Wikipedia talk:Peer review/Archive 3

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 19:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: I submitted Tara Conner for peer review but it only got one response and nothing after I responded to those comments.  Is it possible to re-submit it? -- PageantUpdater • talk | contribs | esperanza 06:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine, plenty of articles go through several peer reviews. Quadzilla99 03:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-submitting? 

message: I am just assuming that anyone is allowed to archive and this was getting very long. I will put a distinguish to show it is not exactly the same as the Archive 2 of the Peer Review. This makes things go out-of-sync.
Secondly, is it possible to have featured WikiProjects? Simply south 20:17, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, anyone can archive, and no, WikiProjects cannot be featured; though some featured portals have strong links to WikiProjects. Oldelpaso 15:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured and archiving

message: Why the practice of wikilinking the username in the subsection title, when creating a subsection for that user's comments in Peer Review areas? I keep thinking there's an article for review called Kirill Lokshin. :) Seriously, subdividing by user makes sense, but to my mind the linking of the username doesn't: it's distracting, and one is after all signing the message anyway. –Outriggr § 03:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know it's a practice only done at WikiProject specific peer reviews. Example being the Military history and Biography WikiProject's. My guess it is for better organization since those participating reviewers usually do a throughout review. Your seeing this done here because User:MartinBotII began copying an pasting peer review pages from  Military WikiProject here. — Tutmosis 03:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm not sure if my specific question came through: I think the subsections are good for organization too, it's just that wikilinking the username makes it look like the username (now in blue) is another article—on my screen anyway, there's not much font size difference. Thanks, –Outriggr § 03:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please add my name to the list of people being slightly irritated about the wikilinking of username headers. My esteemed fellow Wikipedians: there is no reason to do it; it just confuses the reader scrolling through the PR page. If someone wants to access your user page, they can always click on your signatures. Please consider dewikifying your tags. Thank you. --Plek 21:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

text: This is absurd. I spent a few minutes reading one username that could have been an article, with its short paragraph that could have been a peer review request, rather than feedback. I am boldy adjusting the Peer Review response section to include directions not to link the username header. The current format is NOT intuitive (being unindented), user-friendly, or accessible to those with poorer eyesight. –Outriggr § 20:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Urgh, just seen this. Sorry, I didn't realise it was confusing, it was just laziness on my part (three tildes being marginally quicker to type than 6 letters). I won't do it from now on. Trebor 20:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! I never thought of the three-tilde thing; at least now I understand why the linking is so predominant. But, I just realized that these peer reviews go back to various wikiprojects, so I should probably broach my "bold move" with Biography first. –Outriggr § 20:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  username subsections 

message: I put Andrew Van de Kamp up for peer review on the 12th January. Six days later it has had zero reviews. On further inspection, it seems that a worrying number of peer reviews also have no reviews. What is happening? Where has everybody gone? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 08:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I try to provide reviews after I have received my own (unless I'm distracted by an FAC) - but I can't do that unless I receive reviews! I have started using the WikiProjects' peer reviews, and I'm going to start one at WP:LGBT, but there isn't one for my article, so I was getting a bit worried. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 13:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To me it seems important not simply to list an article here, but to seek reviewers proactively.  Often an article's strongest opponent makes a good reviewer.  The Village Pump is a good source, as are direct invitations to prior active editors who have stopped editing.  Relying on "passing trade" is not the best way.  You have to advertise.  Fiddle Faddle 14:05, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

text: This was a common issue on the 2nd archive of this page (here and here, for example; the response to the latter is very relevant). One way to get more reviews is to invite (politely) editors from related WikiProjects or who have shown a large amount of interest with the article in question or related topics; VP also works as mentioned above. I usually spend some time on articles which have passed through PR one time w/o any comments and then are renominated, as well as other articles at random. It's also the reason that I thought up of the concept of the script. AZ t 00:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reviews? 

message: Pardon me for asking what may be a silly question, given the routine concerns I see in the discussions about low participation and backlogs here, but is there a concern about peer reviews being done by editors who have made significant contributions to an article? I'm not talking about WP:COI, where the editors have some involvement in the subject itself. I mean that, in my mind, a "peer review" of a work is done by someone who has had no significant involvement in composing that document. If what we mean by "peer review" is nothing more than a call for any interested editors to make suggestions, I suppose there's no issue. But I didn't see this specifically addressed anywhere in the current WP:PR, this talk page, or any of this page's archives, so I'd like to get opinions from the regular participants here. Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there is any problem with someone that has contributed to the article giving their opinions on it's improvement. Peer-reviews here do not necessarily mean everything recommended in it needs to be actioned. I think that the more thoughtful comments and discussion the better; regardless of who is making them. - Shudda talk 00:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicts of editing interest 

message: I listed Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War for review a week ago, and all I've gotten is the automated review (thank goodness, at least it's something!). I noticed my request wasn't the only one that hadn't gotten responses; in fact, few did. I also listed the article on the CVG PR, but only one person helped there. Peer review is obviously being forgotten, and this isn't a good thing (unless you're an anti-wikipedia geek, trying to stir up anarchy within our domain... ;). Shouldn't a request for new reviewers be posted on the community portal, the admin noticeboards, wikiprojects, etc.? I'll help if I see anything I can help with, but frankly, that won't be enough... · AO Talk 00:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As a rule I have been editing two for each one posted. But it doesn't matter, I still usually only get the automated review, but they do help.A mcmurray 03:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Muhhaha! I added two 200 point questions to the WP:HOLICTEST regarding peer review; we should be getting help. :-) · AO Talk 10:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are some relevant discussions here, here, and here. By the way, thanks AO for 450 more points on WP:HOLICTEST (though I really don’t plan on taking it any time soon). AZ t 23:48, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I also initiated a "peer review exchange program" with another editor whose article hadn't been reviewed yet. An "I'll read yours, if you read mine" sort of thing. Awadewit | talk 14:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review falling apart?! 

