Wikipedia:WikiProject Central America/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the Central America WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the Central America, its governments, people, geography, and history. While much of the work is done in conjunction with 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 Central America}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Central America articles by quality and Category:Central America articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Instructions 2.1 Quality scale 2.2 Importance scale 2.3 Importance assessment 2.4 Requesting an assessment 3 Assessment log 3.1 March 30, 2007 3.2 March 28, 2007 3.3 March 26, 2007 3.4 March 24, 2007 3.5 March 22, 2007 3.6 March 20, 2007 3.7 March 18, 2007 3.8 March 16, 2007 3.9 March 14, 2007 3.10 March 12, 2007 3.11 March 10, 2007 3.12 March 8, 2007 3.13 March 6, 2007 3.14 March 4, 2007 3.15 March 2, 2007 3.16 February 28, 2007 3.17 February 26, 2007 3.18 February 25, 2007 3.19 February 24, 2007 3.20 February 23, 2007 3.21 February 22, 2007 3.22 February 21, 2007 3.23 February 20, 2007 3.24 February 19, 2007 3.25 February 18, 2007 3.26 February 17, 2007 3.27 February 16, 2007 3.28 February 15, 2007 3.29 February 14, 2007 3.30 February 13, 2007 3.31 February 12, 2007 3.32 February 11, 2007 4 Worklist

[edit] Frequently asked questions

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 Central America WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.

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, 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!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Central America}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Central America
|class= 
|importance= 
|attention= 
|needs-infobox= 
|peer-review= 
|old-peer-review= 
}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Central America articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Central America articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Central America articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Central America articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Central America articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Central America articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Central America pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class Central America articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme [ v • d • e ]

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.	Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information.	No further editing is necessary unless new published information has come to light; but further improvements to the text are often possible.	Supernova (as of February 2007)
A {{A-Class}}	Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points.	Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage.	Durian (as of March 2007)
GA {{GA-Class}}	The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise good. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class.	Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job.	Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time.	International Space Station (as of February 2007)
B {{B-Class}}	Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles.	Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work.	Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with.	Munich air disaster (as of May 2006) has a lot of helpful material but contains too many lists, and needs more prose content & references.
Start {{Start-Class}}	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following: a particularly useful picture or graphic multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded.	Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage.	Real analysis (as of November 2006)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Coffee table book (as of July 2005)

[edit] Importance scale

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). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Central America.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

Status	Template	Meaning of Status
Top	{{Top-Class}}	This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High	{{High-Class}}	This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
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.
None	None	This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.

[edit] Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Central America}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Central America| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Central America. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Central America articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of the Central America. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Central America articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Central American community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Central America articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the field of Central American studies and is not generally common knowledge outside that community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Central America articles
• Unknown - any article which has not been rated on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Central America articles.

[edit] Requesting an assessment

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.

[edit] Assessment log

Central America articles: Index · Statistics · Log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record.

[edit] March 30, 2007

• Isidro Belton Stadium (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Isidoro Beaton Stadium
• Tony Melendez (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Tony Meléndez
• Kayb'il B'alam (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] March 28, 2007

• Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006 (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Panamanian Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006
• Juticalpa Tulin (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Juticalpa FC
• Macal River reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Juan Carlos Plata reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• El Güegüense (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] March 26, 2007

• Mayan cichlid (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Cichlasoma urophthalmus
• Club Deportivo FAS (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Chinese Nicaraguan (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Wildlife of Nicaragua (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Abortion in El Salvador (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Barbara Carrera (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• SINAP (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Arroz a la valenciana (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Instituto Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresas (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Macuá (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Roystonea dunlapiana reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• Belize Barrier Reef (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) added.
• Aerosegovia (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• General National Archive (Nicaragua) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 24, 2007

• Liga Nacional de Futbol de Honduras (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras
• Common Basilisk (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Common basilisk
• Cristiana Frixione (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• J Smooth (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Miss Nicaragua (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Torombolo (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Roystonea dunlapiana (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 22, 2007

• Nahual (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Maya Airways (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• San Isidro Labrador (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to San Isidro Labrador, Chalatenango
• Rama language (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Political history of Nicaragua (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) added.
• 2001 El Salvador earthquakes (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 20, 2007

