Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force

WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
Nominations: Impalement arts • Backlash (2007) • Sam Cowan • Sphinx Head • Fort Jackson (Virginia) Reassessment: Madonna (entertainer) • Sweeps / List: references (All Categories), image tags (All Categories), article quality (All Categories) Possible GAs Needing References: Clarinet • Carleton University • Appalachian Mountains Task forces: Project quality • Unreferenced GA
Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations queue: 213 articles (42 of them are on hold) as of 08:00, 11 June 2008 | edit

[edit] Scope

This task force, as part of WikiProject Good articles, is to:

• standardize the project by ensuring terms and procedures are consistent in order to ensure consistency and ease of use. This entails determining the best terminology to be used so as not to be confusing to users unfamiliar with the project, and standardizing the categories at WP:GA and WP:GAN to allow for easy categorization during the listing process.
• evaluate and improve the quality of listed articles to ensure that they still meet the criteria. This entails re-reviewing all articles listed at WP:GA, particularly those listed prior to the creation of WP:WIAGA.
• maintain the quality of the project. This entails keeping clear the lists at Category:Uncategorized good articles and Category:Good articles without an oldid, ensuring articles tagged and listed without review are delisted, that articles nominated at Good article reassessment are properly reviewed and appropriate action taken, and routinely conducting sweeps to ensure Good articles continue to meet the criteria.

[edit] To-do

1. Once the WP:GAN backlog elimination drive is complete, all articles, particularly those listed prior to the creation of WP:WIAGA, need to be re-reviewed to ensure they meet current standards.
   • For articles that clearly fail to meet the criteria, boldly delist the article from WP:GA and detail the reasoning on the article talk page.
   • For articles that seem to fail to meet the criteria, but it's questionable, nominate them at WP:GAR.
2. With the high probability that nominations will increase at WP:GAR due to the re-reviews, it is vital that participation be adequate to quickly and appropriately determine whether or not an article should retain GA or be delisted.
3. Standardize the categories at WP:GA and WP:GAN. (See the discussion on the talk page.)

   Y Done --Jayron32|talk|contribs 20:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

4. Conduct sweeps to ensure Good articles retain their quality.
5. Keep {{WikiProjectGATasks}} up-to-date.

[edit] Open discussions

Please weigh in with your opinion on the following discussion(s):

• Proposals

[edit] Participants

• LaraLove (talk • contribs • count) - Task force creator.
• Jayron32 (talk • contribs • count) - Been meaning to work on jiving the candidates page categories with the list categories for a LONG time now. Now I have the motivation to do so... Good idea.
• Giggy (talk • contribs • count) - Streamlining - So desperately needed
• Masem (talk • contribs • count) - Maybe an article or two...
• Wrad (talk • contribs • count) - especially interested in sifting out the weaker ones, if GAs are to be taken seriously, we need quality control, just let me know when we start...
• OhanaUnited (talk • contribs • count) - Coordinator of GAC backlog elimination drive. Always available to answer questions related to GA. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 14:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
• Dinosaur puppy (talk • contribs • count) - aka T Rex, I'm bored and need something to do. T Rex | talk 23:04, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
• Nehrams2020 (talk • contribs • count) Helped to coordinate the last two GAC backlog drives, and will be helping with sweeps. --Nehrams2020 06:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
• EyeSerene (talk • contribs • count) - initially helping out with GA sweeps
• Universal Hero (talk • contribs • count) - Long term ambition, full time worker. Universal Hero 21:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
• Parent5446 (talk • contribs • count) - Joining again. Got a little confused but now I'm here to stay. Thanks to OhanaUnited for clearing things up. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 22:18, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
• VanTucky (talk • contribs • count) - Glad to be accepted as a sweeps participant. VanTucky ^talk 02:38, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
• jwanders (talk • contribs • count) - This line intentionally left blank.
• Mastrchf91 (talk • contribs • count) - I'll be focusing on television episodes, and also will work as a utility reviewer. Mastrchf (^t/_c) 02:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

This user is a member of the GA Project quality task force.