message: Shouldnt they mention the movie "Sound of Music" it's like my all time favorite movie and it's a classic! 
                        From your wikipedia comment giver,
                                  Abby (AKA Sammy's BFF)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.254.121.30 (talk) 22:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound of Music? 

message: Hi people. I followed the steps given on the project page for 'How To Resubmit Request'. I could do Step 1, but Step 2 just blew over my head; don't know how to do it. Could someone tell me exactly how to do it? It says edit the peer review page and 'remove redirect' but there is no such redirect to remove etc. This is confusing. Here is the previous peer review page for this article (Wikipedia:Peer_review/Ilaiyaraaja). Could someone help do Step 2 for me? Thanks... AppleJuggler 05:41, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like you managed it, though I see that the article is currently on featured article candidates. Generally speaking, articles should not go on both peer review and FAC at the same time. Oldelpaso 11:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resubmitting article for peer review request 

message: I request the following changes to the request removal policy:
*Requests that have attracted comments from other people, and where the original poster has not responded to these comments within a week, should also be removed. Requesting and then ignoring comments tends to discourage potentially valuable input, and peer review needs to attract more, not less, comments from reviewers. However, please be careful when you decide to remove a listing for this reason! Requesters are encouraged to respond on the peer review page, so as to keep everyone informed of the progress of the article; nevertheless, before removing an apparently unresponsive poster, please check first whether they have perhaps responded somewhere else: on the article's talk page, on the reviewer's talk page, or by editing the article appropriately.
:*Such situations are very likely to happen; there are many peer review requesters which are purposing to leave the review to run its full course before beginning work on article, or become busy whilst the review is still open. The practice of ignoring comments might be seen as bad in the eyes of many, but it shouldn't be a reason for delisting or archiving a review, especially if this may prevent further constructive feedback from editors.
*New criteria: Articles which have been deleted, through a deletion debate or otherwise, should be delisted. In case an article has been undeleted, the request may reopen at any time.
:*This seems quite an uncontroversial addition. I've seen a few deleted article requests before which were subjects to speedy delisting. Michaelas10 (Talk) 19:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While I dislike seeing an article put up for peer review by someone who then has little to do with the article, if other editors respond to criticisms in the review, then it should not be removed.-gadfium 22:21, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In case you're misunderstanding, I would like to remove that criteria, not add it. Michaelas10 (Talk) 23:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Since no objections have been made, I went ahead and made the changes myself. Michaelas10 (Talk) 20:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposing changes to request removal policy

message: I was thinking of being bold and adding a polite suggestion that each user do two thoughtful peer reviews on articles already posted (preferably ones with little feedback) whenever posting an article here for peer reviews. Two is an arbitrary number its just what I always do when I post an article. Thought I would post it here first at risk of being too bold.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 08:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As an additional note, it can be an easy sell for us nerdy Wikipedian types. Myself, I can always find some interesting article about a subject I know little about to do a peer review on. It helps me (by adding to my overall knowledge base) and helps the user who posted that article for peer review. For instance, today I can say I learned about Tungsten and the Reagan assassination attempt.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 08:44, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just can't seem to shut up, but the policy seems to work fairly well over at WP:GAC, I believe they ask for each poster to do one review, but with the sheer amount of material here I would say two is better.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 08:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone? If no one responds I will just go ahead and do it tonight.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 05:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree 100% - I would also say to give preference to reviewing articles that have been here longest without any comment (besides semi automated), hopefully this would spread the reviews around. Thanks for doing this, Ruhrfisch 06:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Voila!A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 06:10, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did just end up going with one, thought it better. It might make people more likely to go ahead and do one.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 05:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I also put a note up on the Community Portal calling for new participants, it will be up for a week.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 05:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Boldness

message: Hopefully this works:
See User:Qxz/Ads for more details. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 05:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hopefully 

message: What do you do if you get no responses? Should you even bother to archive it? Quadzilla99 02:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone? Quadzilla99 17:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No responses

