Wikipedia:Quick guide to reviewing new articles: Difference between revisions

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The [[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library|Wikipedia Library]] platform offers access to many useful libraries of sources. [[Newspapers.com]], [[Rock's Backpages]] and academic journals are excellent resources to apply for as a new page reviewer.

===Inaccessible and non-English sources===

Remember that when evaluating articles, [[WP:NEXIST|notability is based on the possibility of the existence of coverage in reliable sources]]. If a notability judgment comes down to whether or not an inaccessible or unreadable source contains significant coverage of a subject, make an educated guess as to whether the source is likely to contain such coverage, based on its title and publication details. If need be, it is reasonable to ask the editor that added the sources to provide samples or translations of the content, although this may potentially be non-trivial effort for the other editor. The extent to which you require the other editor to provide verifiable scans, as opposed to mere transcriptions should be based on standard [[WP:AGF|AGF]] principles.

For most languages other than English that you're likely to come across in article submissions, Google Translate is sufficient for assessing whether a reference has significant coverage of a subject and verifying important claims. It may be insufficient for assessing the reliability of a source, and it may also be difficult to search for additional coverage of a subject in a language that you lack proficiency in. Consider leaving articles in unfamiliar languages to editors that are more proficient, although at a certain point our team of reviewers only has so many language proficiencies and you may need to make decisions about such articles with incomplete information. Editors interested in spending a significant amount of time reviewing pages may want to consider studying additional languages. Even minimal proficiency in a language can be extremely helpful. In the case of languages that use other alphabets, it can be useful even just to learn how to phonetically read the alphabet so that you can identify names.

====Composition of language proficiencies across the top 30 most active reviewers in 2019====

Counts are based on information on editor's talkpages and likely under represent actual counts. As relatively little proficiency is required to help out with new page reviewing, even level-1 proficiencies were counted.

*Spanish 6

*French 5

*German 4

*Italian 3

*Hebrew 2

*Japanese 2

*Portuguese 2

*Russian 2

*Turkish 2

*Arabic 1

*Chinese 1

*Dutch 1

*Sinhala 1

*Tamil 1

*Vietnamese 1

*Yiddish 1

==Subject-specific guides==