[support] How to set an article or basic page as featured content?

[Fred Jones]

>> http://drupal.org/documentation/blocks
>
> Thank you. There is a Featured region in the Featured block. But how
> does one mark any particular node as being featured?

Please read the documentation more carefully and then start here:
http://drupal.org/documentation

You are making presumptions without knowing the basics of Drupal.