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:

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:Standards and Conventions)

Articles that have been featured article do not quailifiy as candidates.

The following do not qualify as Quality Article candidates:

• "Stub" Articles
• User or user talk pages.
• Talk pages.
• Anything in the "Battlestar Wiki:", "Quotes:", or "Sources:", 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 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}}.

Evolving an Established Quality Article

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:

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, or someone an admin delegates, will then:
   1. copy the new text into the article;
   2. add {{quality modified}}, removing the {{quality article}} tag;
   3. save the changes.
4. Should the modified Quality Article remain undisputed for up to a period of one week, the tag is then changed to {{quality article}}.