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Featured article review
Discussions leading up the featured article review are contained in Archive 14. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Planned article revert
Consensus has developed on the featured article review that the article should be reverted to one of these versions:
- Featured version, March 10, 2006 (42 KB readable prose)
- After main page appearance, June 19, 2006 (46 KB readable prose)
and rebuilt from there.
Please discuss and develop consensus here for which of the two versions is the best revert target.
Steps to restore
Several questions were raised on the featured article review. No, reverting doesn't affect the talk page, and no, a sandbox version of the original featured version isn't needed (it's in the article history). Someone may want to save a sandbox version of the current version, so that anything you later want to retrieve from it can easily be found. I offer to do the initial steps in the revert, including an {{inuse}} tag as needed until I'm finished, once the version is decided. Steps to restoring will include:
- 1. Revert to the chosen version. (I offer to complete all of the steps in 1)
- 1a. Reinstate infobox from current version
- 1b. Reinstate from current version categories, interwikis, nav templates at the bottom of the page, persondata; in short, everything in the current bottom of the article from {{Che Guevara}} down.
- 1c. Reinstate sister links from current version
- 2. Before any other changes are made:
- 2a. Recheck all hatnote template links at tops of sections
- 2b. Verify that all wikilinks are still accurate (this will be time consuming, regular editors may want to divide up the work and go through each section, checking on old links that may have changed.
- 2c. Verify that all external links in sources are still live, some may need to be retrieved from the internet archive (www.archive.org) or from the current version. Restore and update all dead links: Check external links
- 2d. Scan the article and identify any outdated info, such as anything beginning with "as of".
- 3. Once it is determined that the article is completely restored, further work needed before content changes begin:
- 3a. Review for citations needed
- 3b. Review for current WP:MOS standards
- 4. Begin content revisions
- 4a. Review for POV
- 4b. Discourage addition of any new cruft that isn't specifically justified, for example, per WP:EL or content that is already included or should be included in daughter articles.
- 4c. Update as needed.
I believe those are the steps; please indicate anything I've missed so I can add it in. I also suggest allowing a few days to be certain consensus has formed before beginning this work. Discussion of the article should be on the article talk page; as the FAR moves along, others will be reading that page, and it isn't helpful to fill it up with unnecessary chatter and detail that can be dealt with on the article talk page. The FAR pae should be used for determining whether the article meets or not featured standards. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:16, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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