Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycling/Assessment

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

Using the banner
The Motorcycling project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every motorcycling-related article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner to significantly enhance its usefulness. The full syntax is as follows:

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


 * When a "yes" is inserted in the "image-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of motorcycles.


 * When a "yes" is inserted in the "infobox-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Motorcycling articles needing infoboxes.

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



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Motorcycling articles
 * High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Motorcycling articles
 * Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Motorcycling articles
 * Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Motorcycling articles
 * Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Motorcycling articles.

Importance scale
The assessment team have developed some criteria specific to Motorcycling articles as guidelines for deciding the importance of articles being assessed. Different criteria tables have been created for different topic groups as shown below.

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.


 * Countersteering - The article has been cleaned up. Previously, it appeared more like a discussion forum with users fighting about what countersteering is or isn't.


 * Honda CB400T - I have performed a complete rewrite on this article. The old one lacked any citations and strayed off topic without any refs to link back to the subject. It has been expanded because the CB400T moniker applied to a short lived Dream model in the UK and a much longer run of Hawk models in the US.


 * Suzuki GSX-RR - This article has been expanded consistently since it's initial evaluation in November 2014. More historical description of the prototype's development, some images and race results were added.

Assessment log

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on an intermittent basis); please do not add entries to them by hand.