Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Assessment

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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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead. Please archive requests that are complete.
 * 1) Example -- Example (talk) 16:31, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Editorial debates
Editorial debates may include disputes over the content in articles. If such a dispute is filed for the editors' considerations, the relevant article's talk pages may be regarded as a staging ground for affairs that need to be resolved. After a consensus (that would still require some votes) debates surrounding issues like sectarianism and nationalism have paved the way for assessment of citations used in the articles on the basis of the Wikipedia's third opinion rules.

If there are citations that need to be judged and evaluated by third-party neutral peers, they need to be discussed here.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WP Pakistan project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]]FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Pakistan articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Pakistan articles)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Pakistan articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Pakistan articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Pakistan articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Pakistan articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Pakistan articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Pakistan pages)

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

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:


 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Pakistan articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Pakistan articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Pakistan articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Pakistan articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below. Rater is a very useful tool for quickly and efficiently assessing articles.

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 Pakistan.

''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.''

Statistics in a Glance
As can be seen from the graph on the right generated using data depicted in the reports of the Wikipedia editorial teams's Pakistan statistics page. The amount of assessed and unassessed articles has risen dramatically while the amount of articles declared stubs has stayed at a stable percentage increase. What is interesting is the fact that most start articles and B-class articles remain unchanged over the course and no effort is put into improving these articles. It is also visible that we are loosing touch with some featured articles that relate to Pakistan as well.

The team
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team. Please, preferably, all assessment team members should be registered users and have active home pages.