Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana/Indianapolis/Assessment

This is the assessment department to WikiProject Indianapolis. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Indianapolis articles. 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 Indianapolis project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Indianapolis articles by quality and Category:Indianapolis articles by importance. The quality and importance ratings described below serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Template
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WikiProject Indianapolis banner on its talk page. As a member of this subproject, you can rate articles within our scope.

Usage
Please note: This template should be transcluded (WikiProject Indianapolis) and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the project's talk pages without having to edit thousands of pages.

Field descriptions

 * class : Options are FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, List, Category, Template, and NA (Not available). If blank, this will default as Unassessed.
 * Descriptions of the options can be found at WikiProject Indianapolis Colts/Assessment.


 * importance : Options are Top, High, Mid, Low, and NA (non-article). If blank, this will default as Unknown importance.
 * Descriptions of the options can be found at WikiProject Indianapolis Colts/Assessment.

Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute 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 Colts (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).