Editing Encyclopedia:Historical archive/Policy/Approval mechanism (section)

===Maureen's proposal 1===

The following was proposed by [[User:Maurreen]] on [[Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards]] 06:49, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC), but seems appropriate to mention here. -- [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] | [[User talk:Jmabel|Talk]] 22:45, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

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Here's an outline of a possible plan, submitted for your suggestions. One advantage is that the computer part of it is simple. [[User:Maurreen|Maurreen]] 06:49, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

#An article could be "approved" with at least 10 votes and no more than 10 percent of the votes objecting. Only registered users could vote. Users with multiple accounts should only vote once. Voting for each article would be open at least a week.
#To allow appropriate time for review and possibly improvement, no more than three articles would be considered at a time. Others nominated would be compiled on a "pending" list.
#Nominations would be accepted only from registered users who agree to maintain the  article. So, in a sense, we would be voting on the nominators also. The commitment to maintain the article would allow the article to still be edited, but give us some assurance that the article wouldn't deteriorate.
#"Approved" articles would be compiled on a list, along with the names of the maintainers. 
#Possibly the nominations or list could refer or be limited to a specific version of the article. That is, the article at such-and-so date and time.
#"Approved" articles could have some indicator of that status on the article itself.
#Guidelines or standards for what is worthy could be determined before voting ever starts on articles.
#Nominations would be encouraged from featured articles and peer-reviewed articles. Initially, general topics (such as [[Electronics]]) would be preferred to more-specific ones (such as [[Ohm's Law]]). That could work toward the "approved" material having a broad and even general base.
#Nominations of contentious articles would be discouraged, at least initally.
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