Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Illinois WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Illinois. 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 Illinois project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:WikiProject Illinois articles by quality and Category:WikiProject Illinois articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * 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 Illinois WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
 * 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.

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



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Illinois, which also includes any FA rated article. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance WikiProject Illinois articles
 * High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Illinois. Also, anything that is of GA quality will be assessed as being High for the project. Adds articles to Category:High-importance WikiProject Illinois articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within the Illinois field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Illinois community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance WikiProject Illinois articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Illinois field and is not generally common knowledge outside the Illinois community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance WikiProject Illinois articles
 * Unknown - Any article which is not assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance WikiProject Illinois articles.

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 Illinois.

''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 certain audiences—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''

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 by adding new articles to the top.
 * Pottawatomie Park – Just created this article and I'm looking for an assessment. Dan • ✉ 06:28, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Tony McCombie - Overhauled it. JohnHawkinsBois (talk)
 * ✅ Buffalo Grove, Illinois Updated it substantially. YourJudge (talk) 19:16, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Bethalto, Illinois I've just went through a pretty substantial rewrite and the article hasn't been assessed since 2007 when it was given a "Start-Class" rating. Illinois2011 (talk) 17:57, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Cahokia Heights, Illinois New city in the St. Louis area, still unassessed. Illinois2011 (talk) 17:57, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Community Consolidated School District 62 (Illinois) Hasn't been assessed but I'm certain it's far from Stub-class. Halo2986 (talk) 19:52, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt This article was previously listed as Start-class back in 2007, whereas looking at it now it's clear significant expansion has taken place. I would think C or B class might be more appropriate. Anyway let me know. Thanks. -- Shibboleth ink (♔ ♕) 03:27, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Crete-Monee High School This article previously received a Stub-class rating. I am requesting a reassessment following significant changes including new content, new sections to improve readability, updates to stats that were 5-yrs old, and reformatting to preserve consistency. I am hoping to upgrade from stub to either start or C class. This article also needs an importance rating as one was not given with the previous class rating. Thanks. TRUsmith (talk) 08:42, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Adolphson Observatory Please assess this article. Thanks Rami.shareef (talk) 23:23, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Monmouth College This article needs assessment, substantial enhancements performed recently including writing, structure, photos, and over 60 new citations have been added. I am looking to upgrade from start to either B or C class. Thanks. Rami.shareef (talk) 16:27, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Townsend F. Dodd Huge addition of content and rewrite. T artarus  talk 23:33, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Richard M. Daley Substantial recent revisions. Request feedback from WP:WikiProject Illinois editor(s), hopefully upgrade C->B. Thanks! Hugh (talk) 20:21, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Plano, Illinois--has been completely reworked since last rating (as rated by User:Kranar drogin)&mdash; Preceding signed comment added by me, My Ubuntu (talk) 00:27, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Bernard Stone - This article needs assessment, upgrade from Start. Thanks! Hugh (talk) 02:56, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Edward M. Burke - This article needs assessment, upgrade from Start. Thanks! Hugh (talk) 06:29, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Joseph Berrios - With the recent peer review and edit completed, this article needs assessment, upgrade from Start. Thanks! (Hugh (talk) 05:18, 3 February 2012 (UTC))
 * Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital - This article has recently been moved from Lake Forest Hospital and updated from stub-quality content to a more complete article. With the Northwestern affiliation and significant NorthShore expansion, could someone please re-rate? Thanks. --je (talk) 18:15, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Society of Actuaries - In addition to an article quality review (upgrade from Start to C class?), I'd like to request having a more experienced editor look at the three warning templates I removed (after making substantial edits to fix the problems) to see if they agree that the problems have indeed been resolved. Thanks. Renevith (talk) 02:43, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2008 current federal elections should be High Importance rather than Mid
 * United States Senate election in Illinois, 2008 although it would be a shocking upset if Durbin weren't re-elected, the result is still of High Importance to those outside of Illinois
 * Otto Frederick Hunziker The article has recently been listed as a good article under the good article criteria and should probably now hold a quality rating of GA or A Class. Could someone reassess both the quality and importance rating?  The importance rating is set at low.  If this rating remains at low, I would prefer that the article be removed from WikiProject Illinois altogether.--Rpclod (talk) 12:54, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Helen Shiller Hugh (talk) 22:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Michael Howlett
 * ✅ USS Illinois (BB-7)
 * ✅ USS Illinois (BB-65) - have expanded to A-class at WP:MILHIST and WP:SHIPS, and is currently a Featured Article Candidate.-MBK004 (talk) 03:50, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ward Hill Lamon
 * ✅ Abraham Lincoln, currently can't change this from a B until it is upgraded to a GA through a nomination.--Kranar drogin 15:36, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ Abraham Lincoln assassination
 * ✅ Alan Keyes
 * ✅ Marist High School (Chicago, Illinois)
 * ✅ Wheaton North High School
 * ✅ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
 * I would like the assistance of someone who can help me to determine the A-class articles in Category:GA-Class_Chicago_articles. If your A-class assessment division is up and running please help.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:16, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ Illinois High School Association - this article was rated start/mid importance, but I have added some considerable content, and most importantly added a great many citations LonelyBeacon 20:46, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Assessment log

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.