Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment/Assessment Drive/February—March 2007

WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive is a month long effort to reduce the backlog of unassessed biography articles from 135,345 as of February 24, 2007 to as low as we can get it by March 24, 2007. Every great journey starts with a single step. And we would love to have your help and you will be generously rewarded for your efforts by this drive's awards committee!

As far as this drive knows, this is the first ever Biography assessment drive. This month long assessment drive will continue through March 24, 2007. Please take the time to sign up for a section of unassessed articles from the list at the bottom of this page. To sign up, simply add your signature (by adding three consecutive tildas, which are these ) below the section of articles that you are volunteering to do. Then, make sure to complete your assessments by the end of the month.

Spring 2007 assessment drive now closed Through the WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive, 44,324 articles were assessed, reducing the number of unassessed articles by an astounding 33% - from 135,345 to 91,021. In addition, many of the assessed articles further were linked to the appropriate work groups, significantly improving the chance that these articles will be improved. More important, we developed new techniques as a result of this drive that will allow us to eventually overcome the huge backlog of unassessed articles. Without your assistance, the assessment drive would not have achieved such significant results. On behalf of Mocko13, Ozgod, and myself, we thank you for your participation in the drive. Please direct all further assessment comments to WikiProject Biography Assessment talk. -- Jreferee 18:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Progress on assessing articles
The number of unassessed articles will decrease as a result of this drive, but may increase as a result of articles being tagged with the WPBiography project banner with the class parameter not filled in. However, the number of assessed articles will increase as values are entered into the class parameters. The number of articles assessed during this drive is the total number of articles tagged with the WPBiography project banner minus the number of unassessed articles as indicated by the Biography articles by quality statistics

Instructions on how to assess a Biography article
Have you ever assessed an article before? No problem. Articles should be assessed according to the Quality scale and instructions. In reducing the backlog, you may come across four classes: Stub, Start, B, and A. Most backlogged articles are either Start or Stub. Stubs are small, perhaps less than 1,000 characters. Start articles are usually larger than stubs and have references. B articles have inline citations, infoboxes as appropriate and may or may not be ready for GA review. A articles that have not been reviewed for GA are extremely rare.

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the WPBiography project banner on the article's talk page. Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed biography articles.

Using the link for the section of articles you've signed up for or any of those listed in Category:Unassessed biography articles, click on a link for an article, which will take you to the article's talk page. Then, look over the article in anticipation of filling out the parameters of the WPBiography template. Once you have decided what you want to rate it, click back to the talk page.

Biography articles to be assessed have some aspects of the WPBiography template on their talk page, but the template may be incomplete. Below is a WPBiography template with all the answers that you will need for most situations. Replace the WPBiography template on the article talk page with the following:

As noted, the above WPBiography template has all the answers that you will need for most situations. Given the importance of WP:BLP, the living parameter should be identified as "yes" or "no" rather than deleted if the answer is "no". As for the remaining parameters (except the listas parameter), if the answer is "no" that parameter should be deleted. After addressing the yes/no parameters, fill in the listas parameter (e.g., last name, first name), then save. And, you are done! You can read more about each parameter at WPBiography.


 * SPORTS, GAMES assessment with comment example - Talk:Yuri_Fudoh
 * ACTOR, WRITER, DIRECTOR, ARTIST assessment with comment example - Talk:Yuri_Dojc
 * MUSICIAN, SINGER assessment with comment example - Talk:Yuliy Kim

Further questions? Feel free to ask them on the discussion page.

Additional tagging
You may come across articles that have outrageous material in them. Please delete unsourced potentially libelous material. You may use the following in the edit summary Deleted unsourced potentially libelous material per WP:BLP

Other tags you may wish to consider using on the mainspace of the article to help its future development: - adds a tag noting that the article needs expansion. - if the article contains no references. - if the article needs to cleaned up to meet Wikipedia standards - this is tagged to notify that an expert on the subject is needed. - if the notability of the subject has not been made clear in the article

Assessment from an article page
Outriggr recently designed a script that will cut you assessment time down by about ten fold (what took ten hours now may only take one hour with Outriggr's script). Please see the 'assessment from article page' discussion.

Unhappy editors?
If you receive a note from an editor who is unhappy with your assessment work as part of this drive and would like a second opinion, please post a note on this drive's talk page or post a note on Jreferee, Mocko13, and/or Ozgod's talk page.

Medium sections (20 to 50 articles)

 * Sports and Games, ongoing process as they're tagged.

Large sections (more than 50 articles)

 * Arts and Entertainment, all articles beginning with the Letter B: link - Done Real96 05:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Musicians, all articles beginning with the Letter B (about 175): link -- Real96 22:39, 2 March 2007 (UTC) Done
 * Musicians, working forward, but may jump around to different letters. MahangaTalk to me 19:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Done
 * Politics and Government, Alan Tonks through Albert Roy: link -- I'll do this. Real96 23:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC) Done
 * Arts and Entertainment, working backward from Z (but I wander around as well) - Awadewit Done
 * Politics and Government, working my way forwards - Awadewit 08:36, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Politics and Government, Working my way backwards. G  e  o .  Talk to me  17:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Military, working alphabetically - link - • The Giant Puffin •  10:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC) Done Real96 06:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

