Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Assessment

Article assessment is the process by which tropical cyclone articles are sorted by quality into the different quality categories. This page provides information on the assessment scale as well as the current practice of assessing articles.

Assessment scale
The scale for assessments is defined at Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment. Articles are divided into the following categories.

These criteria apply to general-content articles. Tropical cyclone articles have additional criteria/guidelines about what sorts of content and formatting should be provided for an article of each class; see the talk page for discussion of these.

Each tropical cyclone article has its assessment included inside the hurricane template, such as  . This provides automatic categorization within Category:Tropical cyclone articles by quality. Note that the class parameter is case-specific; see the template's documentation for more information.

B-Class criteria
In addition to the above, B-Class articles for the WikiProject should meet the following six criteria:

Assessment guidelines
The following are assessment guidelines for season articles:
 * Stub class — Lacking the inclusion of each named (or nameable) storm
 * Start class — Every storm is mentioned
 * B class — Every storm has at least one paragraph for storm history and one for impact (if impact exists)
 * GA class — Covers everything well; before nominating, should include metric units, inline sourcing, and multiple paragraphs outside of the storm section (either in lede or a season summary section); nominated at WP:GAC and passed
 * A class — Season summary as well as an appropriately-long lead (two or more paragraphs, minimum), every section complete, any records about the season mentioned, non-breaking spacing (&amp;nbsp;) between numbers and their units
 * FA class — Passes FAC

Assessment process
Current practice is that Stub-Start-C-B assessments are done by individual editors when looking at an article. While usually it only takes a short time for assessors to identify new articles in Category:Unassessed Tropical cyclone articles, editors can request a review here if it is taking too long to assess an article.

Before upgrading articles to A-Class, the article should be discussed here to make sure everyone agrees that it meets the criteria listed above. This process is called an "A-Class review". To create a new A-Class review discussion, add the article to be assessed in a sub-section of the section below. Give the article's exact name in the title with a wikilink. Finally, add the "assessed=yes" parameter to the hurricane template near the talk of the article's talk page. Don't bundle more than one article per section, as that causes "assessed=yes" to point to a dead link.

Once the article is A-Class, you should probably get general peer review on it and then follow the normal process for promoting the article to featured status. Peer review (PR) and FA candidates (FAC) should be announced here to get more tropical-cyclone-specific comments from WPTC editors.

Finally, to prevent the page from becoming too long, archive an assessment discussion using the following form (replacing PAGENAME with the name of the article to archive):

Article assessments
If you want an editor to quickly assess a newly-created article, list it here below. Reviewers: If you review an article in here, go ahead and remove it from the list.



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If you don't find a storm, and its talk page marks it as assessed, look for it in the archives. Please add new assessments to the TOP of this list.

Assessment log
A bot-maintained log of all assessment changes of WP:WPTC articles can be found at WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Assessment Log.