Wikipedia – Grading and Growing an Article

Information submitted by Judy Jones
Wikipedia Article Grading System
Wikipedia Grow and Article

Checking the authority of information is essential if you are investigating topics.   Wikipedia articles are graded for authenticity, reliability and completeness.  The grade FA is featured article status, and is professional, and thorough, and is a source for encyclopedic information until new information becomes available.

Other categories are A(essentially complete), GA(well written, factual, broad, neutral and stable), B(suitably referenced, reasonable covers the topic and understandable), C (may have some gaps or missing elements), Start, Stub, Fl, List and non-standard grades.

There are 3,493 FA articles, 71, 049 B articles 84,136 C articles and over 2.9 million are not graded (and therefore, not reliable, but maybe still useful information).