Wikipedia:Deletion to Quality Award

The Deletion to Quality Award (or WP:DQUAL for short) recognizes editors who bring one of Wikipedia's articles from a candidate for deletion at a prior deletion debate to good article (GA) or featured article (FA) status (and featured list). The award has two primary goals:

1. to recognize editors who improve articles to good article (GA) or featured article (FA) status–featured list (FL) is also included;
2. to encourage all Wikipedians to engage in quality-improvement.

The award is inspired by the Wikipedia:Million Award, the Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron, and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement.

Qualifying articles

• Any article previously a candidate for deletion at a prior deletion debate that the editor helped significantly improve to good article (GA) or featured article (FA) status; featured list (FL) is included, as well.

The Deletion to Quality Award is intended only for editors, and confers no special status on the article itself.

Note: Editors that may be candidates for the Deletion to Quality Award, can be seen by checking the nominations pages from this category: Category:Deletion to Quality Award candidates.

Tiers

Two tiers of the Deletion to Quality Award exist:

• The Deletion to GA Award - Awarded for bringing an article previously a candidate for deletion to good article status;
• The Deletion to FA Award - Awarded for bringing an article previously a candidate for deletion to featured article status; deletion to FL would count within this tier as well.

Bling

Userboxes

Have you helped take an article from articles for deletion to featured article, featured list, or good article quality ?

show your quality-improvement pride with

• {{User AFD to FA|n}}

(where n is the number of articles you've helped rescue and take to featured article quality)

This user has successfully taken n articles from deletion discussion at Articles for Deletion — to Featured Article quality.

 – There's an automatically generated list of members using this banner here.

• {{User AFD to FL|n}}

(where n is the number of articles you've helped rescue and take to featured list quality)

This user has successfully taken n articles from deletion discussion at Articles for Deletion — to Featured List quality.

 – There's an automatically generated list of members using this banner here.

• {{User AFD to GA|n}}

(where n is the number of articles you've helped rescue and take to good article quality)

This user has successfully taken n articles from deletion discussion at Articles for Deletion — to Good Article quality.

 – There's an automatically generated list of members using this banner here.

Banner awards

Deletion to FA

Use {{subst:Delqual FA|Article name|Link to deletion debate}} on a user's talk page to reward their efforts.

Which yields:

		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring Example (prior candidate for deletion at: WP:Articles for deletion/Example) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! ~~~~

Deletion to FL

Use {{subst:Delqual FL|Article name|Link to deletion debate}} on a user's talk page to reward their efforts.

Which yields:

		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring Example (prior candidate for deletion at: WP:Articles for deletion/Example) to Featured List status, I hereby present you the Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! ~~~~

Deletion to GA

Use {{subst:Delqual GA|Article name|Link to deletion debate}} on a user's talk page to reward their efforts.

Which yields:

		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring Example (prior candidate for deletion at: WP:Articles for deletion/Example) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! ~~~~

Deletion to Quality Award Hall of Fame

Please feel free to add yourself or update, at: /Hall of Fame.

List of recipients

Note: More potentials at Category:Deletion to Quality Award candidates.

The table below lists some of the articles and editors that have been awarded the Deletion to Quality Award. Editors are welcome to add themselves or others to the list. Entries should be removed only by the user themselves, except in extreme cases of dishonesty (such as listing an article never promoted to GA or FA) or vandalism. Like the award itself, this list exists only for encouragement, not for strict record-keeping.

