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Welcome to theA-Class Review (ACR) page, whereGood Articles are judged by our community of editors and may be promoted to A-Class. An A-Class article is defined as one that
Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described inHow to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered forfeatured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.
The main goals of ACR are to standardize the quality of all A-Class articles across the Highways WikiProject and itssubprojects, and to provide a thorough review process that is similar toFAC without the stress that can come from the FAC process.
If you know of a Good Article that meets this criteria, you can nominate it below. If you are nota significant contributor to the article, you are encouraged to consult a significant contributor prior to nominating. From time to time, current A-Class or Featured Article status are reviewed to ensure that they are still of high quality. Articles that no longer meet the current criteria may be nominated for demotion using the process below.
List-Class articles may also be nominated here, in preparation for thefeatured list candidate process. However, the A-List designation will not be awarded until 1) 10 nominations have passed the process and 2) of those 10 nominations, all those that have not passed FLC have been judged to meet the A-List standard.
The WP:Highway ACR process is fairly simple.
Before initiating an A-Class review, please verify the following:
If you can answer yes to all three questions, you may initiate an A-Class review.
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|ACR=yes to the end of the{{WikiProject Australian Roads}},{{WikiProject Canada Roads}},{{WikiProject Highways}},{{WikiProject Indian roads}},{{WikiProject UK Roads}}, or{{WikiProject U.S. Roads}} banner on the article's talk page, and save the edit.{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/Name of nominated article}}) to the end of the Current discussions section below.Everyone is welcome to participate in these discussions. The A-Class criteria should be used as a guideline and not as hard and fast rules. The most important part of each A-Class review is the review of the written prose designed to make sure that the content in the article is clear, complete, and formatted consistently with our MOS and other guidelines. We require two or three editors to perform a prose review for each nomination. Each review takes shape in its own way, but typically, editors will sign up to tackle different parts of the review. Regardless of who signs up for what section, all A-Class reviews must have all images used in the article checked to see if they possess a free license ("image review"). In addition, a percentage of references may be fact checked (typically called "the spotcheck"), and sources may be reviewed for reliability and formatting consistency ("source review"), though these are only required by request.
When reviewing, make any comments in a list format so the nominator can reply to each comment in kind. Keep in mind, various national-level subprojects may have slightly different standards for articles under their scope. They will also use differentvariations of English. These differences will be respected and applied as appropriate. To withdraw an objection, strike it out (with <s>...</s> ) rather than removing it. Nominators should allow reviewers the opportunity to do this themselves; if you feel that the matter has been addressed, say so rather than striking out the reviewer's text. After the nominator addressed all the comments and concerns, the reviewer may support or oppose promotion. This is done by saying"Support" inbold and signing their name (~~~~). If you have exceptionally long comments, use the following code to hide your comments after all of your issues have been resolved.
{{Collapse top|Resolved issues from ~~~~}}Your comments here.{{Collapse bottom}}If you oppose a nomination, write "Oppose" followed by the reason for your objection. Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed. If nothing can be done in principle to fix the source of the objection or it is not based on policy, the objection may be ignored.
Nominations that have outstanding commentsand that have not been edited by the nominator in 30 days will be suspended and the transclusion of the review removed from this page. A nominator may reactivate a suspended nomination at any time. A suspended nomination will be removed from the candidates list automatically with a consensus to not promote at the earlier of 6 months from the suspension date or 1 year from the nomination date.
Consensus must be reached in order to be promoted to A-Class, in that all actionable objections must be addressed.
When consensus is determined, the discussion can be closed. Discussions should not be closed by a participating reviewer except where the reviewer participated only to clarify points of the discussion to determine consensus, or in the case of a stale nomination or the nominator withdraws.
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