Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Ireland WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to Ireland. 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 Ireland project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Ireland articles by quality and Category:Ireland 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 Ireland WikiProject 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!
 * Where do I find a list of new Irish related articles? : A new Ireland Search Results list is produced almost daily and older results (since September 2007) are archived here.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Quality assessments
After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.


 * When a "yes" is inserted in the "image-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ireland.


 * When a "yes" is inserted in the "attention'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Ireland articles needing attention.


 * When a "yes" is inserted in the "infobox-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Ireland articles needing infoboxes.

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



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Ireland articles
 * High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Ireland articles
 * Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Ireland articles
 * Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Ireland articles
 * Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Ireland articles.

Importance scale
The assessment team have developed some criteria specific to Irish articles as guidelines for deciding the importance of articles being assessed. Different criteria tables have been created for different topic groups as shown below.

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. Archived requests


 * Declan Costello I made a major expansion to the article in January 2022, and it seems like the last assessment was in 2010. I have also placed the article up for Good Article nomination. However, another user has encouraged me to have the article re-assessed and see if it reaches B Category before the GA assessment occurs. CeltBrowne (talk) 17:37, 4 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran Johannes Schade (talk) 21:06, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Uprated from Start to C. Close to B but would need a little more substance on the midlife aspect - there's a high weighting on the family / early life, and the titles / succession, but a shortfall beyond brief military career data. For the material that is present, referencing is decent, and the picture is appropriate. SeoR (talk) 14:41, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * James Larkin Highly edited and expanded since last assessment, currently rated as C level - Grosseteste(talk) 19:36, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * In the meantime, this was correctly uprated to B. It is not sufficiently well-referenced to reach GA (we don't do A in this project, but there is a very recent GA Review). SeoR (talk) 14:41, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Beekeeping in Ireland Over the past couple of years there has been many improvements and sources added to this wiki page and I feel that a rating of B-Class for Quality Scale for this WikiProject Ireland page would bee more appropriate. -- Bibby Bibby (talk) 15:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I think there is material for B, but I am not convinced, having read over this, and looked at some sources, that the current article meets the spirit of the level, due to unbalanced coverage and essay-like sections. I will come back to this, as the article (like one or two other heavily cross-edited pages with strong links to one or more membership associations). SeoR (talk) 23:15, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Requesting the following:


 * Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland
 * A pleasure to read, a clear B, and with a bit of work, could be made GA-ready. SeoR (talk) 23:27, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Irish Rebellion of 1641 - expanded in Oct 2020, last assessed in 2014.
 * A tricky topic, and an article with a messy history and multiple accusations of PoV, etc. - but I think a clear B anyway. I will revisit with copyedit pen, with due caution, in a while. SeoR (talk) 23:42, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Portadown massacre - expanded in Oct 2020, last assessed by WP:IE and WP:MIL in 2019.
 * Quite a bit of better so have upped the rating to C in line with the current Military project's rating. All project rating should be the same. ww2censor (talk) 11:28, 7 January 2022 (UTC)


 * First Dáil - expanded in Jan 2019, last assessed in 2014.
 * Small improvements but certainly a C-class now. ww2censor (talk) 11:28, 7 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Black and Tans - expanded in Jan 2020, last assessed by WP:IE in 2014 and by WP:MIL in 2013.
 * A fine balance between C and B, but in the end, I think it meets the requirements for B. I'd like to see parts fleshed out a bit, including more detail on operations, command structure and culture, but these are not mandatory for B. SeoR (talk) 23:28, 10 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Sack of Balbriggan - expanded in Sep 2020, last assessed by WP:IE and WP:MIL in 2017.
 * A solid C, no more but should not be hard to expand and reference to B. SeoR (talk) 23:28, 10 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Bloody Sunday (1920) - expanded in Nov 2020, last assessed by WP:IE and WP:MIL in 2010.
 * Moving to B after review, a really solid piece of work now (a great pity not revisited in near-12 years). While more supporting material, such as a map, would be nice, the criteria are quite clear that this is not a barrier. Informative over a decent range of sub-topics, and with moderate work could try for GA. SeoR (talk) 23:39, 10 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Bloody Sunday (1921) - expanded in Jul 2021, last assessed by WP:IE in 2015 and by WP:MIL in 2019.
 * I will look again when fresh tomorrow but for now, my instinct, honed by many thousands of reviews, says C is correct, and a bit more depth and context would be ideal for B. But it's a close thing., could you opine too? SeoR (talk) 23:48, 10 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hill of Uisneach - expanded in May 2019, last assessed in 2010.
 * A very robust C, and if upscaled just a bit, B is in reach. SeoR (talk) 08:54, 19 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hill of Tara - expanded in May 2019, last assessed in 2011.
 * Nicely taken further, to B, a good review of a big topic. With a bit more extraction from the vast range of scholarly and other sources, this one can be a strong GA-or-better candidate. SeoR (talk) 08:54, 19 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Navan Fort - expanded in Oct 2016, last assessed in 2010.
 * ~Asarlaí 23:59, 5 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, will take these on... SeoR (talk) 11:09, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to re-assess these, SeoR, it's much appreciated. ~Asarlaí 15:50, 15 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Bar of Ireland - Last assessed in 2009. Significantly expanded and redrafted throughout the years since.
 * ~89.101.133.50 (talk) 15:17, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Changed the rating to a C, it may be a B but I'd need to confer on that! Sarah777 (talk) 02:58, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

To-do / plans
Now that all articles identified as relevant have been assessed, suggestions for the next works are welcome. I suggest, for example:
 * Resolve NA articles with ratings, they should either be stripped out of the project or set to NA / NA status (this group primarily consists of redirects).
 * Revisit the question of tabulating Redirect items distinctly, as raised on the Talk page before.
 * Review the selection in the Top prio group. I imagine that around 1% of the substantive article base is a good level, and up to 2% would be OK.  Right now I see only 1-2 I would not be sure about having in this level, but there may be some more in High which should be considered.  We could then also review High.  Below that I would not go, leaving Mid and Low to be assigned or reassessed "on the go". SeoR (talk) 10:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Assessment log

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