Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries/Assessment

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Former country
articles
Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 11 11
A
Good article GA 9 9
B 59 59
Start 70 70
Stub 56 56
Assessed 205 205
Unassessed 1023 1023
Total 1228 1228


Welcome to the assessment department of the Former Countries WikiProject.

This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles on now-defunct countries. 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 {{WPFC}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Former country articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

[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 Former countries WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? 
Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we 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.
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 quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WPFC}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WPFC| ... | class=??? | ...}}
Featured article FA
A
Good article GA
B
Start
Stub
Needed

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:


Template
Dab
Cat
List
NA
???

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.


[edit] Quality scale

Class Criteria Formal process Example
Featured article FA Reserved for articles that meet the featured article criteria and have received featured article status after community review. Featured article candidates Byzantine Empire (as of April 2007)
A Reserved for articles that have received A-Class status after review by the project. Such articles are expected to largely meet the featured article criteria, and must be comprehensive, accurate, well-sourced, and decently-written; however, they may require some further copyediting. A-Class review

Review by other projects is valid only if a full review has been carried out (class assignment without backup information is not sufficient)

none yet
Good article GA Reserved for articles that meet the good article criteria and have received good article status. Good article nominations Weimar Republic (as of April 2007)
B The article meets the following five criteria:
  1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited.
  2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies.
  3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content.
  4. It is free from major grammatical errors.
  5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.
May be assigned by any reviewer

A checklist is available through {{WPFC}} to track the criteria (see the project banner instructions for more details); this places the article in Category:B-Class former country articles needing review or Category:Reviewed B-Class former country articles, depending on how many criteria have been checked

Irish Republic (as of April 2007)
Start The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element; it 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
May be assigned by any reviewer British Mandate of Mesopotamia (as of April 2007)
Stub 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. May be assigned by any reviewer Bidar Sultanate (as of April 2007)

[edit] Requestsing an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

  1. First Saudi State,Second Saudi State --Menasim( discuss | ) 16:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC) Both Start-class - 52 Pickup 10:02, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Requests for A-Class status

This section is still under construction. But if you have a proposed article for examination, list it here.

  1. Add new requests here

[edit] Assessment log

Former country articles:
Index · Statistics · Log
The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.


Archive This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record.


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