Wikipedia:WikiProject Firefly/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the Firefly WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Firefly articles. 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 {{WPFirefly}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Firefly articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Instructions 2.1 Quality scale 2.2 Importance 2.3 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 Firefly 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 {{WPFirefly}} project banner on its talk page:

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The following values may be used for the class parameter:

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

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Firefly 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 Firefly articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Firefly articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Firefly articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Firefly 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.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.	Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information.	No further editing necessary, unless new published information has come to light.	None
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 the "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.	Firefly (TV series)
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 being a Good article 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.	Serenity
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, NPOV or 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.	Hoban Washburne
Start {{Start-Class}}	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a table. For example an article on Kaylee might cover her personality well, but be weak on back story. 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	Not useless. Some readers will find what they are looking for, but most will not. Most articles in this category have the look of an article "under construction" and a reader genuinely interested in the topic is likely to seek additional information elsewhere.	Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article usually isn't even good enough for a cleanup tag: it still needs to be built.	Zoë Washburne
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.	May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Tim Minear
Needed {{Needed-Class}}	The article does not exist and needs to be created.			Bellflower: A Firefly Fanfilm (http://bellflower.sigil777.com)

[edit] Importance

Importance must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another. 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).

Consider a hierarchy such as History -> History of Europe -> History of Poland -> Polish kings and queens. An article labeled as "Top-Class" for the subject of history would probably warrant inclusion in V0.5, V1.0 and other releases. A "Top-Class" article for the history of Poland would be a reasonable candidate for inclusion, but most "Top-Class" articles on Polish kings & queens would probably not be included in early releases. Nevertheless such ranking within a subject area is very helpful in deciding which articles are included first as the scope of the Wikipedia 1.0 project expands. Quality articles which are not considered to be on topics important enough for inclusion on V0.5 will be held in a held nominations page, ready for inclusion as the scope expands.

Article importance grading scheme

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia. High probability that non-Browncoats would look this up.	The film Serenity
High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to the encyclopaedia. Subject is notable or significant within the fan community, but not necessarily outside it	List of Firefly episodes
Mid	Subject fills in more minor details, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic.	Companion
Low	Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial.	The role-playing game Serenity

[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.

1. Companion (Firefly) -just created! Currently "Unassessed"
2. Bellflower: A Firefly Fanfilm -newly created article regarding a Firefly fanfilm. Currently "Unassessed"

[edit] Assessment 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.

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[edit] March 18, 2007

• Earth in fiction (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

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[edit] March 10, 2007

• Whedonesque.com reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)

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[edit] March 4, 2007

• R. Tam sessions reassessed from B-Class (Top-Class) to Start-Class (Top-Class)
• Ariel (Firefly episode) reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Bushwhacked (Firefly) reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Heart of Gold (Firefly) reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Joss Whedon reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Safe (Firefly) reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)

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[edit] Worklist

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

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Article	Importance	Date	Assessment	Version	Comments
Firefly (TV series) [1]	Top	November 26, 2006	FA
Serenity (film) [2]	Top	July 15, 2006	GA		See: Talk:Serenity (film)/to do (edit comment)
Serenity: Those Left Behind [3]	Top	September 16, 2006	B
Derrial Book [4]	High	September 4, 2006	B
Hoban Washburne [5]	High	June 30, 2006	B
Inara Serra [6]	High	June 30, 2006	B
Jayne Cobb [7]	High	June 30, 2006	B
Jaynestown [8]	High	September 18, 2006	B
List of Firefly episodes [9]	High	October 29, 2006	B
Malcolm Reynolds [10]	High	June 30, 2006	B
Meria Book [11]	High	September 4, 2006	B
Objects in Space [12]	High	September 18, 2006	B
Our Mrs. Reynolds [13]	High	September 18, 2006	B
Out of Gas [14]	High	September 18, 2006	B
River Tam [15]	High	June 30, 2006	B
Serenity (Firefly episode) [16]	High	July 1, 2006	B
Serenity (Firefly vessel) [17]	High	July 1, 2006	B
Shindig (Firefly) [18]	High	November 10, 2006	B
Simon Tam [19]	High	June 30, 2006	B
The Message (Firefly) [20]	High	November 10, 2006	B
The Train Job [21]	High	September 18, 2006	B
Trash (Firefly) [22]	High	November 10, 2006	B
War Stories [23]	High	September 18, 2006	B
Serenity (role-playing game) [24]	Low	June 30, 2006	B
R. Tam sessions [25]	Top	March 4, 2007	Start
Adam Baldwin [26]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Alan Tudyk [27]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Ariel (Firefly episode) [28]	High	March 4, 2007	Start
Bushwhacked (Firefly) [29]	High	March 4, 2007	Start
Gina Torres [30]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Heart of Gold (Firefly) [31]	High	March 4, 2007	Start
Jewel Staite [32]	High	July 31, 2006	Start
Joss Whedon [33]	High	March 4, 2007	Start
Kaylee Frye [34]	High	June 30, 2006	Start
Morena Baccarin [35]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Mutant Enemy Productions [36]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Nathan Fillion [37]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Ron Glass [38]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Safe (Firefly) [39]	High	March 4, 2007	Start
Sean Maher [40]	High	July 31, 2006	Start
Summer Glau [41]	High	July 16, 2006	Start
Zoe Washburne [42]	High	November 16, 2006	Start
Alliance (Firefly) [43]	Mid	July 1, 2006	Start
Browncoat [44]	Mid	July 1, 2006	Start
Companion (Firefly) [45]	Mid	August 10, 2006	Start
Finding Serenity [46]	Mid	October 14, 2006	Start
Jane Espenson [47]	Mid	July 16, 2006	Start
List of Firefly planets and moons [48]	Mid	July 1, 2006	Start
List of Firefly slang words [49]	Mid	November 16, 2006	Start
List of minor characters in the Firefly universe [50]	Mid	July 1, 2006	Start
Reaver (Firefly) [51]	Mid	July 1, 2006	Start
Serenity (soundtrack) [52]	Mid	June 30, 2006	Start
Unification War [53]	Mid	July 1, 2006	Start
Keith R. A. DeCandido [54]	Low	December 20, 2006	Start
Tim Minear [55]	High	July 16, 2006	Stub
Blue Sun [56]	Mid	July 1, 2006	Stub
Carey Meyer [57]	Mid	November 2, 2006	Stub
David Boyd (cinematographer) [58]	Mid	November 2, 2006	Stub
Done the Impossible [59]	Mid	August 10, 2006	Stub
Firefly soundtrack [60]	Mid	July 13, 2006	Stub
José Molina (writer) [61]	Mid	December 7, 2006	Stub
Into the Black [62]	Low	October 26, 2006	Stub
Lisa Lassek [63]	Low	September 15, 2006	Stub
Whedonesque.com [64]		March 10, 2007	Stub
Earth in fiction [65]		March 18, 2007	Unassessed
See also: assessed article categories.			Last update: March 30, 2007