• Pan de Azúcar (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Pan de Azucar
• Acer negundo reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Treaty of Friendship and Alliance reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Air Charter Service (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Aviones Taxi Aereo (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Haïti Trans Air (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Helicopteros de Guatemala (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Paradise Air (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 18, 2007

• U.S. 11th Marine Regiment (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) renamed to 11th Marine Regiment (United States)
• LOVE Belize Television (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Love Belize Television
• Conculture (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Cajolá (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Treaty of Friendship and Alliance (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 16, 2007

• Jaco, Costa Rica (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Jacó, Costa Rica
• Engin Mitre (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Engie Mitre
• Acer negundo reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Low-Class)

[edit] March 14, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] March 12, 2007

• José Francisco Barrundia reassessed from Unassessed-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Manuel José Arce reassessed from Unassessed-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Simón Bolívar reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Transmetro (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Scouting in Belize reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Scouting in Panama reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)

[edit] March 10, 2007

• State terrorism by Guatemala (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to State terrorism in Guatemala
• Club Deportivo Arsenal (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Arsenal FC (Roatan)
• Estadio Dennis Martinez (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Dennis Martínez National Stadium

[edit] March 8, 2007

• Said Musa reassessed from Stub-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Rama (people) (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] March 6, 2007

• Asociación de Scouts de Honduras (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Association of Scouts in Honduras
• Soconusco reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• José Francisco Barrundia reassessed from Stub-Class (High-Class) to Unassessed-Class (High-Class)
• Manuel José Arce (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) added.
• Scouting in Belize (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Scouting in Panama (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 4, 2007

• Simón Bolívar (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 2, 2007

• Belizean municipal election, 2006 (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Belizean municipal elections, 2006
• Manuel José Arce (talk) Stub-Class (High-Class) removed.
• Belize municipal election, 1993/4 (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Belizean municipal elections, 1993/4
• Belizean municipal election, 1996-7 (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Belizean municipal elections, 1996-7
• Belizean municipal election, 1999-2000 (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Belizean municipal elections, 1999-2000
• Belizean municipal election, 2003 (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Belizean municipal elections, 2003
• Belizean municipal election, 2009 (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Belizean municipal elections, 2009
• Diocese of Yoro (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Roman Catholic Diocese of Yoro
• Latin America (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• Alexis Argüello reassessed from B-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Carmen Lyra (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] February 28, 2007

• El museo de tradiciones y leyendas (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Museo de Tradiciones y Leyendas
• Ojo de Agua (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Ojo de Agua, Comayagua
• Óscar Romero reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Evan X Hyde reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)

[edit] February 26, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 25, 2007

• Transport in Belize (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) renamed to Transportation in Belize

[edit] February 24, 2007

• Archdiocese of San Salvador (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador
• Tipografía Nacional (football club) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] February 23, 2007

• Christopher Columbus/Archive 2 (talk) B-Class (High-Class) removed.
• Humberto Ak'abal (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Mourning Dove reassessed from GA-Class (Low-Class) to FA-Class (Low-Class)
• Humberto Ak'ab'al (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Calyptrogyne (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 22, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 21, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 20, 2007

• Raccoon (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Federico flamenco (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Wilmer Velasquez (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Wilmer Velásquez
• Christopher Columbus/Archive 2 (talk) B-Class (High-Class) added.

[edit] February 19, 2007

• Occupation of Nicaragua (talk) Stub-Class (High-Class) renamed to United States occupation of Nicaragua

[edit] February 18, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 17, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 16, 2007

• Carlos Alberto Batres (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Carlos Batres

[edit] February 15, 2007

• Daniel Ortega reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Top-Class)
• Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños reassessed from Stub-Class (High-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
• José Dolores Estrada (president) reassessed from Stub-Class (High-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
• Rosendo Chamorro reassessed from Stub-Class (High-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
• Prensa Libre reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)

[edit] February 14, 2007

• Copán reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Ben Linder (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Copa Airlines destinations (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Prensa Libre (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 13, 2007

• Christian Bolaños reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Pre-University of Belize tertiary level institutions (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] February 12, 2007

• Christian Bolaños reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)

[edit] February 11, 2007

• Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement (Nicaragua) (talk) Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement (Nicaragua) (talk) Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class)
• Benjamín Monterroso (talk) Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Pollo Campero (talk) Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Pablo Melgar Torino (talk) Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] Worklist

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See also: assessed article categories.								Last update: March 30, 2007