User:Novem Linguae/Essays/Differences between AFC and NPP reviewing

Are you an AFC reviewer that just got a trial run at NPP? Overall the two skillsets are very similar, but here's some things to watch out for.

Other tips

 * The NPP flowchart (see image at the right) is a very good document. Please familiarize yourself with it. CSD, notability, and title check are mandatory. The gnoming parts at the bottom (maintenance tags, stub tagging, categories, WikiProject tags) are optional.
 * If you're unsure about an article, don't guess. Leave it in the queue for a more experienced reviewer.
 * If you want to get better at notability, go take a break from NPP and go participate in AFDs instead. Pick a subtopic such as professors, go find the deletion sort for that subtopic, and read a bunch of open and closed AFDs for that subtopic. Once you are up to speed, start !voting in AFDs for that subtopic. A week later, pay attention to how those AFDs close. Compare your !votes to the closes. AFD is the ultimate source of truth for notability. Notability guidelines can get out of date and can lack nuance. Reading and calibrating using AFDs will get you up to speed.
 * Don't be afraid to ask questions at WT:NPPR, on the NPP Discord, or at the user talk pages of top reviewers.
 * You may mark your own AFC draft approvals as reviewed if you want. It's allowed. But you can also leave it in the NPP queue and let another NPP double check your work.
 * Mark any article with an AFD tag as reviewed (after running a copyright check). AFD will decide its fate.
 * Do not mark articles with CSD or PROD tags as reviewed. The editor could just remove the deletion tag.