Wikipedia:WikiProject England/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject England! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to England. The article ratings are used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPE}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:England-related articles by quality and Category:England-related articles by importance.

Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 How to assess articles 2.1 Quality assessments 2.1.1 Quality scale 2.2 Priority assessment 2.2.1 Priority scale 2.3 Requesting an assessment

[edit] Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated? 

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

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.

Who can assess articles? 

Any member of the England WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.

Where can I find articles to assess? 

Many articles in Category:England still need to be assessed and any articles in Category:Unassessed England-related articles and Category:Unknown-importance England-related articles.

If you have any other questions that aren't listed here, feel free to ask them at the talk page.

[edit] How to assess articles

You can assess articles by placing the {{WPE}} banner on its talk page (not the article page!) and using the two parameters, class (to assess the quality) and importance (to assess the priority).

[edit] Quality assessments

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WPE}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WPE| ... | class=??? | ...}}

FA

A

GA

B

Start

Stub

???

Needed

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class England-related articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class England-related articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class England-related articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class England-related articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class England-related articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class England-related articles)
• Needed (for articles that do not yet exist but have been identified as subjects that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class England-related articles)

Template

Dab

Cat

NA

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

• Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class WikiProject England articles)
• Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class WikiProject England articles)
• Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class WikiProject England articles)
• NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article WikiProject England pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed England-related 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] Priority assessment

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

{{WPE| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance England-related articles
• High - adds articles to Category:High-importance England-related articles
• Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance England-related articles
• Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance England-related articles
• Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance England-related articles.

[edit] Priority scale

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Articles with international recognition.	London
High	Articles with national recognition.	Sunderland
Mid	Articles with regional recognition (e.g. Suburbs).	Crumpsall
Low	Articles with local recognition.

[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.

Requested assessments