Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology/Assessment

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Heraldry and vexillology
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 22 22
A 5 5
Good article GA 15 15
B 175 175
Start 588 588
Stub 1234 1234
List 127 127
Assessed 2166 2166
Unassessed 38 38
Total 2204 2204

Welcome to the assessment department of the Heraldry and vexillology WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's heraldry and vexillology 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 Heraldry and vexillology}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Heraldry and vexillology articles by quality, 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 Heraldry and vexillology 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 assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology| ... | class=??? | ...}}
Featured article FA
A
Good article GA
B
Start
Stub
???
Needed
List
NA

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed heraldry and vexillology 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:Heraldry and vexillology 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 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] 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.


  • Coat of arms of Belgium - I have rewritten the article thoroughly, getting rid of a few errors, adding an historical explanation and the most important references on the topic. A bit of feedback would be appreciated. Richardot 12:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Flag of Hungary - Rating was given "Start" status in September 2006. I did a major rewrite in November 2006 and the article has improved ever since. I'd appreciate a quality check and feedback. Szabi 11:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Coat of arms of Finland - article was expanded to include the origins and evolution. Grateful for any feedback on the quality level -- Grimne 22:37, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Danish heraldry - I started the article and would like to have some feedback and a rating. Since I wrote the article I don't feel that I should rate it myself.--Regicollis 01:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Well done for doing one of the {{heraldry by country}} articles; I've been meaning to start working on some, but haven't had the time. I've rated Danish heraldry as Start-class. It would be nice if you could indicate the sources of information with inline citations; at the moment only a few facts are referenced. Also an image of a private coat of arms would be good for the corresponding section. Possibly one of the images in the municipal heraldry section could be removed as there are quite a few images for the amount of text in the first part of the article. Dr pda 23:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Flag of Lemko-Rusyn Republic I found a link at worldstatesmen.com to an image for the flag. The flag looks plausible to me, but I do not know how to verify the accuracy or how to verify copyright status in order to add the image to the article. The complete link is under (discussion) in the article. Can anyone help? Similarly, need a two color Ukrainian flag for the Komancza Republic article, and verificationPustelnik 23:15, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Flag of Ecuador cleaned-up, abridged and wikified Kevin McE 01:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
The proportions for the flag need a very good source. I was once contacted by an Ecuadorian editor who informed me that they were completely wrong. Please see my comment on the article talk page. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 10:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Great job, you've made this article a solid Start-class and I will change its rating appropriately. For some feedback, I would make the historical versions of the flag a bit smaller than the current flag. Also, consider making the notes and references into one section. For a bit of tiny info, try to find the flag ratio. Again, great job. Bobo is soft 02:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Flag of Germany - I got this article up to GA a while ago, now I am working towards FA. There was a peer review not long ago, but that didn't get too much input. So I would be interested to know what needs to be done from the WPHV point of view to get it up to FA. Or does it qualitfy for A-class here? - 52 Pickup (deal) 14:03, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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