About Page Curation
Curating new pages is a hard job, but an important one. Page Curation tries to make it easier.
A lot of the articles you encounter are going to be good – either without any major problems, or without problems that would actually require them to be deleted. If they're as close to flawless as you get on a project that is never finished, all you need to do is mark them as reviewed. This tells other page curators that they don't need to review it themselves, and means it can be filtered out of the queue.
To mark an article as reviewed, click the tick-mark icon on the curation toolbar. This will display a flyout that also gives you the option to leave the page creator a note, telling them that you've reviewed their article or thanking them for writing it. Whether you add a note or not, you can click "mark as reviewed" to, well, mark the article as reviewed ;p. The tick-mark icon should then go green, indicating that it's been reviewed and other curators don't have to deal with it.
As well as sending a note, you can also give page creators (or other editors of the page!) a barnstar using the "WikiLove" flyout. Just click the icon that looks like a heart, select the user you want to thank, select the kind of award you'd like to give them, and type in your message. Hit "Preview" and "Send WikiLove", and the software will do the rest :).
Obviously, a lot of articles aren't going to be perfect – but that doesn't mean they can't be improved. The Curation Toolbar allows you to add maintenance tags to a page, indicating to other editors that they need to be worked on. To do this, click the icon that looks like a luggage tag – the one below "mark as reviewed" – and you'll be presented with the maintenance tag flyout. This has most of the main maintenance tags and lets you quickly add them to the article.
Just select the ones you want, fill out any details that you're asked to, and hit "add selected tags". You can also use this to send the page creator a message letting them know that there is work to be done – hopefully they'll help fix the article themselves.
