Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/24 task force/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the 24 Wikiproject ! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's 24 articles. 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 24 talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:24 articles by quality, which serves as the sources for an automatically generated worklist.

A committee is being formed to help with the assessment of 24 related articles

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : As a member of the WikiProject 24, you can do it yourself. If you're unsure, list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of the WikiProject 24 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.
 * Where can I get more comments about my article? : Contact (to be determined) who will handle it or assign the issue to someone.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : Relist it as a request or contact (to be determined) who will handle it or assign the issue to someone.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Classes should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Australia.

''Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''