Wikipedia:WikiProject West Virginia/Assessment
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- Expand stubs:
- FAC:
- none
- FAR:
- FARC:
- none
- GA Noms:
- Review:
- Collaborate: Wikipedia:WikiProject West Virginia/Collaboration/Current
- Create:
- West Virginia Constitutional Convention • Coolfont Resort • West Virginia National Guard • Category:Libraries in West Virginia
- Assess:
- Assess articles that have tags but no quality or importance assessment
- Infoboxes Needed:
- • More...
- Photos needed:
- Help add photos to these pages
This list is generated automatically every night around 10 PM EST.
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West Virginia articles |
Importance | ||||||
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Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
Quality | |||||||
FA | |||||||
A | |||||||
GA | 1 | 1 | |||||
B | 6 | 3 | 5 | 14 | |||
Start | 6 | 21 | 42 | 18 | 87 | ||
Stub | 6 | 33 | 56 | 52 | 147 | ||
Assessed | 19 | 57 | 103 | 70 | 0 | 249 | |
Unassessed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | |
Total | 19 | 57 | 103 | 70 | 9 | 258 |
Welcome to the assessment department of the West Virginia WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about West Virginia or the people of West Virginia. 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 West Virginia}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:West Virginia 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 West Virginia 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
This template categorizes pages using assessment grades and importance through built-in transclusion. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject West Virginia|class=???|importance=???}} banner on its talk page. This template should be transcluded and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the Project's talk pages without having to edit hundreds of pages.
[edit] Other parameters
- attention=yes — the article needs immediate attention
- reassess=yes — request a reassessment for this article
- merge=yes — the article is a candidate for merge action with one or more other articles
- needs-infobox=yes — the article needs an infobox (places in category only)
- peer-review=yes — request a peer review for this article
- old-peer-review=yes — peer review is complete and archived
[edit] Class values
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class West Virginia articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class West Virginia articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class West Virginia articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class West Virginia articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class West Virginia articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class West Virginia articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article West Virginia pages)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed West Virginia articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
[edit] Quality scale
Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
FA {{FA-Class}} |
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. | Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. | No further editing is necessary unless new published information has come to light; but further improvements to the text are often possible. | Supernova (as of February 2007) |
A {{A-Class}} |
Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. 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 "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. | Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. 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. | Durian (as of March 2007) |
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 having completed the Good article designation process 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. | International Space Station (as of February 2007) |
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, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (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. | Munich air disaster (as of May 2006) has a lot of helpful material but contains too many lists, and needs more prose content & references. |
Start {{Start-Class}} |
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following:
|
Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded. | Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage. | Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
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. | Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. | Coffee table book (as of July 2005) |
[edit] Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject West Virginia}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject West Virginia| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
??? |
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance West Virginia articles
- High - adds articles to Category:High-importance West Virginia articles
- Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance West Virginia articles
- Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance West Virginia articles
[edit] Importance scale
Label | Criteria | Examples |
Top | Core topics about West Virginia. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main West Virginia article, vital for the understanding of West Virginia or extremely notable to people outside of West Virginia. This category should stay limited to approximately 75 articles. Biographies should be limited to persons of the greatest historical importance. | |
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High | Topics that are very notable within West Virginia, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia. | |
Mid | Topics that are reasonably notable on a local level within West Virginia without necessarily being famous or very notable outside of West Virginia. | |
Low | Topics of mostly local interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to West Virginia. |
[edit] 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 feel free to list it below.
[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.
[edit] April 7, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] April 6, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] April 4, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] April 2, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] April 1, 2007
- Allegheny Wildlife Management Area (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] March 30, 2007
- Anthony Smith (politican) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Anthony Smith (politician)
- Cass Gilbert (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Short Mountain (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- West Virginia State Capitol (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] March 26, 2007
- Middle Fork River (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Mill Creek (western West Virginia) (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Sandy Creek (West Virginia) (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Anthony Smith (politican) reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
- Ravenswood, West Virginia (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Ripley, West Virginia (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Sistersville Ferry (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Sistersville, West Virginia (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] March 24, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] March 22, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] March 20, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] March 18, 2007
- Wheeling Creek (West Virginia) (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
[edit] March 16, 2007
- Law and government of West Virginia (talk) Stub-Class (Top-Class) added.
- Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (talk) Stub-Class (Top-Class) added.
- West Virginia Day (talk) Stub-Class (High-Class) added.
[edit] March 14, 2007
- Charleston, West Virginia reassessed from Start-Class (Top-Class) to B-Class (Top-Class)
- Ohio County, West Virginia (talk) Start-Class (Top-Class) added.
- Blenko Glass Company reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
- Anthony Smith (politican) (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
- Big Sandy Creek (Cheat River) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] March 12, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] March 10, 2007
- Blenko Glass Company (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] March 8, 2007
- Stone & Thomas (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Gabriel Brothers (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Go-Mart (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- International Coal Group (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Marquee Cinemas (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Tudor's Biscuit World (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] March 6, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] March 4, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] March 2, 2007
- Buckhannon, West Virginia (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Clarksburg, West Virginia (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Blackwater River (West Virginia) (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Buckhannon River (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
[edit] February 28, 2007
- Informain work (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) removed.
- Carter G. Woodson (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Marshall County, West Virginia (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Moundsville, West Virginia (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Moundsville Bridge (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Ravenswood Bridge (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] February 26, 2007
- Carter G. Woodson (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) renamed to Informain work
[edit] February 25, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] February 24, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] February 23, 2007
- Carter G. Woodson (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Mason-Dixon line reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
- Nick Rahall (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Ken Hechler (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- O.J. Mayo (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Mike Callaghan (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- West Virginia's 1st congressional district (talk) Stub-Class (High-Class) added.
- West Virginia's 2nd congressional district (talk) Stub-Class (High-Class) added.
- West Virginia's 3rd congressional district (talk) Stub-Class (High-Class) added.
- Byzantine (band) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Earl Ray Tomblin (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] February 22, 2007
- Logan County, West Virginia reassessed from Unassessed-Class (High-Class) to Stub-Class (High-Class)
[edit] February 21, 2007
- Morgantown, West Virginia (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
- Weston State Hospital (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
[edit] February 20, 2007
- West Fork River (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Boreman Hall (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Elk Creek (West Virginia) (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Hackers Creek (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- MountainLair (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Simpson Creek (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Stonecoal Creek (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Tenmile Creek (West Virginia) (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] February 19, 2007
- Aretas B. Fleming (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Buffalo Creek Flood (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Emmanuel Willis Wilson (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Henry D. Hatfield (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- John J. Cornwell (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- John J. Jacob (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Matthew M. Neely (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Okey L. Patteson (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- William A. MacCorkle (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- William Wallace Barron (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Albert B. White (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Clarence W. Meadows (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Emanuel Willis Wilson (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Ephraim F. Morgan (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- George W. Atkinson (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Henry M. Mathews (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Herman G. Kump (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Homer A. Holt (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Howard Mason Gore (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Jacob B. Jackson (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- William E. Glasscock (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- William M. O. Dawson (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Logan County, West Virginia (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) added.
[edit] February 18, 2007
- Mason-Dixon line (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] February 17, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] February 16, 2007
- Leatherbark Run (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Mud River (West Virginia) (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Mechanicsburg Gap (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] February 15, 2007
- (No changes today)
[edit] Worklist
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.