Wikipedia:WikiProject Arena Football League/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Arena Football League WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's arena football 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 Arena Football League project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-category of Category:Arena Football League articles by quality which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to the Arena Football League WikiProject? : Just add Wikiproject Arena Football League to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * 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 Arena Football League 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.
 * Where can I get more comments about my article? : This does not exist for this project yet. Perhaps you could join the project and create a peer review system?
 * What if I don't agree with a quality 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.
 * What if I don't agree with an importance rating? : If you believe an item is mis-classed or it's class has since changed, please list it in the Requesting an assessment with your reasons. Please see the importance scale below and make sure your claims follow the criteria listed.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!
 * How can I keep track of changes in article ratings? : A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the monthly statistics may be more accessible.
 * Can I review my own article? : You may not rate your own articles. New articles should be added to the peer review section of assessment. Large changes to articles that may change the quality should be added to the Requesting an assessment section. Articles that may need a change in Importance status should be listed in the Importance review section.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department, or to contact the project coordinators directly.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the Wikiproject Arena Football League project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):


 * (This is currently the only option)

While assessing articles, please rate the class with a capital letter. This will insure uniformity on the template.

The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Arena Football League articles)
 * FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class Arena Football League articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Arena Football League articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Arena Football League articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Arena Football League articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Arena Football League articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Arena Football League articles)
 * Template (assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Arena Football League pages)
 * Category (assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Arena Football League pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Arena Football League articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Importance scale
Importance scales were added on March 26, 2009. They range from:


 * Top-importance Arena Football League articles
 * High-importance Arena Football League articles
 * Mid-importance Arena Football League articles
 * Low-importance Arena Football League articles
 * NA-importance Arena Football League articles
 * Unknown-importance Arena Football League articles

These assessment categories are all found in Category:Arena Football League articles by importance.

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. New articles do not need to be listed here unless they have gone unrated for more than two weeks. Please be sure to add new articles to the assessment table.


 * 1) Add articles here!

Worklist and log
Click here for the complete log.