Wikivoyage:Article status

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Wikivoyage articles evolve and mature, as they are edited by various contributors, over time. When assessing an article's status, many factors must be taken into account. The following subjective guidelines are to assist editors in making this assessment, considering the amount of information in an article, and its quality and usefulness. The article's compliance with Wikivoyage's goals and Manual of Style should also be considered.

The status is on a 5-point scale, with 0 being a non-article, and 5 being ideal:

0. Vfd - Not an article, and no real chance of ever becoming an article (or even a redirect) that meets Wikivoyage's goals. An article unrelated to travel, or a page of graffiti with a nonsense title would have this status.

1. Stub - An article with little or no information in it, or not formatted even close to the manual of style. An article with no template or a former copyright violation would have this status.
2. Outline - Has at least an introduction and a template outline laid out for the article, but not much more. Some of the sections may have content, but others are empty. You can tell what this article is going to be about, but it doesn't have enough information to be useful (e.g. get you to a destination and keep you alive there).
3. Usable - An adventurous person could use the article without recourse to other information sources. For most articles, this means they could probably get to the destination, eat, and sleep with just this information. It would probably enable them to find at least the most prominent attraction there. For countries and regions, linked sub-destinations like cities and other destinations should have meaningful content too.
4. Guide - The article would be helpful for the average traveler, such as offering alternatives for where to stay and eat, what to see and do, how to get in and out, etc. and provide enough information for at least a few days there. But at least a few things are missing to make this a star article. It follows the manual of style in spirit if not in detail.
5. Star - The article is essentially complete. It meets all of the above criteria. It follows the manual of style exactly or is the exception that proves the rule. Prose is not only near-perfect grammatically but also tight, effective, and enjoyable. It has appropriate illustrations, such as photos and a map. Enough breadth and depth of material is presented that anyone familiar with the subject of the article would have little to point out as absent. Future changes to this kind of article would reflect changes in the subject (e.g. a museum closes, a hotel price changes, a new airport is built) more than they'd require improvements in the coverage.

Objective criteria for each status vary depending on the kind of article it is. For more concrete guidance on assigning status, see:

• Project:City guide status (also for districts)
• Project:Region guide status (also for continents and continental sections)
• Project:Country guide status
• Project:Itinerary status
• Project:Travel topic status
• Project:Phrasebook status
• Project:Park guide status

Star articles must go through a nomination process before their status is changed, but for any other article status anyone can plunge forward and change the status tag at the end of the article ({{guidecity}}, {{usablecountry}} and so on, see the links above for the full list). But if somebody objects and reverts your change, then state your reasons on the Talk page and let the community work out a consensus.

Only articles in the main namespace have a status.

Matrix of Article status numbers against Article templates.

Type/Status	Stub	Outline	Usable	Guide	Star	noms	denoms.	unranked	Total(row)	Total (templates)
Unspecified	5sb	0o				1sn	0sd	0‎u+(1)Uc	7 +0
District of city		443od	324ud	120gd	32sd				919	of 106hc
City		15,584oc	2,278uc	386gc	23sc				18,271
Park		1,020op	164up	46gp	5sp				1,235
Airport		22oa	4ua	3ga	0sa				29
Region		3,993or	262ur	24gr	1sr				4,280
Country		210oc	6uc	2gc	1sc				219
Continent		3on	4un	0gn	0sn				7
Destinations									24961	24,953p + 7
Itinerary		159oi	115ui	18gi	3si				295	295i
Travel topic		309ot	218ut	87gt	8st				622	622t
Phrasebook		128op	39up	38gp	1sp				206	207p
Gallery								3‎gp	3
Disambiguation								1,586‎da	1,586
Inactive								9‎h	9
Title/Index								15‎ti	15
Total	5	21,871	3,414	724	74	1	0	1614	27703 +0	27,749

Note: number in brackets are manual counts,so will not be up to date.

See also:

• Wikivoyage:Cleanup status stats

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