Fair warning: many answers here are subjective.
Can an article pass GA if the article...
1. includes a dead link?
2. makes heavy use of the word "claimed"?
3. makes heavy use of non-gender neutral language, such as "mankind"?
4. makes heavy use of the word "currently"?
5. violates WP:OVERLINK?
6. has no discussion of the childhood of a biographical subject?
7. includes a paragraph with no inline citations?
8. includes a sentence with no inline citations?
9. includes a quotation with no inline citation?
10. is only six paragraphs long?
11. has four paragraphs added by a new editor during the review process?
12. includes a photograph of a 19th-century British soldier with an EU public domain copyright tag?
13. fails to present all viewpoints as equally valid?
14. includes a red link in the text?
15. includes a link to a YouTube video of unknown copyright status?
16. has inconsistently formatted citations?
17. includes a spelling error?
18. is based on only three sources?
19. includes the statement "The amusement park also has a roller coaster named Fireball", sourced to a blog with no obvious claim to expertise?
20. has an amusement park as its subject, but fails to discuss one of the park's roller coasters?
Fair warning: many answers here are subjective.
Can an article pass GA if the article...
1. includes a dead link?
2. makes heavy use of the word "claimed"?
3. makes heavy use of non-gender neutral language, such as "mankind"?
4. makes heavy use of the word "currently"?
5. violates WP:OVERLINK?
6. has no discussion of the childhood of a biographical subject?
7. includes a paragraph with no inline citations?
8. includes a sentence with no inline citations?
9. includes a quotation with no inline citation?
10. is only six paragraphs long?
11. has four paragraphs added by a new editor during the review process?
12. includes a photograph of a 19th-century British soldier with an EU public domain copyright tag?
13. fails to present all viewpoints as equally valid?
14. includes a red link in the text?
15. includes a link to a YouTube video of unknown copyright status?
16. has inconsistently formatted citations?
17. includes a spelling error?
18. is based on only three sources?
19. includes the statement "The amusement park also has a roller coaster named Fireball", sourced to a blog with no obvious claim to expertise?
20. has an amusement park as its subject, but fails to discuss one of the park's roller coasters?