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- By Nick-D
While there's lots of good advice on how to prepare articles for nominations for featured and A-class status, little has been written about how nominators should handle the reviews themselves. This is a shame, as the way in which articles are presented to reviewers and the responses these editors receive can have a significant impact on the likelihood of the nomination succeeding.
Since 2006, I've placed 20 articles through successful featured article nominations (with what I hope is #21 underway at the time of writing) as well as a large number of A-class and GA nominations. I've also reviewed dozens of articles at these levels, and deliberately chosen to not review many more. The following comments are my reflections on what works during the nomination process, organised into the different stages of preparing the article and persuading reviewers to support it. I've included a bit of a focus on how to attract people to review articles, as it's often a significant problem at the moment.
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