Forum:Significantly Increased FA Standards Proposal

As I announced awhile back, the Good Article and Featured article requirements were going through rewrites. The Good Article standards were rewritten and approved, and now I've finally finished the proposal for Featured Article standards. Please click HERE to read the proposal as it is far too large to put in this thread.

While the Good Article standards were decreased, you can see here that the Featured Article requirements are far more specific and much more difficult to attain. This helps create a MAJOR distinction between the quality expected from Good Articles and Featured Articles. While it will now be easier to attain GA status, it will be much harder to attain FA status which, I think, is a very good thing. Articles were becoming FA status far too easily and most of the DLs, myself included, just looked at the article in terms of length and appearance. With these standards, we'll have to really go through the article with a fine comb and judge it for what it is rather than what it looks like. Users also will have to be aware that they can't expect their FA nominee to become an FA in a day or two like it usually would. This is going to take time on the part of the DLs and patience on the part of the authors.

Anyway, please vote below if you agree or disagree with these standards, or even if you want to stay neutral. If you disagree because of a few points of contention, then at first I suggest stating your objections and giving ways to rectify what you percieve to be mistakes in judgement when it came to creating these. Voting will only be scheduled to last until next Monday, April 14th, because we're planning on starting another Decreton Lord review of all of the FAs, since the last one we had was six months ago. If this proposal needs more time, we'll push back the review and extend the voting period. Thanks in advance for your input and support. - President Brandon Rhea  (Pressroom) (Record) 19:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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 * 1) Considering I proposed this, absolutely. - President Brandon Rhea  [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom) (Record) 19:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)