message: After years and years of 60 percent of PR requests being composed of the "bad article, give me advice on how to improve it" request we really should get a big disclaimer or some enforcement. Honestly if the article is bad, then it has one of the several issues:
*Barely provides information on the subject. Then if someone wants to improve it maybe they should start with "researching". Do they want an outline of every aspect of information the article should provide? Well they probably will never get that.
*poor/no references and citation. Well then get some...
*Issues like grammar, spelling, MoS issues, are also a no brainer. Fix it or ask someone.
I'm dumbstruck on what advice this people are looking for, do they want a diagram of every step they should take to improve the article? Do they need someone to give them directions to the library and tell them what books to get, what pages to read, what information to summarize? Geez. How hard is it to read the first sentence on this page that states that this process is intended for "high-quality articles that have already undergone extensive work". Flooding it with shit articles that compose 90 percent of the yet unfinished wikipedia articles will just backlog this process and make everyone reluctant to participate. STOP asking for people's advice on how to improve a barely existent article. Use your logical thinking on how to improve it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.113.107.4 (talk) 14:41, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If they are seeking general advice on how to improve a bad article (as opposed to advice on how to polish a good article), they should file a request for feedback instead. As I created the RFF process, I'd appreciate it if you pointed them in the right direction. --J.L.W.S. The Special One 15:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow the 60 percent of people asking for reviews. 

message: In the header of the article it reads, "It is not academic peer review by a group of experts in a particular subject, and articles that undergo this process should not be assumed to have greater authority than any other." This is a negative definition (what is not, instead of what it is) and is inconsistent with what a peer review is. My problem isn't the wording, its malappropriating a phrase for another meaning. The reason this is a problem is that while it may in the long run expand the way the language is used, in the short run it confuses. I'd suggest a title like, "broad community review." and reserve "peer review" for reviews performed by experts in the field in question. Pdbailey 22:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  peer review is not a [[peer review]] 

message: Did anyone here even realize that Wikipedia:Disputed statement sends people to peer review to deal with content problems?  That's the page that the  template links to.  If followed literally, it will lead people to "Request peer review to obtain correct information" every time they find a statement that seems inaccurate but can't fix it right away. —Celithemis 00:25, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:Disputed statement sends people here 

message: Hi. As part of my admin coaching with The Transhumanist, I've written User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates. I'm looking for help with copyediting. Please do take a look. Thanks, --Dweller 21:52, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virtual classroom lesson on Featured Articles 

message: Someone please tell me how to get rid of a peer review and move it to an archive. I've tried moving it to the archive but that just dumped it onto another peer review's page. Please drop a note on my talk page (click "words" on my sig). The bizarre syntax "remove to" is  confusing especially.  Ten Pound Hammer • (((Actions • Words))) 00:07, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing a peer review

message: I just noticed that there are a lot of undeveloped articles up for peer review, although at the to it says that such articles are just reviewed from the talk page.  Is there a procedure for removing these? Wrad 20:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undeveloped articles, how to remove? 

message: An idea was raised at FAC talk on how to encourage more reviewers, by having a bot count PR contributions and generate a "league table", along the lines of Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_featured_article_nominations.  It would work by finding all PR noms, which it can get from this page's history, and then scanning those for contributions.  The idea would be to encourage people to participate by seeing their rank increase.  There's a risk that it would cause people to try to fake scores by doing pointless edits, but I doubt anyone would bother; and if there's a chance it would help then I think it's worth the risk.
It's being considered for FAC too, but there's no consensus it's worth it there yet.  However, it was suggested it could help more at PR which has a bigger backlog.  Any comments?  If nobody objects, I can post a note to WP:BOTREQ to ask if anyone could create such a bot. Mike Christie (talk) 20:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said at WT:FAC, I support the idea of trying this out here, to hopefully kickstart PR, resolve some of the backlog here, and help articles come to FAC better prepared.  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encouraging more reviewers 

message: Singapore Dreaming's peer review was archived after receiving no reviews (except an automated one) for a couple of weeks. Should I "un-archive" and relist the archived peer review, or file a new one? The former would save me the trouble of moving the archived peer review (which requires admin intervention if there are multiple archived reviews) and typing a new review request. Whether I relist the peer review or file a new peer review, could you comment at the peer review? Thanks.  --J.L.W.S. The Special One 07:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relisting peer reviews which were archived without receiving comments 

message: What has happened to the automated peer review feature? TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM)  11:52, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automated Peer Review 

message: Hi, I want to know why is there people listing "Topic-specific" articles for peer-review here since there is a "Topic-specific peer reviews" links section below this page's header. --Andersmusician VOTE 03:02, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose of this page 

message: Unlike FACs, GACs are passed, failed or put on hold by a single reviewer after several days to a month (depending on the size of the backlog). Although contributors may improve an article while it is on GAC, they are not given any feedback until a reviewer determines the outcome of the nomination. 
I understand that an article may not be on PR and FAC simultaneously. However, can an article be on PR and GAC simultaneously? In 4 hours' time, I will nominate I Not Stupid for GA, so I'd like to know whether I should close its ongoing peer review.
--J.L.W.S. The Special One 09:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can an article be on PR and GAC simultaneously? 

