User:Mrchris/WikiProject Kilkenny/Assessment
Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject Kilkenny! This page focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to County Kilkenny. Making use of the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Kilkenny}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Kilkenny articles by quality and Category:Kilkenny articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist and quality log.
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Instructions
[edit]Quality assessments
[edit]An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Kilkenny}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Kilkenny|class=???}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Kilkenny articles) | ![]() |
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GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Kilkenny articles) | ![]() |
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B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Kilkenny articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Kilkenny articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Kilkenny articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Kilkenny articles) | Stub |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Kilkenny articles) | ??? |
After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Kilkenny articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.
- When a "yes" is inserted in the "image-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Kilkenny articles needing images.
- When a "yes" is inserted in the "attention'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Kilkenny articles needing attention.
- When a "yes" is inserted in the "infobox-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Kilkenny articles needing infoboxes.
Quality scale
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The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
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The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
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The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
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The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of literary movements |
Importance assessment
[edit]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Kilkenny}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Kilkenny| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
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The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Kilkenny articles
- High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Kilkenny articles
- Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Kilkenny articles
- Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Kilkenny articles
- Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Kilkenny articles.
Importance scale
[edit]The assessment team have developed some criteria specific to Irish articles as guidelines for deciding the importance of articles being assessed. Different criteria tables have been created for different topic groups as shown below.
Label | Criteria | General Irish biographies' | Historic figures, presidents, politicians | Entertainers | Sports people |
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Top | High probability that non-Historians would look this up. Limited to the top 5–10 biographies. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Joyce, affected people in many other countries besides Ireland and for several generations. Members should not give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members. | James Joyce | Eamon de Valera | U2 | Barry McGuigan |
High | Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin. | Robert Boyle | Garrett Fitzgerald | Rory Gallagher | Roy Keane |
Mid | Important in their discipline. | Bram Stoker | Pat Rabbitte | Neil Jordan | Stephen Roche |
Low | Subject is notable in their main discipline. | Henry Kelly | Edward Guinness | Ciaran Bourke | Peter Lawrie |
Label | Criteria | Cities, towns and villages | Mountains, Lakes and Rivers | Roads | Public Transport |
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Top | High probability that general readers outside Ireland would look this up. Well known outside the country and important in the life and history of Ireland. Members should not give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members. | Dublin | River Shannon | The M50 | Ryanair |
High | Regarded as very important within the country, perhaps not well known abroad.
Counties or County Towns. |
Sligo | Lough Ree | The N7 road | Dublin Bus |
Mid | Local or regional importance in Ireland. Towns with over 10,000 people which are not officially Cities or County Towns. Lower importance national roads. | Bray | River Suck | The N62 | Luas |
Low | Towns and villages of importance within a county or even just a locality. Geographical features that would be well known to people with an interest in the topic only. Regional and local roads. | Dungarvan | Sugarloaf, west Wicklow | The R747 | Abbeyshrule |
Requesting an assessment
[edit]If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.