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Welcome to the assessment department of the Canada WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Canada related 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 {{WikiProject Canada|class= |importance= }} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Canada-related articles by quality and Category:Canada-related articles by importance, 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 Canada 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

[edit] Quality assessments

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Canada}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Canada| ... | class=??? | ...}}
Featured article FA
A
Good article GA
B
Start
Stub
Featured list FL
List

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


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

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Canada articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]
Label Criterion 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 June 2008)
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 extensive 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 Canada}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Canada| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top
High
Mid
Low
???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

[edit] Importance scale

Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Top The article is one of the core topics about Canada. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are listed on {{Canada topics}} A reader who is not involved in Canada 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. Government of Canada, Culture of Canada, British Columbia
High The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding specific topics about Canada or general topics about parts of Canada Most readers will have some knowledge of the subject Articles at this level cover particular issues related to Canada, specific terms are used to detail the topic Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, History of Manitoba
Mid The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in Canada. 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 Canada. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Minister of Transport (Canada), Rick Mercer, Jasper National Park
Low The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Canada, but may cover topics directly related to Canada. Few readers outside of Canada 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 Canada, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Todd Russell, Canada's grand railway hotels, Villages of Alberta, OpenBSD

[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] Use of {{WikiProject Canada}}

The template {{WikiProject Canada}} can be used with many subprojects to add an article to both that project and this one at the same time. Eventually, the use of those projects' original assessment templates should be phased out. For template that already use as assessment, the change should take place in such a way that we do not lose the assessment, but many importance ratings may need te be re-evaluated. Subprojects of WPCANADA and their templates that need to be changed are:

  1. Y Done {{CanGov}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | cangov=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 02:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  2. Y Done {{PPAP}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | ppap=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 02:56, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
  3. Y Done {{CanLaw}} — ASSESSMENT USED — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | canlaw=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 03:45, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  4. Y Done {{CanEd}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | education=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 06:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  5. Y Done {{Canadian TV shows project}} — ASSESSMENT USED — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | tvshow=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 21:50, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
  6. Y Done {{Canadian Music project}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | music=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 18:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
  7. Y Done {{Saskatchewanproject}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | sk=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 02:25, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  8. Y Done {{Ontarioproject}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | on=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 20:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  9. Y Done {{WikiProject Quebec}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | qc=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 16:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
  10. Y Done {{Projectnl}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | nl=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 00:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
  11. Y Done {{WPMAN}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | mb=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 16:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
  12. Y Done {{NovaScotiaProject}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | ns=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 08:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
  13. Y Done {{WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada}} — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | riding=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 18:56, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  14. Y Done {{Albertaproject}} — ASSESSMENT USED —Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | ab=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 04:12, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
  15. Y Done {{Canada Roads WikiProject}} — ASSESSMENT USED —Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | road=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 04:17, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
    1. Y Done {{WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads}} — WILL REQUIRE RE-ASSESSMENT AS ARTICLES ARE MOVED — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | sk=yes | road=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 20:30, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  16. Y Done {{NewBrunswickProject}} — ASSESSMENT USED —Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | nb=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 02:55, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
  17. Y Done {{BCproject}} — ASSESSMENT USED — Replace with {{WikiProject Canada | bc=yes}} — 0 articles remaining as of 16:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  18. Y Done WikiProject Prince Edward Island has been using the WPCANADA template since its creation.
  19. Y Done WikiProject Canadian Territories has been using the WPCANADA template since its creation.
  20. Y Done WikiProject Geography of Canada has been using the WPCANADA template since its creation.

[edit] Assessment log

Canada-related
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 10 26 17 54
Featured list FL 8 21 9 38
A 7 11 10 5 33
Good article GA 1 10 35 25 71
B 24 190 650 567 2 1433
Start 5 149 2418 5385 46 8003
Stub 1 50 2410 10846 244 13551
List 23 260 321 3 607
Assessed 39 451 5830 17175 295 23790
Unassessed 51 780 844 1675
Total 39 451 5881 17955 1139 25465
The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a regular basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Canada articles:
Index · Statistics · Log



Contact with WP Canada
See also: assessed article categories. Last update: June 11, 2008


