| Class |
Minimum criteria |
Who can promote |
| Stub |
A very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work |
Anyone (even a bot) |
| Start |
Any two of the followings: 1) A particularly useful picture or graphic 2) An infobox with useful key information on the topic 3) Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic 4) A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic 5) Multiple subheadings with some contents that indicate material that could be added to complete the article. |
Any human editor (no bot), a discussion of the assessment on the article talk page is useful but not required. |
| B |
Atleast 4 of the 5 start class criteria. The article may have dispute on factual accuracy or neutrality but is tagged as such if that is the case. |
Any user, who is ideally not a major contributor to the article. A discussion of the assessment on article talk page is required if the reviewer is one of the major contributors to the article. |
| A / B+ (new class) |
1) Written in an understandable language, 2) No factual accuracy dispute. At least 60% of the content is verifiable from inline citations. Reference format may need clean-up; 3) Broad in coverage; 4) No neutrality dispute. 5) Stable; 6) Illustrated, where possible. In summary: the article can be Good Aricle candidate with some copyedit and clean-up. |
Atleast 2 users - 1 should propose on article's talk page and a second one (who is not a major contributor to the article) should support and upgrade. Request for reasseeement may also be posted on relevant WikiProject Assessment department page. |
| GA |
See GA criteria |
GA Nomination process |
| FA / FL |
See FA criteria |
FA Nomination process |
