Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle East Textbooks

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Welcome to the Middle East Textbooks WikiProject -- a collaborative effort to create, expand, and maintain complete, accurate, and neutral articles on school textbooks used throughout the Middle East, with a focus on textbook controversies and textbook analyses.

Welcome to WikiProject Middle East Textbooks. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Middle East Textbooks and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

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[edit] Goals

  • To improve the quality and accuracy of articles pertaining to textbooks in the Middle East.
  • To improve the neutrality and completeness of articles pertaining to controversial articles on the subject.
  • To provide lists of all textbooks presently in use and formerly used within the Middle East.
  • To provide complete and accurate articles on all textbook analyses performed.

[edit] Scope

  • This WikiProject covers all aspects of Middle East Textbooks, with a focus on expanding, creating, and improving articles pertaining to textbook controversies and textbook analyses.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle East Textbooks: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Michael Safyan (talk · contribs)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Middle East Textbooks-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

[edit] Collaboration and review

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Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Article Assessment

[edit] WikiProject Middle East Textbooks Assessment

The WikiProject Middle East Textbooks article assessment system is used to rate and improve articles under WP Middle East Textbooks. We use the standard Wikipedia rating system, as follows:

[edit] WikiProject Middle East Textbooks Assessment Statistics

[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] How To Assess an Article

  1. Select an article from the list at :Category:Unassessed articles in the "Middle East Textbooks" WikiProject.
  2. Look over the article in anticipation of filling out the parameters of the "Middle East Textbooks" project banner.
  3. Replace the WikiProject "Middle East Textbooks" banner on the article's talk page with the following:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle East Textbooks/Article
|class=
|importance=}}

In the above, set class equal to one of the class parameters listed below and set the importance level to one of the importance levels listed below.

[edit] Class parameter

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed articles in the "Middle East Textbooks" WikiProject. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale.

[edit] Priority parameter

The following values may be used for the priority, or importance, parameter:

  • Top
  • High
  • Mid
  • Low

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