| Class |
Criteria |
Reader's experience |
Editing suggestions |
Example
|
 FA |
The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. |
Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. |
No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. |
Batman |
| FL |
The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. |
Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. |
No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available. |
List of Smallville episodes |
 A |
The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. |
Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. |
Batman (1989 film) |
 GA |
The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. |
Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. |
Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. |
Alex Raymond |
| B |
The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. |
Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. |
A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. |
Garfield |
| C |
The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. |
Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. |
Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. |
2000 AD (comics) |
| Start |
An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. |
Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. |
Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. |
Q Force |
| Stub |
A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. |
Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. |
Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. |
Action Girl Comics |
| List |
Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. |
There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. |
Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. |
List of comic books |
| Category |
Any category falls under this class. |
Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. |
Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. |
Category:Comics stubs |
| Disambig |
Any disambiguation page falls under this class. |
The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. |
Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. |
DC Universe (disambiguation) |
| File |
Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. |
The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content. |
Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. |
File:John Byrne.JPG |
| Portal |
Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. |
Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics. |
Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date. |
Portal:Comics |
| Redirect |
Any redirect falls under this class. |
The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged with the original article at this location. |
Editor involvement is essential to ensure that articles are not mis-classified as redirects, and that redirects are not mis-classified as articles. |
Martha Kent |
| Template |
Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes. |
Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. |
Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. |
Template:WikiProject Comics |
| NA |
Any non-article page that fits no other classification. |
The page contains no article content. |
Look out for misclassified articles. Currently, many NA-class articles may need to be re-classified. |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates |
