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One of the things that most Wikipedians aim for is to achieve at least one "Good Article" and/or at least one "Very Good Article". We have a very good process here at the Simple English Wikipedia, but its main fallback is that there are not enough active users nominating and !voting for the articles.

In the closing days of 2008 both of our processes were several weeks out of date due to no interest. Eptalon did a very good job of trying to revive the process, and it is now running fairly smoothly.

However, many of the candidates are still being declined due to a lack of !votes. Good Articles (or GAs) need to have a minimum of 5 !votes, and Very Good Articles (or VGAs) need to have 6 !votes. There are also percentage requirements.

The majority of the GA and VGA candidates currently at !voting do not meet these criteria, and are due to close on the 20th January. Many are up to their respective standards but do not have enough !votes to allow them to gain the titles that are rightly theirs.

Another issue is articles that are being turned away because they are being nominated but no-one is acting on the comments raised in the nomination. The (V)GA processes require lots of community input to help get the articles up to their relevant standards, and the reward of having your article on the Main Page (in the case of VGA) pays for all the hard work that you would have put in.

Finally, we need more people to actually nominate articles that are eligible! We are going to run out of VGA candidates in a couple of weeks, and GA candidates soon after.

So, how can you help? Well, head over to proposed Very Good Articles or proposed Good Articles and give your thoughts, or go write some articles and nominate them! As I have said it is a very time consuming but rewarding process.

I've added my GA nomination.. have you?

BG7even 16:49, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]