Editing Encyclopedia:Historical archive/Policy/Approval mechanism (section)

===Maurreen's proposal 2: "Reviewed articles"===

Copied from [[Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards]]. [[User:Maurreen|Maurreen]] 14:12, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Advantages:
*Simple and quick. This could be implemented and useful within an hour of its adoption.
*Takes best-of-both-worlds approach to wiki nature and any standing of experts.

Outline:
#Any registered user could review any article.
#There would be a category and list of reviewed articles.
#The list would indicate which version of an article was reviewed by each reviewer.
#Reviews on the list would be no more than a paragraph long.

Options:
#Detailed reviews could be written and linked to from the list.
#Reviewers who chose to could list themselves and a paragraph about any relevant qualifications or limitations on a list of reviewers.
#Reviewers should at least indicate if they have worked on the article.
#We could have a list of articles for which a review is desired, or use the current peer review page.
#We could choose a set of suggested levels or other indicators (such as “acceptable,” “weak,” “comprehensive,” etc.). 
:[[User:Maurreen|Maurreen]] 21:04, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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'''Interim measure'''

Maybe it would be helpful to think of my proposal for article reviews as an interim measure. It isn't intended to be perfect by any means.

It is intended to give readers some measure of the quality of any given article or article version.

It is something that could very easily be produced and used while something better is discussed, decided and developed. It does not preclude any other system. It can include, or not include, a minimum standard for Wikipedia articles, which would need to be developed.

It could be one of any number of tools that work toward an eventual paper or "release" version. [[User:Maurreen|Maurreen]] 09:34, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)