Wikipedia:WikiProject British Columbia/Assessment

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</noinclude> </noinclude> Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject British Columbia. We assess the quality and importance of British Columbia related articles. Work is done with conjunction with the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, and the worklist is produced by WP 1.0 bot.

Articles are rated by adding the banner {{WikiProject Canada |bc=yes|class=|importance=}} to article talk pages.

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[edit] Statistics

British Columbia
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 8 2 11
Featured list FL 2 1 3
A 1 1 3 1 6
Good article GA 3 3 6
B 1 15 168 100 284
Start 4 10 470 944 9 1437
Stub 1 7 339 1901 65 2313
List 4 22 26 52
Assessed 7 38 1015 2978 74 4112
Unassessed 6 139 38 183
Total 7 38 1021 3117 112 4295

[edit] Article grading

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]
Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Featured article 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 additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. Tourette Syndrome (as of July 2007)
Featured list FL
{{FL-Class}}		 Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured lists" status, and meet the current criteria for featured lists. Definitive. Outstanding, thorough list; a great source for encyclopedic information. No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008)
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 reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). 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)
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 acceptable. 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, or 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}}		 Commonly the highest article grade that is assigned outside a more formal review process. Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a comprehensive article. Nonetheless, it has some gaps or missing elements or references, needs editing for language usage 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. Jammu and Kashmir (as of October 2007) has a lot of helpful material but needs more prose content and 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:
  • 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
 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 scale

Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Top The article is one of the core topics about British Columbia. Generally, this is limited to general and overview articles about the province. A reader who is not involved in British Columbia will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. British Columbia, History of British Columbia, Vancouver, Politics of British Columbia
High The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding specific topics about British Columbia or general topics about parts of British Columbia Most readers will have some knowledge of at least part of the subject Articles at this level cover particular issues related to British Columbia and overview articles of more detailed pages, specific terms are used to detail the topic 2010 Winter Olympics, Amor de Cosmos, Colony of Vancouver Island, Gordon Campbell
Mid The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in British Columbia. Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand British Columbia. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. SkyTrain (Vancouver), Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, British Columbia Coast, Diana Krall, E and N Railway, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Stanley Park
Low The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of British Columbia, but may cover topics related to British Columbia. Few readers outside of British Columbia or that are not within the local area of the article's topic may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of British Columbia, or may be only marginally related to the province, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Kwalikum Secondary School, Carpenter Lake, Grouse Mountain, HVDC Vancouver Island, Marble Canyon Provincial Park