Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Assessment
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Assessing the quality of Wikipedia's LGBT articles lets us recognise excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. The quality ratings also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.
Assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject LGBT studies}} project banner. This causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:LGBT articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.
How to assess an article
[edit]An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject LGBT studies}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject LGBT studies|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 LGBT articles) | ![]() |
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A (adds articles to Category:A-Class LGBT articles) | ![]() |
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GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class LGBT articles) | ![]() |
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B (adds articles to Category:B-Class LGBT articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class LGBT articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class LGBT articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class LGBT articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class LGBT articles) | ![]() |
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List (adds articles to Category:List-Class LGBT articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class LGBT articles) | Category | |
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class LGBT articles) | Disambig | |
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class LGBT articles) | Draft | |
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class LGBT articles) | File | |
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class LGBT articles) | Portal | |
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class LGBT articles) | Project | |
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class LGBT articles) | Redirect | |
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class LGBT articles) | Template | |
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class LGBT articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed LGBT articles) | ??? |
Unassessed and recently assessed articles
[edit]- Category:Unassessed LGBT articles contains articles that need a valid quality class.
- LGBT articles by quality log shows WP:LGBT articles that have been assessed, reassessed, renamed, or removed from the project's scope within the past seven days.
Quality scale
[edit]WikiProject LGBT Studies uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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. | Same-sex marriage in Spain (as of September 2010) |
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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 gay, lesbian or bisexual people: A (as of September 2010) |
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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. | Harisu (as of September 2010) |
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. | Gay icon (as of September 2010) |
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. | Trans woman (as of September 2010) |
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. | Boystown, Chicago (as of September 2010) |
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. | Radio Q (as of December 2007) |
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 LGBT events (as of September 2010) |
Category | Any category falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:LGBT |
Statistics
[edit]LGBT pages by quality | |||||||
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Quality | |||||||
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102 | ||||||
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36 | ||||||
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591 | ||||||
B | 1,765 | ||||||
C | 5,184 | ||||||
Start | 12,401 | ||||||
Stub | 5,157 | ||||||
List | 667 | ||||||
Category | 7,290 | ||||||
Disambig | 32 | ||||||
File | 320 | ||||||
Portal | 58 | ||||||
Project | 74 | ||||||
Redirect | 1,761 | ||||||
Template | 379 | ||||||
NA | 48 | ||||||
Assessed | 35,865 | ||||||
Unassessed | 21 | ||||||
Total | 35,886 | ||||||
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 120,163 | Ω = 4.77 |
Importance
[edit]An importance parameter has not been added to the project tag for talk pages, though this has been proposed. A list of core articles is available at WP:LGBT/Core.
Requesting an assessment
[edit]- If you have made significant changes to an article and would like someone to reassess it (up to and including B-class), please post a reassessment request at WT:LGBT.
- For improving an article beyond B-class, see WP:GA to nominate an article as a good article and WP:FAC to nominate an article as a featured article.
- You can request a peer review for an article at WP:PR.