Battlestar Wiki:Quality Articles

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Criteria for a Quality Article

This is a proposed policy for Battlestar Wiki. This non-policy is considered by the community and its leadership is to be considered for the status quo of Battlestar Wiki, though changes to it can be discussed on the appropriate talk page.

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, and
• past, Current, or Future Featured articles that have been marked.

Identifying a Potential Quality Article

Quality Articles should be identified as such, so that they may be listed in a master database.

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}}.
5. If you an article could be a featured article on the front page, submit it first for a {{quality article}}.