User talk:D. Matt Innis/Approval instructions sandbox

1. Examine the talk page. Make sure it's clear that there are three editors who are in agreement about the approvability of the article, or, if it seems there is an individual approval going on, make sure that the person approving the article has not worked much on the article. (For that, examine the article's history.)
2. Go to the article's Metadata page.
   • Change the status to "0".
   • Type the names of the approving editors in the Approved section of the template.
   • Select and Copy all fields from cat1 to date.
   • Blank all the ToApprove fields.
   • Save
3. Go to the articles Approval page.
   • Paste the cat1 to date fields into the {{approval}} template.
   • Save
4. Create the Article and the Draft page:
   • If the latest version is also the version that was approved:
     • Click on the "Move" tab of the Approved article. When asked for the new name, type the name of the article with the extension "/Draft". If the article name is "XYZ" then the draft page name is "XYZ/Draft". This will move the Article, the Talk page, and their histories to the new Draft article.
     • Click on the XYZ/Draft.
     • Click on the edit tab and then select and copy the entire contents of XYZ/Draft.
     • Paste the contents of the XYZ/Draft into the XYZ page.
       • Click on the 'Main Article' link on the subpage form. You will be redirected back to the Draft page, but then click on the article page again where it says "redirected from XYZ." This will bring you to the redirected article page.
       • Paste the contents of the XYZ/Draft into this page.
   • If the latest version is not the version that is approved:
     • Make the Draft page:
       • Copy the current version of the article and paste it into a newly created "Draft" page by going to the address bar on your browser and adding /Draft to the text that is already there. If the article name is "XYZ" then the draft page name is "XYZ/Draft".
       • Click on the XYZ talk page Move tab. Type in the new location of the new talk page [[Talk:XYZ/Draft]]. A redirect will automatically be made so that all discussion will remain together on the talk draft page.
     • Make the Article page:
       • Return to the XYZ page and click on the 'Version date' in the ToApprove template. This should bring you to the Approved version of the article.
       • Click the edit button and select and copy that version of the article. Click Cancel.
       • Click 'article' and 'edit'.
       • Delete the text that is there and paste the contents that you copied earlier in its place.
   • Save. You're done making the Draft page.
5. Protect the approved version of the main namespace copy of the article:
   • Press the "protect" tab. Change both "Edit" and "Move" options to sysop only. Explain why you're protecting the page: "Article version approved." You're done making the Approved article copy.
6. Protect the article talk page redirect page in the same manner.
7. Insert this template at the bottom of the talk page to separate the before approval article discussion from the after approval discussion.

==APPROVED Version 1.0==

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Make sure to put the current version in the PAGE ID space. An example should look like this:

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Finished!