Forgotten Realms Wiki:Good articles

The following is a proposed Forgotten Realms Wiki policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. References or links to this page should not describe it as "policy". For further explanation of the proposal's intent or reasoning, please see its talk page. A proposal's acceptance or rejection is not determined simply by counting votes.

Good articles on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

Good articles of the wiki are those articles that are considered accurate, trustworthy, and of high quality. They might not cover the full spectrum of a topic in the Realms, but what they do cover is correct and well-presented.

Qualifications

A good article should be:

Correct

We should be able to confirm that every fact presented is true and accurate. It must not have {{Fact}} or {{Factcheck}} tags.

Referenced

The article should be fully referenced. It must not have {{Unreferenced}} or {{Nofootnotes}} tags.

Formatted

The article should be fully formatted in wiki article style and sectioned out and infoboxed, if appropriate, with at least one image, if appropriate.

Clean

It is not found in the list of articles needing attention, nor does it have a {{Cleanup}} tag. It should have been copy-edited by at least one other editor than the article creator.

Relatively complete

While it does not need to be as complete as a Feature Article, it must not have any {{Stub}} or {{Incomplete}} tags.

Policy-adherent

It holds to all of the policies decided on by our community, as listed here.

Not an orphan

It must be linked-to from another page and not found in the list of lonely pages.

Approval Process

To nominate an article for Good Article status, add the category Category:Good article nominees.

Any user may then add the following to the Talk page of the article, adding yes or no after each field:

==Good Article status==
'''Correct:''' 
'''Referenced:''' 
'''Clean:''' 
'''Relatively complete:''' 
'''Policy-adherent:''' 
'''Not an orphan:''' 

If the list contains all yeses, any administrator may then add the {{GA}} template to the top of the article and remove the Category:Good article nominees category.

There are no votes required; any article that passes the listed qualifications is simply considered a good article.