Wikipedia:WikiProject Alien/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Alien! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Alien-related 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 WikiProject Alien banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Alien articles by quality and Category:Alien 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 WikiProject Alien 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.

Quality assessments
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the WikiProject Alien banner on its talk page:



This optional parameter records the Project quality assessment rating currently assigned to the particular article on whose talkpage the project banner appears.
 * class

If unassigned, or an invalid value is given, the parameter defaults to "unassigned" and the template places the talkpage into Category:Unassessed Alien articles.

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

After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page.

Valid values for this parameter, their associated meanings and categories are given in the table below. Values should be typed as shown (e.g. |class=GA ):

Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the WikiProject Alien banner on its talk page:



If unassigned, or an invalid value is given, or the class parameter is set to "NA", the parameter defaults to "unassigned" and the template places the talkpage into Category:Unknown-importance Alien articles.

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.

Assessment log

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (every 3-5 days); please don't add entries to them by hand.