Featured quality

Deletion to Quality Award recipients (sorted chronologically by date of promotion to Featured quality)

	Editor(s)	Article	Link to Deletion debate	Promotion date
	L33tminion	Megatokyo	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Megatokyo	6 September 2006
	Captain538	0.999...	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Proof that 0.999... equals 1	10 October 2006
	Moreschi	List of important operas	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of important operas	22 February 2007
	G.W.	Development of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Development of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	30 August 2007
	Johntex	2005 Texas Longhorns football team	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1902 LSU Tigers football team	9 September 2007
	Cirt	Bale Out	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bale Out	16 February 2009
	Imzadi1979	Brockway Mountain Drive	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brockway Mountain Drive	1 June 2011
	Tomica	Rehab (Rihanna song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rehab (Rihanna song)	24 December 2011
	Jivesh boodhun, Tbhotch	Halo (Beyoncé song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halo (Beyoncé Knowles song)	28 January 2012
	Betty Logan	List of highest-grossing films	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of highest-grossing films	28 February 2012
	Imzadi1979	H-58 (Michigan county highway)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H-58 (Michigan county highway)	6 October 2012
	Cirt	Dan Savage bibliography	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Savage bibliography	1 March 2014
	GabeMc	Canadian drug charges and trial of Jimi Hendrix	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jimi Hendrix: Canadian drug charges and trial	24 March 2014
	Tomica	Good Girl Gone Bad	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Good Girl Gone Bad	9 January 2015
	Cirt	R U Professional	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/R U Professional	15 October 2015
	Almaty	Digital media use and mental health	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Digital dependencies and global mental health	13 October 2019
	Kavyansh.Singh	List of international goals scored by Ian Rush	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of international goals scored by Sergio Agüero	23 March 2022
	TompaDompa	George Griffith	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Griffith	18 January 2024
	PantheonRadiance	Etika	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Etika	10 May 2024

Good articles

Deletion to Quality Award recipients (sorted chronologically by date of promotion to Good article)

