Phase I: 2001 to 23 June 2003
- Articles added to list by any user.
- Articles removed from list by any user.
- No specific criteria used in evaluation.
- No authority over-seeing list.
- Few or no self promotions.
- Approximately 215 articles added to list.
- Began as informal list kept by Larry Sanger.
- Last article promoted without candidacy: Symposium (Plato) by Kingturtle.