[WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

[Thomas Dalton]

On 27 April 2010 23:14, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, that bit in brackets wasn't meant to be a summary of the
criteria for each class, it was a description of the difference
between the classes. Each has lots of other criteria, but they are
essentially the same for both.