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*My thoughts tend towards Meiko's idea. I've always considered having all these ratings as a bit of a waste of time, (hence me only joining the group a few months ago.) Featured articles should be the aim and obviously stay. Perhaps complete too, as many pages can't be featured, but then again, I don't see why we need to rate really. Like Meiko suggests, for most people, a stub or expand or incomplete or out of date or similar tell you more about the article than "c3" ever will. [[User:CJC95|CJC95]] ([[User talk:CJC95|talk]]) 23:55, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
* I'm with NXT on this one. I think ratings are a helpful tool, and I don't particularly like a big banner saying "this page is bad!". On the other end, you can quickly see with a featured or complete rating that "this page is one of the best we have to offer" or "this page covers everything we currently know about the topic". Ratings are consistently in the same place, you can glance at an icon and see what it means. However, I think we have too many. Like NXT, I'd suggest four ratings- stub, average, complete and featured. Stub obviously for bad pages, average (which needs a better name) for c3 and high-end c4 articles which aren't complete, but don't exactly look bad. Complete for c2, except it's what complete was originally intended for before "c2" came along- articles which cover absolutely everything, but just don't have the potential to be featured. And feaatured for some of our best articles (current featured, and our better c1's). {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 00:05, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
:* One thing we could try would be ratings like that and then some sort of non obtrusive template somewhere on the article which links to a subpage or another namespace that lists ways to improve the page. "Want to help us make ''Princess Leia'' a better article? <nowiki>[[WorkDesk:Princess Leia|Here's how!]]</nowiki>" [[User:Berrybrick|Berrybrick]] ([[User talk:Berrybrick|talk]]) 02:47, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
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