Template talk:Pre-review

Edits caused problems
Please do all testing and development of changes in a sandbox environment and then copy them here, into production, once stable and predictive. I reverted all of your changes because they impacted all existing transclusions of the template.

Your changes affected how the  is rendered, making it a status of "unsure" rather than "not recommended." That changed all flagged pre-reviews previously done to a status of "unsure" which is not desired.

The  parameter was also broken, making it visible in previous pre-reviews that pre-existed it and therefore did not declare it.

Once you make changes to the template, you should also check older uses of it to make sure they aren't impacted negatively or unexpectedly.

Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 14:52, 20 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Ooops. Sorry. I was testing (see Template:Pre-review/sandbox) and it seemed to work fine. @Michael.C.Wright Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 15:18, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I added the ability to use 'unsure' as a status and color-coded it with a stoplight color theme; green means pass, red means failed, yellow means caution/unsure. 15:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC) Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 15:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Requesting a pre-review
@BigKrow has a good idea here: Talk:Singer_Justin_Timberlake_arrested_on_DWI_charge_on_Long_Island,_New_York. We can enable a pre-review request by using a blank pre-review template on the article page.

To test this, I set up  that will render a banner if   is blank:

In this way, we can also then add the article to a category as we do with review. Then the pre-review process will continue as it currently does; the pre-reviewer adds pre-review to the talk page and adds values to the desired parameters. Once the  has a value, the template provides its standard feedback:

This makes the template more versatile and functional. Any thoughts? Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 17:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)