User:beetricks/What makes the quintessential article?
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The quintessential article is literally, to put it simple, that article. It has everything an article wishes it had: the long, juicy length; a bomb lead section; sections of sentences and paragraphs adorned with the most trustworthy citations, all down in the References section with multiple columns, etc. They outshine every featured article (
) and have versions in (almost) every language available on this damn website called wikipedia.org. NO CLEANUP TEMPLATES are allowed within the past 6 months. There is a scale I made discriminating the quality of articles:
- Godawful – stands against everything the general guidelines and policies has stood for
- Bad – little notability and purpose, problematic as hell.
- NOT GOOD™ – Based off Anthony Fantano.
- Okay – Merely exciting. They might get a cleanup template every now and then, and edits can easily be made with care. Pretty much the majority of articles.
- Satisfactory – It is good.
- The Quintessential Article(s) – The article(s). (see Japan, Franz Kafka, and Oxygen)