Wikipedia:WikiProject New England Public Transit/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the New England Public Transit WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's New England public transit 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.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject New England Public Transit project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:New England Public Transit articles by quality and Category:New England Public Transit articles by importance, which serve 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 New England Public Transit 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 should usually be happy to explain why they gave something the rating they did.
 * 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. Alternatively, 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 that's been devised up to now; if you have a better idea, please do make us aware of it!

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, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the WikiProject New England Public Transit project banner on its talk page:



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - The article is about a core topic of public transportation in New England. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance New England Public Transit articles.
 * High - The article is about one of the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of public transportation in New England. Adds articles to Category:High-importance New England Public Transit articles.
 * Mid - The article is about a topic of public transportation in New England that is of lesser importance compared to those in the High-importance category, but is still commonly known by people who are not New England public-transportation specialists or enthusiasts. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance New England Public Transit articles.
 * Low - The article is about a very specific New-England-public-transportation topic and is not generally common knowledge except among people who either specialise in New England public transportation or are enthusiasts about it. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance New England Public Transit articles.

All articles that lack an importance rating are categorized in Category:Unknown-importance New England Public Transit 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 add it at the bottom of the list below.

Assessment log

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.