	Editor(s)	Article	Link to Deletion debate	Promotion date
	Bilby	Belldandy	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belldandy	19 July 2008
	Bubba73	Rules of chess	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rules of chess	20 October 2008
	Theleftorium	Pokémon, I Choose You!	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Here Comes the Squirtle Squad	15 January 2009
	BOZ	Dwellers of the Forbidden City	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dwellers of the Forbidden City	5 February 2009
	Jclemens	Murder of Robert Eric Wone	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert_Eric_Wone	9 February 2009
	Maitch	Alt.tv.simpsons	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alt.tv.simpsons	27 February 2009
	Theleftorium	Bart's Dog Gets an "F"	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bart's Dog Gets An F	7 June 2009
	Tezero	Mew (Pokémon)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pikachu	10 July 2009
	Jclemens	Yellow Star (novel)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yellow Star (Book)	29 September 2009
	Kung Fu Man	Mewtwo	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pikachu	5 October 2009
	Xwomanizerx	...Baby One More Time Tour	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/...Baby One More Time Tour	12 January 2010
	Cirt	Beck v. Eiland-Hall	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beck v. Eiland-Hall	27 January 2010
	Tezero	Chao	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chao (Sonic the Hedgehog)	29 January 2010
	Cirt	Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop (2nd nomination)	12 September 2010
	Namib dessert	Axe to Fall	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Axe to Fall	17 October 2010
	Kung Fu Man	Pokémon Apokélypse	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pokémon Apokélypse	7 January 2011
	Grapple X	The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	13 January 2011
	Grapple X	Paper Clip	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	13 January 2011
	Grapple X	731 (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	13 January 2011
	Cirt	Truth in Numbers?	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Truth in Numbers? (5th nomination)	4 March 2011
	Double sharp	Copernicium	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ununbium	25 May 2011
	Legolas2186	You and I (Lady Gaga song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoü and I	6 July 2011
	Calvin999	Only Girl (In the World)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Only Girl	28 July 2011
	LuK3	Death of Osama bin Laden	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death of Osama bin Laden	14 October 2011
	Calvin999	Fading (song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fading (song)	31 October 2011
	Jivesh boodhun	1+1 (song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1+1 (song)	1 November 2011
	Gen. Quon	Jose Chung's From Outer Space	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	16 December 2011
	Calvin999	Skin (Rihanna song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skin (Rihanna song)	20 December 2011
	Imzadi1979	H-63 (Michigan county highway)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H-63 (Michigan county highway)	8 January 2012
	Grapple X	Apocrypha (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	24 January 2012
	Tintor2	Naruto Uzumaki	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naruto Uzumaki	25 January 2012
	Grapple X	Piper Maru	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	20 February 2012
	Calvin999	If I Never See Your Face Again	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/If I Never See Your Face Again	2 March 2012
	Grapple X	Talitha Cumi (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	11 March 2012
	Grapple X	2Shy	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	12 March 2012
	Gen. Quon	War of the Coprophages	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	9 April 2012
	Gen. Quon	Teso Dos Bichos	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	28 April 2012
	Eshlare	Adam Mitchell (Doctor Who)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Mitchell (Doctor Who) (2nd nomination)	3 May 2012
	Gen. Quon	Syzygy (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	14 May 2012
	Till	Dinosaur (Kesha song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dinosaur (Kesha song)	19 May 2012
	Gen. Quon	Hell Money	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	29 May 2012
	Gen. Quon	Quagmire (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	5 June 2012
	Gen. Quon	Revelations (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	19 June 2012
	Gen. Quon	The List (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	23 June 2012
	My love is love	Love on Top	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Love on Top	27 June 2012
	Gen. Quon	Avatar (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	8 July 2012
	Gen. Quon	Wetwired	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	8 July 2012
	Gen. Quon	Pusher (The X-Files)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Blessing Way (The X-Files)	30 July 2012
	Sp33dyphil	Samsung Galaxy S III	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samsung Galaxy S III	16 August 2012
	Thevampireashlee, JennKR	Nicki Minaj	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicki Minaj	24 August 2012
	Starship.paint	Extreme Rules (2012)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extreme Rules (2012)	25 November 2012
	Cirt	Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance	26 November 2012
	Double sharp	Nihonium	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ununtrium	20 December 2012
	Changedforbetter	Belle (Disney)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belle (Beauty and the Beast)	21 December 2012
	Hammersfan	1985 Wales v Scotland football match	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1985 Wales vs Scotland football match	8 January 2013
	Zanimum	Development of Duke Nukem Forever	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Development of Duke Nukem Forever	21 January 2013
	Miyagawa	Angel One	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Angel One (TNG episode)	1 April 2013
	Cirt	BLT cocktail	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BLT cocktail	8 June 2013
	Nall	Tales of Legendia	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tales of Legendia	6 July 2013
	My love is love	Poison (Beyoncé song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poison (Beyoncé Knowles song)	11 July 2013
	Rapunzel-bellflower	Grand Guignol Orchestra	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ningyō Kyūtei Gakudan	5 August 2013
	Prism	Katy Hudson (album)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katy Hudson (album)	28 December 2013
	Gabriel Yuji	Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa	22 March 2014
	Ritchie333	Watford Gap services	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norton Canes services (2nd nomination)	24 May 2014