message: I thought that all peer reviews listed at various WikiProjects (such as Novels and Biography) were supposed to be cross-listed here. Is there something extra that needs to be done for that to happen? I don't think it is happening, currently. Awadewit | talk 14:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This activity was handled by User:MartinBotII and appears to have last occurred on June 27, 2007.  Inquiries should probably go to the bot's owner. --Allen3 talk 15:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I have contacted the owner. Awadewit | talk 22:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Listed at WikiProjects and here

message: Can anyone figure out why there are peer review boxes for Peer review after "Water supply and sanitation in Bolivia" and "Water supply and sanitation in Indonesia"? DrKiernan 12:43, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Three of the "water supply and sanitation" requests (Ethiopia, India, and Paraguay) had the contents of the transclusion page swapped with the associated article's talk page contents.  This problem has been corrected. --Allen3 talk 13:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review/Peer review

message: Is peer review dead? I hadn't used it for awhile when I posted Pettit Memorial Chapel, an important Frank Lloyd Wright building, for peer review on July 8. The only response I received was 8 days later asking if I queried WikiProject Architecture, which I did that day. Over a week later and nothing has been said in its review. Considering I have raised almost 20 articles to GA by myself and am on the cusp of my first FA I suppose I don't need to use this feature but peer reviews have oft pointed out things that I, as a main author, have overlooked. It is sad to see that peer review has died. IvoShandor 02:13, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, dead. : ( IvoShandor 06:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a few ideas to enliven it. Namely, a wikiproject overwatching it, and enforcing stricter rules... Wrad 22:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A response! Hooray! That would be good, I wonder how others feel, as is I am less prone to contribute to reviews because mine are summarily ignored, even when I do. If I get reviews, my policy has always been to review an article or two, often for those who do my review. I used to come in and do a slew of 'em but became really frustrated by the lack of response. This part of the project is far too valuable to lose. I would join any WikiProject aimed at saving it. IvoShandor 23:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I think that peer review would greatly benefit if it was sorted by subjects.  That way a editor can review articles that they are interested in.  (similar the AFD sorting).  Jon513 23:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was also thinking of having different degrees of reviews.  One for those just trying to get started, one for those aiming for GA, one for those aiming for FA... Wrad 00:03, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A past attempt to divide peer review into several groupings showed that the only "benefits" received were additional confusion by request submitters on how to add an entry and a significant increase in the effort required to perform archiving and other maintenance.  This is because most reviewers concentrate on the top few requests at the top of the page when looking for an article to review while entries further down the page have great difficulty receiving an initial comment.  Due to my memory of dealing with and then cleaning up this past attempt, I will not support a repeat of this experiment. This means that anyone wishing to implement the type of reorganization being proposed is also volunteering to take over the daily maintenance work required to implement archiving and cleanup of improperly submitted requests. --Allen3 talk 17:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Good point. Not sure if additional instruction creep is what we need (i.e. sorting peer reviews) but I still think that a project could be helpful, it would give the people who enjoy doing peer reviews a place to congregate and somewhere to coordinate backlog elimination drives (A recent one I noticed at WP:GAC really cleaned up the backlog there, and they do have a affiliated WikiProject. This seems like a logical step to me, any thoughts? Any one willing to do the construction and proposal and such? IvoShandor 19:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is an excellent idea to divide the peer reviews by topic like they have done at GAC (although I would suggest broader topics than they have - the recent change was detrimental, I think). I tend to review history and literature articles, so I am continually scrolling to see if I missed something interesting on this page. I review much more at GAC since it is easier to identify articles that I would be good at reviewing. Awadewit | talk 06:02, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead? 

message: Would anyone have a problem with making the TOC float on the right side of the page, next to all the reviews (something similar to editor review)? I would be bold and do it, but it seems a little big to be bold about, so I've brought it here. All comments appreciated. Sebi [talk] 08:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You do know you can modify your personal style sheet to accomplish the same thing, correct? Gentgeen 11:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, I posted this thread what seems like ages ago. Yes, I do know I can muck around with it, but it's not much of a problem now anyway. Sebi [talk] 05:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TOC 

message: I created a template () to help assist in listing some peer reviews that have stuck around for awhile and have received no reply. I have seen a few of these for FACs and FAR and they were placed in the user space. I'm not sure if there is something against these templates being used in the template space so they were moved to the user space. Sebi [talk] 05:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UrgentPR 

message: I have never closed a peer reveiw.  However, I know that Wikipedia:Peer review/Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago/archive1 has not been closed properly.  I was cleaning up its talk page and noticed.  Could someone please close it or leave a note on my talk page how to do so.  There is no procedure at Wikipedia:Peer review/Request removal policy and I don't want to leave out any steps.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM)  16:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closing a PR 

message: All reviewers taking part in WP:FAC, WP:GAN, and WP:PR, are encouraged to take a look at Wikipedia:Content review/workshop. While there's no specific proposals on changing anything currently, we're trying to initiate a friendly discussion regarding the review processes on wikipedia as a whole, and how to improve all of them. Dr. Cash 18:00, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Reform of peer review is currently under discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content review/workshop. DrKiernan 08:12, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Review workshop

message: I have been transluding the WikiProject Biography peer reviews to this page by hand since the bot that used to do it shut down. Would anyone object to me editing the bottom of the Peer review instructions as below? It would enable me to stop transcluding the WikiProject Biographies to this page, as they would show up in the announcement list at the bottom of the instructions template instead. DrKiernan 08:12, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would recommend holding off on making major modifications to the page, pending outcome of the above-mentioned discussion on reforming the PR system overall. One of the discussions being talked about is a category-based listing of articles at PR, similar to WP:GAN, which would improve on this. And we're talking about increased bot maintenance for this as well. So please hold off pending the outcome of these discussions. Thanks! Dr. Cash 18:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop transcluding WikiProject Biography peer reviews 

