Wikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Massachusetts WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Massachusetts and its governments, people, geography, and history. 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:Massachusetts articles by quality and Category:Massachusetts 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 the Massachusetts WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
 * 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.

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 the Massachusetts.

''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.''

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.

The page for Boston University Tanglewood Institute reads much like an advertisement and may require review.

Request for assessment of Winthrop, Massachusetts due to substantial addition and revision. Jm3106jr (talk) 23:50, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

The article I created on James S. Gracey, a former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant and Massachusetts native may be of interest to this WikiProject.


 * Eaglebrook School has been improved dramatically since last assessment --Tony Tan 98 (talk) 02:30, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Please see the S. H. Couch company article. I've expanded it significantly --GanderMusings (talk) 23:16, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Please assess Pollard Memorial Library as I have just created it and it's ready for assessment. --LibraryGurl (talk) 15:54, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Please reassess Six Moon Hill a lot has changed since the assessment was made in 2006.Fothergilla (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Would very much appreciate a reassessment of Battle of Bloody Brook, as it's not a stub anymore. SuperTah (talk) 15:38, 8 February 2023 (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.