Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department! This department assesses the quality and importance of dog-related articles. The article ratings recognize excellent contributions and identifying topics that would benefit from further work. The ratings are recorded through the parameters in the WPDOGS project banner, which also lists the articles in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Dogs articles by quality.

Frequently asked questions
If you have any other questions not listed here, please ask them on the Talk page for this department.
 * How do I get my article rated? : By listing it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of WikiProject Dogs is free to initially provide 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 review the rating. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
 * Are the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class= and importance= parameters in the WikiProject Dogs project banner on the article's Talk page, as shown below as if in Edit mode:

Quality scale
One of the following values must be used for the class= parameter:
 * FA (adds the Featured Article to Category:FA-Class Dogs articles)
 * FL (adds the Featured List to Category:FL-Class Dogs articles)
 * FM (adds the Featured Image to Category:FM-Class Dogs articles)
 * GA (adds the article to Category:GA-Class Dogs articles)
 * B (adds the article to Category:B-Class Dogs articles)
 * C (adds the article to Category:C-Class Dogs articles)
 * Start (adds the article to Category:Start-Class Dogs articles)
 * Stub (adds the article to Category:Stub-Class Dogs articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary.)

Articles that have been quality assessed, reassessed or removed can be found listed under Dogs articles by quality log

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

Importance scale
One of the following values must be used for the importance= parameter:

The importance parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. If the importance parameter is not yet set, or contains an invalid value, the article will be assigned to Category:Unknown-importance Dogs articles.

Assessment Team members
Any member of WikiProject Dogs is free to initially provide or change the rating of an article. Any member willing to help assess at least some articles during the year is encouraged to join the Assessment Team by adding their name to the list below:

Articles for which a rating has not as yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Dogs articles.

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 on the WikiProject Dogs talk page.

To improve an assessment above B class, the evaluation needs to be done through set channels. Information on the Good Article (GA class) is here, and Featured Articles (FA class) is here.