User:AndyZ/peerreviewer/guide - Wikipedia

• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]

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• The lead of this article may be too long, or may contain too many paragraphs. Please follow guidelines at WP:LEAD; be aware that the lead should adequately summarize the article.

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• there are more than 4 paragraphs
• there are 4 paragraphs and the article is < 30,000 characters (30kb)
• there are 3 paragraphs and the article is < 15,000 characters (15kb)

{{infobox person |
name = whoever

instead of

{{infobox person
| name = whoever

extra paragraphs may be counted.

• The lead is for summarizing the rest of the article, and should not introduce new topics not discussed in the rest of the article, as per WP:LEAD. Please ensure that the lead adequately summarizes the article.^[1]

• There may be an applicable infobox for this article. For example, see Template:Infobox Biography, Template:Infobox School, or Template:Infobox City.^[2]

• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries should not be linked unless they provide context for the article.

• Years (2008) or months (January) by themselves are typically not linked. Per Wikipedia:Context, dates should not be linked purely for autoformatting purposes. In general, dates should not be linked unless there is a reason to do so.

• As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), dates shouldn't use ^th; for example, instead of using January 30^th was a great day, use January 30 was a great day.

• Per WP:MOS, avoid using words/phrases that indicate time periods relative to the current day. ^[3]

mostime_PR = true;

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 18mm, use 18 mm, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 18&nbsp;mm.^[4]

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), please spell out source units of measurements in text; for example, "the Moon is 380,000 kilometres (240,000 mi) from Earth.^[5]

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), when doing conversions, please use standard abbreviations: for example, miles -> mi, kilometers squared -> km², and pounds -> lb.

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally do not start with the word "The". For example, ==The Biography== would be changed to ==Biography==.

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.

• As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), please do not link words in headings.

• Please reorder/rename the last few sections to follow guidelines at Wikipedia:Guide to layout.

• See also
• [Foot]Notes
• References
• Further reading
• External links

References can also go before Notes.

• Consider removing links that add little to the article or that have been repeated in close proximity to other links to the same article, as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and WP:CONTEXT.

• Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links), create links to relevant articles.

• Please do not extraneously bold items outside of the bolding in the lead.

• As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space inbetween. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2]

• Please alphabetize the interlanguage links.^[6]

• Please avoid including instruction manuals, tutorials, etc. or other 'how-to's per WP:NOT.

• The article will need references. See WP:CITE and WP:V for more information.

• This article needs footnotes, preferably in the cite.php format recommended by WP:WIAFA. Simply, enclose inline citations, with WP:CITE or WP:CITE/ES information, with <ref>THE FOOTNOTE</ref>. At the bottom of the article, in a section named “References” or “Footnotes”, add <div class="references-small"><references/></div>.^[7]

• This article has no images. Please see if there are any free use images that fall under the Wikipedia:Image use policy and fit under one of the Wikipedia:Image copyright tags that can be uploaded. To upload images on Wikipedia, go to Special:Upload; to upload non-fair use images on the Wikimedia Commons, go to commons:special:upload.^[8]

• See if possible if there is a free use image that can go on the top right corner of this article.^[9]

• Images need proper image copyright tags and source information. Several images are missing proper tags.

• Images with fair use tags need fair use rationales - please see WP:FUC. Several images are missing fair use rationales.

• Per Wikipedia:What is a featured article?, Images should have concise captions.^[10]

• Some types of galleries are discouraged in articles, as per Wikipedia:Image use policy. Common solutions include moving the images in the gallery to Wikimedia Commons or integrating images with the text.

• Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long- consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style.^[11]

• This article is a bit too short, and therefore may not be as comprehensive as WP:WIAFA critera 2(b) is looking for. Please see if anything can be expanded upon.

• There are a few sections that are too short and that should be either expanded or merged.

• This article may need to undergo summary style, where a series of appropriate subpages are used. For example, if the article is United States, than an appropriate subpage would be History of the United States, such that a summary of the subpage exists on the mother article, while the subpage goes into more detail.

• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[12]

• There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view. ^[13]

• This article may be a bit list-weighty; in other words, some of the lists should be converted to prose (paragraph form). ^[14]

• Generally, trivia sections are looked down upon; please either remove the trivia section or incorporate any important facts into the rest of the article.

• If this article is about a person, please add {{persondata}} along with the required parameters to the article - see Wikipedia:Persondata for more information.