User:SeanMack/sandbox/Good2

Wikipedia contains many good articles. However, only about 0.1% of our articles are featured articles, which have been thoroughly reviewed and designated as the very best of Wikipedia.

Many articles contain excellent content but are unlikely in their current state to become featured; they may be too short, or on too broad a topic, or on too specific a topic, or on a topic about which not much is known. We should endeavour to identify good content, which may have the potential to become featured after some development. 861 articles are currently listed as meeting the good article criteria (with several having been promoted to FA status and presented with this tag {{GAF}}), but there are plenty more out there waiting to be listed. It is up to the members of the Wikipedia community to search, compose, and flag the numerous amount of articles that potentially meet the GA criteria.

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What makes a good article?

A good article shares many characteristics with featured articles, and like featured content it must:

be well written
be factually accurate
use a neutral point of view
be stable
be referenced, and
wherever possible, contain images to illustrate it. The images should all be appropriately tagged.

Good articles may not be as thorough and detailed as our featured articles, but should not omit any major facets of the topic.

For more detail see Wikipedia:What is a good article.

How to list an article on 'good articles'

The process by which articles are designated as 'good' is much simpler and quicker than that by which articles become featured. Simply add any articles that match the criteria to the nominations page, where they will be assessed by an impartial reviewer and added to the list or rejected with pointers on how to improve them.

If an article has gone from good status to featured article status please use {{GAF}}. Don't forget to remove articles from the list if they get promoted to featured status.

What to do if you disagree with a listing

If you see an article listed here that you think is not good, be bold and try to improve it or remove it, leaving {{DelistedGA}} or {{DelistedGAbecause}} and a note on its talk page to indicate why you think it is not good. Please keep in mind, however, that "be bold" does not mean "be merciless": a good article is not the same as a featured one and the criteria are somewhat less stringent. A notice on the talk page with suggestions about improvements without delisting is preferable, unless you think that the article is really bad.

If you see an article removed that you think does in fact meet the criteria, add it to /Disputes, to get wider input and a consensus on whether it should be listed or not.

See Wikipedia:Stable versions for a related proposal.

Helping to maintain this page

Anyone can take part in keeping this page working, by reviewing new nominations or assessing current listing to ensure they meet the criteria. The members of WikiProject Good articles also help to ensure the page is properly maintained. Scripts, such as the GAAuto script and the list updater, also exist to assist in completing this task.