Template:Comics grading scheme
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| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example | ||
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{{FA-Class}} |
Article has obtained "Featured article" status.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Superman (as of October 2009) | ||
{{FL-Class}} |
Article has "Featured lists" status.
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List of Smallville episodes (as of October 2009) | ||||
{{A-Class}} |
The article is well organized and is essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere, as described here.
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Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to "tweak" the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer-review may help. | Batman (1989 film) (as of October 2009) | ||
{{GA-Class}} |
Article has obtained Good article status.
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Alex Raymond (as of October 2009) | ||
| B {{B-Class}} |
The article is mostly complete, without major issues, but requires some further work to reach Good Article standards. B-Class articles should meet the five B-Class criteria:
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No reader should be left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the manual of style. | Garfield (as of October 2009) | ||
| C {{C-Class}} |
The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and address cleanup issues. | 2000 AD (comics) (as of October 2009) | ||
| Template:Start-Class {{Start-Class}} |
An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources.
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Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. | Q Force (as of October 2009) | ||
| Template:Stub-Class {{Stub-Class}} |
A very basic description of the topic.
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Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. | Action Girl Comics (as of October 2009) | ||
| List {{List-Class}} |
Meets the criteria of a Stand-alone List, which is a page that contains primarily a list. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of comic books (as of October 2009) | ||
| Redirect {{Redirect-Class}} |
Any redirect in the article namespace. | A redirect takes reader to another article relevant to the article they wanted. | Ensure article is still redirect, otherwise re-assess. | Martha Kent (as of October 2009) | ||
| Disambig {{Disambig-Class}} |
Is any disambiguation page. | Serves to distinguish article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic. | Pay particular attention to the proper naming of disambiguation articles, they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | DC Universe (disambiguation) (as of October 2009) | ||
| Category {{Cat-Class}} |
Is any category. | Categories (along with other features like cross-references, lists, and infoboxes) help users find information, even if they don't know that it exists or what it's called. | Be aware not to over-categorise and to be careful of maintaining a neutral point of view when creating or filling categories. Make decisions about the structure of categories and subcategories that make it easy for users to browse through similar articles. | Category:Comics stubs | ||
| Template:Template-Class {{Template-Class}} |
Is any type of template. The most common types of template used in the WikiProject are infoboxes and navboxes. | Serves different purposes depending upon the type of template. Infoboxes go at the upper right of a page and are a way of providing easy access to important pieces of introductory infomation about the subject. Navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page, and are for the purpose of uniting a group of related articles into an easily accessible format for inclusion on every page listed in the navbox. | Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:WikiProject Comics | ||
| Portal {{Portal-Class}} |
Is any page in the portal namespace. | Portals are useful entry-points to Wikipedia content. | Editors need to ensure the portal is kept updated and displays properly, updating news sections and looking out for red links. | Portal:Comics | ||
| File {{File-Class}} |
Tagged page is an image. | Images are used to help explain articles by providing examples of style, lay-out, logo, or other typical visual aspects. Most comics images are fair use and should be used sparingly. Public domain or Creative Commons / GFDL licensed images can be used more freely. | Editors need to ensure that images have correct licenses, fair use rationales (where applicable), and are only used in articles for which they have such rationale. Fair use images should not be used as pure decoration. | File:John Byrne.JPG | ||
| Template:NA-Class {{NA-Class}} |
Is not an article, and fits no other classification. | Probably not useful to any casual reader, these are typically only WikiProject pages. | Look out for mis-classified articles. Currently many NA-class articles need to be re-classified. | Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates |