Wikipedia:WikiProject Robotics/Assessment

Assessment Policy
Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject Robotics! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Robotics and College 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 Robotics project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Robotics articles by quality, Category:Robotics articles needing attention, Category:Robotics past collaborations, and Category:Robotics past selected articles. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. There is also Category:NA-importance Robotics articles for things like redirect pages, templates, categories, images, etc.

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : As a member of the WikiProject Robotics, you can do it yourself. Look at the ratings guidelines, then look at some other WikiProject Robotics articles that have the same rating, and assign a rating yourself.  Or, you can leave a message at the requesting an assessment link.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of WikiProject Robotics is free to add, or change, the rating of an article, but please follow the guidelines. There is a basic form for assessing at B & A class, but please refer the articles for peer review, or to the assessment team, if you are inexperienced or new to the project.
 * Requests for assessments go here, and the B & A form is here.
 * If the article is to be assessed for GA or FA status, please refer to those projects nomination pages - GA or FA.


 * 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, but anyone who assesses an article should be willing to provide their reasons when asked.
 * Where can I get more comments about my article? : Just ask, or list it for a Peer review.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : If you have looked at the guidelines and other rated articles, and you still think the rating is wrong, change it, and please leave us a message. However, people outside our project can challenge GA, A and FA ratings, so it would be a good idea to ask someone before giving yourself a GA rating, and don't even think about giving yourself an FA rating.

If you have any questions about this page, please leave a message on the discussion (talk) page for this page.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and parameters in the WikiProject Robotics project banner on its talk page. You can learn the syntax by looking at the talk pages in edit mode and by reading the info below.

This is the rating syntax (ratings and dates are samples, change to what applies to the article in question):
 * Displays the default banner, showing the project info and only ??? for the quality parameter.
 * All assessed articles should have quality filled in. Leaving the other parameters off does not hurt anything.
 * If an article needs immediate attention, add the attention tag and please leave talk notes as to why. The only valid parameter for this field is "yes". If it does not need attention, leave the parameter off.
 * If an article has been the SATM or COTF, these tags get added in this format.
 * If an article needs immediate attention, add the attention tag and please leave talk notes as to why. The only valid parameter for this field is "yes". If it does not need attention, leave the parameter off.
 * If an article has been the SATM or COTF, these tags get added in this format.
 * If an article has been the SATM or COTF, these tags get added in this format.
 * If an article has been the SATM or COTF, these tags get added in this format.

The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Robotics articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Robotics articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Robotics articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Robotics articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Robotics articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Robotics articles)
 * List (adds pages to Category:List-Class Robotics articles)
 * NA (for pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Robotics articles). This means "non-article", NOT non-applicable.
 * Template (mostly redundant)
 * Category (mostly redundant)
 * Disambig (adds disambiguation pages to Category:Disambig-Class Robotics articles)

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

Quality scale
Below is the Article Quality Scale for use by WikiProject Robotics. Please ask for assessment when trying to give this article a quality class. A, GA, FA, and FL class assessments must be made by the assessment team and any respective review/nominations. Although we do not use C-class there are articles in this class as it may be used for temporary demotions from B-class until enough work has been done to reinstate them to their original classes or due to errors in assessments.

'Be aware that renamed/moved articles'' are not by date. Articles moved several weeks or months ago will still appear under today's header'''