Okay, I am laying out all the (to my mind) remotely feasible multipliers discussed so far. I (or any other helpful person) can bracket reasons/doubts/queries after them. After reading Nergaal's comments on the subject, I believe a standard 2x multiplier across the board works well, and is stackable/cumulative.[1]
Likely contenders edit
These ones are easily definable, contain a fair number of articles and are pretty core encyclopedic.
Any sovereign country- Any leader of a sovereign country (Query - past as well as present?)
- Any chemical element
- Any nobel prize winner
- Any World Heritage listed Site
- Any capital city
- Any ocean
- Any continent
- Any desert
- Any mountain range
- Any unit of time (anything from second, minute hour to geological periods (Cretaceous/Mesozoic etc.)
- Any biological taxon of order or higher (family?? class?? - I lean to order...)
- Multiplier for article size (FA/GA) - up to 15 kb prose size (with PDA tool) =smaller, 16-30 kb = medium, and > 31 kb large (these are initial estimates on my part just to start discussion)
Underrepresented FA classes edit
I'd be tempted to make multiplier valid for GAs as well as FAs given GAN is now an integral step to FA.
Awards, decorations and vexillology- Business, economics and finance
- Chemistry and mineralogy
- Computing
- Food and drink
- Health and medicine
- Language and linguistics
- Mathematics
- Philosophy and psychology
Core/Vital issue edit
- BUT....we have Wikipedia:Core topics - 1,000 (note merger talks on talk page) and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded - now we have 1,2,3, and 4 levels!
Possible contenders edit
Some issues with each of these.
- Any food staple (a type of food rather than a brand etc.)
- Any language
- Any colour. (obvious ones are key articles, but many esoteric/designer colours...)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Popular pages (not a bad list but how do we police it?)
- Any musical instrument.
- Any BLP. (one less to reference anway...)
- Any article subject to arbcom sanctions (to reflect a difficult editing environment?)
- Any article in the top 1000 most-viewed list (on whatever specified date) Sasata (talk) 05:38, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Footnotes edit
- ^ An example might be a food staple - let's say to get potato to FA (which has the potential to be a massive article) - then we have 100 x 2 (underrepresented cat at FA, i.e. food), x 2 (vital article), possibly x 2 (long article) - gives us 800 points. (off the top of my head if we had 1= short, 1.5 = medium, and 2 = long article)