Template:Peer review/doc
 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:Peer review. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
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 | This page documents a template used by Wikipedia:Peer Review. For how editors use peer reviews, see WP:PR/Instructions. For an overview of the technical process, see Wikipedia:Peer review/Tools. |
Usage
To request a Peer review, edit the article talk page, add
{{subst:PR}}
to the top of the page, and save the page. This will create this template ({{Peer review}}) with a link to a new peer review page for the article. Follow this link, and add your request in the edit box as instructed. Save the page and your peer review request will be listed within an hour.
Actions
This template adds articles to Category:Requests for peer review. This will create a copy of this template with a link to a new peer review discussion page as follows:
 | To start a peer review, choose an appropriate topic from the list below and click on the link to create the review page.
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Following one of the links opens an edit box for a new peer review discussion page with some preloaded text (from {{Peer review/preload}}) and some instructions (from {{Peer review/editintro}}) on how to complete the request. Once this page is created, the peer review template changes to provide a link to the request:
| To start a peer review, choose an appropriate topic from the list below and click on the link to create the review page.
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However, you may need to bypass the cached version of the article talk page to see this change.
Parameters
To use the template without automatically finding the archive number, these parameters may be added.
|archive=
- If the archive number is greater than 10, you will need to specify archive=N with N the next free archive number