Good article mentors provide assistance and feedback to editors who are new to reviewing. If you are interested in reviewing but are not sure where to start, requesting a mentor can make the process easier. To request a mentor, press the button below and follow the instructions.

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Mentors can:

Help find an article suitable for a new reviewer to review
Explain any of the good article criteria and how to assess them
Check a review to make sure it was done correctly
Answer any other questions about how to review a good article nomination

Mentors are not expected to complete any part of the review. Mentorship is optional, and you do not have to request a mentor to begin reviewing.

Mentors ()

This is a list of users who have volunteered to be good article mentors. If you wish to choose a specific mentor, you can leave a message on one of their talk pages. Remember that not all of them might be active or be able to help at any given time.

If you're an experienced reviewer, you can add your name! You do not need to be on this list to answer a request for mentorship. Mentors are encouraged to add the mentorship page to their watchlist.

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Current requests

Oh-Fortuna!

If you agree to mentor me I promise to respect your time and follow your instructions carefully. I think I could become a productive GA reviewer. Two of my 75 articles have passed GA, and I have nominated two more. Now I really want to start giving back to the system by reviewing. I'm a feminist editor, and my interests are Roman Catholic sisters (#1), Roman Catholic priests, global peace activists, and women of the silent film era.

Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 00:01, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Oh-Fortuna! More than happy to. What article would you like to review first? IAWW (talk) 07:34, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so, so much! I'm excited about it. Here is a woman on the [Women in Green "Hot 100"] who urgently needs a GA review: # Hildegard of Bingen – German nun and polymath (c. 1098–1179). I already put my name after hers to say that we'll review her. Should I get started, and send you the changes I see? Or would you prefer to work differently? I'll adapt to you. Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 13:06, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Oh-Fortuna!, that list actually contains articles that are not up for review yet, because nobody has worked on them! Generally how it works is:

An editor picks an article to take to GA (like one of the ones in that list)
An editor works on the article and nominates it for GA (as you have done before). Nominating it for GA appends it to the list of Nominations (which can be seen in the "nominations" section linked at the top of this page)
A reviewer picks an article from the list of Nominations to review

So, from that list, what would you like to review? IAWW (talk) 17:50, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@IAWW Oh, okay, that makes sense. I was trying to figure out why an un-nominated article would be there. I can edit the article over the next few days and then nominate it. It does need work, but it shouldn't be too difficult. I'll reach out to you then. I still want to do Hildegard of Bingen. Oh-Fortuna! (talk) Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 17:53, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@IAWW The Hildegard of Bingen article is quite complex, and requires more expertise than I possess. I started assessing its weaknesses and got overwhelmed. Maybe I should choose an easier one. Do you think I should choose it from the Hot 100, or choose one that has already been nominated? Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 18:59, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Oh-Fortuna! If you want to nominate an article, you can pretty much choose anything to work on and nominate it, however that would be outside of the GA review mentorship program. To review, it has to be one that has been nominated, and I would recommend reviewing a shorter article to start off with. If you choose to review, feel free to start the review and ping me there! IAWW (talk) 21:21, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@IAWW, I think I'll put this on hold for now, but I'll ping you again if I decide to get back into it. The Women in Green editathon wasn't clear (at least to me) about what articles we should be working on, so at the moment mentorship probably doesn't make sense. Thank you, though! Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 21:33, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Oh-Fortuna! No worries at all. By the way there are currently some articles up for review in the current women in green event, in the "article outcomes" section there are some nominations yet to be reviewed IAWW (talk) 22:00, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pineapple Storage

Hi! I would really like to get involved in reviewing GA nominations, as I know there's a backlog, and I think it would also help improve my own content writing. Given my relative lack of experience, I don't want to dive in and start reviewing without having some oversight/guidance from a more experienced reviewer to make sure I'm on the right track. I would be inclined to pick a trickier/more complex review to complete during the mentorship, so I can be thrown in at the deep end and ask all my questions/cover a lot of issues up-front, rather than starting with an easier review and later finding that I have to keep bothering the mentor/other reviewers with questions. If anyone would be willing to offer their oversight and guidance for this kind of review, that would be great! Thank you in advance. :)

Pineapple Storage (talk) 12:44, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Pineapple Storage I would be more than happy to help. If you are looking for a trickier review, I would recommend picking a longer article by a newer nominator. Feel free to start the review and ping me there. IAWW (talk) 13:36, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@IAWW Oh amazing, thank you so much! I will have a look through the nominations and choose one like you describe. Thanks again! Pineapple Storage (talk) 13:51, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@It is a wonderful world I've now closed Talk:Nizaa language/GA1. Thank you so much for your support and guidance on this review! Given that I got quite involved with editing the article during the review (which, as you noted, isn't ideal), I'd like to review a different article on a topic I'm less interested in/knowledgeable about, to get an idea of a more standard "detached" review process. Would you be willing to act as a mentor on this second review? If not, I obviously completely understand! :) Pineapple Storage (talk) 11:32, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I'm more than happy to. You have been great to work with and your enthusiasm is rather infections! Ping me at the review when you start it. IAWW (talk) 14:48, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing thank you! And wow, that's so kind of you to say!! :) I'll have a look through the nominations and ping you when I've started a new review. Thanks again! Pineapple Storage (talk) 15:08, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]