[WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

[Charles Matthews]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 27 April 2010 21:33, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>   
>> Well, the research I remember says the transition from B to A makes the
>> most difference to the reader. So I would make that central to any
>> system: from 5 to 6, say. I have seen perfectly decent articles labelled
>> "Start" - I mean articles with say five paras of solid, verifiable
>> factual information. I doubt standards are even across the wiki, but if
>> those are "Start" there have to be a couple of rungs on the ladder below
>> that.; or Start = 3.  I see that mathematics uses B+ anyway, so that the
>> lower side has five grades already. There does seem to be some problem
>> with A right now, but abolishing it in such a fashion to reduce
>> incentives to push articles up would really be a bad idea (whatever your
>> anecdotal example says).
>>     
>
> But what is the difference between A and GA? Really, it's minimal (I
> think A-class requires the content to be essentially complete, GA just
> requires it to cover all the main points, which isn't much different).
> You talk about the transition from B to A - is most of that difference
> to readers between B and GA or between GA and A (I know the ordering
> isn't perfect, but any A-class article should be able to pass GA with
> only minimal changes)? I suspect it is between B and GA, so getting
> rid of A wouldn't have any significant impact.
>   
[[Talk:Go (game)/GA2]] is the only GA review I have ever looked at: it 
has many comments (measurements in both metric and imperial, for 
example) that ar far from your summary.

Charles