Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Categories/Reviewing instructions
 | A few helper scripts that allow reviewers to easily review redirect requests are listed below. |
| A user talk page notification template explaining why an edit was removed is available at Template:Afc redirect error. |
The "Categories for creation" process allows new users to request that redirects be created. Remember that these users are new and might not have much experience with Wikipedia and Wikipedia policies, so please don't bite them. Before creating a new category, you should check the following:
- Is the request well-formed? If the category already exists, or if no target has been supplied (and no target can be easily found), then decline the request.
Reviewing category requests[edit]
Categories are submitted to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Categories, due to technical issues preventing the moving of pages to categories. The technical process to accept and decline is the same as for redirects. The template {{subst:afc category}} can be used for giving common reasons for accepting or declining. The WikiProject Articles for creation banner to be placed on the category talk page is {{subst:WPAFC/category}}. For guidance on when a category should be created, see Wikipedia:Categorization.
Other types of submissions[edit]
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Articles for creation can also be used to submit templates, disambiguation pages and articles for deletion discussions. In these cases, there are no notability issues. You just need to decide whether the page is useful and appropriate to Wikipedia. For these submissions it will most likely be necessary to include a custom decline reason, using the AfC Helper Script. Refer to official guidelines for guidance on when to disambiguation pages or templates. This can be found at: (Wikipedia:Disambiguation or Wikipedia:Template namespace). Articles for deletion discussions may be created on behalf of anonymous users, who cannot start them. Aside from general reasons for declining a submission (empty, gibberish, spam, copyright violations, etc.), AFD submissions should generally be accepted. (See Wikipedia:Deletion policy and instructions for opening an AFD for more information). |
Scripts[edit]
There are three helper scripts available that make reviewing very fast:
- User:PhantomTech/scripts/AFCRHS.js, which has a modern interface but doesn't support categories (not currently working? as of 2018-04-07)
- User:EnterpriseyBot/AFCRHS.js, which is basically a copy of the old AFCH beta script with some new features
- User:Eejit43/scripts/afcrc-helper which features an easier to use interface with many quality of life features (recommended)