Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Review/A instructions

Instructions

Requesting a review

To request an A-Class review of an article:

1. Add |A-Class=current to the {{Film}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the project banner documentation for more details on the exact syntax).
2. Click where it says "follow this link" in the template. This will open a pre-formatted page for the review of the article.
3. Give your reason for nominating the article in the appropriate place, and save the page.
4. Add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Assessment/Name of nominated article}} at the top of the list of A-Class review requests below.
5. Transclude the review onto the article talk page by adding {{subst:WPFILMS A-Class review}} to the bottom of the article talk page.

If an article is being 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 Films/Assessment/Name of nominated article) to an archive (Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Assessment/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
2. Update the link for the previous review in the {{ArticleHistory}} template on the article's talk page.
3. Update the transclusion in the relevant assessment archive page, found by using the "What Links Here" feature. Check for any other links or transclusions which may need updating.
4. Set the |A-Class= parameter in the {{Film}} project banner to "current".
5. Follow the instructions for making a request above; edit Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Assessment/Name of nominated article, which will now be a redirect to the archive, into a new nomination page by pasting the following code and adding your reason for the nomination in the appropriate place:

=== [[{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>SUBPAGENAME}}]] ===

:<small>''Nominator: ~~<includeonly></includeonly>~~''</small>
<noinclude>{{WPFILMS A-Class toolbox|1=<includeonly>{{subst:SUBPAGENAME}}</includeonly>}}</noinclude>
<!-- Please don't edit anything above here; just include your reasons for nominating below. -->

I am nominating this article for A-Class review because... ~~<includeonly></includeonly>~~

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 project's A-Class standard is deliberately set high, very close to the criteria for featured articles. Reviewers should therefore satisfy themselves that the article meets all of the A-Class criteria before supporting a nomination. As with featured articles, any objections must be "actionable", that is, capable of rectification.

Closing and archiving

Reviews will remain open for a maximum of one calendar month or until such earlier time as 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 that (a) it has garnered an absolute minimum of two endorsements from uninvolved editors, and (b) 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 {{Film}} 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. Move the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Assessment/Name of nominated article}} from the list of requests below to the current archive page.
4. Add a new milestone to the talk page's {{ArticleHistory}} template, with action#=WAR. See the template page for further instructions on how to add the other necessary parameters for a given milestone. (Add the entire template if it does not already exist on the page.)
5. Remove the article link from the A-Class review list at {{WPFILMS Announcements}}, and add the article to the relevant section at the project's Spotlight department.