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Welcome to the '''WikiProject Good articles'''. This wikiproject is designed to maintain the ] list, review the ] entries and assist in the process of ] to good and ] status. Welcome to the '''WikiProject Good articles'''. This wikiproject is designed to maintain the ] list, review the ] entries and assist in the process of ] to good and ] status.


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The following is a proposed Misplaced Pages policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption.Shortcut
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Welcome to the WikiProject Good articles. This wikiproject is designed to maintain the Good articles list, review the nomination entries and assist in the process of improving articles to good and featured article status.

WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Misplaced Pages.
Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log
Nominations list | edit


Scope

Misplaced Pages:Good articles (shortcut WP:GA) is a list of articles which are well written, broad, referenced, neutral and accurate, beyond those which have been rigorously reviewed and identified as the very best of Misplaced Pages by the featured article process. As the list should eventually contain many thousands of articles, this project has been formed to assist in the maintenance of the page. Tasks which members of this project may wish to assist with include:

  1. Keeping the list at WP:GA in sync with Category:Misplaced Pages good articles
  2. Updating the numbers in the table on WP:GA
  3. Sweeping through listed entries to ensure they meet the criteria for listing
  4. Reviewing entries on and adding them to the list if they meet the criteria
  5. Encouraging Wikiprojects to review articles for accuracy where expert input is desirable
  6. Identifying good content and adding it to the list
  7. Maintain and update the Good Article Collaboration of the week
  8. Promote the Good articles list

Related Collaborations

Template:CurrentGACOTW

Tools

{{WikiProjectGATasks}} /sweep list - To record GA list maintenance

Participants

  1. Worldtraveller
  2. Slambo - specializing in rail transport article validation
  3. Martin Walker - I can help out with Chemistry articles
  4. Homestarmy - I'll lend a hand
  5. Tarret
  6. MatthewDBA
  7. TheGrappler 20:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
  8. Cedars - Good idea and I have a script to maintain the GA page.
  9. Randy Johnston
  10. AndyZ
  11. SeanMack probably nominating mostly, as I wander around the articles.
  12. Flying Canuck
  13. Lordkinbote
  14. King of Hearts
  15. RJN
  16. Wiki amateur
  17. Air.dance
  18. Wisden17
  19. Metamagician3000 - Can do some nominating and reviewing.
  20. Davodd
  21. HighwayCello
  22. Vir
  23. Barberio - WP:GACo maintenece
  24. savidan
  25. Jaranda
  26. --Celestianpower
  27. Alvin6226
  28. P-Chan
Add {{User GA}} to your userpage to add this userbox -
This user is a participant in WikiProject Good Articles.
talk | Changes log | GAN report


Add {{WikiProjectGATasks}} to your userpage to add the open tasks box.

Structure

A good article will share 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 (that is, not subject to any ongoing edit wars)
  • 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.

Adopt an article

Similar to the GA Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking and the bringing of an article to FA status. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while and improve the quality of Good Articles.

Templates

Templates used on WP:GA are the following:

  1. {{GA}} - added to the talk page of listed articles; automatically places them in
  2. {{DelistedGA}} - added to the talk page of delisted articles. An explanation of why an article has been delisted should always be left as well.
  3. {{DelistedGAbecause}} - a more subtle version of {{DelistedGA}}, with the syntax {{delistedGAbecause|reason}}
  4. {{failedGA}} - for articles that fail the self nomination

There is also an open tasks template for this project: {{WikiProjectGATasks}}

Categories

Misplaced Pages namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Good articles

Misplaced Pages articles related to Good articles

  1. Misplaced Pages:Stable versions
  2. Misplaced Pages:Pushing to 1.0
  3. Misplaced Pages:Featured articles
  4. Misplaced Pages:Article assessment
  5. Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

Resources

User:Oleg Alexandrov has written a bot to assist in keeping the list and category in sync; it lists articles which are in one but not the other at the top of Wikipedia_talk:Good articles.

Archives
Categories: