Wikipedia:WikiProject Reformed Christianity/Assessment

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

The basic process

 * Find an article to assess (see below)
 * Assess it according to the assessment criteria (see below, under Instructions)
 * Enter your findings in the template on the talk page (see Template:WikiProject Reformed Christianity)

Finding an article to assess: the tagging process
There are a variety of ways of finding an article to tag. These include:
 * Stumbling across one in your wanderings
 * Looking at Category:Unassessed Reformed Christianity articles and Category:Unknown-importance Reformed Christianity articles
 * Assessing new items that pop up in the following categories, and don't appear in Category:WikiProject Reformed Christianity:
 * Category:Reformed Christianity and any subcategories
 * Category:Protestant Reformation
 * Pages that link to the above

Project banner template
If you see an article that should belong to this project but doesn't, please go to its talk page and add to the top of the Talk page. This creates a box that looks like

from Template:WP Reformed Christianity

Stub template
To mark an article as a stub, add the following at the bottom:

to their page. This creates a box that looks like

from Template:Reformed-Christianity-stub

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 Reformed Christianity 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.

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 WP Reformed Christianity 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 Reformed Christianity. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Reformed Christianity articles
 * High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Reformed Christianity. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Reformed Christianity articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within the field of Reformed Christianity that may or may not be commonly known outside the Reformed Christianity community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Reformed Christianity articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the field of Reformed Christianity and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Reformed Christianity articles
 * Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Reformed Christianity 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.

I made some substantial improvements to the resources for William Perkins (Puritan) and would like some feedbackReformedArsenal (talk) 23:34, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Assessment log

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