Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the South Dakota WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about South Dakota or the people of South Dakota. 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 South Dakota}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:South Dakota 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 scale 2.3 Requesting an assessment 3 Assessment log 3.1 March 26, 2007 3.2 March 24, 2007 3.3 March 22, 2007 3.4 March 20, 2007 3.5 March 18, 2007 3.6 March 16, 2007 3.7 March 14, 2007 3.8 March 12, 2007 3.9 March 10, 2007 3.10 March 8, 2007 3.11 March 6, 2007 3.12 March 4, 2007 3.13 March 2, 2007 3.14 February 28, 2007 3.15 February 26, 2007 3.16 February 25, 2007 3.17 February 24, 2007 3.18 February 23, 2007 3.19 February 22, 2007 3.20 February 21, 2007 3.21 February 20, 2007 3.22 February 19, 2007 3.23 February 18, 2007 3.24 February 17, 2007 3.25 February 16, 2007 3.26 February 15, 2007 3.27 February 14, 2007 3.28 February 13, 2007 3.29 February 12, 2007 3.30 February 11, 2007 3.31 February 10, 2007 3.32 February 8, 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 South Dakota 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 South Dakota}} 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 South Dakota articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class South Dakota articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class South Dakota articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class South Dakota articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class South Dakota articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class South Dakota articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article South Dakota pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed South Dakota 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 South Dakota.

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.

We are currently discussing which articles should be counted as being of Top-importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Assessment/Top-importance 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

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 26, 2007

• Robert J. Fox (priest) (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Robert J. Fox

[edit] March 24, 2007

• Rockerville (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) renamed to Rockerville, South Dakota

[edit] March 22, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] March 20, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] March 18, 2007

• Black Hills War reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• History of Sioux Falls, South Dakota (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 16, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] March 14, 2007

• Governors of Dakota Territory (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of Registered Historic Places in South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of South Dakota county name etymologies (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of South Dakota railroads (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of South Dakota rivers (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of South Dakota state parks (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of South Dakota state prisons (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of United States Representatives from South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of United States Senators from South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of airports in South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of cities and towns along the Missouri River (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of cities in South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of individuals executed in South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of radio stations in South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of radio stations in South Dakota by call letters (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of radio stations in South Dakota by city (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of radio stations in South Dakota by format (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of television stations in South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of towns and villages in South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Scenic roads in the Black Hills (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• South Dakota locations by per capita income (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• South Dakota's 2nd congressional district (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• South Dakota's 3rd congressional district (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• United States Congressional Delegations from Dakota Territory (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• United States Congressional Delegations from South Dakota (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Black Elk reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Bloody Knife reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• E. B. Farnum reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• I-90 exit list reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• James Calhoun (soldier) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Gilbert A. Pierce reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• James Watson (soldier) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Max Sandlin reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Needles Highway reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Sanford Health reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)

[edit] March 12, 2007

• Mid-June 1992 Tornado Outbreak reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)

[edit] March 10, 2007

• Robert Taplett reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• List of South Dakota county name etymologies (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 8, 2007

• Chicago and North Western Railway reassessed from GA-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)

[edit] March 6, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] March 4, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] March 2, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 28, 2007

• John C. Frémont reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Great Storm of 1975 (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• KSDR (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• KWYR (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Kristie VerMulm (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Mark Ovenden (sportscaster) (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• T. Denny Sanford (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Vernon Brown (South Dakota) (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Watertown Public Opinion (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Needles Highway (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Sanford Health (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 26, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 25, 2007

• Robert Taplett (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 24, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 23, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 22, 2007

• Chris Nelson (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Eben Martin (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Freeman T. Knowles (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• George S. Mickelson Trail (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Harold Lovre (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• John Pickler (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Marie Steichen (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Mike Broderick (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• O'Gorman High School (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Shantel Krebs (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Terry Redlin (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Theodore B. Werner (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Thomas E. Reedy (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• William V. Lucas (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 21, 2007

• Great Northern Railway (US) (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Great Northern Railway (U.S.)

[edit] February 20, 2007

• Lakota (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to Lakota people
• Wounded Knee massacre (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to Wounded Knee Massacre

[edit] February 19, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 18, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 17, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 16, 2007

• William W. Cooke reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)

[edit] February 15, 2007

• Dakota Marker reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)

[edit] February 14, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 13, 2007

• Luther Hare (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 12, 2007

• Wounded Knee incident (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) renamed to Wounded Knee incident (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Benjamin Munson (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 11, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 10, 2007

(No changes today)

[edit] February 8, 2007

• Michigan Territory reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
• Deadwood (TV series) reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Lakota language reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Nehemiah G. Ordway reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• American Horse (elder) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Iowa Territory reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Louisiana Territory reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Minnesota Territory reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Mitch Bouyer reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• South Dakota's At-large congressional district reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Dakota Marker (talk) added

[edit] Worklist

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

Contact with WP South Dakota/Assessment

• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/South Dakota articles by quality/1 (419 articles)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/South Dakota articles by quality/2 (417 articles)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/South Dakota articles by quality/3 (409 articles)

See also: assessed article categories.								Last update: March 26, 2007