Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023

Good article reassessment/February 2023

A January 2023 AN discussion closed with consensus that:

1. All
   GA reassessment
   will be opened and can vouch for/verify content of all sources, including offline sources
2. Users may remove any content Doug Coldwell added that is cited to an offline source
3. Users are encouraged to wait on stubbing articles until the GAR process has had sufficient time to complete.

This page outlines the process and timeline for the

The master list of articles to be reassessed for GA status can be found here.

The

Be familiar with all of the AN discussion and information in links to other discussions there. A

presumptive deletion

applies, but there may be other problems. One specific concern is the extensive use of old and offline sources that cannot be checked, and may be misrepresented.

There may be:

1. too-close-paraphrasing
   ; content copied from sources; or failure to attribute, quote or re-word content from public domain sources
2. Source-to-text integrity problems (either
   original research
   ) including misrepresentation of sources, inappropriate use of dated sources or non-independent sources
3. conflict of interest, for example, on Ludington, Michigan
   -related articles
4. Claims from very old sources not backed by, or contradicted by, modern sources
5. Copyright issues in images uploaded by Doug Coldwell
6. Sources cited separately from the text they claim to represent, sometimes paragraphs away, which can conceal close paraphrasing or other forms of copyright problems.
7. Insertion of decidedly private materials, such as personal correspondences containing private information, inserted by Doug Coldwell; any inclusion of personal information should be
   oversighted
   .

Earwig is insufficient to detect too-close paraphrasing, copying from newspapers.com clippings (which Earwig cannot see), or content taken from offline sources. Content was often copied from sandbox to the article in one initial edit, which should be examined. Other diffs to examine are listed at the 3-page contributor copyright investigation.

• If you find any of the copyright issues above, remove it and start a talk page discussion, but do not copy copyvio material to the talk page, as that creates another copyright problem.
  • If a copyvio is material to the content of the page, request
    presumptive removals
    .
  • The templates {{subst:CCI}} (specifically {{subst:CCI|name=20210315}} for this case), {{subst:CCId}}, and {{subst:cclean}} can be used on talk pages to denote presumptive removal/stubbing, presumptive deletion, and copyvio removal respectively (the latter can also be used in combined copyvio and presumptive removals).
• If a page cannot be salvaged or presumptive deletion is expedient, replace its entire content with {{subst:copyvio}} and follow the instructions on that template to list the page at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. The page will likely be deleted after a week if it is not rewritten.
• Add your findings related to copyright under the article listing at the 3-page contributor copyright investigation; feedback will help advance the effort

2. I passed one of these GA: what do I need to do?

If you believe the GA should be delisted, you don't need to do anything. Unless someone else plans to open a GAR independent from those processed en masse, the GA will be delisted automatically when the bot runs (see #Implementation section).

If you want to improve the article anyway, see #FAQ 3.

If you believe the GA status might be retained, and plan to initiate an independent GAR to that effect, see #FAQ 3.

3. I believe one of these GAs can retain its GA status or be improved: what do I do?

To retain GA status, you need to be willing to open an independent GAR (according to the timeline at

presumptive deletion). Please do not open a GAR until the #Implementation

process outlined below is complete.

1. Re-evaluate the content (see #FAQ 1) and discuss any problems found on article talk
2. If you can locate sources online (for example, books at archive.org or articles at newspapers.com) please add them and verify content cited to them, or list them on the article talk page
3. If you have access to an offline source, you may be asked during the GAR to place a significant enough quote from that source on article talk that all of the following can be evaluated: source-to-text integrity, copyright violations including too-close-paraphrasing, and POV
4. If you plan to open an independent GAR (separate from those processed en masse), indicate so by listing the article at the talk page here so the article will not be delisted in the bot group run
5. Open the independent GAR after the mass bot run (around February 23)
6. Once the GARs are completed, anyone can stub any article on the list not passing GAR by removing any content cited to inaccessible sources (see
   broad coverage
   can be preserved based on accessible sources

4. How and when should I stub a GA on the list?

For timing, see the #Implementation section.

Content that breaches

too-close-paraphrasing, source-to-text integrity problems, or POV remaining even after the article is stubbed (see #FAQ 1

).

See #FAQ 4. Did you follow those instructions?

If so, review the article talk page (see

Administrators' noticeboard

.

6. Can I resubmit to

GAN

a delisted article on the list?

Any delisted GA is eligible to be resubmitted for GA consideration, but you should be certain that everything in #FAQ 1 above has been considered, and that any content cited to offline content has been dealt with as explained.

Outline:

1. A mass message sender (MMS) talk page notice was posted to all relevant GA talk pages.
2. Another notice was sent to GA reviewers of the articles

   If you want to opt out of these messages, or if you would like to receive messages even if you weren't one of the GA reviewers, you can add or remove yourself from this list

3. Editors had until February 20 to indicate on the talk page here the articles on which they planned to open an independent reassessment; those articles were removed from the master list so the remainder on the list could be processed for delisting by bot
4. On February 26, the GAN Review Tool completed processing the remaining GAs (those where an independent reassessment was not indicated) to effect a mass delisting by:

   Automated setup of a GAR page with a standard notice

   Automated closure and incorporation to {{Article history}}

5. Articles not
   be stubbed (see #FAQ 4
   )
6. The remaining independent
   GARs
   can be opened and will be processed as normal

   After GARs are completed, articles not passing can be stubbed (see #FAQ 4)