Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Assessment

The assessment segment of WikiProject Spaceflight focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Spaceflight and Space Exploration 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.

Progress
We would like to assess all Spaceflight-related articles for quality as well as importance.

Recent changes

 * Spaceflight articles by quality log


 * Spaceflight articles by importance

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WikiProject Spaceflight project banner on its talk page: To assess an article, using the rating scheme described below, fill in the parameters on the Spaceflight banner on the article's talk page:

Request new assessment
You can request an article is assessed. If you are not sure what the assessment should be or have recently done work to an article, list the article at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Assessment/Requests, along with what changes have occured since the last assessment and if you wish, quality, importance or both to be reassessed.


 * Class

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:


 * FA (for featured articles only, adds articles to Category:FA-Class spaceflight articles) [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]]
 * FL (for featured lists only, adds articles to Category:FL-Class spaceflight articles) [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]]
 * A (not currently in use, adds articles to Category:A-Class spaceflight articles) [[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * GA (for good articles only, adds articles to Category:GA-Class spaceflight articles) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]
 * B (must have passed all B-Class criteria, adds articles to Category:B-Class spaceflight articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class spaceflight articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class spaceflight articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class spaceflight articles)
 * List (adds articles to Category:List-Class spaceflight articles)

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
 * Category (adds categories to Category:Category-Class spaceflight articles)
 * Disambiguation (adds disambiguation pages to Category:Disambig-Class spaceflight articles)
 * File (adds files to Category:File-Class spaceflight articles)
 * Portal (adds portals to Category:Portal-Class spaceflight articles)
 * Project (adds project pages to Category:Project-Class spaceflight articles)
 * Redirect (adds redirects to Category:Redirect-Class spaceflight articles)
 * Template (adds templates to Category:Template-Class spaceflight articles)
 * NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class spaceflight articles)
 * ??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed spaceflight articles)


 * Importance

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:


 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance spaceflight articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance spaceflight articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance spaceflight articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance spaceflight articles)
 * NA (for all non article-space pages; book, category, disambiguation etc. Adds to Category:NA-importance spaceflight articles)

The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Quality scale
The criteria for assessing the quality of articles are based based on the assessment standards of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. When the scopes of our project and WikiProject Military history overlap, their criteria for A and B-Class status should take precedence. Otherwise:

Importance scale
The articles are rated for their importance to spaceflight. When making importance assessments, it may be helpful to ask, "How important would it be for the topic of spaceflight to include this article in an abridged version of the encyclopedia?"

Three different ways of expressing the priority of articles are currently used.


 * 1) The importance, significance and depth of the topic within its particular field or subject.
 * 2) The extent of the topic's impact, usually in the sense of "impact beyond its particular field", but it is also used to express global impact, and impact through history.
 * 3) The bottom line: how important is it for an encyclopaedia to have an article on the given topic?

These are often different ways of saying the same thing, but the current WP 1.0 summary table mixes the three approaches: Top priority is described using method 3, High and Mid priority using method 1, and Low priority using method 2.

The table below of possible spaceflight importance levels provides more detail on the meaning of the individual levels, as well as examples.