Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Assessment

This is the WikiProject Louisville Assessment department, which focuses on 1) assessing the quality of, and 2) assigning project importance to, Wikipedia's Louisville area-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 our project banner: 

When placed on an article's talk page, this causes the article to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Louisville articles by quality and Category:Louisville articles by importance, whether you do an assessment or not.

Note: Sometimes an article will already have WikiProject United States on its talk page to accommodate other projects. In that case, simply add the following parameters to it: |Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : As a participant in WikiProject Louisville's efforts, listed or not, you can do it yourself. Follow the above directions for placing the project banner on its talk page and optionally, assess—if you choose not to assess, the article will automatically be listed under Category:Unassessed Louisville articles and someone involved in the project will eventually attend to its assessment. If you are unsure how to assess and want speedier assistance, or it is an article you changed since its last assessment and want it to be reassessed by somebody else, you may list it in the requesting an assessment section below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any participant in WikiProject Louisville, listed or not, 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? : You may ask any listed participant of the project their opinion, or make such a request on our project's talk page. You may also list it for a peer review (note: this is operated outside our project).
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : Request a reassessment for the article as described above. Alternately, you can ask any listed participant of the project to rate the article again. Also, don't forget that you can reassess the article yourself.
 * 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 our project's talk page.

Quality assessment

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

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



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

Requesting an assessment or re-assessment
To submit an article for assessment or inclusion in WikiProject Louisville, please add it to the request list.

Articles may be submitted or re-submitted at any time. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use Wikipedia's peer review department instead.

Assessment log
The assessment log and other pages on the right are generated automatically on a daily basis; please don't add entries to them by hand.