message: As mentioned a couple of threads up, changes to reinvigorate Peer review have been under discussion at Wikipedia:Content review/workshop, especially on its talk page. As the discussion there is stalling, I thought it worthwhile to bring ideas here for implementation (though I see this is far from an active talk page). The simplest and hardest to argue with change is introducing categories on this page, thus making it more browsable. (Indeed, given that this regularly approaches 200 reviews, I am surprised it hasn't been done before.) The majority was in favour WP 1.0 hierarchy:
:Arts · Language and literature · Philosophy and religion · Everyday life · Society and social sciences · Geography · History · Applied sciences and technology · Mathematics · Natural sciences
A minority favoured the FA categories: 
:Art, architecture and archaeology · Awards, decorations and vexillology · Biology and medicine · Business, economics and finance · Chemistry and mineralogy · Computing · Culture and society · Education · Engineering and technology · Food and drink · Geography and places · Geology, geophysics and meteorology · History · Language and linguistics · Law · Literature and theatre · Mathematics · Media · Music · Philosophy and psychology · Physics and astronomy · Politics and government · Religion, mysticism and mythology · Royalty, nobility and heraldry · Sport and recreation · Transport · Video games · Warfare
New votes (or any objections) are welcome. It can be done quite easily and, I think, without any extraneous problems created. I don't think it would affect the bot that does automated reviews, though someone should confirm that. Marskell 08:25, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorizing PR 

message: A new page has been created to list users who have volunteered to be contacted on their talk page to do peer reviews: Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers.  The page was created after discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content review/workshop, a page devoted to trying to improve review processes such as peer review.  The page now has quite a few volunteers who have signed up, and I think it would be good to add a link to it from the PR instructions.
The instructions live in Template:PR-instructions.  How about changing the first paragraph under "Nomination procedure" to say "Anyone can request peer review. Users submitting new requests are encouraged to review an article from those already listed, and encourage reviewers by replying promptly and appreciatively to comments.  You may also contact a volunteer peer reviewer directly; see the list of volunteers"?
-- Mike Christie (talk) 13:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review volunteer list 

message: I tried to cleanup the nomination for User:Twelsht but for some reason the header won't appear above the comments. Any ideas? Thanks --Daysleeper47 (talk) 17:37, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Disregard. I see I accidentally deleted the header on the PR page. Cheers, Daysleeper47 (talk) 17:44, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Youngstown Ohio Works]] 

message: Is is fine to nominate an article for PEER REVIEW even though a POV tag is still attached? BritandBeyonce (talk) 10:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is nothing in the peer review rules and guidelines preventing such an article from being submitted.  That being said, peer review is not designed to resolve POV issues in an article and a POV tag may also serve to scare off potential reviewers.  If the article's primary problem is POV related then resources such as Wikipedia:Pages needing attention, Wikipedia:Requests for comment, or Wikipedia:Dispute resolution may better serve your needs. --Allen3 talk 12:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Thank you. BritandBeyonce (talk) 00:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reassessment 

message: I've now implemented the automation of the PR list. As promised above, there will surely be teething problems, but I've tried to add guidelines and source code comments to minimize these. One potential problem concerns page moves: if a page is moved during a peer review, then the peer review subpage needs to be moved too. Fortunately this is a fairly rare occurence. A bigger issue concerns the idea of a permanent link. Unfortunately some newsletters, posted on multiple talk pages, link to peer reviews. Fixing these links when a peer review is archived is a pain, so until such fixes are automated, we have to live with an imperfect system. Geometry guy 21:26, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Automated

message: I am surprised the PR (and FAC) nomination process does not include this key element:  the nominator could be expected to provide a list of pages on which the nominator (or a bot) will announce the nomination and invite readers to respond.  Proposals for new Usenet newsgroups have worked that way for over a decade;  the proposer is expected to develop a list of newsgroups and e-mail discussion groups where it would be appropriate to post a notice of the proposal. --Una Smith (talk) 05:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recruiting more reviewers

message: Editors may be interested in the discussion that is starting here.  Happy‑melon 12:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: {{tl|ArticleHistory}} deprecates other templates?

message: Presumably this problem is related to the recent changes. Whenever I try to click the edit link for a given peer review I get the following message:
You tried to edit a section that does not exist. Since there is no section 1, there is no place to save your edit. Sections may have been removed after you loaded the page; try purge and bypass your browser cache.
Return to Template:CF/Requests for peer review. 
Neither purging nor bypassing cache have had any effect. I can get around this by clicking the direct link on the  template on an article's talk page, but it is hardly ideal. Oldelpaso (talk) 17:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks for drawing attention to this. This wasn't caused by the recent changes directly, but by an edit I made yesterday to the template that displays the peer review entries. I think I've fixed it now: let me know if there are still problems. Apologies for the temporary inconvenience, and thanks again. Geometry guy 19:42, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is working now. Thanks. Oldelpaso (talk) 09:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem. My excuse for fiddling with the template is in the next section. Geometry guy 00:15, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Issue with editing peer reviews

