Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisiana/New Orleans task force/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject New Orleans! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's New Orleans 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 New Orleans project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:New Orleans articles by quality, Category:New Orleans articles by importance, Category:New Orleans articles needing attention, Category:New Orleans past collaborations, and Category:New Orleans past selected articles. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. There is also Category:NA-Class New Orleans articles) for things like redirect pages, templates, categories, images, etc.

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : As a member of the WikiProject New Orleans, you can do it yourself. If you're unsure, list it in the requesting an assessment section below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of WikiProject New Orleans is free to add—or change—the rating of an article, but please follow the guidelines.
 * 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.
 * Where can I get more comments about my article? : Contact WikiProject New Orleans who will handle it or assign the issue to someone. You may also list it for a Peer review.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : Relist it as a request or contact WikiProject New Orleans who will handle it or assign the issue to someone.
 * 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, or to contact the WikiProject New Orleans directly.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WikiProject New Orleans project banner on its talk page. You can learn the syntax by looking at the talk pages in edit mode and by reading the info below.

This is the rating syntax (ratings and dates are samples, change to what applies to the article in question):
 * displays the default banner, showing the project info and only ??? for the quality and importance parameters.
 * all assessed articles should have quality and importance filled in. Leaving the other parameters off does not hurt anything.
 * if an article needs immediate attention, add the attention tag and please leave talk notes as to why. "yes" is the only valid parameter here. If it doesn't need attention, leave the parameter off.
 * if an article has been the SATM or COTM, these tags get added in this format. This is the actual project tag of Philmont Scout Ranch.
 * if an article needs immediate attention, add the attention tag and please leave talk notes as to why. "yes" is the only valid parameter here. If it doesn't need attention, leave the parameter off.
 * if an article has been the SATM or COTM, these tags get added in this format. This is the actual project tag of Philmont Scout Ranch.
 * if an article has been the SATM or COTM, these tags get added in this format. This is the actual project tag of Philmont Scout Ranch.
 * if an article has been the SATM or COTM, these tags get added in this format. This is the actual project tag of Philmont Scout Ranch.

The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class New Orleans articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class New Orleans articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class New Orleans articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class New Orleans articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class New Orleans articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class New Orleans articles)
 * Needed (adds articles to Category:Needed-Class New Orleans articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class New Orleans articles). This means "non-article", NOT non-applicalbe.

Articles for which a valid class and/or importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed New Orleans 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 New Orleans articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance New Orleans articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance New Orleans articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance New Orleans articles)

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.

The following values may be used for the type parameter:


 * Article (default value) (adds articles to Category:WikiProject New Orleans articles)
 * Category (adds articles to Category:Category-Class New Orleans articles)
 * List (adds articles to Category:List-Class New Orleans articles)
 * Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class New Orleans articles)

Quality scale
Note: A B-class article should have at least one reference.

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" but which are of interest primarily to students of military history. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance.

''Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated. Rate international region/country-specific articles from the prespective of someone from that region.''

Requesting an assessment or re-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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review instead.
 * Add articles here! Newest requests on the BOTTOM
 * New Orleans diaspora - Requesting reassessment. I have worked extensively on this page, eliminated POV, brought it up to date, and it's probably at B level at this time.  Thank you.--Yachtsman1 (talk) 20:18, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * William J. Jefferson Rockules318 (talk) 14:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ronal W. Serpas -Article I created on current Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department may be of interest to WikiProject New Orleans. --TommyBoy (talk) 17:00, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Like this. (and put "(re-)assessment request" in your edit summary of this assessement page), leave reasons if a reassement.

Articles to assess

 * James Booker - ✅ Class and Importance
 * All the sites covered in List of National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana that are in Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Charles, and other parishes covered by this wikiproject, should be rated HIGH or TOP in terms of importance, by criteria above, as they are deemed to have national scope importance by their NHL designation. I've added material on most of these, could do with re-rating their class level, too. doncram (talk) 22:42, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * David Vitter &#8756; Therefore | talk 20:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC) ✅ Class and Importance
 * Stanton Moore "(re-)assessment request" more career info, info box, etc added ✅ class and importance