Wikipedia:WikiProject Years/Assessment

Articles: FA-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | C-Class | Start-Class | Stub Class | Unassessed

Welcome to the assessment department of the Years WikiProject. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's years 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

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

For advice about formal reviews, see WikiProject Years/Review.

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



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


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

Peer reviews
Peer reviews are meant to be informal and do not necessarily result in a rating being given. If requesting a peer review, include a parameter in the template call:


 * peer-review=yes

See WikiProject_Years/Review for full instructions.

A-class criteria
An article that has been proposed for A-class should have its A-class review status included in the template call:


 * A-Class=pass (article has passed an A-class review)
 * A-Class=current (article is currently undergoing an A-class review)
 * A-Class=fail (article has failed an A-class review)

See WikiProject_Years/Review for full instructions.

B-class criteria
To attain B-class, an article is subject to six criteria that will ensure it has the required quality even though it may not yet be complete in terms of content.


 * B-Class-1 - It reasonably covers the topic using WP:NPOV and contains no major omissions or inaccuracies


 * B-Class-2 - It uses good English and is free from major grammatical, syntax and spelling errors)


 * B-Class-3 - It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content)


 * B-Class-4 - It provides adequate navigation through links, categories and appropriate templates)


 * B-Class-5 - It is suitably referenced and all major points have appropriate inline citations)


 * B-Class-6 - It contains appropriate supporting materials such as an infobox, images or diagrams)

NB: if the article fails any of these criteria, it must be given Start-class rating; but if it fails any of criteria 1 to 3, it should be given Stub-class rating

If the article is given B-Class status as a result of being reviewed using these criteria, it is automatically placed in Category:B-Class Years articles (see above).

C-class criteria
C-class is awarded to articles that pass #1 to #4 of the B-class criteria above but fail one or both of #5 (lacks citations) and #6 (lacks supporting materials). The article must pass all of #1 to #4, even if it does meet one of #5 or #6, or it will be awarded start-class.

Start-class and stub-class
A stub is an article that contains little more than a definition or a brief overview. It must have sufficient content to comply with WP:Notability and it must be verifiable but it might yet consist of just a couple of sentences. A stub will normally fail all six B-class criteria, particularly #1.

A start-class article is, broadly speaking, an expanded stub. It provides a reasonable amount of coverage and, providing it meets WP:NPOV and is generally accurate, it will normally pass #1 of the B-class criteria. A weak start is one that fails all of criteria #1 to #4, while a strong start passes these and is promoted to C-class.

Unfortunately, the reviewer must take a subjective view of the threshold between stub and weak start. The key difference is the length.

Unassessed articles
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Years articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Importance parameter
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:


 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Years articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Years articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Years articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Years articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Task force parameter
Task forces may optionally be established by the project to concentrate on specific areas of study (they are widely employed by many other projects) and this template caters for the option by enabling a task force parameter to be set. Thus, if an article is being supported by a years in sport task force, the parameter Sports-task-force would be included in the template call and set to yes.

Quality scale
It is important to remember that the "class" of an article has two factors: completeness and quality. These do not necessarily overlap or interlink. Completeness is measured by the classes A, B, Start and Stub where A is an essentially complete article and Stub is little more than a place-marker. Quality is measured by classes FA, GA and B.

To be rated GA in quality, the article must at least be B-class in terms of its quality, according to the B-class criteria above; and to be rated A-class in terms of completeness, it again must at least be B-class. Note that an A-class complete article may not necessarily meet FA or GA quality criteria.

Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance attempt to gauge the probability of the "average" or "typical" reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Therefore, it is the importance of the article to the development of the project that is under consideration.

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 use the peer review facility.


 * Note that requests made under the old style of review have been stored in the new peer review section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catholice-earthcare-australia&action=edit&redlink=1 --Gqiu9920 (talk) 20:16, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Participants
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team