CZ:Approval Process

Before beginning the Approval process, open a second page, either to this particular site with the instruction of how to Approve, or to the Constabulary page, where you should open the "Final 10 minutes" Approval instructions—this is so that text from these instructions can be Copied and Pasted in the final steps of the Approval process.

1.) Make sure that the page to be Approved is the latest version approved by the Editor or Editors.

Examine the talk page. Make sure it's clear that there are three editors who are in agreement about the approvability of the article, or, if it seems there is an individual approval going on, make sure that the person approving the article has not worked much on the article. (For that, examine the article's history.) Also ensure that at least one editor currently supports the approval of the article version mentioned in the approval metadata. If there is any reason to doubt editor support, request clarification before doing the honors. Reasons to doubt editor support include the nominated version not being the latest one and/or the existence of unanswered author critiques.

2.) Next do the Metadata:

Go to the article's Metadata page (always update the metadata first or changes won't show for the categories). Change the status to "0".

Type the names of the approving editors from the TofA section into the Approved section of the template just below. Do not put in User: or the brackets or the pipe | line. (In any case, the User, brackets, and pipe | line should NOT be in the TofA section in the first place! If they are, please delete them before going on to the next step so that only the names of the editors are showing.)

Select (highlight) and Copy all the text and fields beginning with cat1 at the very top left down through the date = such and such at the very bottom left. Do not delete this highlighted section!

Once you have done all of the above, then blank all the ToApprove section fields, beginning with the line "subpage url =", removing (deleting) only the information, but leaving the names of each of the listed fields. Also, be sure to leave the information shown on the top line of this area, "article url =", where the http link to the article is stored.

SAVE

Go to the article's Approval sub-page (click the "A" link on the metadata page, a little round button near the top right)

Click edit at the very top of the page.

In the blank screen that now appears, Paste the highlighted and Copied text from cat1 down through the date = such and such.

You MAY ALSO have to add {{subpages}}, and YOU WILL HAVE TO ADD {{Approval at the very top left of the page and }} at the very bottom. This is absolutely ESSENTIAL!

When finished, it should look something like this:

{{subpages}}
{{Approval
|           cat1 = Engineering
|           cat2 = Chemistry
|           cat3 = 
|           sub1 = Chemical Engineering
|           sub2 = Environmental Engineering
|           sub3 = 
|           tab1 = 
|           tab2 = 
|           tab3 = 
<!-- Required for ToApprove template: -->
|    article url = http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Gasoline&oldid=100479725
|    subpage url = 
|        cluster = http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Gasoline&oldid=100479725
|            now = April 26, 2009
|     ToA editor = David E. Volk
|    ToA editor2 = 
|    ToA editor3 = 
|           date = May 10, 2009
}}

SAVE

3.) Create the Approved Article and the Draft pages:

Go back to the "Main Article" by clicking on the link to it at the top left of the page.

Check to see if the article includes the WP content disclaimer at the bottom of the page. If it does, then you need to remember to check the WP content box once the page is moved.

Click on the "Move" tab of the Approved article. When asked for the new name, type the name of the article, along with the extension "/Draft". If the article name is "XYZ" then the draft-page name is "XYZ/Draft". Make sure the "Move Talk page" checkbox is checked. Make sure the "Move all subpages" checkbox is NOT checked. These steps will move the Article, the Talk page, and their histories to the new Draft article space, but leave the subpages attached to the article space.

Click on the Move page button.

Click on the XYZ/Draft link near the top center of the page.

Click on the edit tab and then select and copy the entire contents of XYZ/Draft.

Paste the contents of the XYZ/Draft into the XYZ page by following the steps below:

• A.) Go back one page, using the Esc. button (or the return arrow)

• B.) Click on the <XYZ link near the top left of the page in small fonts

• C.) Click on the XYZ redirect link just below the <XYZ link

• D.) Click on Edit

• E.) Delete the redirect text at the top,

• F.) Then Paste the contents of the XYZ/Draft into this page.

SAVE

4.) Protect the approved version of the main namespace copy of the article:

Check to make sure the WP disclaimer is at the bottom of the page if necessary. If not, edit the article and check the WP content box. Press the "protect" tab. Change both "Edit" and "Move" options to "sysop only" by first checking the "Unlock move permission" box then highlighting them.

Do not check "Protect pages included in this page (cascading protection)"

Explain why you're protecting the page by writing in: "Article version approved."

Press Confirm button

5.) Protect the ARTICLE TALK PAGE REDIRECT PAGE:

This may be the trickiest and least intuitive part of the entire Approval process, so follow these steps carefully:

• A.) Click on Talk -- this takes you to the Talk:XYZ/Draft page

• B.) Click on the small Talk:XYZ link in the upper left

• C.) A redirect line then pops up just below the above-mentioned line; clink on this new link

• D.) This will take you to the Redirect link for the Talk page -- protect this the same way you protected the Main Article

• E.) Press the Confirm button

6.) Insert the Talk page divider:

Go to the Main Article, XYZ. Click on Talk.

Then insert this template at the bottom of the Talk page in order to separate the "before-approval" article discussion from the "after-approval" discussion.

Click on Edit

Then create the header by Copying and Pasting from either the instructions on this page or from the instructions on the Constabulary page:

==APPROVED Version 1.0==

onto the very bottom of the Talk page

Beneath this new header, then Copy and Paste the text below:

<div class="usermessage plainlinks">Discussion for Version 1.0 stopped here. Please continue further discussion under this break. </div>

AND make sure that you remove the <nowiki and </nowiki from the above after you have copied and pasted it and before you SAVE it if you are copying the text from the edit mode of the instructions. If you are copying from the page itself, and not the edit mode, these words will not be shown.

If necessary, change "Version 1.0" to "Version 1.1" or "Version 1.2", etc. in both the header and the text.

SAVE

7.) Create a link to the new article in the Talk page divider

Go back to the edit page of the article's Metadata and Copy the information shown on the "article url =" line, then Paste this information into the header just ahead of the Version Number, leaving a space between them and adding brackets, so that it reads something like: "Discussion for BRACKEThttp://en.citizendium rest of information lineSPACEVersion 1.0BRACKET stopped here. Etc."

8.) Congratulate the Authors and/or Editors or both:

Go the talk page of the main Author and/or Editor or both and write a brief Congratulations!, along with a link to the newly Approved article.

You're finished!