Wikipedia:WikiProject BBC/Assessment

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

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

The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class BBC articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class BBC articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class BBC articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class BBC articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class BBC articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class BBC articles)
 * Disambig (for disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class BBC articles)
 * Template (for templates, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Template-Class BBC articles)
 * Cat (for categories, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Category-Class BBC articles)
 * List (for lists, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:List-Class BBC articles)
 * Current (for pages which are currently being edited heavily (e.g. just-created), where assessment is not feasible; adds pages to Category:Current-Class BBC articles)

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

General 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 the BBC.

''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.''

Please note we have specific guidelines for assessing the importance of BBC programmes and people, which are below the following table.

Importance Scale for BBC Programmes
These are a set of guidelines for how articles on BBC programmes should be assessed.

If you wish to discuss what makes an article of top importance please post a message on this project's discussion page.

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 by clicking [ here]. Please use the format:  Message ~

Worklist
The worklists are available at Version 1.0 Editorial Team/BBC articles by quality. The logs are generated automatically (once every three days); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Assessment log
The assessment log is at Version 1.0 Editorial Team/BBC articles by quality log. The log is generated automatically (once every three days); 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.