Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Quality Control

Always on-going tasks

 * Assess the quality and importance of "unassessed" articles
 * Re-assess the quality and importance of "Mid" and "Low" importance articles

Quality scale
A scale for rating the quality of Wikipedia articles with detailed description can be found at Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment.

Importance scale

 * Top: Fundamental and famous physics. Any physics article listed in Vital articles or Core topics - 1,000.
 * High: Important or famous. Something an undergraduate physics major could have heard of or studied.
 * Mid: Cover articles that pretty much only people in the know heard about, while not being over-specialized.
 * Low: Everything else

People

 * Top: People who made fundamental or very famous contributions to physics in general.
 * Examples: Albert Einstein (foundation of special and general relativity), Marie Curie (discovery of radioactivity), Niels Bohr (Bohr's model), Ernest Rutherford (discovery of the nucleus), James Chadwick (discovery of neutron), Richard Feynman (foundation of quantum electrodynamics), Isaac Newton (foundation of classical mechanics), Galileo Galilei (use of the telescope for astronomy, amongst other things), Nicolaus Copernicus (Copernican model), Johannes Kepler (Kepler's Laws), James Clerk Maxwell (Maxwell's Equations)...
 * High: People who made major or famous contributions within their field (usually, but not always, people with effects or experiments named after them).
 * Examples: Walter H. Schottky, Michael Faraday, all physics Nobel Prize laureates (other than those already in "Top") and those who won other Nobel prizes that are physics related, ...
 * Mid: Generally people who made important contributions to their fields who are recognized by their peers. All physicists who won major prizes or awards besides the Nobel Prize. All physicists who developed or invented widely used techniques within physics.
 * Examples: Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock (Hartree–Fock method), Robert H. Dicke (lock-in amplifiers), Karl D. Swartzel Jr. (op-amps), ...

Topics

 * Top: The Physics article, along with major divisions of theory (e.g., List of basic physics topics) and research:
 * Examples: Classical electrodynamics, Classical mechanics, Quantum mechanics, General relativity, Optics, Solid state physics, Condensed matter physics, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics, ...
 * Particle constituents of ordinary matter and light: Proton, neutron, electron, subatomic particle, elementary particle, quark and photon
 * High: Important topics within "top importance fields":
 * Examples:
 * Classical Mechanics: Torque, Centripetal force, Centrifugal force, Coriolis force, ...
 * Classical Electrodynamics: Electric field, Magnetic field, Lorentz force, ...
 * Thermodynamics: Pressure, Enthalpy, Fermi–Dirac distribution, Bose–Einstein distribution...
 * Solid-state physics: Band theory, Crystallography, Doping, Diode, phonon, ...
 * Quantum field theory: Symmetry, Feynman diagrams, CPT invariance, ...
 * Physical Constants: Elementary charge, Planck's constant, fine-structure constant, speed of light, ...
 * Elementary Particles: Leptons, force carriers, hadrons (baryons, mesons), atoms, neutrinos, the individual quarks, antimatter...
 * Mid: Subdivisions of "high importance" physics categories:
 * Examples:
 * Crystallography: Bragg diffraction, Miller indices, Crystal structure, Reciprocal lattice...
 * Optics: Polarization, plane wave, nonlinear optics, Brewster's angle, ...
 * Quantum Electrodynamics: Self-energy, Self-interaction, Yukawa potential,...
 * Particle physics: Most hypothetical elementary particles, most composite particles.
 * Quasiparticles: magnon, soliton, polaron, polariton, ...
 * Low: Further subdivisions of fields, disproved or abandoned theories:
 * Examples:
 * Particle physics: hypothetical composite particles; hypothetical elementary particle which are not predicted by any currently mainstream theory (e.g. preon).

Experiments

 * Top: Famous experiments, first discoveries of major phenomena, first measurements of a fundamental constant (please update experimental physics accordingly).
 * Examples: The Cosmic microwave background radiation and its discovery, Cavendish experiment, Rutherford experiment, Stern–Gerlach experiment, Michelson–Morley experiment, double-slit experiment ...
 * High: Common undergraduate experiments, or important or famous industry methods:
 * Examples: Franck–Hertz experiment, e/m experiment, Czochralski process, ...
 * Mid: Typical experiments performed in "mid importance" topics, famous refinements to the measurements of a fundamental constant or properties of a material, well known industry methods:
 * Examples: Z-scan technique

Theories

 * Top: Important and well known theories:
 * Examples: Newton's laws, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Maxwell's equations, Special relativity, Standard Model, Atomic theory, ...
 * High:
 * Examples: Ising model, Band theory, Brownian motion, ...
 * Mid:
 * Examples: Drude model, Sommerfeld model, Debye model, Einstein model,

Equations

 * Top: Key equations of top rated theories. Very well known equations.
 * Examples: E = mc²
 * High: Major or famous equations:
 * Examples: Bernoulli's principle, Archimedes' principle
 * Mid:
 * Examples: Drag equation

Institutions

 * Top:
 * Examples: CERN
 * High: Major or famous institutes and laboratories:
 * Examples: LHC, Fermilab, Bell Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...
 * Mid:
 * Examples: KEK

Publications

 * Top: None
 * High: Famous landmark papers and publications.
 * Examples: Einstein's Annus Mirabilis papers, Newton's Principia, ...
 * Mid:High impact physics journals. Books famous enough to be known by their author only to most of the physics community. Famous popular science publications.
 * Examples: Classical Electrodynamics, Course of Theoretical Physics, Physical Review, A Brief History of Time, The Elegant Universe, ...

Equipment

 * Top: Very important instruments, which entire fields of science are based on:
 * Examples: Laser, spectrograph, particle accelerator...
 * High: Important instruments
 * Examples: Multimeter, Cyclotron, Oscilloscope, Weighing scale, ...
 * Mid: Important instruments within specialized fields:
 * Examples: E-beam, Magnetic sensor, ...

Miscellaneous

 * Top: Fundamental or very famous physics and physics related topics
 * Examples: elementary charge, mass, force, momentum, energy, entropy ...
 * Top: Important elements:
 * Hydrogen (simplest), carbon (biochemistry), oxygen (breathing), silicon (electronics), uranium (nuclear power) ...
 * Top: Top X visited sites
 * Examples: Most will also be represented already, but it is a good check
 * High: Major or famous phenomena
 * Examples: Ultraviolet catastrophe, Cherenkov radiation, Interference, Rayleigh scattering, free-fall, refraction, gravitational lens ...
 * High: Common units
 * Examples: Those listed in the articles SI base units, SI derived units, and cgs, plus others such as electronvolt, ...
 * Mid:
 * Examples:

Lists

 * Top: Lists of "fundamental" stuff:
 * Examples:
 * List of physical constants
 * List of elementary particles
 * List of atoms
 * List of quasiparticles
 * High: List of physicists.
 * High: List of SI, cgs, and non-SI units approved by the BIPM.
 * Mid: Lists of "important" stuff:
 * Examples:
 * List of material-specific constants
 * Lists of material-specific properties
 * Lists of isotopes by elements

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