[edit] Sub-project statistics

British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan
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
Alberta
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 2 4 7
Featured list FL 1 4 2 7
A 1 1 2
Good article GA 1 1 2 4
B 1 16 86 117 220
Start 1 13 302 766 1082
Stub 1 250 933 1184
List 25 18 43
Assessed 4 32 671 1842 2549
Unassessed 2 2
Total 4 32 671 1842 2 2551
Saskatchewan
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2 4
Featured list FL 3 1 4
Good article GA 1 2 4 7
B 2 23 28 42 95
Start 1 17 147 385 550
Stub 1 4 516 1040 6 1567
List 17 12 29
Assessed 4 46 714 1486 6 2256
Unassessed 19 19
Total 4 46 714 1486 25 2275
Manitoba Ontario Quebec
Manitoba
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2
Featured list FL 2 2
A 1 1
Good article GA 2 2
B 2 10 22 37 71
Start 1 10 86 253 350
Stub 1 3 221 818 1 1044
List 16 16 32
Assessed 4 24 347 1128 1 1504
Unassessed 3 3
Total 4 24 347 1128 4 1507
Ontario
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 4 2 6
Featured list FL 3 1 4
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 5 3 9
B 2 18 77 88 185
Start 1 7 282 1254 7 1551
Stub 1 4 279 2029 8 2321
List 3 24 57 1 85
Assessed 5 33 674 3434 16 4162
Unassessed 1 128 129
Total 5 33 674 3435 144 4291
Quebec
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 3 1 5
Featured list FL 3 3
Good article GA 3 6 4 13
B 3 20 41 40 104
Start 1 14 191 340 4 550
Stub 1 2 131 619 6 759
List 1 19 22 42
Assessed 5 41 394 1026 10 1476
Unassessed 34 378 101 513
Total 5 41 428 1404 111 1989
New Brunswick Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Labrador
New Brunswick
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Good article GA 1 1
B 2 12 11 6 31
Start 1 6 66 100 173
Stub 1 6 111 254 2 374
List 23 17 40
Assessed 4 25 211 378 2 620
Unassessed 6 6
Total 4 25 211 378 8 626
Nova Scotia
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Featured list FL 1 1
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 1
B 2 9 16 7 34
Start 1 8 96 91 196
Stub 1 4 35 305 345
List 12 8 20
Assessed 4 22 160 413 599
Unassessed 67 3 70
Total 4 22 160 480 3 669
Newfoundland and Labrador
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured list FL 1 1
A 1 1
Good article GA 2 2
B 2 6 15 14 37
Start 1 9 93 120 2 225
Stub 1 3 32 335 1 372
List 1 14 6 21
Assessed 4 20 157 475 3 659
Unassessed 15 15
Total 4 20 157 475 18 674
Prince Edward Island Territories Law
Prince Edward Island
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured list FL 1 1
B 1 4 3 5 13
Start 2 35 39 76
Stub 32 158 190
List 7 3 10
Assessed 1 6 78 205 290
Total 1 6 78 205 290
Canadian Territories
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured list FL 2 2
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 1 2
B 4 10 15 19 48
Start 1 11 122 182 4 320
Stub 1 2 62 582 50 697
List 24 11 35
Assessed 6 25 225 795 54 1105
Unassessed 1 1
Total 6 25 225 795 55 1106
Canadian law
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Featured list FL 1 1
A 2 2
Good article GA 1 1
B 1 13 23 21 58
Start 23 102 150 275
Stub 7 50 225 282
List 4 4 35 43
Assessed 1 49 181 432 663
Unassessed 11 196 207
Total 1 49 192 628 870
Governments Political parties and politicians Electoral districts
Governments of Canada
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 1 3
Featured list FL 6 16 22
A 1 1 1 3
Good article GA 3 3
B 1 26 47 8 82
Start 1 31 141 58 231
Stub 18 64 40 122
List 9 41 13 63
Assessed 3 93 313 120 529
Unassessed 2 2
Total 3 93 313 120 2 531
Political parties and politicians in Canada
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2
Featured list FL 3 3 6
A 3 1 4
Good article GA 1 3 2 6
B 49 70 51 170
Start 1 19 226 375 621
Stub 1 129 666 1 797
List 2 25 42 69
Assessed 2 78 458 1136 1 1675
Unassessed 1 4 5
Total 2 78 458 1137 5 1680
Electoral districts in Canada
articles		 Importance
High Mid Low Total
Quality
Good article GA 1 1
B 132 132
Start 1 3 920 924
Stub 437 437
List 2 25 27
Assessed 3 28 1490 1521
Unassessed 554 554
Total 3 28 2044 2075
Education Music TV shows
Education in Canada
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Featured list FL 1 1
Good article GA 3 1 4
B 1 5 30 44 80
Start 2 74 446 2 524
Stub 48 568 16 632
List 1 18 31 1 51
Assessed 1 8 175 1090 19 1293
Unassessed 1 379 380
Total 1 8 175 1091 398 1673
Canadian music
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 1 3
Featured list FL 1 1
Good article GA 1 4 1 6
B 1 1 40 5 47
Start 3 225 240 8 476
Stub 110 318 7 435
List 1 18 19
Assessed 1 5 383 583 15 987
Unassessed 127 127
Total 1 5 383 583 142 1114
Canadian TV shows
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 6 7
Featured list FL 1 1 2
A 1 1 2
Good article GA 3 1 4
B 1 3 43 16 63
Start 1 104 171 276
Stub 61 358 21 440
List 18 18
Assessed 1 4 214 572 21 812
Unassessed 5 5
Total 1 4 214 572 26 817
Roads Sport Geography
Canada Roads
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Good article GA 1 2 3
B 3 14 30 47
Start 1 2 40 195 238
Stub 52 1227 1279
List 1 26 28 55
Assessed 1 6 133 1482 1622
Total 1 6 133 1482 1622
Canadian sport
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 5 5 12
Featured list FL 1 4 5
Good article GA 1 4 7 12
B 1 3 13 29 46
Start 3 30 232 265
Stub 40 762 802
List 13 13 26
Assessed 1 9 106 1052 1168
Total 1 9 106 1052 1168
Geography of Canada
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2
A 1 3 1 5
Good article GA 2 1 3
B 17 67 20 104
Start 1 6 242 441 22 712
Stub 2 132 1730 113 1977
List 1 20 8 29
Assessed 2 29 466 2200 135 2832
Unassessed 1 117 118
Total 2 29 466 2201 252 2950
Communities
Canadian communities
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 5 7
Featured list FL 1 1
A 1 1 2
Good article GA 4 1 5
B 1 13 84 17 115
Start 1 498 437 936
Stub 985 1284 2269
List 5 15 6 26
Assessed 1 26 1590 1744 3361
Total 1 26 1590 1744 3361

[edit] Canada-related assessments not part of WikiProject Canada

Military history
part of WikiProject Military history		 Cinema
part of WikiProject Films
Canadian military history
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 5 5
A 2 2
Good article GA 10 10
B 54 54
Start 638 638
Stub 655 655
Assessed 1364 1364
Total 1364 1364
Canadian cinema
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2
Good article GA 2 2 6 3 3 16
B 1 10 15 13 24 63
Start 2 7 21 89 211 330
Stub 5 24 411 732 1172
List 1 127 128
Assessed 5 25 67 517 1097 1711
Total 5 25 67 517 1097 1711