Editing Battlestar Wiki:Quality Articles

{{Project|Quality Article|shortcut=BW:QA<br/>BW:QAC|image=BSG WIKI Quality Article.png}} 

== Criteria for a Quality Article ==

A quality article should have the following attributes: 
*The article should be well-researched with [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|proper citations of sources]].
*It needs to contain [[Canon|canonical]] information; [[non-canonical]] information should be avoided, unless it has a purpose such as to dispel a common misconception.
*If the article contains POV content, it must be deemed insightful by a majority of the community.
*The article must be properly copy-edited for grammar and style. See [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions]].

The following '''do not''' qualify as Quality Article candidates:
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Find or fix a stub|Stubs]]
* Talk pages
* Anything in the Battlestar Wiki, Quotes, Sources, or User namespace
* Past, Current, or Future Featured articles that have been marked.

== Identifying a Potential Quality Article ==

Quality Articles should be identified as such, so that a master list can be created.

Essentially, this would be done in the following way:
# A contributor tags an article page with {{tl|quality candidate}}, then adds a note to the corresponding article's talk page explaining their reasoning.
# Involved members of the community will then discuss the candidate article.  Typically, they should be as critical as possible. (See [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Peer Reivew|Wikipedia's Peer Review]] for how it should be done.)
# Create the discussion page by clicking on ([[Image:QA-Pip-C.png]]) and then save {{tlsp|QATALK|''Article''}} on the blank page.
# Once the consensus is that the article is of ''potential'' quality, then the discussion will evolve into modifying the article in such a way as to polish the article so as to achieve full "Quality Article" status.
# Once this is done, the article will be changed to {{tl|quality article}}. 
# The discusstion will then be archived and the {{tlp|qa diff|''Article''|''DiffID Number''}} tag will be placed so the discussion can be tracked for when it did get it's QA status.

== Current List of Possiable Quaility Articles ==
:''Master list here, [[:Category:Quality Article Discussion]].''

* [[/Colonial One|Colonial One]]

== See Also ==
* [[:Category:Quality article]]
* [[:Category:Quality article candidate]]
* [[:Category:Quality article talk archives]]