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| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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| The article has attained featured article status by King Warz. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria
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Outstanding, complete, free of grammar errors and follows every relevant rules in the Manual of Style. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible (especially for artist pages). | ||
| The article is well organized and essentially complete, after an analysis by King Warz. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers as the article is detailed. All the relevant details that are required (per the Manual of Style) is present. | Some tweak the article may be needed, and style problems may need solving. | ||
| The article meets all of the good article criteria. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Extremely useful to readers as the article is detailed and elaborate. And it also follows every guidelines listed in the Manual of Style. | Some tweak the article may be needed. Make sure to keep articles up to date especially for Week and artist pages | ||
| B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content should be or can be better | A few aspects of content and/or style need to be addressed. General compliance with the Manual of Style. | |
| C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. More detailed criteria
Most articles, upon creation are C-class articles meaning that it contains most of the relevant information but it needs better content before it can be classified as an A, B, or GA article
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and ensuring compliance with the MoS. | |
| Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. | Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Add the relevant details that are needed | |
| Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may like a couple sentences. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the page and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. |