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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.
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.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid (MOS:SELF) How to avoid mentioning Wikipedia itself, or the fact the article is a webpage. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling (MOS:SPELLING) Not a guideline per se, but a handy guide to national varieties of English. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists (WP:STANDALONE)
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 Content Expert – If a member of the Wiki Education Foundation's staff has been assigned to your course, you can find them on your course page, and contact them through their talk page to discuss problems and ask questions about Wikipedia (US/Canada only).
Wikipedia is better than standard homework. High school students will never stop using Wikipedia. They will not stop editing it either. Instead of banning or bashing it, perhaps Wikipedia should be applied in the classroom to improve student's research and writing skills.
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 ...