Biocrawler:Peer review/Request removal policy
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To keep down list bloat, you are invited to move inactive requests to the current archive link. Please remove only the following kinds of requests from the list:
- Requests that aren't appropriate for peer review, for instance requests for help in containing vandalism, resolving an edit war, or detecting a copyvio, should be removed promptly, in the interest of the requester, since he/she is unlikely to get adequate response to them here. Please drop a note on the requester's talk page to inform them of the removal and the reasons for it, and try to recommend a better page to list the request, for instance for vandalism Vandalism in progress, for editing disagreements Requests for comment, and for suspected copyvio Copyright problems.
- Requests older than a month or without dates should be removed.
- Articles that have gone on to be listed as featured article candidates should also be removed. If you feel that an article you posted needs more comments and suggestions from peer review, it's probably too soon to list it on FAC.
- Requests that have attracted comments from other people, and where the original poster has not responded to these comments within a week, should also be removed. Requesting and then ignoring comments tends to discourage potentially valuable input, and peer review needs to attract more, not less, comments from reviewers. However, please be careful when you decide to remove a listing for this reason! Requesters are encouraged to respond on the peer review page, so as to keep everyone informed of the progress of the article; nevertheless, before removing an apparently unresponsive poster, please check first whether they have perhaps responded somewhere else: on the article's talk page, on the reviewer's talk page, or by editing the article appropriately.
