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The A-class review department of the WikiProject Biography reviews candidates for an A-class quality assessment.

Articles should not be given A-class ratings without undergoing review.

At present, this department is desperately short of reviewers. If you are considering nomination here, you may wish to try alternative forums first, such as:

  • Biography peer review (a project-specific informal review meant to provide ideas for further improvement)
  • General peer review (a Wikipedia-wide informal review meant to provide ideas for further improvement)
  • Assessment (a project-specific formal review which will assign an assessment rating of B, Start or Stub)
  • Good article nominations (a formal review which is the only avenue for assigning a GA-class rating)
  • Featured article candidates (a formal review which is the only avenue for assigning a FA-class rating)

For the formal processes, it is considered inappropriate to nominate an article for more than one process at once.

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[edit] A-class review

Instructions
Requesting a review

To request an A-class review of an article:

  1. Add the parameter A-Class=current to the WPBiography template and save the page.
  2. An extra line will appear on the bottom of the Biography project banner; click on show.
  3. From there, click on the red link that appears in the template. This will open a page to discuss the status of the article.
  4. Place === [[Name of nominated article]] === at the top.
  5. Below it, write your reason for nominating the article and sign by using four tildes (~~~~).
  6. Add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article}} at the top of the list of A-class review requests below.

If an article is nominated a second (or third, and so forth) time, either because it failed a prior nomination, or because it may no longer meet the standards and may thus need to be demoted:

  1. Move (do not copy) the existing review subpage (Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article) to an archive (Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article/Archive 1).
  2. Follow the instructions for making a request above (editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article, which will be a redirect to the archive, into a new nomination page).
  3. Be sure to provide a prominent link to the last archive at the top of the nomination statement (e.g. "Prior nomination here.").

There is no limit on how quickly renominations of failed articles may be made; it is perfectly acceptable to renominate as soon as the outstanding objections from the previous nomination have been satisfied.

Commenting

Reviewers should keep the criteria for featured articles in mind when supporting or opposing a nomination. However, please note that (unlike actual featured articles) A-class articles are not expected to fully meet all of the criteria; an objection should indicate a substantive problem with the article. In particular, objections over relatively minor issues of writing style or formatting should be avoided at this stage; a comprehensive, accurate, well-sourced, and decently-written article should qualify for A-class status even if it could use some further copyediting.

Closing and archiving

Reviews will be closed after at least four days have elapsed. An article will generally be promoted to A-class if (a) it has garnered at least two endorsements from uninvolved editors, and (b) there are no substantive objections indicative of a major flaw in the article.

To close a review, one should:

  1. Add the {{ArticleHistory}} template to the talk page of the nominated article if it is not already present.
  2. Use WAR as action code
  3. Use the day the review is closed as date
  4. Use the review page as link
  5. Use for result either approved (if the nomination is successful) or failed (if it is not).
  6. Use the permalink id for the promoted article to the oldid tag
  7. Replace A-Class=current in the WPBiography template with A-Class=fail (if it failed) or A-Class=pass )if it succeeded.
  8. Move the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Name of nominated article}} from the list of requests below to the Promoted or Failed section of the current archive page.
  9. Add {{subst:archive top}} and {{subst:archive bottom}} to the top and bottom of the review subpage, respectively.
  10. Remove the link to the review page from the A-class review requests list.


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Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume This article has undergone majos changes and expansion(s). I sincerely hope you can consider it for an A Class.

[edit] Hilary Duff

Most of the issues raised during GA nominations were addressed and the article is currently a GA. I'm aiming for a FA status. It's prev FA nomination had failed. Prior to its FA nomination, i had listed it for peer review and no major issues were raised. However i would like nominate it for A-class and would certainly welcome suggestions for help the article attain FA status in the near future. Thanx....Gprince007 (talk) 15:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tenacious D

This has been through a lot of peer reviews and has been nominated for FA repeatedly. I think this qualifies for A-class. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 09:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gregory R. Ball

I submit this article for A-class review. It has undergone a WP:Peer Review from WP:BIO and WP:MILHIST, and was recently promoted to GA-class by one of the most careful reviewers. I think that having other editors involved in the A-class portion of the review process will add critical feedback and make it even better. MrPrada (talk) 17:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Comment - Exisitng content is good, but additional relevant data on subject's personal life, if it exists, would be very welcome, and probably required for A-class status. John Carter (talk) 14:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Comment, I found a load of new articles regarding military service and the subject's personal life by querying a military database, so it should be closer to up to snuff now if you'd like to take another look. MrPrada (talk) 17:35, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller

