Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses/Assessment

W elcome to the assessment department of the Lighthouses WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles on Lighthouses. 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 Lighthouses project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Lighthouses articles by quality and Category:Lighthouses articles by importance, which serve 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 contributor to the Lighthouses WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
 * How can I rate an article? : Check the Grading and Article importance schemes below, and select the level that best matches the article; then, add the ratings to the project banner on the articles' talk page. Example:  
 * 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.

Grading scheme
Members of this WikiProject should follow the Wikipedia standard grading scheme. An articles' assessment grade is generated from the class parameter in the WikiProject Lighthouses project banner on its talk page:

Article importance
The criteria used for ranking article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the object or person is from the perspective of someone from that region.''

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 request an assessment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lighthouses. Thanks!