Wikipedia:Proposed article demotion
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Good articles and very good articles are some of the best articles on Simple English Wikipedia. They have certain criteria that they must meet before they can be considered as a good or very good article (see Wikipedia:Requirements for good articles and Wikipedia:Requirements for very good articles). If someone notices that an article meets most or all of those criteria, he or she may list it on the Proposed good articles or Proposed very good articles page. The article is then voted on, and if enough people agree that the article is good or very good, it is promoted to that higher status.
However, sometimes a good or very good article is changed in such a way that it no longer meets the criteria, or new information may become available about the topic, making the article incomplete. In such a case, the article should be demoted from good article or very good article status.
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[change] Process of demotion
Demotion of a GA or VGA can be done in this way:
- A named editor notices that the article no longer meets the GA or VGA criteria.
- The editor lists the article on this page and adds {{pdemotion}} to the article's page to show that it is currently being reviewed and improved.
- For two weeks following the discovery, the article can be fixed to again meet the criteria. If there is agreement that the problem has been fixed during this time, there does not need to be a re-vote; a named editor can remove the tag from the article, and put the {{vgood}} or {{good}} tag back.
- If the problem is not fixed, the article will lose its status after the two week period. When the article once again meets the criteria, it can be re-nominated for GA or VGA status and will follow the full promotion process from beginning to end.
[change] Proposals for demotion
List proposals here, newer ones at the top. Each proposal should list what needs to be fixed. Within two weeks from being listed, an article listed here must be fixed to again meet the criteria, or have its higher status removed.
[change] Muhammad
- Muhammad (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs|delete)
- Supprt demotion - It needs more references. There are too many non proven facts such as, "The Quraysh pagans of Mecca heard about this, and they sent a larger army numbering 1000 warriors to fight the Muslims." This is only one of many facts that should be proven in order to have good article status..--CPacker (talk) 06:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
[change] Evolution
This very good article needs a serious copyediting to link all important terms, and create the missing redlinks; if that cannot be done, I propose it be demoted to good article. While we are at it, the following could/shouldin my opinion be mentioned (for comopleteness sake):
- Mendelian laws (or the fact that about 30 years after Darwin had published his work on the origin of species that that of Gregor Mendel (an austrian monk experimenting with different kinds of peas) was rediscovered; nevertheless, mucxh of Darwin's approach is still valid even though he did not know about Mendel.
- There is a lengthy section in the EnWP article about deistic/theistic/creationist/intelligent design views; we could perhaps extend our section a little (with references, please) to quell these doubts
- Cp-evolution/co-operation/antagonism between species (If I am a parasite on some host, and my host evolves, I need to adapt as well); This seems to be currently researched; I am not a biologist..
- Perhaps one or two sentences on how evolutionary thought led to Eugenic models (Fracis Galton); Social Darwinism
- A word of how the mondel is currently applied by computzer scientists (called Genetic algorithms)
These are of course just thoughtsof mine; feel free to contribute. --Eptalon (talk) 21:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
