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This page in a nutshell: Featured articles are the best that Wikipedia has to offer. If you make an edit, it should never take an article farther away from featured article standards. |
Many times, editors will make changes to an article and it is hard for them, or for others, to determine if the edits are, on the whole, beneficial to the article. The following method should provide a clear means to judge this.
Wikipedia's best work is represented by its Featured Articles. Such articles form the pool from which we select the article we will feature on the main page. As such, they are the best that Wikipedia has to offer. Featured Articles are held to the highest standards, they go through a very thorough vetting process and are subjected to continuous monitoring to ensure that quality is not lost. At Wikipedia, the little star means something, and you could do no better than to use a featured article as your model.
Pay special attention to all of the following facets of a featured article, and learn how to spot if the edit you just made fits these ideas.
If your edit does this, it's a bad edit. Don't do it.
This is an
essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
This page in a nutshell: Featured articles are the best that Wikipedia has to offer. If you make an edit, it should never take an article farther away from featured article standards. |
Many times, editors will make changes to an article and it is hard for them, or for others, to determine if the edits are, on the whole, beneficial to the article. The following method should provide a clear means to judge this.
Wikipedia's best work is represented by its Featured Articles. Such articles form the pool from which we select the article we will feature on the main page. As such, they are the best that Wikipedia has to offer. Featured Articles are held to the highest standards, they go through a very thorough vetting process and are subjected to continuous monitoring to ensure that quality is not lost. At Wikipedia, the little star means something, and you could do no better than to use a featured article as your model.
Pay special attention to all of the following facets of a featured article, and learn how to spot if the edit you just made fits these ideas.
If your edit does this, it's a bad edit. Don't do it.