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Many articles that achieve Good Article status eventually fall in quality and no longer meet the standards of Good Articles today. Similarly, sometimes a Good Article doesn't win the Featured Article vote by a very close margin, or maybe it improved since then and might deserve FA status now. This page seeks to address both of those situations.
This is where you will place demotion from GA nominations as well as promotion to FA nominations.
Demotions
Demotions from Good Article status should only be made if the article's quality no longer matches the current expected quality of Good Articles. A justification for the demotion is not optional, and justification needs to be made or it is subject to be automatically discarded.
Kingdom of Überstadt
Comment by nominator: Originally approved on 30 January 2011 by Aldrich Lucas. This article currently suffers from a few issues:
- Article is blatantly out of date. There are varying sections where the content appears to be between 8 - 11 years out of date. The article author added {{WIP}} tags to the several sections of the article in 2021, but they have long since expired.
- Two article sections are completely empty
Personally, I don't think that if submitted today, this would have a chance at attaining FA-status. Sertor (Chat) 13:32, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support (sadly) per above. As Valentinus points out, the author indeed intended to update this article but appears to have abandoned it a few years back. Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 16:58, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Erephisian Technocracy
Comment by nominator: Originally approved on 15 December 2010 by Aldrich Lucas. The page no longer meets the current standards expected of Good Articles, let alone Featured Articles which it was at one point in time. The article has several issues including:
- Several instances of redlinks and broken file links
- Lackluster bot-generated infobox following NSI conversion
- Several poorly expanded upon sections, some not necessarily befitting the tone expected of modern wiki pages.
- Page is evidently not up to date. It has been marked as {{Defunct}} for quite some time, and there does seem to be information gaps, although I appreciate this is perhaps hindered by the MW:AFD deletion of Blecc Empire in 2022. Sertor (Chat) 13:32, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. I tried to find ways to improve it but the article is sadly missing a lot of reasonable sections that only the original author can add. Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 20:16, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
Flag of Berin
Comment by nominator: Originally approved by Aldrich Lucas on 29 September 2011. The Flag of Berin article is a bit of an interesting situation. It was previously discussed on the MW@D server surrounding the ambiguous status of the article. The following is a transcript from User:Noone.
- Flag of Berin is a fun one! So, looking at the edit history, whenever the micronation was succeeded by another micronation, the author would move the page and completely rewrite it as the flag of the new micronation.
- Technically this is utterly pointless as a seperate article should have just been made instead.
- It is now called Flag of Sabia and Verona.
The nominated page (which is now linked as ‘Flag of Montriac’ on the stats page, the current ‘Flag of Berin’ being a later created page that is in itself a redirect to another micronation) redirects to a page that is clearly of a different subject, and is not what was intended to be nominated. The current situation is a bit confusing, and I think it is easier to just close the case and officially denote the GA as having been stripped. Sertor (Chat) 17:10, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support per my rationale cited above. Template:ZedSig (talk ❧ contribs) at 17:18, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
April Demotions
The following articles were demoted in April:
Promotions
Promotions should be made for current Good Articles that did not win their Featured Article vote. Users may only nominate one promotion per cycle. Nominations to promote biographical articles should be approved by the subject if possible.
Promotion voting
Articles that are promoted to Featured Article status from GA status will be featured in the latter half of the month on the Main Page. The first vote will take place in the second half of the month when there are articles seeking promotion, if it does not, bother User:Strubber on their talk page.