Wikipedia:WikiProject Geocaching/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Geocaching! This department focuses on assessing the quality and importance of Wikipedia's Geocaching articles through the WP:1.0 program.

Assessing articles
Any user can add articles to this WikiProject by adding WikiProject Geocaching to the article's talk page. This should only be done if the article relates directly to the project scope, and if you find any articles which seem to be incorrectly tagged then they can be delisted by removing the project template from the talk page.

Articles are assessed through the |class= and |importance= parameters in their WikiProject Geocaching project template. Class is used to denote the quality of the article, and importance to denote its importance to WikiProject Geocaching. The possible values for each of these can be found in Assessment Criteria below. Often when articles are first tagged they will not be assessed on these qualities, but they will automatically be added to the project and should be assessed shortly, allowing for delay due to backlog.

Any user can assess articles for this project, even if they are not a member. However, some users prefer an outsider's opinion on articles they are closely involved in, and you can request an assessment from project members by adding the article to the list of Assessment requests below. These will be dealt with by a number of editors; if you would prefer one particular individual for some reason, it may be better to contact them through their talk page.

Ratings are often subjective and will change over time as the article develops. If you have any problems with the ratings system, you may wish to leave a message at the project talk page.

Department tasks
If you want to help the assessment department, please contribute to any of the following tasks:
 * Assessing unassessed quality articles.
 * Assessing unassessed importance articles.
 * Completing requested assessments.
 * Double-checking existing assessments. Editors do not always remember to update an article's class after improving it, and the criteria for both importance and quality change over time. Ideally, articles should have their assessments checked at least once a year.

Assessment requests
If you have made significant changes to an article on this project and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below along with your signature and any comments you wish to leave. This is not required, and you may assess the article for yourself, but any articles here should soon receive attention from a project member, who may also leave comments on the article's talk page. If you assess an article on this list, please use and to strike it through so that other editors do not waste time going there. Assessed articles will be removed periodically.

Please do not place articles which you believe to be Good Article class on this list. These have their own nomination procedures, which can be found at Good Article nominations.

'''Please do not place articles which have not yet received assessments on this list. Any unassessed article with the project tag will automatically be categorised as unassessed and will be dealt with as soon as possible.'''