See See WP:PRG#Step 4: Closing a review, which includes "If a request is unanswered for more than one month", so the closeure was not exactly "incorrect". I"m not sure that reopening to sit there will help much, if it didn't attract attention for 6 months. You may be better off calling in favors, posting on WikiProject pages, etc. Aza24 (talk) 18:28, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've just removed a criterion from § Step 4: Closing a review which previously read "If a request is unanswered for more than one month." Because of how understaffed the peer review process tends to be, I regularly find that reviews can go unnoticed for months before an interested editor comes along and provides comments. I don't think it's a net positive to summarily throw out month-old requests and tell the nominator, in essence, that they're out of luck. Feel free to revert me if you disagree with the change and we can discuss it further if necessary. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Probably not, as those discussions were closed validly at the time. It would be easier to have the nominators simply open a new review page if they're still interested in comments. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 20:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi all, great to see your discussion above. As you probably can see from this histories I've been quite involved in the PR processes previously. Happy to respect the consensus here but I'd suggest that there is some threshold (E.g. 3 months, 6 months) that is included in the criteria. Previously, I felt that ends up being a very, very long backlog of unanswered reviews and I feel if a review hasn't attracted interest in some period, it's better off to be closed to direct reviewers to newer reviews. The reviews that are that old are stale and, unfortunately, that often means the contributes might not be so active either.Tom (LT) (talk) 11:28, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would be fine with extending the deadline to three months. It might also be useful to have AnomieBOT take over closing unanswered reviews (which it already does for reviews that have been answered and inactive for a month). —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 21:53, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea! Would you be happy to post a request for it? I'm always in favour of automating repetitive manual tasks. Tom (LT) (talk) 00:37, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the delay, it's been busy off-wiki. Sure, I can reach out and see if the task can be expanded to cover this case as well. Speaking of automating repetitive tasks, it might be worth workshopping a more efficient way to update the {{Unanswered peer reviews sidebar}} and {{FAC peer review sidebar}}, which is currently a rather tedious task of checking whether reviews have been closed and going through the main list to see if any other reviews qualify to be listed. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 01:35, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just to be clear, the request for change to the bot is to start archiving reviews with only one contributor (i.e. the nominator) after three months of inactivity? But still excluding PRs listed on {{Unanswered peer reviews sidebar}} and {{FAC peer review sidebar}}? Anything else for the existing task? Anomie⚔ 12:16, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As for the comment about {{Unanswered peer reviews sidebar}} and {{FAC peer review sidebar}}, it seems like it would be fairly straightforward for a bot to remove properly-formatted links to closed PRs. Adding entries on {{Unanswered peer reviews sidebar}} for PRs with no feedback (i.e. only one contributor) that wouldn't show up on the normal list wouldn't be too bad either. Determining if feedback is "minimal" or whether it's related to a FAC seems beyond what AnomieBOT could handle though, humans would still have to do that part. Anomie⚔ 12:16, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Add "nomination at FAC/FLC/GAN" to notes in Step 1[edit]
In the PR instructions, Step 4, it states that a PR can be closed if the article is nominated for good article, featured article or featured list status. When answering PRs, I came across a situation where an article was first nominated at GAN, then nominated at PR. I would like to add the following text to the "Please note:" section of Step 1:
Sounds good to me. I also saw a situation like this recently and was a bit confused about the editor's decision to do that, as it unnecessarily splits reviewer energy between two discussion venues. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 21:55, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
