Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Atlanta task force/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Atlanta task force! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Atlanta related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the Version 1.0 program for publication of a stable version of Wikipedia, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Any Atlanta task force member may assess an article, with the exception of two levels: FA-class and GA-class. These two levels can only be awarded after passing the corresponding candidacy WP:FAC for Featured Article class, and WP:GAC for Good Article class. The complete level breakdown is explained in detail below.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the  project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles by quality and Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles by importance. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. 

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : As a member of the Atlanta task force, you can do it yourself. If you're unsure, list it in the requesting an assessment section below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of the Atlanta task force is free to add—or change—the rating of an article, but please follow the guidelines.
 * 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? : Contact the Atlanta task force who will handle it or assign the issue to someone. You may also list it for a Peer review.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : Relist it as a request or contact the Atlanta task force who will handle it or assign the issue to someone.
 * 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 discussion page for this department, or to contact the Atlanta task force directly.

Quality scale
Articles covered by Atlanta task force are assessed based on the level of content they provide. Any user may assess an article, with the exception of two levels: FA-class and GA-class. These two levels can only be awarded after passing the corresponding candidacy WP:FAC for FA-class, and WP:GAC for GA-class. The level breakdown is explained in detail below.

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 hagiography. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance.

''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. Rate international region/country-specific articles from the perspective of someone from that region.''

Requesting an assessment or re-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 below. Super Bowl XXXIII, It is not a top article on the importance scale, according wp:atl.
 * 1) Add articles here! Newest requests on the BOTTOM
 * 2)  (and put "(re-)assessment request" in your edit summary of this assessment page), leave reasons if a reassessment.
 * 1)  (and put "(re-)assessment request" in your edit summary of this assessment page), leave reasons if a reassessment.