::::: The pre-req idea is a fairly simple way of ensuring A class candidate articles have had some sort of quality control before getting to us and seems to me to probably be the mechanism I was groping in the dark for above. I don't hate it, but I wonder how much support it would have with other project members? I imagine a change like this would probably need to RFC or something like that? Although I guess the first step would be floating it among the other co-ords though. Some counters are that we are not currently overwhelmed by ACRs (although the numbers do fluctuate), whilst this would likely just increase the reviewing burden at PR and GAN so there may be some push-back from people involved there and we might just find ourselves having to increase our own reviewing effort there instead...