The review department of the Arab world 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:
- Peer review (an informal review meant to provide ideas for further improvement)
- A-Class review (a formal review of a candidate for an A-Class quality assessment)
It also provides a convenient collection of Arab world articles currently undergoing formal review outside the project:
Peer review
editWikiProject peer reviews
A Wikipedia Peer Review can be a useful way to improve articles associated with this WikiProject.
You can keep track of new reviews by watching this page; do that by clicking here. If your project has article alerts enabled, reviews will display on that list too.
To list your review below:
- Create the peer review following instructions here.
- Add
[[Wikipedia:Peer review/Name of nominated article/archiveN]] - December 2024
at the top of the list of requests below (where N is the archive number).
When the review is finished:
- Follow the general instructions for peer reviews here.
- Move
[[Wikipedia:Peer review/Name of nominated article/archiveN]] - MONTH - YEAR
from the list of active reviews to the list of old reviews.
To change how your project's peer reviews are managed, see here.
Reviews:
- No reviews at present
Old reviews:
A-Class review
edit- Instructions
- Requesting a review
To request an A-Class review of an article:
- Add
A-Class=current
to the {{WPARAB}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). - 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.
- Place
=== [[Name of nominated article]] ===
at the top. - Below it, write your reason for nominating the article and sign by using four tildes (
~~~~
). {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world/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:
- Move (do not copy) the existing review subpage (Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world/Assessment/Name of nominated article) to an archive (Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world/Assessment/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
- Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world/Assessment/Name of nominated article, which will be a redirect to the archive, into a new nomination page).
- 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 by one of the project members 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 indicative of a major flaw in the article.
To close a review, coordinators should:
- Change the
A-Class=current
in the {{WPARAB}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page to eitherA-Class=pass
(if the nomination is successful) orA-Class=fail
(if it is not). - Move the
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world/Assessment/Name of nominated article}}
from the list of requests below to the current archive page. - Add
{{subst:archive top}}
and{{subst:archive bottom}}
to the top and bottom of the review subpage, respectively.
- Please add new requests below this line
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Arabic world/Assessment/Article title}}
Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world/Assessment/Yasser Arafat
Unassessed. I ahve made the article taking stringent precautions so as to adhere to the best practices. I wish to see the article being given a FA rating, It has all the information needed ina precise manner and mantains neutrality. However I wish to see if others feel the same! --Pranav (talk) 14:07, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
In my opinion quite a good article from our Early Muslim Military history task force. Wandalstouring 13:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- Support even though IMO it needs more cits. Kyriakos 05:24, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Weak support - a bit unreferenced, especially "Byzantine resurgence" and "Conclusion" sections. --Eurocopter tigre 12:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Weak support 34 references are quite enough as a minimum. Some NPOV is needed. Sometimes it seems clear that it was written from a Byzantine POV. Examples: loss of southern Italian territories can mean gain of Southern Italian territories depending from where you see it. Conflicts with the Caliphate however continued between the 800s and 1169 can mean the same thing if we would say simply Conflicts
with the Caliphatehowever continued between the 800s and 1169... -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 16:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Comment It is better now but we still have a one-sided Effects section. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 11:24, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Oppose Map of Byzantine Empire Themes 1025 should be deleted or replaced with better one. See talk page for more.Kebeta (talk) 09:41, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Featured article candidates
edit- 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.
Featured article review
edit- 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.
{{Wikipedia:Featured article review/Article title}}
Non-article featured content candidates
edit- 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:
- For lists: featured list candidates
- For portals: featured portal candidates
- For topics: featured topic candidates
{{Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Article title}}