Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture/Beekeeping task force/Assessment

Welcome to the WikiProject Beekeeping assessment department!

Project members are invited, under the guidance of this department, to tag articles by quality and importance using the WikiProject Beekeeping template, a full guide to which is provided below. These gradings help us to identify articles which we can put forward as featured article candidates or good article candidates, and to identify those which need more work.

This system is modelled on that used by WP:1.0, and it is understood that they may use our ratings in their system.

FAQ

 * 1. How do I add an article to the WikiProject? : Just add WikiProject Agriculture with yes to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else. However, we would appreciate it hugely if you could rate the article according to the guidelines below and leave a short summary of your rationale on the talk page.
 * 2. What is the purpose of the article ratings? : The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles we are interested in and helps to prioritize work. Please note, however, that these ratings are meant for the internal use of the project, and do not imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.
 * 3. How can I get an article rated? : Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * 4. Who can assess articles? : Any Wikipedian, who has familiarized himself/herself with the guidelines below, is free to add or change the rating of an article.
 * 5. 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.
 * 6. 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 raise your objections on the article talk page.
 * 7. Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are subjective, especially concerning importance. However, it's the best system we've been able to devise. And it works pretty well for many different WikiProjects. If you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!
 * 8. What if I have a question not listed here? : Ask questions on the talk page.

Importance
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the WikiProject Beekeeping. See the template page for more detailed instructions.



The following values may be used:


 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Beekeeping articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Beekeeping articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Beekeeping articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Beekeeping articles)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-importance Beekeeping articles. The class should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Importance scale
We recognize that importance is a relative term. An article judged to be "Top-importance" in one context may be only "Mid-importance" in another. Any importance ratings applied by this project, only reflect the perceived importance to this project. The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather it should serve as a guideline for project participants to determine which article should receive more attention.

Requests for 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.