Wikipedia:WikiProject Arkansas/Assessment

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

Fast assessment
For an easy way to assess WikiProject Arkansas articles: importScript('User:Coffee/arkansas.js');
 * 1) Copy the text below and paste it into the bottom of your monobook.js file:
 * 1) Save the new monobook.js page, and
 * 2) Completely refresh your browser by bypassing your cache (Firefox: Control-Shift-R / Firefox Mac: Command-Shift-R)
 * 3) Done!

Regular assessment
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WikiProject Arkansas project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the class parameter:
 * Image
 * Template
 * Category
 * Dab
 * Redirect
 * NA
 * Needed
 * Portal
 * List
 * Stub
 * Start
 * C
 * B
 * GA
 * A
 * FL
 * FA

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

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 Arkansas.

''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.''

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:


 * Article on Arkansas congressional candidate and former FEMA Director James Lee Witt may be of interest to this WikiProject. --TommyBoy (talk) 04:12, 19 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Still requesting assessment for Conway, Arkansas. After a month I will assess it myself as a B-Class article. Wedgiey1 (talk) 17:31, 5 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Conway, Arkansas I either removed content that had no reference (Conway Twitty bit) or went out and gathered references as needed. I also changed all references to MLA style.  Would someone please re-asses? Wedgiey1 (talk) 19:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * George Howard, Jr. I added an infobox, standardized citations, expanded the introduction and added information to the article.&#91;&#91;D-free&#93;&#93; (talk) 07:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Altheimer, Arkansas Expanded article to include history of the town and notable residents, etc.&#91;&#91;D-free&#93;&#93; (talk) 07:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Acxiom has no class rating. Wedgiey1 (talk) 21:02, 19 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Arkansas Army National Guard Have been expanding the article to include history of all units through the Cold War. Still working but I belive it should rate higher on the Importance Scale Damon.cluck (talk) 04:12, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. I have expanded the article, added citations and references. I believe it should be reassessed.Donner60 (talk) 06:50, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops. I have helped a User to help fix any errors in this article and was wondering if someone could take a look at it to see if it can go from "Class C" to "Class B". Adamdaley (talk) 01:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Could someone assess the 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops please? To see if it meets some if not all the "Class B" criteria. Adamdaley (talk) 23:22, 11 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Ivory Lee Brown. Seeking a new assessment after section on pro career has been expanded to include his time in the World League.&#91;&#91;D-free&#93;&#93; (talk) 22:05, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I am requesting a new assessment of the following articles to see if they meet the "Class B" Criteria. These articles are included in the Book:Arkansas Confederate Units.
 * 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
 * 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Griffith's)
 * 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Lemoyne's)
 * 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's)
 * 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's)
 * 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Dawson's)
 * 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Dockery's)
 * 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Hardy's)
 * 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Craven's)
 * 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
 * 25th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
 * 27th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
 * 28th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
 * 29th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
 * 30th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
 * 31st Arkansas Infantry Regiment


 * Music_of_Arkansas I have significantly updated and expanded the article to include a more well rounded selection of information. Nightenbelle (talk) 14:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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.

Worklist

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