Wikipedia:WikiProject Western New York/Assessment

Welcome to WikiProject Western New York's assessment department. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Western New York 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 Western New York project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Western New York articles by quality and Category:Western New York articles by importance.

Frequently asked questions

 * Who can assess articles? : Any editor is free to add or change the rating of an article, but please follow the quality and importance criteria specified below.
 * Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? : Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, reviewers 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.
 * Where can I get more comments about my article? : You may leave a post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western New York or list it for peer review.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : You may contact the editor who reviewed the article and ask them to take another look, or leave a post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western New York.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are, particularly in terms of judging importance. However, the criteria used by WPWNY are no more nor no less subjective than those used by any other WikiProject.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department, or leave a post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western New York.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the values entered in the and  parameters of the WikiProject Western New York talk page banner template.

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 military history. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance.

''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. Rate international region/country-specific articles from the perspective of someone from that region.''