Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Merge! This department focuses on assessing Wikipedia's merge 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. You are encouraged to add the project talk page template and boldly rate the merge related article yourself. If there is a dispute about a merge you may bring it to the assessment page for discussion.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject Merge Copied project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Merge articles by quality and Category:Merge articles by importance.

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 Merge WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
 * 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.

Quality assessments
After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Merge articles with comments.

The attention parameter is used to identify articles where immediate attention is needed. It is used in the form:




 * attention=yes (adds articles to Category:United Kingdom articles needing attention).

Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the WikiProject Merge Copied project banner on its talk page:



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

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.