User:MB/NPP2

The current Page Curation tool affords an editor with the New Page Reviewer user the ability to mark a new article as reviewed. If they don't think the article is acceptable, they can take one of several other actions such as proposing for deletion or moving to Draft. Since the reviewer right is only given to editors with a solid understanding of core policies such as notability and reliable sources, ideally all reviewers would come to the same conclusion about every new article. In reality, application of these policies to individual articles is often subjective.

Some review actions are subject to further formal review. If a reviewer tags an article for speedy deletion due to a serious and blatant problem, an Admin must concur before deletion. If they do not, the tag is removed and the article is reviewed anew. If a reviewer nominates an article for deletion at AFD, the disposition is determined by a community consensus. Other actions taken by a reviewer are singular and are only subject to review if someone else is watching the article or otherwise uncovers a dissent. This can happen both with articles that are accepted or not accepted. NPPers have great autonomy in making decision and therefore have great responsibility to be as accurate as possible and arrive at review actions that are unlikely to be disputed.

While reviewers collectively do thousands of reviews every month, it only takes a very small percentage of those to be "bad" to harm our reputation. This is probably most noticeable with over-aggressive Draftification; complaints of accepting an article that shouldn't be in mainspace are less common.

The quality of new article reviews is many times improved since the creation of the reviewer right. However, it can be taken to the next level with implementation of a simple "buddy-review" or "two-stage" review process. Very simply, a reviewer would review the article in the normal way and choose a review actions. The article would stay in the queue as unreviewed until a second reviewer concurred. (CSDs would be excepted due to their special nature). In the (hopefully) rare case that the second reviewer chose a different action, additional input would be required until there were two reviewers in agreement.

Observations in Oct/Nov/Dec 2022:


 * 1) James C. Moffat. Two sentence stub on NN person, accepted (by admin) without even adding any tags. Nominated for and Merged.
 * 2) Shkolla Fillore Liria is a one-line article on a a primary school with no sources, written in Albanian. An admin tagged it with Not-English and marked it reviewed. Discovered by an NPPer who moved it to Draft. The author translated, expanded to 7 sentences and added three sourced. Awaiting AFC review, likely NN.
 * 3) Independence Park (Johor Bahru), one NPPer tagged with notability. Next reviewed BLARed it based on reliability of source in article, did not comment on notability. Third NPPer restored it as notable and added more sources. Fourth NPP sent to AFD. Kept.
 * 4) SM City Tanza, created in mainspace with no sources. NPPer moved to draft 18 minutes after creation and 12 minutes after last edit. Author added source 1.5 hours later. Another NPPer added sources to draft two hours later and moved it back. Notability not challenged since.
 * 5) 2022 The Centaurus Mall Fire Incident, article about a building fire that was not notable, NPPer tagged for merging into the main article on the subject (which had already contained a similar writeup on the fire). During merge discussion, another NPPer marked it reviewed. First NPPer marked unreviewed until article was merged a day later with unanimous support.
 * 6) List of heliports in Antigua and Barbuda NN list, accepted by very experienced reviewer, later AFDed and merged/redirected.
 * 7) Charis redirect converted to dab at base name when there was an existing dab at Charis (disambiguation). Accepted by very experienced reviewer. Reverted to PT redirect.
 * 8) Bread omelette stub with one recipe ref, accepted by an Admin. Does not appear notable. Most of the article is a how-to-prepare.