User blog:MasterBroccoli/Good articles

Hello!

Browsing through our main page (which I think is harder to find than it should be) - I fixed some minor things there - I yet again stumbled over the whole 'good article' thing. I generally like that feature in wikis, and would like to know your opinion as we currently do not really use it here.

First of all, I removed the GA status from all articles here - it was just a handful articles (I remember Scorpion, Knight, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, and Age of Empires III being among them) - because I could not see how these pages deserved that status. It was assigned to these pages long ago and the wiki has come a long way since and these pages do not strike me as particularly good in general comparison. As a result, we currently do not use this feature at the moment.

Our main page has a section called 'featured article' (generally an interesting feature to me), and the article shown there is Romans. Mind, now, that featured articles are also good articles. If you read that article you will find that it is not particularly rich. I think that is unfortunate and if we decide not to utilize the concept, I would at least like to see that section removed from our main page.

Personally, I think good articles are a good way to indicate the status of an article to help editors measure their work. It can come in steps (currently, there are 5 levels of good articles here, with 5 being the highest).

So, what's your take on the whole thing?