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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
- 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...
- 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.
- The article should have gone through a few revisions, possibly by different editors. No one writes perfect articles.
- 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)
- The last few revisions should be minor changes (like spell-checking or link-fixing).
- There should be no red links left. Red links point to articles that do not exist yet.
- If there are any illustrations, they should be pertinent to the article. They should also be properly labelled.
- There should be no templates pointing to the fact that the article needs improvement. These templates include {{complex}}, {{cleanup}}, {{stub}}, and {{wikify}}.
- 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)