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Criteria for a Quality Article
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A quality article should have the following attributes:
- The article should be well-researched with proper citations of sources. (see: Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad)
- 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).
- 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:
- "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:
- A contributor tags an article page with {{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.
- 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.
- Once this is done, the article will be tagged {{quality article}}.
- If you an article could be a featured article on the front page, submit it first for a {{quality article}}.