General sections

 * All unassessed articles (just start anywhere): link
 * Belril- starting from the top and working down.
 * Jreferee - Did Z+, and will work from Z through Y, X, W, V, etc.
 * Wizardman - Will now do I (About 1500 in I)
 * Ozgod - I will focus on X thru Z. (Z) - Complete / (Y) - Complete / (X) - Complete / (W) - Incomplete
 * Mocko13
 * GDon4t0- I will do Ma
 * RHB
 * Supergeo
 * mqmpk - I will focus on "W".  done 1900+    --Mqmpk 21:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Xevious - I'll focus on Ti for now ... current count: 250
 * Wal ton  Vivat Regina!  18:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC) - will probably start at the beginning
 * Balloonguy
 * Auroranorth. As good as done! Auroranorth 11:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC) A - incomplete
 * Scalene •UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є • Me! Me! Me! 18
 * Heidijane 13:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Happy to start from H. Current count: 85
 * Will assess some. LuciferMorgan 01:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Gzkn 08:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Er rab ee. I will work on Arts & Entertainment, Russian and Dutch people.
 * Triviaa Working from O (and random other points until completed). Currently finished over 100.
 * Looper5920 I'm in. I'll help out where I can.--Looper5920 12:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Whilding87 Doing mostly A/B. Done around 150. Whilding87 20:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oneworld25 15:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sapphic 20:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yamara 00:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC) - about 130 as of March 8
 * KingPenguin I'll do some of Gi, or wherever else. KingPenguin 03:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Kingboyk I will assess some musician articles.
 * BNutzer Various musician articles.
 * Crested Penguin 09:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC) Picking out and rating
 * Krakatoa Katie  20:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC) I began with the Ks, naturally - about 70 so far
 * Jirt Wandering around in the As
 * HornandsoccerTalk I will start in the P's, do what I can
 * Sdsouza 21:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC) am working on Indian bios to start with.
 * Edofedinburgh 02:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC) Finished Henry Ms, moving on to He as a whole.
 * NPswimdude500 — Completed Alex - 291 assessed to date.--NPswimdude500 02:58, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Staxringold - I'll give H a go for a while. Staxringold talkcontribs 23:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Cbrown1023 talk - worked on a few already and before, continue doing sporadically and in sporadic locations :). <b style="color:green;">Cbrown1023</b> <b style="color:#002bb8; font-size:smaller;">talk</b> 01:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Fang Aili talk - I'll see what I can do.

Awards
For participating in this drive, you will be awarded one or more awards by the drive's awards committee: Mocko13, Ozgod, and Jreferee. This drive has finished and the awards have been distributed.

Schedule
The following milestone schedule lists an approximate number of biographies to qualify for a particular award category:


 * Assess 1,000+ biographies: Barnstars
 * Assess 750+ biographies: WikiProject awards
 * Assess 500+ to 750+ biographies: Other awards
 * Assess 200+ biographies: Personal user awards

Nominations

 * This drive has finished. Increasing the number behind your name will not get you another award. Don't let that stop you from assessing WPBio articles though!

To receive an award, please include your name and the number of biographies you have assessed as part of this drive. Please keep a running total next to your name. Awards will be given by the drive's awards committee after this drive ends. The awards committee may award any one editor up to three awards from each of the four above awards categories. However, any editor may award another editor an award, so if you see actions taken during this drive that merit an award, please feel free to show your appreciation.


 * - 510+ articles assessed
 * - ~325 articles assessed
 * - 80 biographies assessed
 * - 1200+ biographies assessed
 * - 40 Articles
 * - 873 assessed
 * - 1405 biographies assessed
 * - 1621 biographies assessed
 * - 1000+ biographies assessed
 * - 700+ biographies assessed
 * - ~400 biographies assessed
 * - 1003 articles assessed
 * - ~30 articles assessed, just started today (3/21). Ah, well.
 * - 36 articles assessed, I started on 3/25, after the ending date.
 * - 91 Biographies assessed
 * - 220 assessed
 * - 320 assessed
 * - 336 assessed
 * - 302 biographies assessed, also thanks to this
 * - ~ 1,200 biographies assessed
 * - 231 biographies assessed
 * - ~650 biographies assessed
 * - lots biographies assessed
 * - 1900+ articles
 * - 250+ articles (just started as of March 18, 2007)
 * - 1250+ articles
 * - Started 3/19, 292 assessed to date
 * - ~430 articles, and made this :)
 * - circa 935 so far, using Microsoft Word.
 * - ~ 550+ articles
 * - 3,000+ biographies assessed
 * - ~600 assessed, mostly thanks to this; focusing on Indian Bios
 * - 208 biographies assessed, just starting
 * - 430 articles (+380 done after deadline)
 * - 720+ biographies assessed
 * - 440+ articles assessed
 * - 1000+ Assessed
 * - 2 assessed
 * - 500+ assessed
 * - 1000+ assessed
 * - 550+ articles assessed
 * - 1000+ articles assessed

What's Been Done So Far
The following is a list of sections, showing whether or not they have been completed. A section is considered completed if it has been reduced to zero articles at some point during the assessment drive, and has therefore become a simple maintenance task for WikiProject Biography.


 * Arts and Entertainment complete
 * Military complete
 * Musicians complete
 * Politics and Government
 * Royalty complete
 * Science and Academia complete
 * Sports and Games complete
 * A
 * B
 * C
 * D
 * E
 * F
 * G
 * H
 * I
 * J
 * K
 * L
 * M
 * N
 * O complete
 * P
 * Q complete
 * R
 * S
 * T
 * U complete
 * V
 * W complete
 * X complete
 * Y complete
 * Z complete