Wikipedia:WikiProject Big Brother/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Big Brother! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Big Brother 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the Big Brother project project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Big Brother articles by quality and Category:Big Brother articles by importance.

Statistics
The categories have been used to generate statistics on the number of articles in each class. The table is udated automatically by a bot, so please do not edit it.

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to the WikiProject? : Just add Big Brother project to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * How can I get my article rated? : Please list it on the WikiProject talk page.
 * Who can assess articles? : Anyone 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? : You can ask on the WikiProject talk page.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : You can ask any member of the project to rate the article again or ask on the WikiProject talk page.
 * 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!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the WikiProject talk page.

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



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]]FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Big Brother articles)
 * [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]]FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class Big Brother articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Big Brother articles)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Big Brother articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Big Brother articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Big Brother articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Big Brother articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Big Brother articles)
 * List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Big Brother articles)
 * Dab (adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class Big Brother articles)
 * Category (adds articles to Category:Category-Class Big Brother articles)
 * Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class Big Brother articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Big Brother pages)

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

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:


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

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Importance scale
Articles should be rated on the importance scale based on their notability as specified in the 'Notability' column. If this is unclear then the 'Examples' column also gives a general guide on what the importance of an article should be, but bear in mind that articles with exceptionally high or low notabiliy may be classified into a different class depending on this notability.

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, articles with greater popular notability may be rated higher than articles which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to people of a certain geographical area.

When interpreting the examples column, as a rule of thumb, articles should be classified into the class below whatever article could be considered their 'parent article'. If an article could be classified under two different classes (e.g. Bree Amer was both a contestant and Big Brother presenter) then the higher class should be used.

''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.''

Example assessments
To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.

Quality


 *   - to rate an article at FA-Class
 *   - to rate an article at A-Class
 *   - to rate an article at GA-Class
 *   - to rate an article at B-Class
 *   - to rate an article at Start-Class
 *   - to rate an article at Stub-Class
 *   - to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance


 *   - to rate an article at Top importance
 *   - to rate an article at High importance
 *   - to rate an article at Mid importance
 *   - to rate an article at Low importance