User:Maralia/A-class review instructions

Reviewers should keep the criteria for featured articles in mind when supporting or opposing an A-class nomination. However, please note that A-Class articles are not expected to fully meet all of the criteria; an objection should indicate a substantive problem with the article. In particular, objections over relatively minor issues of writing style or formatting should be avoided at this stage; a comprehensive, accurate, well-sourced, and decently-written article should qualify for A-Class status even if it could use some further copyediting.

Reviews will be closed by one of the project members (or by a WP:Military History coordinator in the case of shared reviews) after there is a clear consensus to promote or to fail, or if it becomes apparent that no consensus will be reached. An article will generally be promoted to A-class if (a) it has garnered at least three endorsements from uninvolved editors, and (b) there are no substantive objections indicative of a major flaw in the article.

Instructions
 * Requesting an A-class review
 * 1) Create WikiProject Ships/Assessment/Name of nominated article.
 * 2) Place   at the top.
 * 3) Below it, write your reason for nominating the article and sign by using four tildes.
 * 4) [ Add]   at the top of the list of A-class review requests below.

If an article is nominated a second (or third, and so forth) time, either because it failed a prior nomination, or because it may no longer meet the standards and may thus need to be demoted: There is no limit on how quickly renominations of failed articles may be made; it is perfectly acceptable to renominate as soon as the outstanding objections from the previous nomination have been satisfied.
 * 1) Move (do not copy) the existing review subpage (WikiProject Ships/Assessment/Name of nominated article) to an archive (WikiProject Ships/Assessment/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
 * 2) Update the link for the last review in the ArticleHistory on the article's talk page.
 * 3) Update the transclusion in the relevant assessment archive page, found by using the "What Links Here" feature.
 * 4) Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing WikiProject Ships/Assessment/Name of nominated article, which will be a redirect to the archive, into a new nomination page).
 * 5) Be sure to provide a prominent link to the last archived review at the top of the nomination statement (e.g. "Prior nomination here").


 * Closing a review:
 * 1) Change the   parameter in the WP:SHIPS project banner at the top of the article's talk page to A if the nomination was successful.
 * 2) Update (or add) the ArticleHistory section at the top of the article's talk page, to record the review.
 * 3) Move the   from the list of requests below to the current archive page.
 * 4) Add   and   to the top and bottom of the review subpage, respectively.

[ edit]