User:Marskell/Sandbox

Reviewing featured articles This page is for the review and improvement of featured articles that may no longer meet the featured article criteria. FAs are held to the current standards regardless of when they were promoted. The aim is to improve articles rather than to demote them. Nominators must specify the featured article criteria that are at issue and should propose remedies. The ideal review would address the issues raised and close with no change in status. Reviews can improve articles in various ways: articles may need updating, formatting, and general copyediting. More complex issues, such as a failure to meet current standards of prose, comprehensiveness, factual accuracy, and neutrality, may also be addressed. All users are welcome to leave comments. Three specific declarations may be made: keep, remove, and hold. A "hold" indicates that an editor or group of editors is willing to work on outstanding concerns; when leaving such a comment, editors should describe how they intend to improve the article. Old "remove" declarations may be considered defunct once work has been done. Reviewers who declare "remove" should be prepared to return towards the end of the process to strike out their objections if they have been addressed. Reviews last for a minimum of twenty days. The featured article director, Raul654, or his delegates Marskell and Joelr31, determine whether there is consensus to keep or remove featured status. Extensions are always granted if work is on-going and a "hold" notice is left on the review. Editors who have indicated they intend to work on an article may be contacted on their user talk for updates; this is usually done by Marskell but anyone may do so. Older reviews are stored in the archive. A bot will update the article talk page after the review is closed and moved to archives.

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Nominating an article for FAR Nominators typically assist in the process of improvement; they may post only one nomination at a time, should not nominate articles that are featured on the main page (or have been featured there in the previous three days), and should avoid segmenting review pages. Three to six months is regarded as the minimum time between promotion and nomination here, unless there are extenuating circumstances such as a radical change in article content. Place {{FAR}} at the top of the talk page of the nominated article. Write "FAR listing" in the edit summary box. Click on "Save page". Note: if an article has already been through the FAR/C process, use the Move button to rename the previous nomination to an archive. For example, Wikipedia:Featured article review/Television → Wikipedia:Featured article review/Television/archive1 From there, click on the "add a comment" link. Place ===[[name of nominated article]]=== at the top of the subpage. Below this title, write your reason(s) for nominating the article, specifying the FA criterion/criteria that are at issue, then click on "Save page". Click here, and place your nomination at the top of the list of nominated articles, {{Wikipedia:Featured article review/name of nominated article}}, filling in the exact name of the nominated article. Click on "Save page". Notify relevant parties by adding {{subst:FARMessage|Articlename}} to relevant talk pages (insert article name). Relevant parties include main contributors to the article (identifiable through article stats script), the editor who originally nominated the article for Featured Article status (identifiable through the Featured Article Candidate link in the Article Milestones), and any relevant WikiProjects (identifiable through the talk page banners, but there may be other Projects that should be notified). Leave a message at the top of the FAR indicating who you have notified and that notifications have been completed.