FAMEPedia:Good article criteria

The good article criteria are the six standards or tests by which a good article nomination (GAN) may be compared and judged to be a good article (GA). A good article that has met the good article criteria may not have met the criteria for featured articles.

Immediate failures
An article can, but by no means must, be failed without further review (known as a quick fail) if, prior to the review:        In all other cases, the nominator deserves a full review against the six criteria from the reviewer. For most reviews, the nominator is given a chance to address any issues raised by the reviewer before the article is failed. Often the nomination is brought up to standard during the review.

The six good article criteria
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What cannot be a good article?

 * Stand-alone lists, portals, sounds, and images: these items should be nominated for featured list and featured picture status, if applicable.
 * Disambiguation pages and stubs: these pages cannot meet the criteria.
 * Featured articles: a good article loses its status when promoted to a featured article. Accordingly, demoted featured articles are not automatically graded as good articles and must be reassessed for quality.