This page is for Good article nominations. A Good article is an article that adheres to certain quality standards but cannot reach Featured status due to its limited content. In turn, a Good article features more detail than a Comprehensive article. On this page, users can nominate articles that they believe are ready to be reviewed to achieve Good status. On this page, users can nominate articles that they believe are ready to be reviewed to achieve Good status.
The article-nomination process is not a way to showcase your favourite articles, but rather articles that are of high quality. Articles placed on this page will be extensively reviewed by experienced editors, including the presiding Wizarding Examinations Authority review panel. The nomination process will require the article nominator to respond to objections and improve the article until the requisite number of users supports the nomination.
In undertaking a nomination on this page, the nominator is taking responsibility for their nominated article. This means they need to thoroughly read the following instructions, implement them into their nominated article, and respond to given objections. Nominators are encouraged to ask more experienced editors for guidance and assistance, but self-sufficiency is a requirement of the article-nomination process. It is not inherently the job of reviewers to rewrite elements of an article, but rather to guide nominators to be able to fix issues themselves.
Your nomination is your responsibility. Nominations that severely neglect the following rules or otherwise fall idle after ten days will be subject to immediate removal.
- Good article nominations history
- Good article checklist
A Good article must…
- …be well-written and comprehensively detailed.
- …be unbiased, with a neutral point of view.
- …have comprehensive Appearances and Sources lists, assuming the article's content derives from a written story from which references can be taken.
- …be fully referenced, including all quotes (assuming these have any out-of-wiki source) and images. See Harry Potter Fanon Wiki:Sourcing for more information.
- …follow the Manual of Style, Layout Guide, and all other policies on Harry Potter Fanon Wiki.
- …be stable during and following the review process. This means the article does not change significantly from day to day with new content and is not the subject of ongoing edit wars. This does not apply to vandalism or other administrative edits, such as page protection.
- …not be tagged with any sort of improvement tags (i.e. more sources, expand, etc).
- …have no redlinks.
- …provide at least one quote on the article if available. A leading quote at the beginning of the article is preferred but not required if no quotes are available. Although quotes may be placed in the body of the article, a maximum of one quote is allowed at the beginning of each section or subsection.
- …include a reasonable number of images of the highest quality to illustrate the article, as source availability permits.
- …provide an introduction that gives a good summary of the topic, along with an article body that is at least 165 words long.
- …be at least 250 words long and must not exceed 1000 words. Articles that fail to do so should be nominated for Comprehensive status. For clarification, please refer to this flowchart.
- …not be deliberately shortened if it approaches the 1000-word limit.
How to nominate:
- Select an article you feel is worthy of Good status. Nominated articles must meet all fifteen requirements stated above.
- Add {{GAnom}} at the top of the article you are nominating, and save the page. Please note that if the article you are nominating has been nominated for Good article status previously, you will need to specify the number of the nomination as a parameter (e.g. {{GAnom|second}}).
- Open the redlink in a new tab to create the nomination page, modifying the preloaded instructions as necessary.
- Copy the code provided to the bottom of this page.
- Purge the article to update the template.
- Other users will object to the nomination with issues and suggested improvements (errors, style, organization, images, notability, sources, etc).
- The nominator should then adjust the article until the objections are satisfied. The objector is responsible for striking their objection when it has been addressed, not the nominator. Additionally, reviewers will often copy-edit the article themselves as desired to fix any issues.
- Following their review, other users will vote to support the nomination. Users may not vote on their own nomination.
- Each user (except for members of the Wizarding Examinations Authority) shall be limited to four active Good article nominations at any given time. Any additional nominations will be subject to immediate removal.
- Users must successfully complete one Good article nomination before they can have two nominations active on the GAN page at one time. Likewise, users must complete two successful GA nominations before they can have three, and three successful GA nominations before they can have four.
How to review:
- To review an article, users should read the article completely, keeping a sharp eye out for mistakes.
- The article should be reviewed with the criteria listed above, and any issues should be placed under the Object section of the article's nomination page. Objections should be clearly explained, and detail how the article can be improved.
- Objections should then be addressed by the nominator. Once the objector is satisfied, they should strike their objection. The nominator should not strike reviewers' objections for them.
- Once a reviewer is satisfied with the article, they can vote to support it. Please note that in order to support a nomination, you must have 50 mainspace edits.
- If a nomination has been active for over two days and has no active objections, it may pass depending on the amount of positive votes it gets from the Wizarding Examinations Authority or Department of Mysteries members. See the table below for more info;
- Once the nomination is successful, the article will be considered a "Good article." As such, an Wizarding Examinations Authority member will archive the nomination, tag the article with the {{GA}} template, tag its talk page with the {{GA}} template, and place the article on the Good articles page. Only members of the Wizarding Examinations Authority are allowed to perform these archiving tasks.
| Number of active reviewers | Will pass immediately with | or alternatively |
|---|---|---|
| Two | two WEA votes | at least three votes, of which at least one must be a WEA vote |
| Three | two WEA votes | at least three votes, of which at least one must be a WEA vote |
| Four | three WEA votes | at least four votes, of which at least two must be WEA votes |
| Five | three WEA votes | at least five votes, of which at least two must be WEA votes |
Good article nominations
Azalea Lestrange (The Hogwarts Legacy)
- Nominated by: Cangse Sanren
- Nomination comments: "This page took inspiration from Isabella Cullen from the Twilight franchise"
- Word count at nomination time: 2653
Support
Object
Comments
Vote to strike objections (WEA only)
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