message: The automated listing of peer reviews presents the opportunity to provide the peer review information in several different formats at no extra cost. The system is quite flexible, so I've tested out a couple of uses. The first is a peer review list, which provides links to peer reviews and articles under peer review. The second is an automatic list of recent peer reviews, which can be transcluded anywhere. Both of these can be modified to suit editors needs. Are these potentially useful? If so, how might they be improved? Are there any further suggestions? Geometry guy 00:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I read that I should respond to a peer review request by reviewing "one of the articles below". Why are there no more peer reviews on Wikipedia:Peer review that I can respond to? – Ilse@ 13:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This has now been fixed. Comment on this page if there are further problems. Geometry guy 23:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taking advantage of the automation 

message: Anything happening? DrKiernan (talk) 11:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archiving 

message: Is anyone else uninspired by the new system? It now takes three clicks to get to an individual review and you can't easily glance through any other reviews. Peanut4 (talk) 18:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is related to the previous thread on archiving. Basically, this page has depended on the generous efforts of Allen3 to archive old peer reviews, but he hasn't done this since 18 December. Consequently there are now too many peer reviews to list on the peer review page and the software is replacing the transclusions by links. (Technically, the post-expand include limit has been exceeded.) What you are currently seeing is not how the page is meant to look. In fact it is meant to look identical to the old peer review page, and did until yesterday. I'll see if I can fix it, but I expect the only solution is to archive some old peer reviews. Geometry guy 18:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this is a temporary problem, which we will be able to resolve. One option is to move peer reviews to a subpage when they grow too long for transclusion here (the same thing happens on RFA and other pages that transclude a lot of subpages - very long RFAs are not transcluded on the main RFA page). — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:10, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Peer Review system 

message: Can I cross list a peer review here.  I think you use to be able to just transclude the discussion page in two places.  Now, I don't know if that can be done.  I want to also list Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Peer review/Crown Fountain here.  Is that possible?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD)  05:48, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, put it in the "WikiProject peer reviews" section. DrKiernan (talk) 10:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems to be the place to post entire specialized peer reviews not x-list a single article.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD)  06:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is possible to cross list a single article, but it is not clear whether this is the best way to proceed: see below. Geometry guy 19:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Both options again may run into the problem that the peer review page could become unmanageably long.
In deciding between these and similar options, one might like to ask: what is the purpose of WikiProject peer reviews? Are they just peer reviews which get advertised to WikiProjects? If so, then they should be listed here, and linked or cross-listed at the WikiProject. Or are they specialist reviews? If so, then they should not be listed here, but could be linked. Geometry guy 19:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cross-listing peer reviews 

message: The above post raises the general question of the relation between this page and WikiProject peer reviews. There are a number of ways to answer this. Here are some.
# Expand on the current "WikiProject peer reviews" section: in other words, interested WikiProjects can have their peer reviews linked, but not transcluded, here. The WikiProject could either generate the list manually (as WikiProject Films and WikiProject Biography do on their "announce" pages), or VeblenBot could do it automatically from the WikiProject peer review categories.
# Allow individual WikiProject peer reviews to be listed by hand as peer reviews: this can be done by adding the  template to the article talk page, and redirecting Wikipedia:Peer review/ARTICLE NAME to Wikipedia:WIKIPROJECT/Peer review/ARTICLE NAME. The problem with this solution is that extra work is needed to add the template and redirect, and it creates additional complexity (and hence opportunity for errors to be made) when the peer review is archived.
# Interested WikiProjects could have their peer reviews systematically cross-listed here in a separate section. This could easily be done automatically, but the peer review page could become unmanageably long.
# Interested WikiProjects could have their peer reviews systematically cross-listed here as peer reviews. The WikiProject peer review template would place articles into the general peer review category. There are two ways to work this.
#* Nominators would be required to redirect Wikipedia:Peer review/ARTICLE NAME to Wikipedia:WIKIPROJECT/Peer review/ARTICLE NAME.
#* WikiProjects would no longer have separate subpages (Wikipedia:WIKIPROJECT/Peer review/ARTICLE NAME): instead, Wikipedia:WIKIPROJECT/Peer review would transclude the reviews from selected Wikipedia:Peer review/ARTICLE NAME subpages.
: Both options again may run into the problem that the peer review page could become unmanageably long.
In deciding between these and similar options, one might like to ask: what is the purpose of WikiProject peer reviews? Are they just peer reviews which get advertised to WikiProjects? If so, then they should be listed here, and linked or cross-listed at the WikiProject. Or are they specialist reviews? If so, then they should not be listed here, but could be linked. Geometry guy 19:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What to do with WikiProject peer reviews?

