Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Mammals! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Mammals 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the MaTalk project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Mammal articles by quality and Category:Mammal articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to the WikiProject? : Just add MaTalk to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * 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 Mammals WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis!
 * 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? : The Status requester can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
 * 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 (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!
 * How can I keep track of changes in article ratings? : A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistics may be more accessible.

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

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the MaTalk project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]] FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class mammal articles)
 * [[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]] A (adds articles to Category:A-Class mammal articles)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class mammal articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class mammal articles)
 * C {adds articles to Category:C-Class mammal articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class mammal articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class mammal articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article mammal pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed mammal articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

Any article which does not have an importance parameter assigned is automatically placed in the Category:Unknown-importance mammal 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.
 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance mammal articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance mammal articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance mammal articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance mammal articles)

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 that are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students.

''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.''

Importance standards
To be filled later

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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.


 * please write request here
 * Riparian myotis
 * Whippomorpha
 * Gabon talapoin Hi! I've expanded this article I'm hoping to improve it to a B-class! Would really appreciate it if anyone could take a look at it in the next few days. Thank you! NoEsPu102 (talk) 14:22, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Nubian ibex I vastly expanded this article to include ecology, conservation, physiology, phylogeny, cultural significance, and other elements. I would like to request a re-evaluation on the quality scale --Bbreslau (talk) 21:11, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Update: Thank you again for the recent upgrade from Start Class to C-Class. I've continued to add in-depth information with many primary sources, and would like to request an assessment for B-Class and GA. Best regards Bbreslau (talk) 09:07, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Participants
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team



Example assessments
To assess an article, place onto the article's talk page.

Log
The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here. Unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.