Welcome! Good article review circles (GARC) are for people who want their Good Article Nomination (GAN) reviewed and are willing to review someone else's GAN. GARC is notquid pro quo orhorse trading arrangement, because those approaches can lead to low-quality reviews, quick approvals, and a culture of complacency. The GARC model uses groups of four users who list their GANs and form a circle. In this setup, no one reviews the GAN of someone reviewing their own work, reducing pressure to pass the work and ensuring more thorough reviews.

Help promote this project by adding auserbox orinviting someone who may be interested.

In order to participate in GARC, you must either

• have reviewed 5good article nominations,
• made 3,000 edits to the English Wikipedia, or
• be in an activegood article mentorship

Edit thenomination pool section below, and add theGARC-list-item template:

* {{GARC-list-item|topic you would like to review=  |GAN-subpage=  |article=  |nominator= {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} }}

Parameters

• topic you would like to review: A topic or area of interest you would prefer to review. Eg. US politics, Geography, Sport, no preference, etc.
• article: The name of the article you want reviewed.
• GAN-subpage: 1 or 2 or 3 etc. If unsure, view the Talk page of the article, find the GA box near the top, and hover the cursor over thestart review ordiscuss review text. Example:Talk:Barack Obama/GA1
• nominator: Leave as {{subst:REVISIONUSER}}. But if the person inserting the template is not the nominator, change to show the nominator's name.

Wait for an editor to initiate a circle to post a notification on your Talk page. The notification will indicate which article you should review, but don't start the review yet.

Once four articles are in the nominations pool, any experienced editor may initiate a circle by followingthese instructions.

After receiving the notification, you have 24 hours toaccept ordecline the invitation. Edit the review circle table (link is in the notification) and enter "y" (accept) or "n" (decline). If you choose to decline the invitation (for instance, because you feel you are not qualified to review the article) your article will re-enter the pool. You may begin reviewing after all users in the circle have accepted the invitation, or 24 hours has elapsed, whichever comes first.

If a user declines a review, or if another user (outside the circle) starts reviewing an article from the circle, the editors should not proceed with the reviews until the issue is resolved. Instructionsto resolve the situation are here.

Performing the review should be prioritized higher than work on your own GAN article. You should complete the review withinseven days (provided the nominator is responding promptly to your suggestions). You should respond promptly to any comments made by the user reviewing your article. You are encouraged to contribute to other GA reviews taking place within your review circle.

This user has theirgood article nominations reviewed more quickly withgood article review circles.

Get Userbox

• Lola Young (talk |hist) 🟢 –– Review preference:something similarly sized or smaller –– User:Launchballer (talk •stats)
• Hu Tao (talk |hist) 🟢 –– Review preference:anything except math, history or science –– User:Gommeh (talk •stats)
• Gumunso (talk |hist) 🟢 –– Review preference:no preference –– User:Ca (talk •stats)

• Instructions to initiate a circle
• WP:GARC/Circles

• Wikipedia Good article review circles