Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Spooks task force/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Spooks WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's novel and related 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 SpooksWikiProject talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Spooks articles by quality and Category:Spooks articles by priority, which serve as the sources for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to the WikiProject? : Just add SpooksWikiProject to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * Someone put a SpooksWikiProject template on an article, but it's not a Spooks related article. What should I do? : If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the talk page of this department (or directly with the person who tagged the article).
 * 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 Spooks 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 (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), but it's the best system WP:1.0 have been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!
 * How can I keep track of changes in article ratings? : A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here.
 * What if I have a question not listed here? : If your question concerns the article assessment process specifically, please refer to the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can ask them on the main project general forum page, or contact one of the other members directly.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and Priority parameters in the SpooksWikiProject project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Spooks articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Spooks articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Spooks articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Spooks articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Spooks articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Spooks articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Spooks pages)

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

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:


 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-priority Spooks articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-priority Spooks articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-priority Spooks articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-priority Spooks articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The priorityshould be assigned according to the priority scale below.

Priorityscale
The criteria used for rating article priority 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 literature.

''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.''

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.


 * 1) article - article request for assessment

Log
The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here.

Currently it is of modest size and can be transcluded directly.