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Biography
articles		 Importance
Top None Total
Class
Featured article FA 16 198 214
A 13 85 98
Good article GA 19 232 251
B 134 2674 2808
Start 18 8516 8534
Stub 44752 44752
Unassessed 130566 130566
Total 200 187023 187223

Welcome to the assessment department of the Biography WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Biography 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 {{WPBiography}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Biography articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

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[edit] Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated? 
Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles? 
Any member of the Biography WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
What if I don't agree with a rating? 
You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
Aren't the ratings subjective? 
Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WPBiography}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WPBiography
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|priority=
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|past-collaboration=
|peer-review= 
|old-peer-review=
|living=
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The following values may be used for the class parameter:

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

The following values may be used for the priority parameter:

  • Top
  • High
  • Mid
  • Low

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 priority scale below. Note that the priority is used on the workgroup lists only.

The template also has a core=yes parameter for core articles only, as selected by the Core Biographies team.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme
Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Featured article FA
{{FA-Class}}		 Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. No further editing necessary, unless new published information has come to light. Wayne Gretzky
A
{{A-Class}}		 Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article as much as the existence of reputable sources allow it. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from the "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard. No editors involved in the writing of an article should self-assess their article at this level. Best venue for achieving this class is to request a Peer review Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject as much as the existence of reputable sources allow it. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points. Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage. Linus Pauling
Good article GA
{{GA-Class}}		 The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise good. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but being a Good article is not a requirement for A-Class. Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job. Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time. Bob Marley
B
{{B-Class}}		 Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, NPOV or NOR. With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles. Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work. Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with. Alfred Hitchcock, Ales Hemsky, Joshua Toulmin
Start
{{Start-Class}}		 The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a table. For example an article on Queen Elizabeth might cover her personality well, but be weak on back story. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following:
  • a particularly useful picture or graphic
  • multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
  • a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
  • multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article

NOTE: This is not a negative grade. There are no negative grades in Wikipedia. Having an article on Wikipedia is a passing grade, since it has to pass Notability. This grade is here to alert editors of articles that need some improvement to reach B-class

 Not useless. Some readers will find what they are looking for, but most will not. Most articles in this category have the look of an article "under construction" and a reader genuinely interested in the topic is likely to seek additional information elsewhere. Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article usually isn't developed enough for a cleanup tag: it still needs to be built. A. J. Croce, Aaron T. Beck
Stub
{{Stub-Class}}		 The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.

NOTE: This is not a negative grade. There are no negative grades in Wikipedia. Having an article on Wikipedia is a passing grade, since it has to pass Notability. This grade is here to alert editors of articles that need some improvement to reach Start or B-class

 May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. Any editing or additional material can be helpful. Oei Tiong Ham
Needed
{{Needed-Class}}		 The article does not exist and needs to be created.

[edit] Priority scale

We have decided for the time being to mark priority for only the top 200 biographies. The list is being developed at Wikipedia:Core biographies. NOTE: Work groups may want to use the other ratings to help sort articles by priority but they do not carry any intrinsic value outside of this use.

Priority must be regarded as a relative term. If priority values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project and to the work groups the biography falls under. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority 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).

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top High probability that non-Historians would look this up. Limited to the top 200 biographies. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members. Albert Einstein
High Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin. Patrick Henry
Mid Important in their discipline. John Seigenthaler, Sr.
Low Subject is notable in their main discipline. Morena Baccarin

[edit] Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new quality rating for it, please feel free to list it below. NOTE: This is only to rate the article on quality - you may or may not get feedback on the article. If you desire a review, use the peer review process. If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!

Seeking an A-class rating? We suggest you submit it for a Peer Review to allow us more time to respond and review. Be sure to first read what qualifies as an A rating before doing so though.

Add requests to the bottom of this list.

  1. Brian Joo - member of South Korean duo Fly to the Sky mirageinred 17:45, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  2. Nick Drake - English folk musician. + Ceoil 22:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  3. May J. - Japanese R&B singer. Taskinlude 07:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  4. Rick Santorum - seems like a pretty well written article about the senator. -Patstuarttalk|edits 18:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC) rated "B" class Nightngle 15:26, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  5. Tetrapharmakos - Epicurean philosophy article. LCecere 18:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Hmm... that doesn't look much like a biography to me... --Maelwys 19:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  6. Sylvester Croom - Mississippi State head football coach and first African-American football coach in the NCAA Southeastern conference --Wvenus 20:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Current status

Biography
articles		 Importance
Top None Total
Class
Featured article FA 16 198 214
A 13 85 98
Good article GA 19 232 251
B 134 2674 2808
Start 18 8516 8534
Stub 44752 44752
Unassessed 130566 130566
Total 200 187023 187223

[edit] Historical counts

All figures given for the end of each month
July 2006 August 2006

September 2006

 October 2006 November 2006
Featured article FA 34 3.80 % 106 .08 % 185 .11 % 193 .11 % 212 .11 %
A 9 1.01 % 57 .04 % 77 .05 % 95 .05 % 95 .05 %
Good article GA 34 3.80 % 137 .10 % 195 .12 % 195 .11 % 243 .13 %
B 220 24.61 % 1383 1.05 % 1967 1.21 % 2360 1.32 % 2682 1.44 %
Start 104 11.63 % 4107 3.13 % 5634 3.47 % 6621 3.71 % 7980 4.30 %
Stub 67 7.49 % 3515 2.68 % 27816 17.12 % 41572 23.27 % 43715 23.59 %
Unassessed 426 47.65 % 121800 92.90 % 126581 77.92 % 127644 71.44 % 130325 70.35 %
Total 894 131105 162455 178680 185252

[edit] Monthly changes

Percent change is given relative to the prior count in each class.
August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006
Featured article FA +72 +211.76 % +79 +74.53 % +8 +4.32 % +19 +9.84 %
A +48 +533.33 % +20 +35.09 % +18 +23.38 % +0 +.00 %
Good article GA +103 +302.94 % +58 +42.34 % +0 +.00 % +48 +24.62 %
B +1163 +528.64 % +584 +42.23 % +393 +19.98 % +322 +13.64 %
Start +4003 +3849.04 % +1527 +37.18 % +987 +17.52 % +1359 +20.53 %
Stub +3448 +5146.27 % +24301 +691.35 % +13756 +49.45 % +2143 +5.15 %
Unassessed +121374 +28491.55 % +4781 +3.93 % +1063 +.84 % +2681 +2.10 %
Total +130211 +14564.99 % +31350 +23.91 % +16225 +9.99 % +6572 +3.68 %

[edit] 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.

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality log

[edit] Worklist

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


Unassessed articles are no longer listed here. For unassessed articles, please see Category:Unassessed biography articles.

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