Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse racing/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Horse Racing! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about horse races and race horses. 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.

Importance scale
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the Horse racing project banner on its talk page:



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 the English 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 the law.

The following values may be used for importance assessments: