Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject History of Science! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's history of science related articles (including history of technology, history of medicine, science studies, STS, etc.) While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject History of Science banner; this causes the articles to be placed into the appropriate sub-categories of Category:History of science articles by quality and Category:History of science articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get an article rated? : Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of WikiProject History of Science is free to add or change the rating of an article.
 * 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.
 * 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, 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.

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 below.


 * Prehistoric medicine: Last assessment was on the 26th January. There have been numerous additions/revisions to the article since then and is now, in my opinion, worthy of more than a 'Start'. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 17:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅. Who says this project moves slowly? Confirmed the current C-class rating. Thparkth (talk) 01:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


 * History of cell membrane theory: I recently created this article and would love to get some feedback on it. --MDougM (talk) 23:10, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Pyrotec in Jan 2010. Minimal changes to the article to then, no obvious reason to reassess now. Thparkth (talk) 01:12, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Lobotomy I've recently added this article to the History of Science. Would it be possible to get an assessment? When I initially entered the "tag" in the discussion page for the History of Science I entered my own assessment (I'm new to this :) ). So although it says the article was already assessed below, this was done by me, and not your group. So, if you could, would you mind giving it a proper assessment? Freekra (talk) 03:48, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Pyrotec in Jan 2010. Thparkth (talk) 01:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Valentin Naboth I have recently updated this article, and added it to the History of Science. I would appreciate an assessment JdH (talk) 18:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Pyrotec in December 2010. Thparkth (talk) 01:16, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


 * James Watt. Has been the subject of significant reorganization, citation and copyediting work over the last few years. Is it still C class? Thparkth (talk) 13:49, 10 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Rudolf Virchow - significant improvements in organization and content.--Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 11:17, 11 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Virginia Minnich - thanks! Biochemlife (talk) 14:46, 5 May 2018 (UTC)


 * If perchance the article Total internal reflection contains enough history to warrant its inclusion in this WikiProject, a detailed submission on its rating may be found on its talk page. — Gavin R Putland (talk) 02:10, 21 May 2019 (UTC).


 * Connaught Laboratories - newly created article. Thanks! Utl jung (talk) 15:26, 13 June 2019 (UTC)


 * A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity - semi-newly created article. It was assessed by other projects in an earlier stage of development but this project was recently added with no assessment. Thanks!Footlessmouse (talk) 20:14, 6 October 2020 (UTC)


 * God's Philosophers This article was assessed as stub-class in 2009 but I have been improving it for the past month. I believe it's ready to be assessed. ThanksBarbarianhamish (talk) 01:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Assessment log
The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here. Unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.