Wikipedia:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Gilbert and Sullivan WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Gilbert and Sullivan and related articles. The article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing high-quality articles and identifying articles in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the G&S-project talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Gilbert and Sullivan articles by quality and Category:Gilbert and Sullivan articles by importance.

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to the WikiProject?: Just add G&S-project to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * How can I get my article rated?: Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles?: Any member of the Gilbert and Sullivan WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article, up to B-class. Ratings of GA or FA are given through other Wikipedia processes.


 * What if I don't agree with a rating?: You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), but it's the best system WP:1.0 have been able to devise.
 * How can I keep track of changes in article ratings?: Put the articles you are concerned about on your watch list.
 * What if I have a question not listed here?: If your question concerns the article assessment process specifically, please refer to the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan, or contact one of the other members directly.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the G&S-project project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * Cat (adds articles to Category:Category-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as project pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Gilbert and Sullivan pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Gilbert and Sullivan 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 Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Gilbert and Sullivan articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Gilbert and Sullivan articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. Articles for which a valid importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Gilbert and Sullivan articles. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale 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 literature.

Requesting an assessment
Requests for assessments can be placed here.