Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-06-17/Op-ed

"One of our challenges is that since most articles should be GAs before they're FAs, the huge queue at GAN…" – I respectfully disagree. I haven't kept any reliable statistics, but it seems to me that most of the FACs I have had anything to do with as nominator or reviewer are B class, peer reviewed and taken straight to FAC. I don't think it is axiomatic that "most articles should be GAs before they're FAs". Indeed, if the techie wizards can run an analysis, I'd risk a modest bet that most FAs have never been GAs. (Perfectly willing to nibble a bit off my hat if shown to be wrong on the stats.)  Tim riley  talk    21:56, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I am discouraged from reviewing GAs and participating in the GA project by two things. First, some people nominate GAs that are not *nearly* B class.  What a huge waste of reviewers' time.  Secondly, some people nominate articles for GA that they have never been involved in editing, and/or when they do not intend to do the research involved in editing the article to satisfy the GA reviewer.  What's that about?  I suggest that the first thing to do is to require that when people nominate GA articles, they must state that: (1) after reading the GA criteria carefully, they believe that the article satisfies all the GA criteria; and (2) they personally intend to do research and put in whatever work is necessary to satisfy the GA reviewer and elevate the article to GA quality.  That would greatly reduce the backlog and let reviewers concentrate on articles that have a reasonable chance of promotion. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:25, 22 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Of the 4,540 Featured Articles (67%), 3,056 were Good Articles, while only 1,484 (33%) were not. Gary, George and Matt would like you to whip up a delicious dish using your headgear as the key ingredient. Your time starts - now! Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:39, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Fortunately my grandmother was apprenticed to a milliner and got into trouble for putting real fruit on some of the hats. I shall follow grannie's recipe.  Tim riley  talk    22:44, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

I took two articles to GA status: Asteroids (video game) and The Downward Spiral. Asteroids was a Start-class one before its GAN review, but Downward Spiral was categorized B-class before receiving promotion to GA one year ago. I was not involved in 1007D's failed GAN attempt at the latter article because I did not create my only Wikipedia account (Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever) until 2013, and before 2013 I never edited Wikipedia. Since June 16, 2015, "Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever" is now "Gixce93". }I 6ixce93 I x I{ 20:43, 25 June 2015 (UTC)