	Ritchie333	University of Michigan Men's Glee Club	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Michigan Men's Glee Club	14 July 2014
	Double sharp	Flerovium	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ununquadium	12 September 2014
	Sadads	Divergent (novel)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Divergent (book)	21 November 2014
	ProtoDrake	Tales of Hearts	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tales of Hearts	24 January 2015
	Ritchie333, MelanieN	Ika Hügel-Marshall	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ika Hügel-Marshall	10 March 2015
	Dr. Blofeld	Ipswich Road, Colchester	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A1232 road	12 August 2015
	Brustopher, SSTflyer	Depression Quest	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Depression Quest	17 August 2015
	Tintor2	Ash Crimson	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ash Crimson	21 October 2015
	Cirt	The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise	21 October 2015
	Bcschneider53	John Carpenter (game show contestant)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Carpenter (game show contestant)	25 October 2015
	SSTflyer	The Fine Young Capitalists	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fine Young Capitalists	3 December 2015
	Masem	Roguelike	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roguelike	4 January 2016
	ViperSnake151, SSTflyer	iPhone 6	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IPhone 6	10 January 2016
	Northamerica1000	Pizza cheese	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pizza cheese	21 February 2016
	Cirt	Think of the children	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Think of the children (4th nomination)	29 February 2016
	Ritchie333	Vine Street, London	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vine Street	8 March 2016
	Cirt	The Land of Gorch	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Land of Gorch	30 March 2016
	Cirt	The Signpost (Wikipedia)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Signpost (Wikipedia)	6 April 2016
	NewYorkActuary	Nehemiah Corporation of America	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nehemiah Corporation of America (2nd nomination)	8 December 2016
	NewYorkActuary	Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark	WP:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Hark Hark The Dogs Do Bark	30 March 2018
	Almaty	Digital media use and mental health	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Digital dependencies and global mental health	06 June 2019
	HawkAussie	2019 Cricket World Cup	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2019 Cricket World Cup	09 February 2020
	CAPTAIN MEDUSA	Taruni Sachdev	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taruni Sachdev	03 May 2020
	SD0001, AleatoryPonderings	Dairy in India	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dairy in India	27 September 2020
	Eddie891	Mildred Mottahedeh	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mildred Mottahedeh	9 March 2021
	Link20XX	My Hero Academia	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/My Hero Academia	1 May 2021
	Sammi Brie	Los Arcos Mall	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Los Arcos Mall	16 June 2021
	Piotrus	Earth in science fiction	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth in science fiction (2nd nomination)	4 November 2021
	Kavyansh.Singh	George H. W. Bush broccoli comments	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George H. W. Bush broccoli comments	29 December 2021
	Bungle	Aswang (1994 film)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aswang (1994 film)	29 January 2022
	theleekycauldron	C. J. Cregg	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandy Hampton	21 March 2022
	theleekycauldron	Amy Gardner	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandy Hampton	2 May 2022
	Gen. Quon	There's a Honey	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/There's A Honey	4 June 2022
	Styyx	SoloTürk	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solo Türk	6 June 2022
	Llewee	Murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes	18 June 2022
	PCN02WPS	Flag of Gdańsk	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flag of Gdańsk	15 July 2022
	Styyx	Geliyoo	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geliyoo (2nd nomination)	18 September 2022
	Chiswick Chap	Finwë and Míriel	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finwë	30 January 2023
	TompaDompa	Time viewer	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Time viewer	11 February 2023
	TompaDompa	Neptune in fiction	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neptune in fiction	5 May 2023
	Launchballer	Piri	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piri (singer)	10 July 2023
	RecycledPixels	XiamenAir Flight 8667	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xiamen Airlines Flight MF8667	8 August 2023
	Styyx	Kamil Tolon	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kamil Tolon	18 August 2023
	TompaDompa	George Griffith	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Griffith	28 August 2023
	TechnoSquirrel69	Capitol Hill mystery soda machine	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine	12 December 2023
	Keivan.f, MSincccc	Catherine, Princess of Wales	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kate Middleton 1	21 December 2023
	MSincccc	Princess Charlotte of Wales (born 2015)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Princess Charlotte of Cambridge	23 March 2024
	Kung Fu Man	Taki (Soulcalibur)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taki (Soulcalibur)	23 March 2024
	Greenish Pickle!	Sans (Undertale)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sans (Undertale)	28 March 2024
	NegativeMP1	Steve (Minecraft)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve (Minecraft)	29 March 2024
	MSincccc	Prince George of Wales	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge	6 April 2024
	TompaDompa	Supernovae in fiction	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Supernovae in fiction	22 June 2024
	Joeyquism	Lil Ugly Mane	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travis Miller (musician)	1 August 2024
	Leafy46	Mama (My Chemical Romance song)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mama (My Chemical Romance song)	1 September 2024
	Tamzin, theleekycauldron	Celebrity Number Six	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Celebrity Number Six	10 October 2024

Requests

If you believe one of your articles qualifies for a Deletion to Quality Award, but would prefer that another editor double-check and give the award, please leave a request on the talk page.

See also

• Category:Deletion to Quality Award candidates
• Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard
• Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement
• Wikipedia:Million Award
• User:Ritchie333/saves