User:Wiki Raja/WikiProject Tamil civilization/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Tamil civilization WikiProject.

This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles on now-defunct countries. 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 WPDRAVCIV project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Tamil civilization articles by quality and Category:Tamil civilization articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

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 Tamil civilization 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.

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



The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:
 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Tamil civilization articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Tamil civilization articles; should only be used for articles that have successfuly passed through the A-Class review)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Tamil civilization articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as good articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Tamil civilization articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Tamil civilization articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Tamil civilization 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 Tamil civilization articles)

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 Tamil civilization articles)
 * Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class Tamil civilization articles)
 * Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Tamil civilization articles)
 * List (for lists; adds pages to Category:List-Class Tamil civilization articles)
 * NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Tamil civilization pages)
 * Articles without a valid class are listed under Category:Unassessed Tamil civilization articles)

The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link on the banner (beneath the assessment). Adding comments will add the article to Category:Tamil civilization articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

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.

- Urumee - requesting for an assesment.--killerserv 01:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Requests for A-Class status
This section is still under construction. But if you have a proposed article for examination, list it here.


 * 1) Add new requests here

Assessment log

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