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The review department of the Aviation WikiProject is the project's main forum for conducting detailed reviews—both formal and informal—of particular articles within its scope.

The department hosts two forms of review internal to the project:

It also provides a convenient collection of military history articles currently undergoing formal review outside the project:

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[edit] Peer review

Shortcut:
WP:AVI#PEER
Instructions
Requesting a review
  1. Add peer-review=yes to the {{WPAVIATION}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).
  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:WikiProject Aviation/Peer review/Name of nominated article}} at the top of the list of peer review requests below.

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

  1. Move (do not copy) the existing peer review subpage (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Peer review/Name of nominated article) to an archive (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Peer review/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
  2. Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Peer review/Name of nominated article, 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.").
Commenting

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.

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 {{WPAVIATION}} project banner template at the top of the article's talk page
  2. Move {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Peer review/Name of nominated article}} from this page to the current peer review archive page.
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[edit] Pittsburgh International Airport

Since last reviewed, the PIT article has grown in many ways and now contains extensive information about both terminals at the airport. Also constantly kept up-to-date are all of the destinations which I, as well as several other users, constantly update as needed. I feel that the last rating, "Start," does not fit as there are airport articles much worse off than PIT which have the same rating. I feel it was added haphazardly without paying much attention to its actual content. NW036 04:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Skybus Airlines

This article has as much info as is available currently I believe. Is there anything else anyone thinks should be added/omitted? Polypmaster 15:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Port Columbus International Airport

I believe this is at least a B-class article, but i would like some outside opinions on what could be added/improved. In regards to the images, they have been cleared for use by the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. The e-mail correspondance I had with Rob Tanner from the CRAA is being sent to be reviewed. The dispute is resolved, as it was simply a mistake on my part. Polypmaster 00:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] P-38 Lightning

I've spent some time rewriting for NPOV, and other cleanup in prep for an FA nom, but find myself running out of ideas for improvement. Need a review to kick start improvements. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 07:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kirill Lokshin

This looks quite good. My main suggestion: more citations! There are still [citation needed] tags in the article, and the entire "Service record" and "Postwar operations" sections—and much of the "Variants", "P-38s in Popular Culture", and "Noted or surviving P-38s" sections—are uncited.

Apart from that, this needs some copyediting before moving on to FAC; but I can't see any other substantive problems. Kirill Lokshin 02:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PocklingtonDan

  • "with the engines mounted forward" - forward of the wings? Further forward of the wings than other aircraft of the era? forward of the cockpit?
  • "The aircraft was used in a number of different roles, when equipped " - should this be a semi-colon rather than comma?
  • "dive bombing, level bombing, ground strafing " - can you wiki-link these to relevant articles? I have no idea what level bombing is
  • "empennage" - don't think you should use terms like this (even wiki-linked) without briefly explaining them in-line in the article
  • "flights revealed tail flutter to be a problem. During high speed " - colon rather than full stop/period?
  • "The engine sounds were a unique, rather quiet "whuffle," - Whuffle isn't a word. Might make sense to those who have heard it, but as someone who hasn't, this is meaningless. Would it be possible to get a soundclip maybe?
  • " (Interestingly, the bomb could not be removed and for the duration of the war, aircraft had to go over it every time they took off.)" - sounds like an urban legend. cite?
  • "The reasons for frequent engine failures were due to failing " - reason is that, not reason is due to or reason is because
  • Military operators - perhaps this should be split into main operators/purchasers and other misc uses - a single craft used for testing/evaluation (UK)_ hardly counts as an oiperator, neither does a country with a single captured plane (Italy).
  • "P-38s in Popular Culture" - I loathe these sections. Why must everything be related to popular culture. A link from films using the plane to the plane article I can understand - the other direction makes no sense
  • General characteristics - given all the variants, perhaps it could be made clearer which these specs are for?

Cheers - PocklingtonDan (talk) 13:30, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rockfall

  • I like the way you've bolded each type number as they come up - that's a suprisingly effective means of keeping track and referring the to the table at the side.
  • "Nothing came of this conversion, either." - substantiate this? The tone of this sentence is also slightly less academic than the rest of the article.
  • "Oddballs" - Could this not be "miscellaneous others"? Oddballs is again quite colloquial.
  • The reference list runs from endnotes to a bibliography with no dividers. This is a style point, but it looks messy.
  • Overall though, it's a very tight article. Thumbs up. Rockfall 18:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A-Class review

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WP:AVI#A-CLASS
Instructions
Requesting a review

To request an A-Class review of an article:

  1. Add A-Class=current to the {{WPAVIATION}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).
  2. From there, click on the "currently undergoing" link that appears in the template. This will open a page to discuss the status of the 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:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Name of nominated article}} 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:

  1. Move (do not copy) the existing review subpage (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Name of nominated article) to an archive (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
  2. Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/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.").

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.

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 four days have elapsed. An article will generally be promoted to A-Class if (a) it has garnered at least three endorsements from uninvolved editors, and (b) there are no substantive objections; a nomination with an isolated objection may pass, however, if that objection is not indicative of a major flaw in the article.

To close a review, coordinators should:

  1. Change the A-Class=current in the {{WPAVIATION}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page to either A-Class=pass (if the nomination is successful) or A-Class=fail (if it is not).
  2. Move the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Name of nominated article}} from the list of requests below to the current archive page.
  3. Add {{subst:archive top}} and {{subst:archive bottom}} to the top and bottom of the review subpage, respectively.
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[edit] Featured article candidates

Shortcut:
WP:AVI#FAC
Instructions

Featured article candidates are controlled by an external process; the listing below is merely a duplicate for the project's convenience. To nominate an article for featured article status, or to comment on a nomination, you must follow the official instructions.

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[edit] Featured article review

Shortcut:
WP:AVI#FAR
Instructions

Featured article reviews are controlled by an external process; the listing below is merely a duplicate for the project's convenience. To list an article for featured article review, or to comment on a listing, you must follow the official instructions.

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[edit] Zeppelin

previous FAR

[edit] Non-article featured content candidates

Shortcut:
WP:AVI#FC
Instructions

Non-article featured content candidates are controlled by one of several external processes, depending on the type of content; the listing below is merely a duplicate for the project's convenience. To nominate something for featured status, or to comment on a nomination, you must follow the appropriate official instructions:

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