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Ah yes, the dreaded peer review. Everyone at featured article candidacy always telling you to go there, get the article polished up, and come back. Trouble is, it can be extremely difficult to get even a single comment, even for many months! Surely, there must be a better way to get comments than that.
These printable PDF documents have instructions related to the basics of Wikipedia. Wiki markup quick reference – a one-page quick reference (included in the Welcome to Wikipedia brochure ) to help you remember the most frequently used wiki markup codes.
Assignments sometimes include student comments about existing Wikipedia content, rather than changes to the articles themselves, or include comments on article changes made by other students. If so, those comments need to be in line with talk page guidelines , focusing on article content in a constructive and objective manner.
Wikipedia's peer review is a way to receive ideas on how to improve articles that are already decent. It may be used for potential good article nominations, potential featured article candidates, or an article of any "grade" (but if the article isn't well-developed, please read here before asking for a peer review).
You can find the list of all current peer reviews in different formats: a list with reviewers' comments included, a list without any reviewers' comments or a list by date. The peer review list on this page is automatically generated: please follow the steps on the instructions page to add or remove a review.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia: Whether you're writing a new article or improving an existing one, you'll use many of the skills you've developed in your traditional class assignments—like writing and research skills. The difference here is that you're writing for a new audience, writing with a unique encyclopedic tone, and you ...
This tells other editors that the comment is not suitable for Wikipedia, and removes it from the 'featured' or 'unreviewed' queues. Monitors can then review it in the 'inappropriate' queue and decide if it should be hidden or not. If you change your mind, click 'Undo' and the comment will be moved back to the 'Unreviewed' queue.
To conduct a review: Create a review record: from an edit window, copy the Review section below to the bottom of the talk page of the page to be reviewed. If the page does not yet have a {{DocumentHistory}} template in its talk page header, add one at the same time. Add an entry to the template to record the review, with a status of "ongoing".