Ray Comfort
Did you read the Ray Comfort article before you reverted silver? Proxima Centauri (talk) 20:33, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't know 'bout what Blue said, I've seen things rated gold without a fancy to-do, but that aside, there's way too much info in the current version for it to be "silver". I mean, not that info is bad, but it's of the "tl;dr" sense to me.
(Blue, there are tons of really good articles here that I think could easily be rated silver and no one would bat an eyelash. There's no system for nominationg pages for Silver and gold, - or rather, like everything else, it's a "hit and miss" system. But i'd never revert if someone who is a regular contrib changed an article to silver without "discussion" if it was a good article.
I really think we are all smart enough to know when something should be rerated, and when it's premature.
I am skeptical that we have promoted any article to cover story (gold) without a discussion first, no matter how brief, at least in recent years. I am also skeptical that there are "tons" of articles that could be rated silver without anyone batting an eyelash. There might be a couple, though, and that's why I said these upgrades "usually" need a discussion.
I did once come across a centralized silver nomination page somewhere, but when I said "fuck it" and just started tossing ratings on things i nommed for silver on the talk pages. Also, despite gold==cover, some of the cover stories are silver.