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A good article is an article that has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to meet the criteria for featured articles. The good article criteria measure decent articles; they are not as demanding as the featured article criteria, which determine our best articles. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but being a Good article is not a requirement for A-Class.
What is a good article? A good article is—
- {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|1}}:
- (a) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|1a}}; and
- (b) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|1b}}.[1]
- {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|2}}:
- (a) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|2a}};
- (b) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|2b}};[2] and
- (c) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|2c}}.
- {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|3}}:
- (a) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|3a}};[3] and
- (b) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|3b}}.
- {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|4}}.
- {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|5}}.[4]
- {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|6}}:[5]
- (a) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|6a}}; and
- (b) {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|6b}}.[6]
What is not a good article?
[edit source]- Lists, portals, sounds, and images: these items should be nominated for featured list, featured portal, featured sounds, and featured picture status respectively.
- Disambiguation pages and stubs: these pages cannot meet the criteria.
- Featured articles: a good article loses its status once it is promoted to a featured article.
See also
[edit source]- Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles: this is a detailed treatment on the mechanics of reviewing an article for GA status.
Notes
[edit source]- ^ Compliance with other aspects of the Manual of Style is not required for good articles.
- ^ Either parenthetical references or footnotes can be used for in-line citations, but not both in the same article. Science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines.
- ^ This requirement is significantly weaker than the "comprehensiveness" required of featured articles; it allows short articles, articles that do not cover every major fact or detail, and broad overviews of large topics.
- ^ Vandalism reversions, proposals to split or merge content, good faith improvements to the page (such as copy editing), and changes based on reviewers' suggestions do not apply. Nominations for articles that are unstable because of constructive editing should be placed on hold.
- ^ Other media, such as video and sound clips, are also covered by this criterion.
- ^ The presence of images is not, in itself, a requirement. However, if images (including other media) with acceptable copyright status are appropriate and readily available, then some such images should be provided.