Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Assessment/A-Class review

Figure skating is a highly technical and complicated sport. WikiProject Figure Skating believes that one of the barriers that get in the way of high-quality articles about the sport on Wikipedia is that most featured article, good article, peer review, and DYK reviewers know little to nothing about the sport. We believe that setting up our own system of A-Class assessments is a way to solve that problem. We also believe that figure skating articles suffer from the content gap, since the sport is a neglected, "nichy", and obscure topic on Wikipedia, and from the gender gap, since many of its athletes are women. Consequently, we require that reviewers of A-class figure skating articles must be experts about the sport and how to write about it on Wikipedia.

Review process
A-class may only be assigned following an A-class review (see below). A review is closed when at least three (3) reviewers reach consensus that the article fulfills the A-class criteria.

Reviewer requirements

 * At least two reviewers should be experts in the sport of figure skating, among them at least one who
 * is knowledgeable about the article's topic in specific to judge its comprehensiveness and accuracy in content
 * is familiar with the Figure Skating style and terminlogy guide
 * has either significantly contributed to or reviewed a featured class, A-class or good class article since 2020.
 * At least one reviewer should be unfamiliar with the sport of figure skating to check the article's accessibility to casual readers. Ideally, this reviewer has experience in featured class or A-class reviews.
 * All reviewers must be uninvolved with the article they review (no significant contributions) to ensure a neutral evaluation of all A-class criteria.

If you are interested in reviewing potential A-class figure skating articles and, please add your name below:


 * Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 19:04, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Henni147 (talk) 16:42, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Artemisia (talk) 14:36, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Review criteria
The article under review should meet all six general and five figure skating-specific criteria for A-class articles:

General A-class criteria 
 * (A1) Content: The article is comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral, and focused on the main topic. It neglects no major facts or details, presents views fairly and without bias, and does not go into unnecessary detail.
 * (A2) Structure: The article has an appropriate structure of hierarchical headings, including a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections, and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents.
 * (A3) Language and style: The article is written in concise and articulate English. Its prose is clear, in line with Wikipedia's Manual of Style, and does not require substantial copy-editing to be fully MOS-compliant.
 * (A4) Referencing: The article is consistently referenced with an appropriate citation style, all claims are verifiable against reliable secondary sources, accurately represent the relevant body of published knowledge, and are supported with specific evidence and further reading material if appropriate.
 * (A5) Illustrations: The article contains appropriately licensed supporting visual materials, such as images or diagrams with succinct captions and other media where relevant.
 * (BP) Biographies: Note that Wikipedia's guidelines regarding biographies, especially for living persons,  be followed.

Criteria specific to figure skating 
 * (FS1) Terminology: The article follows the WikiProject Figure Skating terminology guide, which is based on the official terms used by the International Skating Union, U.S. Figure Skating, and Skate Canada, and represents the consensus view of editors interested in maintaining Wikipedia's articles about figure skating.
 * (FS2) Accessibility: As per WP:TECHNICAL and MOS:JARGON, the article is accessible to casual readers who have little knowledge about the sport like those who only watch figure skating every four years at the Winter Olympics. At the same time, technical accuracy and correct use of terminology must not be neglected (see FS1).
 * (FS3) Structure: The article follows the WikiProject Figure Skating style guide for article structure and section headings, especially for skater Figure skater biographies, competitions, elements and moves, and ice shows.
 * (FS4) Tables and templates: The article correctly uses tables and templates, created and developed by members of the WikiProject Figure Skating, that are specific to the sport (see Tables and templates).
 * (FS5) Referencing: The article uses figure skating-specific sources in a reasonable manner, following the recommendations of this source repository.

Instructions
To request the first A-class review of an article:
 * Requesting a review
 * 1) Please double-check the Figure Skating A-class criteria (see above) and ensure that the article meets most or all of the five (a good way of ensuring this is to put the article through a good article nomination or a peer review beforehand, although this is not mandatory).
 * 2) If there has been a previous A-class nomination of the article, before re-nominating the article the old nomination page must be moved to   to make way for the new nomination page.
 * 3) Add   to the WikiProject Figure Skating project banner at the top of the article's talk page (e.g. immediately after the   or   field).
 * 4) From there, click on the " currently undergoing " link that appears in the template (below the "Additional information" section header). This will open a page pre-formatted for the discussion of the status of the article.
 * 5) List your reason for nominating the article in the appropriate place, and save the page.
 * 6) Add   at the top of the list of A-class review requests below.
 * 7) Refresh the article's talk page's cache by following these steps. (This is so that the article's talk page "knows" that the A-class review page has actually been created. It can also be accomplished in the 2010 wikitext editor by opening the page in edit mode and then clicking "save" without changing anything, i.e. making a "null edit". )
 * 8) An article may not be nominated for an A-class review and be a Featured article candidate, undergoing a Peer Review, or have a Good article nomination at the same time.

The Figure skating A-class standard is deliberately set high, very close to featured article quality. Reviewers should therefore satisfy themselves that the article meets all of the A-class criteria before supporting a nomination. Special attention should be paid to the criteria specific to figure skating articles (see above). As with featured articles, any objections must be "actionable"; that is, capable of rectification.
 * Reviewing an article

If you intend to review an article but not yet ready to post your comments, it is suggested that you add a placeholder comment. This lets other editors know that a review is in progress. This could be done by creating a comment or header such as "Reviewing by Username" followed by your signature.This would be added below the last text on the review page. When you are ready to add comments to the review, strike out the placeholder comment and add your review. For instance, strike out "reviewing" and replace it with "comments" eg:

"Comments Reviewing by Username"

Add your comments after the heading you have created. Once comments have been addressed by the nominator you may choose to support or oppose the nomination's promotion to A-class by changing the heading:

"Support / Oppose Comments reviewing by Username"

If you wish to abstain from either decision, you may indicate that your comments have been addressed or not addressed. For instance:

"Comments Reviewing by Username addressed / not addressed"

This makes it easy for the nominator and closer to identify the status of your review. You may also wish to add a closing statement at the end of your comments. When a nominator addresses a comment, this can be marked as done or resolved, or in some other way. This makes it easy to keep track of progress, although it is not mandatory.

A nominator may request the review be closed at any time if they wish to withdraw it. This can be done by pinging any and/or all reviewers regarding your request for closure.
 * Requesting a review to be closed

A review is closed when all reviewers agree, by consensus, that the article should be passed or failed. In order to pass to A-class, the article must receive a minimum of three supports, a source review, and an image review. The source review should focus on whether the sources used in the article are reliable and of high quality, and in the case of a first-time nominator, spot-checking should also be conducted to confirm that the citations support the content.

You may wish to consider taking your article to featured article candidates for review. Before doing so, make sure you have addressed any suggestions that might have been made during the A-class review, that were not considered mandatory for promotion to A-class. It can pay to ask the A-class reviewers to help prepare your article, or you may consider sending it to peer review or to the Guild of Copy Editors for a final copy edit.
 * After A-class

If an editor feels that any current A-class article no longer meet the standards and may thus need to be considered for demotion (i.e. it needs a re-appraisal) please place a request for assistance on the article's talk page.
 * Demotion