This article has been updated vastly in the last week, making it a very complete and succinct encyclopedic biographical article. We are eventually reaching for the highest status for a remarkable and historic Dutch person in the English language WikiProject Biography. Doortmont (talk) 01:40, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Oppose - Content is good, although it generally should have at least one, preferably two, reference citations per paragraph. Also, the lead is probably too short to really comply with WP:LEAD. John Carter (talk) 15:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Lead problem addressed in compliance with WP:LEAD: was indeed too short, because dating from the original much shorter article. Reference citations are being worked on. Michel Doortmont (talk) 18:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Milla Jovovich

After undergoing a massive expansion, Peer review, and GA review, I now hope to get an A Class. Eventually working towards a FA. -Lindsey8417 (talk) 04:09, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Support. John Carter (talk) 14:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Support, although article could use one or two more high resolution images. Michel Doortmont (talk) 18:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Support. I spent the last hour reading this, and it looks like an example of the best work on WP. MrPrada (talk) 21:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gordon Bell (American football)

This article could use some help progressing up the quality scale from GA.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Oppose - as below, minimal information on the subject's life outside of football. No information on whether he was ever married, had children, or even which radio station(s) he might work for. John Carter (talk) 15:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jack Clancy

This article could use some help progressing up the quality scale from GA.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Oppose - Subject's life outside of football is given at best cursory mention. It is hard to believe that there isn't some content relevant to his broader life which can't be located, particularly for a person who lived so recently. John Carter (talk) 14:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Elmer Gedeon

We hope to bring this to FA status.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Object. I think that what this article needs is a peer-review and not an A-Class review. The prose is too choppy in many parts of it (see for instance the second paragraph of the lead, and "Collegiate athletics", where we have the combination of choppy prose and a stubby par). A copyediting is definitely needed. In the printed source of notes 9-10 I don't see any pages.--Yannismarou (talk) 17:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose - At least one single sentence paragraph, and one two-sentence paragraph. Possibly excessive reliance on quotes. John Carter (talk) 14:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dick Rifenburg

This article could use some advice in progressing up the quality scale from GA. It has failed FA once.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Comments:
  • "1944 and 1946–1948". I have not seen another time years as red links! Link them or leave them unlinked.
    • Since I last checked only 1944 has been created. How about if I correct the other redlinks for the anticipated page names.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 04:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
      • My opinion is that until the other year-red link is made a proper article, no link of any type is needed for the time being.--Yannismarou (talk) 13:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  • "It is not clear why Rifenburg did not finish higher. However, sportswriters of that era had a bias against Michigan. " Prose question: I am not sure if the use of "however" here is correct.
  • "He also worked for WBEN (AM) and WBEN (FM) and as the sideline announcer for Buffalo Bills games along with Van Miller, the long time Bills play-by-play announcer.[27] He also served as the play-by-play announcer for the University of Buffalo Bulls football team.[6] As a radio broadcaster, he is also remembered". Not the best prose.YesY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 04:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • "Rifenburg lived 37 of his years in Buffalo.[6] His wife, Jane was the head of the Buffalo Bills cheerleaders when they met.[29] She is the former Jane Morris.[6] Rifenburg died in December 1994 at age 68.[22] He was survived by three sons" . Choppy ...YesY--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 04:26, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • "See also", in case you definitely need it (I suggest you get rid of it), goes before "notes".
  • "It is ironic that Rifenburg was born in Petoskey, Michigan in 1926 because Ted Petoskey preceded him at his eventual alma mater as an All-American end on the University of Michigan football team after he excelled as a representative of Saginaw County in MHSAA competition and after he made 1926 a memorable year for himself." I fail to understand the exact meaning of this sentence. Maybe I miss something as a non-native English speaker.
  • The lack of photo is not an unsurmountable obstacle to FA status (neither in A-Class status), but the lack of any picture is not helpful either.--Yannismarou (talk) 17:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Support. Not perfect but indeed further improved. Before you go to WP:FAC, I still recommend an overall copy-editing.--Yannismarou (talk) 13:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)



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