that have been given talk page notice of the need for a review is at Wikipedia:Featured article review/notices given.

Please dig in to help reduce the backlog of older FAs needing review!

As the page is quite large, notes should be kept brief, remembering that the aims are to a) engage editors for improvement before a Featured article review (FAR), and b) determine which FAs need to be submitted to FAR if improvement does not occur. Notes should include brief comments with diffs like:

• Notes, ping, query: for an attempt to engage still-active nominators, WikiProjects or editors with topic area knowledge. This is not a formal notice of a pending FAR, as required in the instructions at FAR, rather a pre-FAR attempt to engage editors towards improvement. No sig needed, the diff suffices. Checking back on articles with Notes to determine if an upgrade to an official notice for FAR after several weeks is recommended.
• Noticed: followed by the diff with date for FAs that have been given "official" talk page notice of a FAR needed. After a sufficient amount of time, that article can be nominated at FAR. No sig needed, the diff suffices. If you formally notice an article for a pending FAR, please remember to also add the article to Wikipedia:Featured article review/notices given. Deciding whether to only add Notes to an article talk page, versus giving formal notice of a FAR needed, can sometimes be evaluated by looking at the original FAC and checking whether the original writers are still watching the article.
• Working: you or another editor are making improvements to the article. This should not be used for articles that are at FAR. No diff is needed, but please sign with four tildes (~~~~) so editors know who to ask for updates.
• FAR: for articles submitted to FAR, sign with a timestamp only ( ~~~~~ ).
• Satisfactory: if you review an article on this list and find there are not sufficient issues to warrant a FAR, please sign your opinion with a full sig ( ~~~~ ). Perfection is not expected, but for articles that haven't yet appeared as Today's featured article, a more strenuous review is warranted.

Please do not add extended commentary about article status to this page; any more extensive notes about improvements needed or deficiencies noted should be listed on article talk, with the diffs only given here for brevity. Comments placed on article talk are more likely to be seen by other editors, increasing the chances of article improvement.

Please do review the FAs that you nominated or have been involved with, with an indication in Notes of your involvement. That you are still watchlisting them probably means they are in good shape, and your note will encourage others to have a look so "your" FAs can be moved off of the list of older FAs needing review.

Once three experienced FA reviewers have opined that an article is satisfactory, it will be moved to the "Kept or FAR not needed" section. If differences arise, articles can be submitted to FAR. As articles at FAR are Kept or Delisted, those entries are moved to the appropriate section, and the tallies are updated.

FAs needing review: 2008