There are many articles in Simple English Wikipedia. Some of them are better than others. To mark those articles that can be an example for how articles should be, a template has been set up. This template is called { { good } } . It can be added to articles that meet the requirements listed below, and that have been voted on by the community. In other Wikipedia projects, such articles are also called good articles .
To be able to mark a certain article good, there is a certain procedure that should be followed.
Because the process of becoming a good article is long, larger edits (beyond spellchecking/link-fixing) to current good articles should be talked about on the talk page of the article before they are made.
Sometimes a good article is changed in such a way that it no longer meets the criteria above, or new information may become available about the topic, making the article incomplete. In such a case, the article should be demoted from good article status. Demotion of a GA can be done in this way: