To be honest, we haven't always been successful.
One of our challenges is that since most articles should be GAs before they're FAs, the huge queue at GAN prevents articles from becoming the best examples of the best writing, research, and information on Wikipedia.
We at WikiProject Good articles have been leaders in this endeavor for almost 10 years. One way to accomplish this is to use the existing structure of reviewing articles: the FAC and GAN processes although by no means perfect, these are tried and true ways of eliciting feedback for the articles we create and edit. However, those of us interested in the quality of Wikipedia understand its importance and have dedicated ourselves to making a difference. With almost 5 million articles in the English Wikipedia, and not even one-hundredth assessed as either GAs, FAs, or FLs, that's a daunting task some editors would say that it's an impossible one. I believe that these facts demonstrate an important truth in Wikipedia: as editors, we need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.
The third GA nomination was Mosque, in the same month this article was promoted and went onto FA status, but was demoted after a review in 2013. Neither article was promoted to GA status at the time, and both remain non-GAs to this day. Here's a bit of Wikipedia trivia for you: the first articles to be nominated for a good article (GA) review almost ten years ago, way back in December 2005, were Martin Guerre, about a French peasant of the 16th century at the center of a famous case of imposture, and Lusty Lady, a peep-show establishment in Seattle and San Francisco.
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