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I may be being too picky, but if you vote on an article and want to keep it, it’s a good idea to help improve an article even a little bit to improve its chances. @jackherrick could vote keep on an article and I would still vote to delete it. It doesn’t take much. Some easy things you can do is fix the numbering, fix the capitalization, add verbs, anything.

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I never knew that numbering capitalization and grammar were an NFD reason.

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The reasoning behind it is that a borderline article might get deleted because it looks bad, or worse, gets kept looking like crap.

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True, but often there is a correlation between the quality of the formatting and the effort put into content.

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It would be nice to have a quick edit feature that would allow adding copyedit, stub, etc. tags without pulling you out of the voting stream.

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You can edit it within the tool, but when done, you have to say yes or no to whether you still support the nfd.

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What I do is open up a new tag, edit the article out of NFD and possibly stub, publish it then go back to the tool and vote to keep it. Of course, I don’t use the NFD Guardian much, but I find it useful if I want to save stuffs. =P June Days

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Saving an article from deletion?

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@Adelaide “Saving” an article from deletion is when you edit the article a <italics> ton </italics> and the NFD is removed:wink:

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@ Rosejuice is Teresa herself talking about that? (I call her Teresa.)

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That among other things adelaide

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True but if I want to just do a quick edit, but not to save it from deletion and still vote, there’s not an easy way.

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You are right, @Melwade , and it definitely needs an option like that.

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So saving an article from deletion is different?

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“Savig an article” refers to making a bold edit (i.e. copyediting) an article in an attempt to make the NFD irrelevant, therefore, getting the admins/boosters to remove the NFD. This includes formatting, cleanup, and even researching the topic. Teresa’s point is making small edits to help improve its chances of being voted to keep, like fixing spelling/grammar errors, removing personal reference, and adding action verbs.

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I’d like to remind all that many NFDs go on to become FAs…

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I know. That’s what happened to one of Lewis Collard’s articles, as seen on the “Meet a Community Member” widget.

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sorry but i do not know how to remove the sign of not a how to article, even tell me how to make it a how to article?

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I don’t understand what you are asking @Youssuf

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she/he wants to know how to remove NFD tags. i told him/her by talk page that only admins and boosters can remove them. You can see my message at www.wikihow.com/User _talk:Youssuf.