Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 27 April 2010 21:33, Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> Well, the research I remember says the transition from B to A makes the >> most difference to the reader. So I would make that central to any >> system: from 5 to 6, say. I have seen perfectly decent articles labelled >> "Start" - I mean articles with say five paras of solid, verifiable >> factual information. I doubt standards are even across the wiki, but if >> those are "Start" there have to be a couple of rungs on the ladder below >> that.; or Start = 3. I see that mathematics uses B+ anyway, so that the >> lower side has five grades already. There does seem to be some problem >> with A right now, but abolishing it in such a fashion to reduce >> incentives to push articles up would really be a bad idea (whatever your >> anecdotal example says). >> > > But what is the difference between A and GA? Really, it's minimal (I > think A-class requires the content to be essentially complete, GA just > requires it to cover all the main points, which isn't much different). > You talk about the transition from B to A - is most of that difference > to readers between B and GA or between GA and A (I know the ordering > isn't perfect, but any A-class article should be able to pass GA with > only minimal changes)? I suspect it is between B and GA, so getting > rid of A wouldn't have any significant impact. > [[Talk:Go (game)/GA2]] is the only GA review I have ever looked at: it has many comments (measurements in both metric and imperial, for example) that ar far from your summary.
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