Before going for an FA, keep in mind that FA is very rarely granted, the process is absurdly nitpicking, and it’s mostly given to people who’ve already earned FAs or have participated in the process for a long time. I tried going for an FA for one or two of my best-researched articles, and the process was so frustrating that I never tried again. And this was back in 2008 or so, when the process was more reasonable.
(GA isn’t too great any more compared to its original form, but it’s a lot more doable.)
I’m reading through the names of the FA’s on Wikipedia.
It looks as though the FA’s are heavily represented by highly regional events like hurricanes, highly local historical places, and very specific things. I’d like to hazard a guess that at least half of all FA’s are written by people with a close personal connection or hobby with the subject.
The mathematics section is looking pretty empty, as is the computing section. Maybe they’d like another article for those?
Note that those are also highly delineated and uncontroversial topics, which means that they can pass FAs easily. FA isn’t so much about ‘is this a great article?’ but ‘can we find any excuse to not make this an FA?’; hence, crabbed uninteresting topics. Hurricanes aren’t very controversial.
Before going for an FA, keep in mind that FA is very rarely granted, the process is absurdly nitpicking, and it’s mostly given to people who’ve already earned FAs or have participated in the process for a long time. I tried going for an FA for one or two of my best-researched articles, and the process was so frustrating that I never tried again. And this was back in 2008 or so, when the process was more reasonable.
(GA isn’t too great any more compared to its original form, but it’s a lot more doable.)
I’m reading through the names of the FA’s on Wikipedia.
It looks as though the FA’s are heavily represented by highly regional events like hurricanes, highly local historical places, and very specific things. I’d like to hazard a guess that at least half of all FA’s are written by people with a close personal connection or hobby with the subject.
The mathematics section is looking pretty empty, as is the computing section. Maybe they’d like another article for those?
Note that those are also highly delineated and uncontroversial topics, which means that they can pass FAs easily. FA isn’t so much about ‘is this a great article?’ but ‘can we find any excuse to not make this an FA?’; hence, crabbed uninteresting topics. Hurricanes aren’t very controversial.
So articles on those subjects aren’t especially good?
They’re good in a very stereotypical, narrow, uncontroversial, lowest-common-denominator sort of way.