Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Minnesota WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the Minnesota, 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 WikiProject Minnesota project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Minnesota articles by quality and Category:Minnesota 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 Minnesota 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.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WikiProject Minnesota project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FL - The article has reached Featured list status; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Minnesota articles
 * FA - The article has reached Featured article status; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Minnesota articles
 * A - Could be submitted as a Featured article candidatebut probably could use some small updates to make it Featured quality; adds articles to Category:A-Class Minnesota articles
 * GA - The article has reached Good article status; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Minnesota articles
 * B- Could be submitted as a Good article nominee; probably could use some updates or may lack some features from the Good article criteria, but it presents a good overview of the subject; adds articles to Category:B-Class Minnesota articles
 * C - The article has an large amount of content, but lacks information and organization in areas; adds articles to Category:C-Class Minnesota articles
 * Start - The article is more than a stub, but may lack some important aspects of the topic's discussion; adds articles to Category:Start-Class Minnesota articles
 * Stub - The article is a stub; adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Minnesota articles)
 * Needed - The article does not yet exist but has been identified as a subject that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class Minnesota articles
 * List - The page is a list; adds articles to Category:List-Class Minnesota articles
 * Category - The page is a category; adds articles to Category:Category-Class Minnesota articles
 * Disambig - The article is a disambiguation page; adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class Minnesota articles
 * Portal - The page is a portal. adds articles to Category:Portal-Class Minnesota articles
 * Redirect - The article is a redirect page; adds articles to Category:Redirect-Class Minnesota articles
 * Template - The page is a template; adds articles to Category:Template-Class Minnesota articles
 * Image - The page is an image.
 * NA - For pages, such as templates, redirects, or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Minnesota articles

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

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 Minnesota.

''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.
 * 1) 1985–86 Hormel strike Requesting assessment of importance and quality for this article. JJonahJackalope (talk) 20:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) Manganese, Minnesota Requesting re-assessment of article from current assessment of Start-Class. DrGregMN (talk) 12:56, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) First Avenue (nightclub) Request for B class in advance of seeking peer review. -SusanLesch (talk) 18:14, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * 4) George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul Requesting assessment of a rather detailed article that will likely refine over time.VikingB (talk) 16:29, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 5) Withrow, Minnesota Requesting re-assesment of article from current assessment of Stub-Class. DrGregMN (talk) 22:33, 4 November 2022 (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.