Template:Peer review/doc

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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.

Arts	Language and literature
Philosophy and religion	Everyday life
Social sciences and society	Geography
History	Engineering and technology
Natural sciences and mathematics	General topic or List

If you have already done this, and the template has not changed, try purging this talk page.

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.

Arts	Language and literature
Philosophy and religion	Everyday life
Social sciences and society	Geography
History	Engineering and technology
Natural sciences and mathematics	General topic or List

If you have already done this, and the template has not changed, try purging this talk page.

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