Template talk:Pre-review

Edits caused problems

Latest comment: 5 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

@Me Da Wikipedian: Please do all testing and development of changes in a sandbox environment and then copy them here, into production, once stable and predictive. I reverted all of your changes because they impacted all existing transclusions of the template.

Your changes affected how the status=flagged is rendered, making it a status of "unsure" rather than "not recommended." That changed all flagged pre-reviews previously done to a status of "unsure" which is not desired.

The updated parameter was also broken, making it visible in previous pre-reviews that pre-existed it and therefore did not declare it.

Once you make changes to the template, you should also check older uses of it to make sure they aren't impacted negatively or unexpectedly.

Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 14:52, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ooops. Sorry. I was testing (see Template:Pre-review/sandbox) and it seemed to work fine. @Michael.C.Wright Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 15:18, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I added the ability to use 'unsure' as a status and color-coded it with a stoplight color theme; green means pass, red means failed, yellow means caution/unsure. 15:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC) Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Requesting a pre-review

Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

@BigKrow has a good idea here: Talk:Singer_Justin_Timberlake_arrested_on_DWI_charge_on_Long_Island,_New_York. We can enable a pre-review request by using a blank {{pre-review}} template on the article page.

To test this, I set up {{User:Michael.C.Wright/sandbox/pre-review}} that will render a banner if status is blank:

Status: No recommendation

Version evaluated: URL not provided

Copyright: Not evaluated
Newsworthiness: Not evaluated
Verifiability: Not evaluated
NPOV: Not evaluated
Style: Not evaluated

Notes for author(s):

No notes provided for author

Notes for reviewer:

No notes provided for reviewer

This is a pre-review only and is not part of the official review process. A pre-review is meant to help the author or authors improve the article and increase the likelihood of it passing a formal review. This pre-review was not done by a reviewer and represents a recommendation that can be heeded or ignored.

In this way, we can also then add the article to a category as we do with {{review}}. Then the pre-review process will continue as it currently does; the pre-reviewer adds {{pre-review}} to the talk page and adds values to the desired parameters. Once the status has a value, the template provides its standard feedback:

Status: Unsure