Forgotten Realms Wiki talk:Good articles

Totally behind this
This sounds like a good idea to me. I'm totally behind this, but admins may be inundated with new requests at frist :P -Thomas Love http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/jackass/images/5/5f/Star_tiny.png [ talk ] 21:32, October 2, 2015 (UTC)


 * True, there could be a lot of requests, but there's also no rush to do it.
 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 21:43, October 2, 2015 (UTC)

Possible GA Template
I was thinking of something like this to go on a page that is a Good Article. I wanted it to be unobtrusive, so it's only the width of an infobox and floats to the right.

I went with a gold coin, thinking that we might eventually change a lot of our tag boxes around, as we've been discussing. If and when we do, perhaps we could make stubs have a copper coin image, good articles a gold, and FAs a platinum, with the idea that all other articles are silver? ~ Lhynard (talk) 21:42, October 2, 2015 (UTC)


 * Template looks great! Maybe make the coin a little bigger (30 px perhaps)? And a very washed out gold backgorund colour might be nice.
 * I really love the idea for different coins for different qualities of articles! Stroke of genius!
 * -Thomas Love http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/jackass/images/5/5f/Star_tiny.png [ talk ] 22:08, October 2, 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't really see a need for multiple grades. The Unreferenced, Nofootnotes, Stub and other such templates pretty much speak for themselves and Featured Articles are already covered by FA. Also, grading is subjective and the more grades you have the harder it is to find consensus. Even the word "good" is subjective&mdash;I suggest changing it to "gold". I suppose it would be okay to give out gold coin badges to "complete" articles, but I am not in favor of attempting to grade 16,000+ articles when they are already tagged with those templates I just listed: it's just busy work. And how about this scenario: An article is given a gold coin because it meets the criteria, then someone comes along and adds some 5th edition lore but doesn't have a reference, then someone else adds Fact. Does the article lose its gold status? It no longer meets the criteria, but was a perfectly good article until someone tried to improve it! This gets absurd rather quickly and I feel we do not need yet another bit of administrivia that distracts the admins from actually adding content along with all the other things we have to do. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 03:02, October 3, 2015 (UTC)