message: I created readability tool for a bot request made for peer review.  As the original author hasn't replied back I'm posting the link here in hopes that someone will find it useful.  —Dispenser (talk) 07:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Readability tool 

message: Oh where, oh where have all the little peer review listings gone? :) Seriously, where is the list? Awadewit | talk 09:45, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The page is full because no one has been archiving it. Someone needs to archive old peer reviews or the page will break: this is explained two threads above. For now, I have switched the bot into list-only mode (so the reviews don't transclude). When enough old peer reviews have been archived, I'll switch the transclusion of reviews back on. Thanks. Geometry guy 09:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I archived my two. :) Awadewit | talk 20:35, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I did three, chosen from the longest ones. Geometry guy 01:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, User:Allen3 used to archive any requests over a month old and any that had received no comments in two weeks. I notice all the current requests are less than one month old. Do you want me to work on those with no new comments in the past two weeks? Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 02:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, please. That is what the archiving guidelines now state, I think. Geometry guy 02:49, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's the problem, none are older than a month (as mentioned) and the oldest received semi-automated peer reviews (which I ran as AZPR) on January 5, 2008. Is it OK to archive those with no contributions older than two weeks except for the semi-automated peer review? Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 03:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I would say so: these are only guidelines, so use your discretion. Geometry guy 09:35, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I archived 22 requests and removed three broken listings (I had asked them to fix the PR requests 2 days ago). I think 18 of the 22 had received no feedback except for the semi-automated peer review. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 03:35, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work! I've switched transclusion back on: the page now has just under 400 KB spare room before it hits the 2 MB limit for transclusions and breaks again. Please, all editors keep up with the archiving. Many hands, and all that... Geometry guy 13:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I will try to archive at least every other day. I feel bad that so many had had no responses, but am not sure what else to do. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 19:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think you should feel bad: peer review currently has 128 articles listed, all (or nearly all) of which are either new, or have comments in the last two weeks. As Jayron suggests below, this is rather a success! Geometry guy 20:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I have written a script to post to this page if it notices that the Peer review page is close to the limit. The actual archiving needs to be done by hand, but the reminder may give some warning before anything breaks. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What? 

message: The new changes at Peer Review are awsome.  Under the old system, I would check in here once in a while, and maybe pick up a new article to peer review.  This new system, with the volunteers list, is working GREAT.  I probably now review a MINIMUM of one article a week, and have enjoyed every one of them.  With the new volunteer page, I am able to list myself by area of preference, and article custodians come to me to request a review.  I always get an article I am interested in, which is helping me review a LOT more article.  My only suggestion is that we make the volunteers list MORE prominent on the main page.  We probably don't want to transclude the whole thing, but it should be easier for editors to find it.  Just an idea, but I thought I would come and throw some kudos around for doing a great job fixing up what was a broken system... Well done!  --Jayron32.talk.contribs 17:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully endorse what Jayron32 says. The new system is excellent and has put really PR on the map. Kudos to all those involved in the overhaul. --ROGER DAVIES talk 05:15, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reported these positive comments to the Content review workshop, organsised by Mike Christie, which was the origin of these changes. In my view, the best way to say thanks is to comment on the idea below (I hope I do it justice). Geometry guy 21:37, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have had editors dropping by for help, as well. When I started it, I was hoping it would become a meme, although it's hard to directly test how many reviews are getting extra comments because of it. And it's still not as exposed as it could be. Are there other places we might link to it? Marskell (talk) 11:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I think this is definately a good idea (since I supported it the first time around).  Such an implementation would mean that editors who wished to be involved, but don't want to be listed as a volunteer, would still be able to find an article that interested them.  I support this organization for those reasons.  --Jayron32.talk.contribs 22:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Allen3 is still alive and well on Wiki. He deserves great credit for looking after this page for so long. The main complaint was the manual archiving, but now that that's not needed we can proceed with this, if there are no other objections. Marskell (talk) 11:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree. I meant that he had left the PR project after much valuable service. Geometry guy 19:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Erk, I see below the archiving isn't fully automated. Let's get that done first. Marskell (talk) 11:03, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That was my plan. Although the proposal below is not quite full automation, archiving should be just as easy for a subdivided page as for an undivided page. Geometry guy 19:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I have now "pre-implemented" this idea (with help from Carl and VeblenBot, as always): it is now possible to categorize a peer review by adding a WP1.0 topic to the  template on the peer review discussion page for the article. At the moment all this does is place the article in a category (such as :Category:Arts peer reviews), but everything is in place to list peer reviews by topic on the main PR page. I will set up a demo fairly soon. Geometry guy 09:56, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  For the record, LOVE how PR has changed... 

message: One of the other ideas raised by the Content review workshop is closely related to the above. Note that the volunteers at WP:Peer review/volunteers are listed under 10 topics and general copyediting. The other idea is to organise (voluntarily) the articles on the peer review page under the same 10 topics. This idea was dropped because it was opposed by a key PR editor, Allen3. However, Allen3 seems to have left the project anyway. Furthermore, the automation of the peer review page means that this would be easy to implement: peer review nominators would simply use  if they wanted to list their review under a particular section. Peer reviews without such a designation would be listed in a general section, either at the beginning or the end of the list of peer reviews.
So, is this worth doing? Is it helpful to structure the PR page, or unhelpful to fragment it? I have the feeling that those who have been encouraged by the recent changes will have a clear idea as to whether this is a useful further change or not, so please comment. Geometry guy 21:37, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is definately a good idea (since I supported it the first time around).  Such an implementation would mean that editors who wished to be involved, but don't want to be listed as a volunteer, would still be able to find an article that interested them.  I support this organization for those reasons.  --Jayron32.talk.contribs 22:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Allen3 is still alive and well on Wiki. He deserves great credit for looking after this page for so long. The main complaint was the manual archiving, but now that that's not needed we can proceed with this, if there are no other objections. Marskell (talk) 11:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree. I meant that he had left the PR project after much valuable service. Geometry guy 19:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Erk, I see below the archiving isn't fully automated. Let's get that done first. Marskell (talk) 11:03, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That was my plan. Although the proposal below is not quite full automation, archiving should be just as easy for a subdivided page as for an undivided page. Geometry guy 19:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I have now "pre-implemented" this idea (with help from Carl and VeblenBot, as always): it is now possible to categorize a peer review by adding a WP1.0 topic to the  template on the peer review discussion page for the article. At the moment all this does is place the article in a category (such as :Category:Arts peer reviews), but everything is in place to list peer reviews by topic on the main PR page. I will set up a demo fairly soon. Geometry guy 09:56, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organising the PR page 