{{User:LaraLove/Userbox/GAPQTF}}

[edit] Uncategorized Good articles

Category:Uncategorized good articles states "This is a list of Good articles that have not been categorized in any of the top-level categories at Wikipedia:Good articles. In theory, the category should be empty, but it most likely will be bursting at the seams."

As it turns out, it is. There are, as of 2:40 a.m. (UTC) on 19 July 2007, 1,548 good articles that have not been categorized.

[Update] By 9:25 a.m. (UTC) on 01 August 2007, 1,298 good articles were not categorized. If the decline does not seem impressive, note that the July 19 count did not include ArticleHistory-tagged pages (about a thousand).

[Update] User:Madman bum and angel created a bot to categorize the articles. At 7:14 a.m. (UTC), 3 August 2007 he posted that the bot had categorized 1,149 articles. By the time he completed the post, the bot had successfully cleared the category with the exception of GA templates on User and Wikipedia pages. These have now been removed by altering the template code.

The current count, according to the Special:Categories page: count.

[edit] Scope

This task force, as part of WikiProject Good articles, is to keep

• the list at Category:Uncategorized good articles
• the list at Category:Good articles without an oldid

empty by adding topic parameters and oldid's to any articles which appear in these categories.

[edit] To-do

• Categorize those articles listed at Category:Uncategorized good articles. Y Done
• Fill in oldid's for GA's that lack them listed at Category:Good articles without an oldid (for articles that use the GA template) and fill in action information for articles listed at Category:Good articles with no article history action (for articles that use the AH template). Y Done
• Select any article within the list.
  • The oldid field should be only numeric characters; some older GA entries may have included "nnnnnn" (a default value in the GA documentation) or a date-like entry and both of these cases should be changed to the correct oldid.

    To find the oldid, look over the talk page to establish what date the article was promoted. Then check the article history for the last edit of that date. There are tools that can help you find the appropriate oldid.

  • If the article uses the GA tempate:

    An example of what the template should look like once you've filled everything in is {{GA|oldid=123456|topic=Arts}}.

  • If the article uses the ArticleHistory template:

    If the ArticleHistory template lacks a "GAN" (Good Article Nomination) entry within its fields, these should be added. The format of these are:

    action1= - Value should be "GAN"

    action1date= - The date (YYYY-MM-DD) when the article was made a GA

    action1link= - If possible, a link to the talk page or archive when the page was promoted

    action1result= - "Listed", assuming that the article has been put on the GA list

    action1oldid= - The oldid, same as with the GA template oldid.

    topic= - The category under which the articles is listed on the GA list.

    If there already exist other "actions", use the next highest number to represent this; e.g. if there are 2 existing actions but no GAN, use "action3=" and so forth.

Note: If you find any discrepancies during this process and feel an article may have been promoted without meeting the criteria, nominate the article at Good article reassessment.

[edit] Categories

The good article and article history templates will accept any of the abbreviated or full topic names below, and are case-insensitive. Any other entry for the topic name will leave the article listed as uncategorized.

[edit] List of participants

• LaraLove (talk • contribs • count) - Task force creator.
• Walkerma (talk • contribs • count)
• Gosgood (talk • contribs • count)
• The Random Editor (talk • contribs • count)
• Giggy (talk • contribs • count) - To an extent...
• OhanaUnited (talk • contribs • count) - I'll help a bit
• Flubeca (talk • contribs • count) Ok.
• Ike9898 (talk • contribs • count)
• Esprit15d (talk • contribs • count)
• Masem (talk • contribs • count)
• Zidel333 (talk • contribs • count) I'll help when I can.
• Mahanga (talk • contribs • count)
• JoelleJ (talk • contribs • count)
• Aeons (talk • contribs • count)
• Universal Hero (talk • contribs • count)
• andreasegde (talk • contribs • count) I create GA articles, and don't delete them. Why don't you do something creative?
• Mastrchf91 (talk • contribs • count) I'll do what I'm able to with the time I have.

[edit] Userbox

This user is a member of the Uncategorized Good articles task force.

{{User:LaraLove/Userbox/UCGATF}}