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One of the main tasks of the WikiProject European history is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's European history articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{eurohist}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:European history articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles asessed.

[edit] How to assess

An article's assessment is generated on its talkpage from the class parameter in {{eurohist}}, the WikiProject's banner. To add the banner, add the following to its talkpage:

{{eurohist|class=?}}

To add an assessment, simply fill in the class parameter with the appropriate letters. The following values may be used:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class European history articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class European history articles;
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class European history articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as good articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class European history articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class European history articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class European history articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article European history pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed European history articles. The criteria for the different classes is below.

[edit] Quality scale

WikiProject European history uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.

Class	Criteria	Formal process	Example
FA	Reserved for articles that meet the featured article criteria and have received featured article status after community review.	Featured article candidates	Battle of Edson's Ridge (as of January 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	Operation Linebacker II (as of January 2007)
GA	Reserved for articles that meet the good article criteria and have received good article status.	Good article nominations	15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (as of January 2007)
B	The article meets the following five criteria: It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. It is free from major grammatical errors. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. It is written from a neutral point of view.	May be assigned by any reviewer	Battle of the Standard (as of February 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	1st Battalion 2nd Marines (as of January 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	16th Infantry Regiment (South Korea) (as of January 2007)