Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom/Assessment

The assessment department of WikiProject United Kingdom focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's United Kingdom articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the Version 1.0 Editorial Team program.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject United Kingdom project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:United Kingdom articles by quality and Category:United Kingdom articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. 

Frequently ask questions

 * See also the general assessment FAQ


 * 1. What is the purpose of the article ratings? : The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content.  Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.
 * 2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject? : Just add WikiProject United Kingdom to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * 3. Someone put a WikiProject United Kingdom template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do? : Because of the large number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them.  If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the project talk page (or directly with the person who tagged the article).
 * 4. Who can assess articles? : Any member of the United Kingdom WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.
 * 5. How do I rate an article? : Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.
 * 6. 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.
 * 7. 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. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.
 * 8. Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are somewhat subjective, 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!
 * 9. What if I have a question not listed here? : If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page.

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 the United Kingdom.

''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. Please note that an importance rating may not be given in some cases if the reviewer is unfamiliar with the subject.

If you assess an article, please strike it off using Strike-through text so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!

Submit new requests here:


 * Metrication in the United Kingdom (NB, the importance rating was the author's own rating, an independent view would be welcome)
 * Imperial and US customary measurement systems (NB, the importance rating was the author's own rating, an independent view would be welcome)
 * Chain Home I've been fiddling with this and a re-assessment/help with the links would be appreciated.
 * Royal National Lifeboat Institution - substantially re-written and reorganised with added links, citations and pictures
 * Magic Circle (law firms) - substantially re-written and guidance on areas of improvement would be appreciated.
 * Lonsdale Belt - Have substantially expanded and changed this article. Request a quality rating. Okeeffemarc (talk) 01:14, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Town Police Clauses Act 1847 A significant expansion that would be inappropriate for me to reassess as the main recent contributor. WPCW (talk) 19:28, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 A further significant expansion that would be inappropriate for me to reassess as the main recent contributor WPCW (talk) 19:30, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The Asian Awards Please can you review this page for importance. It is up to date.
 * Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton - New article about a new British reality TV series. IronManCap (talk) 17:07, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate - Saw this article as being very complete while nominating it for a DYK and was wondering if y'all would rate it as B. Thanks! -- A. C. Santacruz  &#8258;  Talk  21:48, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 - Critical Hippo (talk) 20:45, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Census in the United Kingdom - Please review for potentially raise to 'Top', "subject that has achieved international notability within its field" BlueWren0123 (talk) 23:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Log
The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available; due to its size (ca 100 kB), it cannot be transcluded directly.