message: So I went to archive old requests just now and looking at Wikipedia:Peer review/January 2008, and found that 23 reviews were added without the move to "/archive1" (diff). Do these all need to be fixed? Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 01:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, they don't. It is better if archive pages are permanent, but it is not essential. Geometry guy 08:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

text: One of the reasons I say this is not essential is because it is too much hard work to do the page move, especially as the links should really be fixed, not just double redirects (this is because the next peer review would replace the redirect with a new peer review page). To deal with this I outline another automation proposal below. Geometry guy 21:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Thanks very much - assume you are planning to do this anyway, but could you please update the removing a request section of the PR instructions? Thanks, Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 21:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I will, but it's going to take a few days to complete the automation. In particular, I haven't fixed all links to the page moves, only double redirects. I also need to template the archiveN pages of current peer reviews and start tracking them. In this transitional period, I will try to troubleshoot: please report any issues here. Meanwhile, we are desperately close to the page limits, so it is time to start archiving! Geometry guy 21:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I will archive some in the next 8 hours - how do I do it now (with the changes)? Just change to "oldpeerreview|archive=N" on the talk page and add the file to the archive? Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 21:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's exactly right: I've just done a bunch, so what's left may require judgement calls (e.g., automated reviews on 18 January). It may be worth checking links too, but I haven't done that with the ones I've archived this evening. If you want to troubleshoot, check my contribs. Geometry guy 22:04, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just archived three more - got busy yesterday trying to finish an article to meet the DYK 5 day clock, sorry. I am glad to see that it looks like more articles are getting peer reviews. I will try to archive every other day. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 14:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archiving question 

message: The peer review archives (from February 2008) could be automated using exactly the same method which automates the peer review page itself. This would not completely automate the archiving process, but, in the absense of a bot to do this, it is all we have available for now. Combined with an idea due to Gimmetrow, however, it would eliminate the awkward page move and link fixes from the archiving process. Gimmetrow calls this "archiving from the get go". The idea is that, with a small change to , the peer review page for an article could be at the next free Wikipedia:Peer review/ARTICLE/archiveN page from the very beginning, and so would never need to be moved.
The peer review page of the article would need to have a template on it for this to work, but this would be done by the  template in the same way as it currently provides the section heading. This is not an archiving panacea, as archiving would still involve two steps:
* Changing  template on the talk page to  (or article history);
* Changing a template on the peer review page for the article.
However, these would both be straightforward edits. An additional benefit would be that there would no longer be separate instructions for "resubmitting a peer review": the submission and resubmission processes would be identical.
I have implemented a similar system at WP:GAR, and it seems to be working quite well.
Do others think this is worth doing? It is particularly important that those who generously archive peer reviews on a regular basis would find such an approach easier to use, even if it is only a marginal improvement. Geometry guy 21:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much - assume you are planning to do this anyway, but could you please update the removing a request section of the PR instructions? Thanks, Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 21:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I will, but it's going to take a few days to complete the automation. In particular, I haven't fixed all links to the page moves, only double redirects. I also need to template the archiveN pages of current peer reviews and start tracking them. In this transitional period, I will try to troubleshoot: please report any issues here. Meanwhile, we are desperately close to the page limits, so it is time to start archiving! Geometry guy 21:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I will archive some in the next 8 hours - how do I do it now (with the changes)? Just change to "oldpeerreview|archive=N" on the talk page and add the file to the archive? Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 21:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's exactly right: I've just done a bunch, so what's left may require judgement calls (e.g., automated reviews on 18 January). It may be worth checking links too, but I haven't done that with the ones I've archived this evening. If you want to troubleshoot, check my contribs. Geometry guy 22:04, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just archived three more - got busy yesterday trying to finish an article to meet the DYK 5 day clock, sorry. I am glad to see that it looks like more articles are getting peer reviews. I will try to archive every other day. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 14:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Automating the archives

message: In the past 24 hours, I've gotten two form-letter requests for peer reviews. Checking into users' contributions, I see that the requester has posted the same message to many many other users. I've added a comment on the volunteers page to head this off. It reads: please do not send "review spam" to each individual listed below. Find 2-3 editors most interested in the article's subject area and give them time to respond. – Scartol • Tok 12:55, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reviewspam