On 27 April 2010 23:14, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> On 27 April 2010 21:33, Charles Matthews >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Well, the research I remember says the transition from B to A makes the >>> most difference to the reader. So I would make that central to any >>> system: from 5 to 6, say. I have seen perfectly decent articles labelled >>> "Start" - I mean articles with say five paras of solid, verifiable >>> factual information. I doubt standards are even across the wiki, but if >>> those are "Start" there have to be a couple of rungs on the ladder below >>> that.; or Start = 3. I see that mathematics uses B+ anyway, so that the >>> lower side has five grades already. There does seem to be some problem >>> with A right now, but abolishing it in such a fashion to reduce >>> incentives to push articles up would really be a bad idea (whatever your >>> anecdotal example says). >>> >> >> But what is the difference between A and GA? Really, it's minimal (I >> think A-class requires the content to be essentially complete, GA just >> requires it to cover all the main points, which isn't much different). >> You talk about the transition from B to A - is most of that difference >> to readers between B and GA or between GA and A (I know the ordering >> isn't perfect, but any A-class article should be able to pass GA with >> only minimal changes)? I suspect it is between B and GA, so getting >> rid of A wouldn't have any significant impact. >> > [[Talk:Go (game)/GA2]] is the only GA review I have ever looked at: it > has many comments (measurements in both metric and imperial, for > example) that ar far from your summary.
Sorry, that bit in brackets wasn't meant to be a summary of the criteria for each class, it was a description of the difference between the classes. Each has lots of other criteria, but they are essentially the same for both. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
