Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Assessment

This is a guide to assessing articles for WikiProject Severe weather.

The basic concept
Articles are assessed on a scale of class and importance. The class of an article is a measure of how complete, well-organized, accurate, and all-around nice-looking it is. The importance of an article is a measure of how essential it is to the completeness of the subject which this WikiProject covers&mdash;in this case, severe weather. For more details on class categories, keep reading

Assessments can be done by any member of the project, and it is fairly simple to do. Simply adding the severe template to an article's talk page, and the article will appear on the Severe weather assessment page. More details on how to use this template, keep reading.

Class
The class of an article can usually be assessed simply by glancing over the article. While most classes can be assessed by any editor, some require specialized processes. This table is partially adapted from Grading scheme.

Importance
Assessing the importance of an article is one part guidelines below, one part common sense. Importance assessments can be done by any editor.

Using the template
When using the WikiProject Weather template, there are several important rules to remember. For the page to be included in the task force should be used
 * To assess a page, first decide at which of the above levels it should be assessed.
 * Add the text, with the appropriate assessment code following each "=" sign. A few examples are as follows:
 * For a Start-Class, Low-importance article, add the text to the article's talk page.
 * For an FA-Class, High-importance article, add the text
 * For a Future-Class, Mid-importance article, add the text
 * For a Cat-Class, No-importance article (remember that Dab, Template, and Cat class should always have No-importance), add the text
 * Always capitalize the assessment code! The assessment list will break if you use lower-case.  It is important that the text appear as above.
 * All the above suggestions/rules must be taken into account while assessing, but editors have a good deal of freedom in their assessments.