Wikipedia:WikiProject Capital District/Assessments
Quality: FA-Class | FL-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | C-Class | Start-Class | Stub Class | Unassessed
Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Unknown
The assessment department of WikiProject Capital District focuses on assessing the quality and comprehensiveness of Wikipedia's Capital District related pages. The purpose of assessments is to give recognition to high-quality articles and draw attention to those that need more work.
The ratings are recorded in paramters found within the WikiProject Capital District project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Capital District articles by quality and Category:Capital District articles by importance, which are the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
How to nominate a page
[edit]If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please place it at the bottom of the section for assessment requests below, using the syntax:
# {{la|ArticleName}} ~~~~
with an edit summary of "Nominating [[ArticleName]]". Please note that articles can only be given a rating up to B-class here. For Good Article class and higher, more formal reviews are needed.
How to review an article
[edit]- Check that you have logged in; anons may not review articles.
- Choose and read an article from the list
- Place the
{{WikiProject New York (state)|Capital=yes|class=|importance=}}
tag at the top of the article's talk page if it does not already exist.- Read the quality scale and set the class parameter to B, C, start, stub or NA.
- (optional) Read the importance scale and set the importance parameter to Top, High, Mid or Low.
- Save the talk page. If you wish to leave detailed comments about your assessment, please start a new section on the talk page detailing your assessment.
- Remove the article from the section for assessment requests using the edit summary "Assessed [[ArticleName]]".
Frequently asked questions
[edit]Capital District articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
FM | 4 | 4 | |||||
GA | 1 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 38 | ||
B | 2 | 6 | 26 | 35 | 69 | ||
C | 3 | 26 | 72 | 67 | 2 | 170 | |
Start | 20 | 133 | 345 | 2 | 500 | ||
Stub | 2 | 128 | 234 | 2 | 366 | ||
List | 7 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 28 | ||
Category | 19 | 19 | |||||
Disambig | 2 | 2 | |||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 2 | 34 | 37 | |||
Template | 10 | 10 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 6 | 66 | 384 | 722 | 80 | 7 | 1,265 |
Total | 6 | 66 | 384 | 722 | 80 | 7 | 1,265 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 5,659 | Ω = 4.91 |
- How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
- Just add
{{WikiProject New York (state)|Capital=yes}}
to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else. - How can I get my article rated?
- Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
- Who can assess articles?
- Any member of the Capital District WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
- Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?
- Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
- Where can I get more comments about my article?
- The peer review department can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
- What if I don't agree with a rating?
- You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
- Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!
- How can I keep track of changes in article ratings?
- A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistics may be more accessible.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
Instructions
[edit]An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject New York (state)|Capital=yes}}
project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):
{{WikiProject New York (state)|Capital=yes|class=|importance=}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Capital District articles)
- FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class Capital District articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Capital District articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Capital District articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Capital District articles)
- C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Capital District articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Capital District articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Capital District articles)
- List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Capital District articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Capital District articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Capital District articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Capital District articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Capital District articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Capital District articles)
The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.
Quality scale
[edit]Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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FA | 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) |
FL | 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) |
A | 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) |
GA | 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 scale
[edit]The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).
Status | Template | Meaning of Status |
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Top | {{Top-Class}} | This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information. The Capital District article is the most important Top-Class article, but the four main counties of the area are also Top-Class. |
High | {{High-Class}} | This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers an essential topic. Secondary counties and larger cities in the area are typically rated at High-Class. |
Mid | {{Mid-Class}} | This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas. . |
Low | {{Low-Class}} | This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia. Many towns, small municipalities, and school districts are of low importance in the overall scope of the project. |
None | None | This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed. |
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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.
Please place new requests at the bottom of the list.
Participants
[edit]Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team
- ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk»
- Camelbinky (talk) 08:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
- Listroiderbob (talk · contribs)
- Kjscotte34
Log
[edit]The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here.