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What makes a very good article is certainly a matter of discussion. Here are some guidelines I propose. These can help judge, if an article can be considered very good

  1. The article should be about a subject which belongs in Wikipedia. There is no use improving articles that do not belong here, and better fit another Wiki, like Wikibooks, Wikispecies, Wiktionary...
  2. The article should have a certain length. I propose 5kb (1 screen) as a minimum. There is no use in denoting 3-sentence-articles as very good.
  3. The article should have gone through a few revisions, possibly by different editors. No one writes perfect articles.
  4. The article should be filed in the appropriate category, and should have at least one interwiki link (added because of Auroras comment on the talk page)
  5. The last few revisions should be minor changes (like spell-checking or link-fixing).
  6. There should be no red links left. Red links point to articles that do not exist yet.
  7. If there are any illustrations, they should be pertinent to the article. They should also be properly labelled.
  8. There should be no templates pointing to the fact that the article needs improvement. These templates include {{complex}}, {{cleanup}}, {{stub}}, and {{wikify}}.
  9. At least 3 people should agree that the article is a very good one.

--Eptalon 15:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

(discussions on the discussion page please)