Wikipedia:WikiProject NZR/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject NZR! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's UK Railways 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 {{TrainsWikiProject|NZR=yes}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:New Zealand Railways articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

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Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Instructions 2.1 Quality assessments 2.2 Quality scale 2.3 Importance assessment 2.4 Importance scale 2.5 Requesting an assessment 3 Assessment log 3.1 June 8, 2008 3.2 June 4, 2008 3.3 June 1, 2008 3.4 May 28, 2008 3.5 May 25, 2008 3.6 May 21, 2008 3.7 May 18, 2008 3.8 May 14, 2008 3.9 May 11, 2008 3.10 May 5, 2008 3.11 April 21, 2008 3.12 April 15, 2008 3.13 April 6, 2008 3.14 April 2, 2008 3.15 March 30, 2008 3.16 March 26, 2008 3.17 March 22, 2008 3.18 March 19, 2008 3.19 March 15, 2008 3.20 March 11, 2008 3.21 March 9, 2008 3.22 March 3, 2008 3.23 February 27, 2008 3.24 February 24, 2008 3.25 February 18, 2008 3.26 February 14, 2008 3.27 February 10, 2008 3.28 February 6, 2008 3.29 February 2, 2008 3.30 January 26, 2008 3.31 January 22, 2008 3.32 January 21, 2008

[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 WikiProject NZR 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 {{TrainsWikiProject}} project banner on its talk page:

{{TrainsWikiProject| ... | NZR=yes | ... | class=??? | ...}}

FA

A

GA

B

Start

Stub

Needed

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

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• Needed (for articles that do not yet exist but have been identified as subjects that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class New Zealand Railways articles)

Template

Disambig

Category

Image

List

NA

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

• Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• Img or Image (for images and other media; adds pages to Category:Image-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• List (for articles that are lists made up primarily of links to other pages; adds pages to Category:List-Class New Zealand Railways articles)
• NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article New Zealand Railways pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed New Zealand Railways 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:New Zealand Railways 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
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)
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)
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 assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{TrainsWikiProject|NZR=yes}} project banner on its talk page:

{{TrainsWikiProject|NZR=yes| ... |NZR-importance=???| ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of New Zealand Railways as listed in {{Train topics}}. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance New Zealand Railways articles
• High - The article is about the basic technologies and infrastructures or the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of New Zealand Railways. Adds articles to Category:High-importance New Zealand Railways articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within New Zealand Railways that may or may not be commonly known outside the New Zealand Railways industry. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance New Zealand Railways articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within New Zealand Railways and is not generally common knowledge outside the New Zealand Railways industry. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance New Zealand Railways articles

All articles that lack an importance rating are categorized in Category:Unknown-importance New Zealand Railways articles.

[edit] Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
Top	The article is one of the core topics of rail transportation in New Zealnd. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are listed on {{Train topics}}	A reader who is not involved in the NZ's rail transport 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 specialised pages.	Rail transport in New Zealand
High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding the history or technology of rail transportation in New Zealand.	Most readers will at least be familiar with the topic being discussed.	These articles describe the basics beyond the core topics about, such as, how trains work, the runnings of the railways and the more significant historical events in the NZ's rail transportation history. Articles about the most basic topics in the UK's rail transportation like rolling stock types, the largest railway companies and the most historically and culturally significant topics in the NZ are included in this level. Some technical terms can be used within articles in this range, but where they are used, they should be explained or at least link to articles that discuss the terms in more detail.	Tranz Metro
Mid	The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history or technology of rail transport in New Zealand.	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 rail transport, such as main stations in secondary travel markets, former secondary railways and more specialised types of equipment. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most railway company executives will be rated in this level.	Rimutaka Incline
Low	The article is not required knowledge to broadly understand the technology or history of rail transportation in New Zealand.	Few readers outside the NZ's rail transport industry 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 the NZ's rail transportation, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most metro and local railway stations, short line railway companies and limited or one-off productions of equipment or facilities that otherwise had no significant impact on the rail industry.	Morningside Train Station

[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.

1. article name here with coments

[edit] Assessment log

New Zealand Railways articles: Index · Statistics · Log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record.

[edit] June 8, 2008

• NZR Wb class (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR WB class
• NZR Ab class (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) renamed to NZR AB class
• NZR Bb class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR BB class
• NZR Bc class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR BC class
• NZR Ja class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR JA class
• NZR Ka class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR KA class
• NZR La class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR LA class
• NZR Na class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR NA class
• NZR Nc class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR NC class
• NZR Ob class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR OB class
• NZR Oc class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR OC class
• NZR Wab class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR WAB class
• NZR Wd class (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR WD class
• NZR Aa class (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR AA class
• NZR Oa class (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to NZR OA class

[edit] June 4, 2008

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[edit] June 1, 2008

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[edit] May 28, 2008

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[edit] May 25, 2008

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[edit] May 21, 2008

• List of NZ railfan jargon (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Glossary of New Zealand railway terminology

[edit] May 18, 2008

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[edit] May 14, 2008

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[edit] May 11, 2008

• ARTA (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Auckland Regional Transport Authority

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[edit] April 15, 2008

• Hutt Park Railway Station, Gracefield reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
• Lyttelton Line reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
• Nelson Section (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• Palmerston North - Gisborne Line (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Waingawa Railway Station reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Fell Engine Museum (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 6, 2008

• Awarua Street Railway Station (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Box Hill Railway Station (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Hutt Park Railway Station, Petone (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Hutt Workshops (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Johnsonville Railway Station (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Khandallah Railway Station (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Ngaio Railway Station (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Otahuhu Workshops (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Petone Workshops (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Raroa Railway Station (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Simla Crescent Railway Station (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• List of Nelson railway stations (talk) List-Class (No-Class) added.
• Hutt Park Railway Station, Gracefield (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Lyttelton Line (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Waingawa Railway Station (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 2, 2008

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[edit] March 30, 2008

• Wiri - Manukau Branch (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] March 26, 2008

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[edit] March 22, 2008

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[edit] March 19, 2008

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[edit] March 11, 2008

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[edit] March 9, 2008

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[edit] February 27, 2008

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[edit] February 24, 2008

• Woodside Railway Station (New Zealand) (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Woodside Railway Station, New Zealand
• Hope Railway Station (New Zealand) (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Hope Railway Station, New Zealand

[edit] February 18, 2008

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[edit] February 14, 2008

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[edit] February 10, 2008

• Kaimai Tunnel (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) added.
• NZR RM class (Westinghouse) (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] February 6, 2008

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[edit] February 2, 2008

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[edit] January 26, 2008

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[edit] January 21, 2008

• Taupo Railway Proposals (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Taupo railway proposals