Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Assessment log

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject United States Public Policy! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the full spectrum of U.S. public policy topics. Assessment is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, and 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 United States Public Policy project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:United States Public Policy articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WikiProject United States project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the class parameter:


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

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed United States Public Policy articles. The class 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 the United States.

''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:



Assessment log

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

Worklist

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.