Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Kentucky! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Kentucky related 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 project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Kentucky articles by quality and Category:Kentucky 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 WikiProject Kentucky 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!

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.

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



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Kentucky articles
 * High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Kentucky articles
 * Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Kentucky articles
 * Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Kentucky articles

Articles needing attention
If an article is in need of immediate attention (proper sourcing, significant cleanup, etc.), please denote this using the template as follows:

This will add the article to Category:Kentucky articles needing attention. Also, add your concerns to the article's talk page, so an editor wishing to address the problem(s) can focus his or her efforts.

Please review this category from time to time to see if you can help with an article needing attention. Once the major problems have been addressed, please remove the attention notation from the template on the talk page.

Merge action needed
When you propose a merge involving a WikiProject Kentucky article, please denote this using the template as follows:

This will add the article to Category:Kentucky articles needing merge action.

Please review this category from time to time to see if you can help reach a consensus on the proposed merge. Once a consensus is reached (and the merge is performed, if appropriate), please remove the merge notation from the template on the talk page.

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:


 * Request assessment of Kentucky Public Radio, which was recently created. Thank you. Dannydeep 17:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Request assessment of WKMS which has recently undergone significant updating and expansion. Thank you. Dannydeep 8:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Request assessment of Williamsburg, Kentucky which as recently been updated and expanded. Timothyjwood (talk) 17:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Request re-assessment of Paxton Media Group. — Mustang_DVS (talk | contribs) 16:40, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Request a re-assessment of Sam Bush article. Thanks.  May 31, 2008.


 * Request assessment of Kentucky Foundation for Women article which has recently been updated and expanded. March 10, 2008


 * I would like an assessment done for my article Paintsville High School . Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk 01:07, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * C-class. I did a copedit for grammar and syntax, but more references are needed, and the online references need to be re-checked. I could not find relevant information at Reference #1. Boneyard90 (talk) 18:09, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Can someone reassess the article on Johnson County, Kentucky? I have made some improvements to the article, and would like to know what else I can do to improve its quality. Thank you!!! Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk 16:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Request for attention and assessment to the article on Johnson Central High School; Improvement necessary-- so feel free to add and edit. Eric LeMaster (EricLeMaster)


 * Request an assessmment of Jacob Golladay. I've expanded the article from the Congressional Directory stub it used to be, and would welcome suggestions for what more needs doing/where to access additional records to flesh this out. Euryalus 22:51, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Request an assessment of Kelenna Azubuike article. Possibly ready for B-class. Thanks. WikiGuy86 (talk) 00:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Request an assessment of Rockcastle Regional Hospital and Respiratory Care Center. Recently created JohnRLambert (talk) 16:44, 26 May 2011 (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.