Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions

These are the instructions explaining, step-by-step, how to nominate and review a good article nomination (GAN) according to the good article criteria so that it may become a good article (GA). Instructions for both the nominator and the reviewer of the article are provided below.

Nominators are familiar with the article's subject and cited sources. Nominators must have contributed significantly to the article: they are either the author of at least 10% of the article or are ranked in the top five in authorship. Reviewers are impartial, registered users willing to help the Wikipedia community; reviewers must not have contributed significantly to the article.

Many of the technical steps for nominators are automated with the GAN-helper user script (how to install), and the GANReviewTool does the same when you review an article.