Wikipedia:WikiProject Venezuela/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject Venezuela! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Venezuela articles. While 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 Venezuela or project banners; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Venezuela articles by quality, Category:Venezuela articles by importance

How to rate
To rate an article, add



parameters inside the project banner, replacing X and Y with one of the quality/class and importance ratings respectively. For example:



Look at the wikitext of some relevant talk pages for further examples.

What is A-class?
WikiProjects carry out A-class reviews in the same way the other letter grade quality assessments are made; unlike WP:GA and WP:FA, it doesn't denote standardized Wikipedia value, though it is placed between the two in terms of how good the article should be, particularly in its subject-matter context. There are currently no A-class Venezuela articles.

How is an article assessed as A-class?
A-class isn't generally handed out, so if you feel a Venezuela-related article qualifies, please create a subpage via the form below, and create an entry on the Assessment talk page and the Project talk page by adding  in a new section. Here, editors who have been uninvolved with editing the article to its current standard will assess if the article meets the A-class criteria on the separate review page — this allows the assessment to be archived.

What are the A-class criteria?
The Wikipedia A-class criteria can be found at WP:A? and WP:ASSESS. An A-class article is considered complete. This means that there is no element of the subject that is not covered to a satisfactory level; this goes further than the GA standard of "appropriate coverage", where all important elements of the subject should be covered to an informative degree, but not as far as the FA "total coverage", where everything that would come up in a google search is included. An A-class article provides a non-subject expert with everything they will need, whereas a GA article may leave a gap where some element may be more comprehensively covered elsewhere, and an FA article should provide for even subject experts, within the constraints of best sourcing practice. An A-class article is assessed by the WikiProject to ensure it is high or top quality in relation to the specific subject; while this is encouraged for GA, it is not essential, and GA articles are Good per cross-Wikipedia standards of style and coverage. FA combines the two.

An A-class article is consistently cited with good and reliable sources. Preferably following a formal citation template, and using a wide variety of sources, though reputable books and online counterparts are still preferred. This is more standardized than GA, but not as rigid as FA. Reviewers should also check that the sources used, and therefore the article content, is representative of the general consensus of the subject matter.

As a rule, an A-class article will not have maintenance tags, and will not need any clean-up. It will be updated when appropriate, and not experience edit-wars. It will be well structured and written, with good prose and illustrated appropriately. There will be no copyvios in text or illustrations.

Generally, articles that are proposed to be A-class will currently be GA, but this is not necessary. They may also have been peer-reviewed or copyedited first.

Any specific WikiProject Venezuela criteria/specifications?
Reviewers should consider the sources used; though a government source is typically seen as more reliable than a web-based news service across Wikipedia, Censorship in Venezuela means this is unlikely so. Please cross-match the source list of articles with the Venezuela RS page, and exercise cautious judgment.

Though a general criteria for GA and above is a stable article, the contentious nature of some Venezuela topics means that the articles may attract more abuse; these articles should be appropriately tagged on the talk page, and well-handled edit wars or quickly-reverted vandalism should not be held against the article or maintainers.

Many editors of Venezuela-related articles have Spanish as a first language; checking that there are no translation errors even when the prose is in good English may be useful, as might manually checking for copyvios against Spanish-language sources as the earwig tool won't detect it. Content translated from Spanish Wikipedia should be tagged on the article's talk page. Venezuela articles of higher quality are consistently written in American English but use DMY date format (except when there is a better choice; e.g. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, written in Irish English).

The editors of WikiProject Venezuela are likely more familiar with the topics than other Wikipedia editors, and judging the appropriate tone, coverage, background, etc. of an article is left to the assessor's discretion. Because of the contentious nature, it would be recommended to have more than two editors approve of the A-class rating, but this isn't necessary, and can be ignored if the article's subject matter is seen as uncontroversial by the assessors; two reviewers approving the nomination are required.

Any member of WikiProject Venezuela can assess Venezuela articles for A-class, but we ask that you are familiar with the guidelines and criteria.