Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Instructions


 * Instructions
 * Requesting a review

To request an A-class review of an article:
 * 1) Add the parameter A-Class=current to the WPBiography template and save the page.
 * 2) An extra line will appear on the bottom of the Biography project banner; click on show.
 * 3) From there, click on the red link that appears in the template. This will open a page to discuss the status of the article.
 * 4) Place   at the top.
 * 5) Below it, write your reason for nominating the article and sign by using four tildes.
 * 6) [ 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 Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article) to an archive (WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
 * 2) Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article, which will be a redirect to the archive, into a new nomination page).
 * 3) Be sure to provide a prominent link to the last archive at the top of the nomination statement (e.g. "Prior nomination here.").


 * Commenting

Reviewers should keep the criteria for featured articles in mind when supporting or opposing a nomination. However, please note that (unlike actual featured articles) 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.


 * Closing and archiving

Reviews will be closed after at least four days have elapsed. An article is promoted to A-class if (a) it has garnered at least two endorsements from uninvolved editors, and (b) there are no substantive objections indicative of a major flaw in the article: see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/A-Class criteria.

To close a review, one should:
 * 1) Add the ArticleHistory template to the talk page of the nominated article if it is not already present.
 * 2) Use WAR as action code
 * 3) Use the day the review is closed as date
 * 4) Use the review page as link
 * 5) Use for result either   (if the nomination is successful) or   (if it is not).
 * 6) Use the permalink id for the promoted article to the oldid tag
 * 7) Replace A-Class=current in the WPBiography template with A-Class=fail (if it failed) or A-Class=pass )if it succeeded.
 * 8) Move the   from the list of requests below to the Promoted or Failed section of the current archive page.
 * 9) Add   and   to the top and bottom of the review subpage, respectively.
 * 10) Remove the link to the review page from the A-class review requests list.

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