Wikipedia:WikiProject Maritime Trades/Assessment
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Welcome to the assessment department of the Maritime Trades WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles dealing with Maritime Trade and closely related subjects. 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 Maritime Trades}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Maritime Trades articles by quality and Category:Maritime Trades articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist (Index · Statistics · Log).
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 GA |
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| B | 1 | 13 | 1 | 15 | |||
| Start | 3 | 104 | 1 | 108 | |||
| Stub | 5 | 43 | 1 | 49 | |||
| Assessed | 9 | 160 | 1 | 2 | 172 | ||
| Unassessed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 9 | 160 | 1 | 2 | 172 | ||
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[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 Organized Labour WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
- 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.
- 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
Know of an article that should be in the Maritime Trades project? You can add it yourself in a few easy steps.
- Go to the article's talk page,
- Click edit this page,
- Paste the text below into the top of the page:
{{WikiProject Maritime Trades
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Then click "Save page." Congrats, you've just added a page to the project! If you want, you can specify class and importance, or leave it for another member to pick up.
An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Maritime Trades}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- List (for list pages, adds to Category:List-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- Category (for categories, adds to Category:Category-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- Template (for template pages, adds to Category:Template-Class Maritime Trades articles)
- Needed (adds to Category:Needed-Class Maritime Trades articles)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Maritime Trades 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 Maritime Trades articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Maritime Trades articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Maritime Trades articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Maritime Trades articles)
Articles for which a valid importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Maritime Trades articles. The class should be assigned according to the importance scale below.
[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 at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maritime Trades/Assessment Requests.
Been working on an article and want someone other opinions on it? Click the edit box and add your article here. Newest requests at the top of the list please.
- Chief mate - Haus42 13:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
- Passage planning - Haus42 18:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- Second mate - Haus42 18:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- Third mate - Haus42 18:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Disputes
If you think a page has inaccurate scores, the easiest thing to do is to change the scores. If nobody objects, then you were probably right! Before changing scores, please take a few moments to look through the grading scheme below.
An individual article's talk page is a good place to start discussions. However, keep in mind that people from the project might not be watching that talk page. If you want to ensure a response, you can start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maritime Trades.
If you think an article should be included in the project, it probably should. The only caveat is to not take over huge chunks of pages that are better left to another project. As an easy example, there are hundreds of articles on Navy ships in Wikipedia. They're covered by the military history project, and we certainly don't need to tag them all as Maritime Trades pages.
On the other hand, biographies will tend to fall into multiple projects. Union articles tend to be in both Organized Labour and Maritime Trades. If you have questions or comments, please post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maritime Trades.
[edit] Importance scale
| Label | Criteria | Detail | Examples |
| Top | Reserved for the primary articles on organized labour. These are considered fundamental to the topic. |
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| High | Major international articles, activists, strikes and movements. National trade union organizations. |
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| Mid | General labour articles, national articles, activists, strikes and movements, and main articles on trade unions. |
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| Low | Minor labour articles, national articles, activists, strikes and movements. Articles on trade union locals. | ||
| No | Used only for disputed articles. Placed on articles which have no legitimate link to organized labour. Provide discussion related to the rating, as this rating is likely to be removed or replaced on sight without related notes. |
[edit] Grading
Grade according to the general scale:
| 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:
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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) |
