Template:Africa PR-instructions

Wikipedia's Africa Peer review process exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors, and is intended for high-quality articles that have already undergone extensive work, often as a way of preparing a featured article candidate. It is not academic peer review by a group of experts in a particular subject, and articles that undergo this process should not be assumed to have greater authority than any other.

For feedback on articles that are less developed, use the article's talk page or requests for feedback.

For general editing advice, see Wikipedia style guidelines, Wikipedia how-to, "How to write a great article", and "The perfect article". Articles that need extensive basic editing should be directed to Pages needing attention, Requests for expansion or Cleanup, and content or neutrality disputes should be listed at Requests for comment.

The path to a featured article

1. Start a new article
2. Develop the article
3. Check against the featured article criteria
4. Get creative feedback ←
5. Apply for featured article status
6. Featured articles

Nomination procedure

Anyone can request peer review for Africa-relared articles. The best way to get lots of reviews is to reply promptly and appreciatively on this page to any comments. If you post a request, please do not discourage reviewers by ignoring their efforts. To add a nomination:

[edit] Requesting a review

1. Add peer-review=yes to the {{Africa noticeboard}} banner at the top of the article's talk page. If the page doesn't have a banner, add {{Africa noticeboard |peer-review=yes }}.
2. From there, click on the "request has been made" link that appears in the template. This will open a page to discuss the review of your article.
3. Place === [[Name of nominated article]] === at the top.
4. Below it, write your reason for nominating the article and sign by using four tildes (~~~~).
5. Add {{Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/Peer review/Name of nominated article}} at the top of the list of requests on this page. A bot will automatically add the request to the main Wikipedia:Peer review page as well.

If an article is listed for a second (or third, and so forth) peer review:

1. Move the existing peer review subpage (Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/Peer review/Name of nominated article) to an archive (Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/Peer review/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
2. Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing the primary page, which will be a redirect to the archive, into a new request page).
3. Be sure to provide a prominent link to the last archive at the top of the request (e.g. "Prior peer review here.")

If you also want to transclude the subpage to a WikiProject's peer review subpage:

1. Follow the instructions for that other peer review, except
2. Rather than create a separate peer review, redirect to the active review. For example, if you have an article applicable to both the Africa board and WikiProject Trains, create Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Peer review/Name of nominated article as a redirect to Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/Peer review/Name of nominated article
3. Transclude to the relevant peer review subpage. For example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Peer review/Name of nominated article would be transcluded to Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Peer review.

[edit] Responding to a request

Everyone is encouraged to comment on any request listed here. To comment on an article, please add a new section (using ==== Your user name ====) for your comments, in order to keep multiple responses legible.

[edit] Archiving

Reviews should be archived after they have been inactive for some time, or when the article is nominated as a featured article candidate. To archive a review:

1. Replace peer-review=yes with old-peer-review=yes in the {{Africa noticeboard}} banner template at the top of the article's talk page
2. Move {{Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/Peer review/Name of nominated article}} from this page to the current archive page.

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