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Good articles are considered to be the best articles on MicroWiki as determined by MicroWiki's editors. Before being listed as a good article, articles must be nominated and voted upon for accuracy, neutrality, comprehensiveness, structure and style. This project is designed to help improve article quality on MicroWiki and reward good article editing and creation. At present, there are 133 good articles out of a total of 39,948 articles on MicroWiki, meaning roughly 0.333% have achieved good article status. A small blue symbol () on the top right corner of an article's page indicates that the article is of good quality.
Users that wish to be notified about new Good Article submissions are welcome to add Template:Userbox GA notifications to their userpage, to receive automated notifications periodically.
Criteria
A good article is one that is:
- Well-written: its prose is engaging, coherent, clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct. There should be a minimal number of red links.
- Comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details, is of substantial length but does not go into unnecessary detail, remaining focused on the main topic.
- Accurate: it is well-researched and its claims are verifiable and not in dispute.
- Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias.
- Illustrated: it should, where possible, be illustrated with appropriate images with succinct captions.
- Well-structured: it should have a concise introduction that summarises the topic and a system of hierarchical section headings with a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents.
Process
Before nominating an article, nominators may wish to receive feedback by asking an administrator. Nominators must be sufficiently familiar with the subject matter to deal with objections during the GA process. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult the author and/or regular editors of the article prior to a nomination. Nominators are expected to respond positively to constructive criticism and to make an effort to address objections promptly.
If a nominator feels that an article satisfies all the criteria, the article can be nominated by any user on the nomination page making sure that they provide the title of the article, a link to it and the signature of the nominating user. A user should only nominate one article each month. The article will then be reviewed by the community and voted on over a period of seven days after being nominated, with nominators and authors of the article being encouraged to respond to constructive criticism and to address objections promptly. While the number of votes in support or opposition are the main thing taken into account, the arguments on each side will also be considered. A nomination with several blank "support" votes and only a few "oppose" votes may still be rejected if those "oppose" votes make very good arguments against it. Neither will a simply majority be considered; broad consensus needs to be reached, which will be decided at the discretion of the administrator who closes the vote.
Following the seven day period, an administrator will determine consensus of the community and it will either be approved or rejected. If an article is approved, the community deems that it satisfies the criteria, and it will officially be listed as a Good Article. If an article is rejected, the article does not satisfy the criteria and an explanation of why will usually be provided by the reviewing users. Rejected articles should only be nominated again after one month following the previous nomination, and only if improvements have been made to improve the article since.
In the last week of each month, all Good Articles approved that month or the previous month will be voted on by the community. The approved Good Article with the highest number of votes (with admin consensus providing a deciding vote in the case of a tie) will be Featured on the Main Page for at least the first fourteen days of the new month (the Featured Article for the remainder of the month will be a previously approved Good Article decided by consensus of the admins, to ensure articles are not only ever Featured once).
Nominations for May 2024
Flag of New Eiffel
- Nominator: Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 18:28, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- SUPPORT: A fairly comprehensive article about the New Eiffelic flag. Its not enough to sway my vote, but the article will need a look around with a minor edit or two: there are a few redlinks to speedy-deleted articles, and some sentences are worded a bit clumsily. Sertor (Chat) 23:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Intermicronational treaty
- Nominator: 𝄞 Strubber ♫ Contributions ♩ 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Comment by nominator: My obligatory nomination for a page I am proud of. Another foundation page, more to come hopefully. 𝄞 Strubber ♫ Contributions ♩ 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Very good, I have only one concern before I can vote support: "Other enforcement methods may be included or implemented" – such as? Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 02:44, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Added a little blurb of other potential methods, let me know what you think. 𝄞 Strubber ♫ Contributions ♩ 04:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Lovely! Definitely a support from me now. Fantastic article overall. Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 15:44, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- Added a little blurb of other potential methods, let me know what you think. 𝄞 Strubber ♫ Contributions ♩ 04:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Very good, I have only one concern before I can vote support: "Other enforcement methods may be included or implemented" – such as? Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 02:44, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
May 2024 Malusian Federal elections
- OPPOSE Before going deep into the article itself there is the glaring problem that this article is about an election that has not yet occured. While that is fine for this article as it has quite a bit of background at first glance, rather than being a redlink saver like other articles, I don't think it would be appropriate to give this good article status when it is still ongoing. There is still over a month of activity that will be going into this election, let alone the results, that could radically change the content and what is in it. While it seems to be in a decent state now, making it a GA with the understanding that it is still going to be under development for a little bit of time isn't something I am comfortable with. I think the election this article is about should run its course and then it should be renominated again once all possible content is added to it. 𝄞 Strubber ♫ Contributions ♩ 14:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
- COMMENT: Page appears to have been speedy deleted under MW:G8 on 7 April 2024. I cannot find any trace of similar pages/intended pages, leading me to assume that the page as a whole no longer exists. As such, I think it would be fair to automatically disqualify this nomination. Sertor (Chat) 23:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Sean II and V
Comment by nominator: Short and stout. Ayunipear (talk) 16:03, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- COMMENT: Page was redirected to multiple titles within the span of a week, before being deleted on 22 April under MW:G9. I think this is fairly reasonable grounds to automatically disqualify this nomination. Sertor (Chat) 23:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Micronational dictionary
- Nominator: Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 16:42, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- SUPPORT: I believe this is a fairly comprehensive, high-quality article. Sertor (Chat) 23:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
MicroWikiDictionary
- Nominator: Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 06:29, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- COMMENT: Per MW:GAN, a user may only nominate one article a month. The user that has submitted this entry has already submitted Micronational dictionary on 13 April 2024. Sertor (Chat) 23:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Consider this my nomination for May? 👉👈 Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 23:55, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Alsann Republic
- @Diegg24: Oo – this is quite good, but before I leave my comments I have to ask: the last major edits were made in October 2023; is everything still up to date history-wise? The history section also mentions elections for 4 November 2023—did those ever occur? :] Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 14:17, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Featured article voting
Voting on which article will be featured on the Main Page. Voting will begin halfway through the month. Indigenous nation was chosen as FA by for the April cycle.
Closed nominations from March
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Kingdom of Ranzania
Comment by nominator: I believe this article is worthy of the Good Article status. Razvan Juncu (talk) 11:50, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Roscami Federation
Nanonation
Indigenous nation
Flag of New Eiffel
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