

Adding good and featured articles and lists together gives a total of 46,139 articles (about 1 in 141). Because articles are only included in one category, a good article that has been promoted to featured status is removed from the good articles category.


An additional 6,066 are listed as featured articles (about 1 in 1,070) and 3,927 as featured lists (about 1 in 1,650). Good articles do not have to be as comprehensive as featured articles (FA), but they should not omit any major facets of the topic: a comparison of the criteria for good and featured articles describes further differences.Ĭurrently, out of the 6,471,670 articles on Wikipedia, 36,146 are categorized as good articles (about 1 in 180), most of which are listed below. They are well written, contain factually accurate and verifiable information, are broad in coverage, neutral in point of view, stable, and illustrated, where possible, by relevant images with suitable copyright licenses. A good article (GA) is an article that meets a core set of editorial standards, the good article criteria, passing through the good article nomination process successfully.
