I do not know what happened to the old NAB/NAP thread, so I am restarting it here. You can post a link here to an article you started that has been reviewed by a booster in the NAB tool, but that hasn’t yet been promoted - ie it still has the orange barred/blurred. After, wikiHowians can look over the article and provide feedback or edit the article to help improve it. Anyone is willing to state what they did to clean up a page as well.
I am not sure what the old guidelines for the thread were, but I thought of new ones:
- The article must be fully demoted in mainspaceand should not have already been linked in the thread. For the purposes of this thread, “fully demoted” means that the page is invisible to readers, blurred out to logged in users, and has an orange bar that says “this article has not passed wikiHow’s quality review process”. If you need to inquire about your article, just “quote reply” the post where you initially linked to it.
- The article must have already been reviewed by a booster. It may have maintenance tags on the page.
- The article must not be nominated for speedy deletion or deletion for any reason except “accuracy”, “duplicate”, “incomplete”, or “character”. Simply put, pages nominated for deletion have serious problems that makes improving them really difficult, so difficult it may be better to start over than to keep the page. That said, accuracy, duplicates, incomplete and character articles can be improved by others experienced in the topic area to bring them up to quality standards. I am not going to explain what is wrong with every title, but joke topics are not useful to the average reader, illegal articles, well, I definitely am not going to cover that, spam is too spammy, etc. Accuracy articles can be fact-checked, duplicate articles can be fixed by adding more distinct information and being renamed, incomplete articles can be finished, and character articles can give more details to meet character article standards.
Note that these are just guidelines; if a new page violates these guidelines, it does not mean we will not look at it; it just means that it is unlikely that you are to get feedback here.
@JayneG
can this thread be pinned? Also, any admin/staff is free to edit the guidelines for this thread to better reflect the old thread or otherwise.
Can somebody review my article: https://www.wikihow.com/Tell-Your-Parents-That-You’re-an-Introvert
? It’s not in the category “articles in quality review” the last time I checked though.
i hope https://www.wikihow.com/Donate-on-Tab-for-a-Cause-(Chrome-Extension)
gets promoted
edit: it isn’t in quality review anymore, and i think that means it’s promoted!
can anyone boost my new article https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Starve.Io
? I’ve waited a LOOONNNNGGG time for it to be boosted, but I haven’t gotten any email notification that it was boosted and/or edited.
I got a message from @JayneG
. Since the first three articles were posted before this, I will def take a look at them when I get the time.
In response to her comment, I will be making a small change: we will only review articles that either (a) have not gotten any edits in the past 7 days or (b) have already been demoted in NAB, and we have not given feedback elsewhere like on your talk page. Hopefully that addresses her concerns.
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talk pageI gave your article a “format” tag and demoted the page because it does not quite follow wikiHow’s format. Generally, we prefer how-tos that have more than one sentence for each step, with each step starting with a verb, and sometimes with images. The instructions need to be as clear as clear can be, so that anyone who has not heard of the game before can complete the task at hand. If you have further questions, feel free to drop me a message on my .
