[WikiEN-l] Good Articles is a mess...time for a clean sweep.

[James Hare]

Good Articles should not go a strenous process like Featured Articles simply
because they're merely good articles, not judged like a dog at a dog show.
However, I agree with concerns that the process for making an article GA is
far too unilateral. Maybe it can be nominated for five days -- if there's no
(valid) objection after that time, then it can be promoted.

On 1/11/07, Christopher Thieme <cdthieme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently came across two articles in the last 24 hours that were
> candidates for Featured Article status.  Both asserted that because they
> were GAs, FA was the logical next step.
>
> Only one big problem...
>
> The articles literally sucked and shouldn't have been GAs in the first
> place.
>
> The GA criteria is a good criteria, but it's only as strong a standard
> as the standards applied by the most lenient promoting editor.   Either
> the
> process needs to be reformed, or more oversight over the GA list is
> needed.
> I also fear there are many articles masquerading as GAs that have not gone
> through the process legitimately.  Either someone unilaterally promoted
> their article to GA, or nominated for GA and had a friend do the
> promoting.
> These are usually obvious from my observations.
>
> I'm intending to go through the GA list later this evening and into the
> night and sweep out a lot of the non-GA-worthy articles.  Delisting en
> masse
> articles that are blatantly not meeting the requirements of the criteria.
> Sure it might look slightly arbitrary, unilateral and subjective...but
> then
> again, the entire process is just that.  I'll try to do this as
> objectively
> as possible, with plenty of notes as to why these articles should have
> failed GA.
>
> I estimate that an objective clean sweep might remove at least 10-20% of
> the
> articles currently listed at GA.  10%, or about 170 articles, would be a
> good conservative estimate.
>
> Any comments?
>
> If anyone wants to join me in this endeavour, many hands do make light
> work.  For instance, I'm not much of a science or mathematics guy.  But my
> forte is geography, literature, history, philosophy and social
> sciences.  So
> if we can have a few people with various expertise join in, this might
> work
> out for the better.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher D. Thieme
> cdthieme at gmail.com
> User:ExplorerCDT
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