Wikipedia:WikiProject Inheritance Cycle/Assessment

Quality: FA-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | Start-Class | Stub Class | Unassessed

Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Unknown

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Inheritance Trilogy! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Inheritance Trilogy 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

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

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to the WikiProject? : Just add Wpinheritance 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 Inheritance Trilogy WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
 * 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 (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the Wpinheritance project banner on its talk page:



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]]FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Inheritance Trilogy articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Inheritance Trilogy articles)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Inheritance Trilogy articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Inheritance Trilogy articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Inheritance Trilogy articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Inheritance Trilogy articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Inheritance Trilogy pages)

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

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Inheritance Trilogy articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. 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".

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.

Example assessments
To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.

Quality


 *   - to rate an article at FA-Class
 *   - to rate an article at A-Class
 *   - to rate an article at GA-Class
 *   - to rate an article at B-Class
 *   - to rate an article at Start-Class
 *   - to rate an article at Stub-Class
 *   - to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance


 *   - to rate an article at Top importance
 *   - to rate an article at High importance
 *   - to rate an article at Mid importance
 *   - to rate an article at Low importance

Battle of Burning Plains
I think this is atleast a B-class. I think I'm gonna put it up for GA-class. Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk) 21:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Eldest
This is obviously better than B-class. What should it be rated? I don't want to nominate it for GA, but I know it's not quite A-class. Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk) 15:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm working on the summary and character sections on MS-Word. When I'm done, it'll hopefully be near FA standard. Till then try to nominate for GA.-- May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|)  18:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been told that it's not the best idea to nominate an article for GA while under peer review. So, maybe we should just wait. Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk) 19:32, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Eragon (video game) (yes, again)
I've spent a good few hours working on this article and I'd like to hear what you think has become of it and what needs to be done to improve it further. UnaLaguna 21:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * This article has come a long way since I started editing it. It now has some more references, a few extra sections and is slightly longer. It's by no means perfect. I'm going to take a break from editing this article and work on the article of a game which I actually own. I suspect it hasn't made it to B-class, but what's the harm in adding it here? UnaLaguna 06:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)