Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/A-Class review/Instructions

Instructions

Requesting a review

To request an A-Class review of an article:

1. Add A-Class=current to the {{WPMILHIST}} 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 pre-formatted for the discussion of the status of the article.
3. List your reason for nominating the article in the appropriate place, and save the page
4. Add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/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 Military history/Assessment/Name of nominated article) to an archive (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Name of nominated article/archive1).
2. Update the link for the last review in the {{ArticleHistory}} on the article's talk page.
3. Update the transclusion in the relevant assessment archive page, found by using the "What Links Here" feature.
4. Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Name of nominated article, which will be a redirect to the archive, into a new nomination page).
5. 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

The new Milhist 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 new military history A-Class criteria before supporting a nomination. The quality scale will be supplemented by a FAQ in due course. As with featured articles, any objections must be "actionable"; that is, capable of rectification.

Closing and archiving

Reviews remain open for a minimum of five days and a maximum of twenty-eight days. They will be closed once a project coordinator determines that either (a) clear consensus to promote or to fail exists or (b) no consensus will be reached (in which case the status quo prevails). Consensus to promote normally requires (a) that at least three uninvolved editors consider the article has met all five military history A-Class criteria and (b) that any criteria-based objections have been entirely resolved.

To close a review, coordinators should:

1. Add {{subst:archive top}} and {{subst:archive bottom}} to the top and bottom of the review subpage, respectively.
2. Change the A-Class=current in the {{WPMILHIST}} 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), and update the assessment class if needed.
3. Update (or add) the {{ArticleHistory}} section at the top of the article's talk page to record the review.
4. Move the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Name of nominated article}} from the list of requests below to the current archive page.
5. Remove the article link from the A-Class review list at {{WPMILHIST Announcements}}.
6. If the nomination was successful, add the article name to the list of A-Class articles, update the article count, add the article to the next issue of the monthly newsletter, and add the nominator's name to A-Class Medal Eligibility Tracking page.

A-Class reappraisal review instructions

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Review/A-Class reappraisal review instructions