User:Lincher/Good article establishment

This page is intended to stir discussion on a controversial subject that is good articles. The current proposal is to promote the idea that the good articles process is as much a step in the article creation as featured articles currently are.

Outcome of proposal

 * Adopt Good articles as a level of quality in the article's progression. (See assessment scale for an example).
 * Define the level of quality GA should be. It now has almost the same criterias as the FA but being less strict (For an example, see the citation criteria).
 * Define the progression stages of an article Start->GA->PR->FA or Start->PR->GA->FA or Start->GA=PR->FA.
 * See GA to become a real step in article progression
 * See Wikipedia_talk:Good_articles
 * See Village_pump_(proposals)
 * See Good Article Drive and other suggestions.
 * Adopt, if possible to have a consensus on the subject, the plus sign banner in the right most corner of the article copying the FA article.
 * Decide if downgraded FA articles or articles that fail FAC will be brought back to GA status.
 * Are long articles to be assessed by people assessing the GA nominees.

Good article use

 * It can serve as a review of articles when people failing give sufficient reasons.
 * It can serve as a second peer review.
 * It can be the outline of an article that will become a featured article.
 * It can be seen as work complying to all of wikipedias policies when people see the plus sign in the corner.

Good article criticism

 * People don't see GAs in a good light.
 * People don't like the GA plus sign in the right most corner because it was an undiscussed idea, votes resulted in revoking the idea.
 * See GA dispute #1 which resulted in a deletion
 * GA Deletion review resulted in an Endorse closure.
 * The project is not well-known or appreciated.