User:Rjanag/Calculating fivefold expansion by hand


 * 1) Get User:Dr pda/prosesize.js, a tool for counting article prose size. (That page has instructions for how to enable it in your browser.)
 * 2) *If you would prefer not to use this tool, you can calculate article size by hand using a word processor, by simply copying and pasting the prose portion of the article. The prose portion excludes wiki markup, templates, lists, tables, and references (thus, to do a character count by hand, you should remove those parts of the article from your count).
 * 3) Open the article you would like to check and count the prose size using the prose size tool installed in the previous step. Save this number for later.
 * 4) Open the page history of the article you would like to check.
 * 5) Find the last edit before major expansion began. (This is usually, but not always, the last edit by some other author before the DYK author started expanding the article.)
 * 6) *If that edit is within 7 days of when the article was nominated, proceed as normal.
 * 7) *If that edit is more than 7 days before the article was nominated, this means you must instead calculate expansion from a more recent date. Instead of using this version, find the earliest version that is within 7 days of the date the article was nominated, and then proceed to the next step.
 * 8) Open that version and count the prose size using the prose size tool installed in step 1.
 * 9) Compare the number from step 2 to the number from step 5. If the first number (the current size) is five times greater than the second number (the article size before expansion, or the article size 7 days before nomination), the article meets the fivefold expansion requirement.