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I was thinking, there should be a section where people review articles and put needed article templates on the article. This would help make all WikiHow articles accurate, formatted, grammatically correct, and have correct spelling. What do you guys think?

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I think we already have new article boost for that, and adding templates doesn’t make a page accurate.

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New Article Boost is limited to people who are actually boosters, where this idea would be great for practicing to become a booster. Templates don’t improve articles, but it does flag them for help.

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In RCP, a patroller reviews a new article and puts appropriate template to the article so there is now need for such other tool. Every new article will go first through RCP or maybe Categorization I don’t know much about it anyways there is no need for such other tool in my views. Apart from that for practicing Boosting skills we have Greenhouses and we can always improve a article in that.

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@GamerKing132 if I understand you correctly, you’re talking about articles that have already existed for awhile and are not in line for review? I see merit in that, but it would be a daunting task. Maybe a grammar checker could flag some potential problems? A poorly written article might be less prone to have been fact checked.

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With the non-indexed new pages, RC editing (templates, etc) haven’t been as urgent as it was when pages, so at the very least, there isn’t any harm in a project like this, whether the articles have been onsite for months or just days. With the growth of the backlog in NAB, just putting pages into the NFD queue for a review might decrease the backlog a little. It also seems like it might be a good first step for practicing NAB skills for people working toward becoming an booster.

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I think this is a good idea, it would give “real” Boosters help and help others learn Boosting.

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Yes this is what I mean.

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Ooh, I like this idea. It could maybe be implemented along with the current spellchecker. Maybe it could find things that look like they might be grammar errors or things that are frequently grammar errors and take a look at them. So you could stumble across “is this the correct use of ‘there’?” or “this sentence says ‘more better’, does this need to be changed?”

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@Anniemp I also mean that there should be another section where non-NABers can look over articles and spot issues with them.