Help:Editorial process
An important part of editorial work is incorporation of new article in editorial process by creating its talk page and inserting editorial process template. Before you will do it, make yourself sure, that author of the article has finished his work. How can you be sure?
- author removed the template {{Under construction}} from the beginning of his article;
- or in case, that he didn't use the template under construction:
- wrote in summary, that he finished;
- or started to work on another new article;
- or is not working on his article for time longer than 2 days.
Then you can create article's talk page with editorial process template. How to do it?
- click on "Discussion";
- insert editorial template by the button
above your edit window; - and save it.
But every advanced editor should check sources before he create the article's talk page with editorial template and then insert the template with checked and signed sources. The reason is simple. Sources are the most important part of editorial process. By checking sources you will make all the editors sure, that the text of article is not copyright violation (that the text is not stolen). In the other case use the template {{Process}} and ask the author for rewriting the article (on his talk page, then by e-mail).
Remember, you should always start with sources!
You should never check and sign any editorial parameter of article, which was marked as {{Stub}}. The reason is simple: Every article marked as stub has not been finished yet. We suppose, that it will be extended later. It has no sense to work and waste your energy on unfinished article.
The template editorial process contains all these parameters:
