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Despite being called a "good" article, the good article criteria measure whether an article is "decent" or not. Ideally, every article should be decent, so promotion to good article status is no big deal. While article classifications help by pointing out models to emulate and topics that need work, editors should not become so caught up with the process and results of reviewing good articles that they lose sight of the purpose of Wikipedia.