Battlestar Wiki:Quality Articles: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 11:24, 23 February 2012

This page is one of Battlestar Wiki's many projects.
This page serves to coordinate discussion on a particular aspect of this Wiki. The formal recommendations of a project may be treated as policies.

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This project is to jump start articles for Featured Article status, so during Featured Article selection, we can vote on the page and hash our ideas why it should be the next Featured Article.

At present, there are 16 quality articles, and 25 potential quality articles out of a total of 5,255 articles.

Criteria for a Quality Article

A quality article should have the following attributes:

The article should be well-researched with proper citations of sources.
It needs to contain 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:

Stubs
Talk pages
Anything in the Battlestar Wiki, Quotes, Sources, or User namespace
Past, Current, or Future Featured/Quality 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 {{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's Peer Review for how it should be done.)
Create the discussion page by clicking on () and then save {{subst: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 {{quality article}}.
The discussion will then be archived and the {{qa diff|Article|DiffID Number}} tag will be placed so the discussion can be tracked for when it received QA status.

Current List of Possible Quality Articles

Master list here, Category: Quality article discussion.

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-{{project}}
+{{Project|Quality Article|shortcut=BW:QA<br/>BW:QAC|image=BSG WIKI Quality Article.png}}
-The goals of this project are as follows:
+This project is to jump start articles for Featured Article status, so during Featured Article selection, we can vote on the page and hash our ideas why it should be the next Featured Article.
-# To set up a criteria of what qualifies as a Quality Article, thus setting a standard for other articles to meet (or exceed).
+At present, there are '''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Quality article}}}}''' quality articles, and '''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Quality article candidate}}}}''' potential quality articles out of a total of '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' articles.
-# To set up a process properly identifying, enhancing and protecting Quality Articles.
-# To institue a means of modifying content to established Quality Articles.
 == 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]].
-# The article should be well-researched with proper citations of sources. (see: [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad]])
+*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.
-# It needs to contain [[canon]]ical information; [[non-canonical]] information should be avoided, unless it has a purpose there (such as to dispel a common misconception).
+*If the article contains POV content, it must be deemed insightful by a majority of the community.
-# 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 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]]
-* [[Battlestar Wiki:Find or fix a stub|"Stub" Articles]]
+* Talk pages
-* User or user talk pages.
+* Anything in the ''Battlestar Wiki'', Quotes, Sources, or User namespace
-* Talk pages.
+* Past, Current, or Future Featured/Quality articles that have been marked.
-* Anything in the "Battlestar Wiki:", "Quotes:", or "Sources:", namespace.
 == Identifying a Potential Quality Article ==
-Quality Articles should be identified as such, so that they may be listed in a master database.
+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.
-# Invovled members of the community will then discuss the candidate article.  Typically, they should be as critical as possible.
+# 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.)
-# If 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.
+# Create the discussion page by clicking on ([[Image:QA-Pip-C.png]]) and then save {{tlsp|QATALK|''Article''}} on the blank page.
-# Once this is done, the article will be tagged {{tl|quality article}}.
+# 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}}.
-== Evolving an Established Quality Article ==
+# The discussion 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 received QA status.
-While Quality Articles can be edited for modifications at any time, it is usually good practice to discuss any desired edits on the article's talk page.
-The process shall be as follows:
-# A user or users request a modification of the Quality Article.  Typically, this request is accompanied by a reason as well as a list of modifications that the user believes needs to be done.
+== Current List of Possible Quality Articles ==
-# The issue is then brought up for discussion amongst users.
+:''Master list here, [[:Category: Quality article discussion]].''
-#* The users may wish to create a subpage for the suggested edit. The format of the namespace should be akin to: [[Article Title/Suggested edit]].
-#* Basically, click on "View source" of the protected article, and copy that text into the new subpage.
-# Once an edit fitting the Quality Article criteria is decided by consensus, notify an admin. The admin, or someone an admin delegates, will then:
-## copy the new text into the article;
-## add {{tl|quality modified}}, removing the {{tl|quality article}} tag;
-## save the changes.
-# Should the modified Quality Article remain undisputed for up to a period of one week, the tag is then changed to {{tl|quality article}}.
-[[Category:Project Page|Quality Articles]]
+== See Also ==
+* [[:Category:Quality article]]
+* [[:Category:Quality article candidate]]
+* [[:Category:Quality article discussion]]
+* [[:Category:Quality article talk archives]]