Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand Railways/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject NZR! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's UK Railways 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   project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:New Zealand Railways articles by quality, 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 WikiProject NZR 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, 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   project banner on its talk page:



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - The article is about one of the core topics of New Zealand Railways as listed in Train topics. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance NZR articles
 * High - The article is about the basic technologies and infrastructures or the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of New Zealand Railways. Adds articles to Category:High-importance NZR articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within New Zealand Railways that may or may not be commonly known outside the New Zealand Railways industry. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance NZR articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within New Zealand Railways and is not generally common knowledge outside the New Zealand Railways industry. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance NZR articles

All articles that lack an importance rating are categorized in Category:Unknown-importance New Zealand Railways 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.


 * 1) article name here with coments

Assessment log

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