Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/General meteorology task force/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:

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 meteorology 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 or other assessment discussion below, add the article to be assessed in a sub-section of the or Assessment needed sections below. Finally, add the "assessed=yes" parameter to the WikiProject Weather template on the article's talk page like so:. 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 meteorology-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):

A-Class review
This section is for articles which members feel meet the A-class criteria set by the project. This is usually the final step before a Featured article candidacy. To start discussion, please copy the following text and paste it above the most recently created section, replacing ARTICLE NAME with the name of the article.

===ARTICLE NAME===


 * Any nominating comments should go here.-~


 * §h₳un  9∞76   22:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Assessment needed
This section is for articles which have yet to receive an assessment on the above scale. To start discussion, please copy the following text and paste it above the most recently created section, replacing ARTICLE NAME with the name of the article.

===ARTICLE NAME===


 * Reasoning for your request for assessment should go here.-~

Flood

 * Substantial edits in July. Was C-class, perhaps now B-class, but I can't asses my own edits.-Justaxn (talk) 16:31, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I did looked over the article. I think it meets the B–class criteria; I do not think that it is C–class. The prose is okay, the topic is fairly broad and not off topic. I am not sure if it needs information related to climate change since precipitation trends have been changing. The only problems include a lack of citations in some sentences and the lead sentence not adequately summarizing the article. It may be far from GA but it is B–Class. Ssbbplayer (talk) 05:46, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for review. Would you tag it to C-class, please? Justaxn (talk) 19:06, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I changed the assessment to B–class in the article's talk page. Those substantial edits did push it to B–class although I would not recommend nominating it to GA status yet. Ssbbplayer (talk) 19:13, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

100-year flood

 * Substantial edits in July. Was C-class, now B-class or better, but I can't asses my own edits.-Justaxn (talk) 16:31, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * This one is a bit harder to assess. I am thinking that the article is more on the statistical aspects rather than the potential impact but I think that is covered in floods. I am thinking a more borderline B/C class since it definitely needs a more worldwide view for regulatory use. Some inline citations are missing a bit but it does meet quite lot of the B–class criteria. Ssbbplayer (talk) 19:23, 5 March 2016 (UTC)