Battlestar Wiki:Quality Articles

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.

The goals of this project are as follows:

1. To set up a criteria of what qualifies as a Quality Article, thus setting a standard for other articles to meet (or exceed).
2. To set up a process properly identifying, enhancing and protecting Quality Articles.
3. To institue a means of modifying content to established Quality Articles.

Criteria for a Quality Article

A quality article should have the following attributes:

1. The article should be well-researched with proper citations of sources. (see: Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad)
2. It needs to contain canonical information; non-canonical information should be avoided, unless it has a purpose there (such as to dispel a common misconception).
3. If the article contains POV content, it must be deemed insightful by a majority of the community.
4. The article must be properly copy-edited for grammar and style. (see: Battlestar Wiki:Manual of Style)

The following do not qualify as Quality Article candidates:

• "Stub" Articles
• User or user talk pages.
• Talk pages.
• Anything in the "Battlestar Wiki:" namespace.

Securing a Quality Article

Quality articles should be protected from edits, thus allowing us to hold the article as a prime example of work on this Wiki without having to worry about someone coming along and childishly rewording the content. (And, in the process, making us look foolish.)

Therefore, a quality article needs to be identified as such, modified appropriately and then protected by an administrator.

Essentially, this would be done in the following way:

1. A contributor tags an article page with {{quality candidate}}, then adds a note to the corresponding article's talk page explaining their reasoning.
2. Invovled members of the community will then discuss the candidate article. Typically, they should be as critical as possible.
3. 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.
4. Once this is done, the article will be tagged {{quality article}} and protected from editing.

Evolving an Established Quality Article

Quality Articles can be re-opened for modifications after being protected. However, in order to do so, any requested edits should be discussed on the article's talk page. (As noted above, talk pages are exempt from Quality Article status, and as such are editable by users.)

The process shall be as follows:

1. 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.
2. The issue is then brought up for discussion amongst users.
   • 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.
3. Once an edit fitting the Quality Article criteria is decided by consensus, notify an admin. The admin will then:
   1. unprotect the page;
   2. copy the new text into the article;
   3. add {{quality modified}}, removing the {{quality article}} tag;
   4. save the changes;
   5. reprotect the page.