User:CactiStaccingCrane/Unofficial requirement for very good articles
 | This is an explanatory supplement to the requirements for good and very good articles. This page gives more information about things in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been agreed by the community. |
| Requirements |  Good article
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 Very good article
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| Notability | The article must be about a subject that belongs in Wikipedia. | |
| Comprehensive | The article must be fairly complete. | The article must be comprehensive. |
| The article should be a few kilobytes long. | The text should be several kilobytes long. | |
| Collaboration | The article must have gone through a few revisions, possibly by different editors. | |
| Linking | The article must be filed in the appropriate category. It must have at least one interwiki link. | |
| All important terms should be linked and there must not be many red links left. | All important terms should be linked and there must be no red links left. | |
| Quality | The last few revisions should be minor changes (like spell-checking or link-fixing) | |
| There must be no templates pointing to the fact that the article needs improvement. | ||
| Media | If there are any illustrations, they must be related to the article. They must also be properly labelled. | |
| Citing | Content that is from books, journal articles or other publications needs to be referenced. | |
We all know the requirements. These requirements have been created a very long time ago, and they have been expanded over time, unofficially. This supplement would show some of them, as well as how to make the proposal article good. Most importantly, however, you will gain insight to the proposal process.