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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 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 discusstion will then be archived and the {{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.