Wikipedia:Training/core/Article quality

Wikipedia has a grading scheme for articles, which can be useful for figuring out how to improve your article. These are the basic quality levels.

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| bgcolor = {{Wikipedia:Training/Class/colour|FA}} | FA

| The article meets the featured article criteria and has gone through the FA candidates process.

bgcolor = {{Wikipedia:Training/Class/colour|GA}} | GA

| The article meets the good article criteria and has gone through a successful good article nomination.

bgcolor = {{Wikipedia:Training/Class/colour|B}} |B

| The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.

bgcolor = {{Wikipedia:Training/Class/colour|C}} |C

| The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material.

bgcolor = {{Wikipedia:Training/Class/colour|Start}} |Start

| An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and may require further reliable sources.

bgcolor = {{Wikipedia:Training/Class/colour|Stub}} |Stub

| A very basic description of the topic.

You can check out the full grading scheme for more detail about these quality assessments.