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articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 12 3 3 3 21
Featured list FL 4 4
A 1 1
Good article GA 16 3 10 3 32
B 2 24 20 26 379 451
Start 3 13 71 160 2710 2957
Stub 4 67 301 6451 6823
List 1 2 32 23 47 105
Assessed 22 60 196 523 9593 10394
Unassessed 82 4788 4870
Total 22 60 278 523 14381 15264

Welcome to the assessment section of the Ohio WikiProject! This section focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Ohio. 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 {{OH-Project}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Ohio articles by quality and Category:Ohio 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 Ohio WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
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 system we see best fit to run.
What's this auto parameter message about? 
Bots that assess articles as stub class set templates with an "auto=yes" parameter so editors know to check the article's class. If it is a stub remove the "auto=yes", if it is not please assess the article or request an assessment below.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this section.

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{OH-Project}} project banner on its talk page:

{{OH-Project|class=|importance=}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

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

If an article has comments, it is listed in Category:Ohio articles with comments. This section needs to be periodically checked.

If an article was automatically assessed by a bot it was tagged and placed in Category:Automatically assessed Ohio articles. Please review the articles in this category and remove the "auto=yes" parameter.

[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. Cleveland, Ohio (as of March 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. List of Tallested Buildings in Cleveland (as of March 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. William Stacy (as of March 2008)
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. Ohio Department of Transportation (as of November 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. Oberlin College (as of March 2008)
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. Ohio Caverns (as of March 2008)
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. "S" Bridge II (Muskingum County, Ohio) (as of March 2008)
List
{{List-Class}}		 Meets the criteria of a Stand-alone List, which is a page that contains primarily a list. There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. List of Tree Cities in Ohio
Template
{{Template-Class}}		 Is any type of template. The most common types of template used in the WikiProject are infoboxes and navboxes. Serves different purposes depending upon the type of template. Infoboxes go at the upper right of a page and are a way of providing easy access to important pieces of introductory infomation about the subject. Navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page, and are for the purpose of uniting a group of related articles into an easily accessible format for inclusion on every page listed in the navbox. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. {{OH-Project}}
Disambig
{{Dab-Class}}		 Is any disambiguation page. Serves to distinguish article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic. Pay particular attention to the proper naming of disambiguation articles, they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. Ohio (disambiguation)
Category
{{Cat-Class}}		 Is any category. Category:Ohio


[edit] Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{OH-Project}} project banner on its talk page:

{{OH-Project| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top
High
Mid
Low
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The following values may be used for importance assessments:

[edit] Importance scale

Rate articles on overall importance. Use the basic descriptions, guided by the general examples when available. Always give the highest rating suggested by general examples at different levels.

Top Subject is a must-have for Category:Ohio
  • State government
  • Major geological formations and geographic regions
  • Cities over 100,000 and major metropolitan areas
High Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
  • Micropolitan areas
  • State and national parks
  • Major universities, charities and foundations
  • Federal highways and waterways
  • Military battles, wars and skirmishes
  • Cities 50,000 - 99,999
  • Sitting Federal and statewide politicians
Mid Subject fills in more minor details
  • Unique notable cultural, sport and entertainment traditions and celebrations
  • Folklore
  • Minor geographic and geological sites
  • Major architectural landmarks
  • Cities/Towns 10,000 - 49,999
  • Former federal and statewide politicians; sitting mayors
  • Listings on the National Register of Historic Places
Low Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial
  • Non-suburb populations under 10,000
  • Famous or notable native or resident biographies
  • Local politicians with constituents fewer than 100,000
  • City neighborhoods, parks and events
  • Individual sporting events
  • Minor architectural structures
  • Lists and galleries

[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 by adding new articles to the top.

[edit] Top Articles

Image:LinkFA-star.png Featured Articles: Bob McEwen • Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway • Cleveland, Ohio • Edwin Taylor Pollock • George B. McClellan • Hurricane Isabel • Jack Warner • Jim Thorpe • Jimmy McAleer • Katie Holmes • Kroger Babb • Maynard James Keenan • Natalie Clifford Barney • Nine Inch Nails • Nine Inch Nails live performances • Ohio Wesleyan University • Superman • Toledo War • William Tecumseh Sherman • Youngstown, Ohio • Youngstown Ohio Works

Image:LinkFA-star.png Featured Lists: Cleveland Browns seasons • List of Cleveland Browns first-round draft picks • List of tallest buildings in Cleveland • Nine Inch Nails discography

A-Class: William Stacy

Good Articles: 2005 Texas vs. Ohio State football game • Acer rubrum • Amish • Bob Chappuis • Buckeye (chicken) • Columbus Zoo and Aquarium • Drew Carey • Economy of Ohio • Ed Muransky • Elmer Gedeon • February 2007 North America Winter Storm • Garland Rivers • Halle Berry • Hugh Boyle Ewing • Jack Nicklaus • Jack Thompson (attorney) • John Baldwin (educator) • Johnny Appleseed • Marcellus Formation • Mark Matthews • Neil Armstrong • Northern Cardinal • Norwood, Ohio • Ohio Department of Transportation • Port Columbus International Airport • Ricky Powers • Thomas Edison • Tom Cousineau • Warner and Swasey Observatory • Whitey Wistert • Wright brothers





[edit] Newest Ohio-related articles (Automated)

These are the newest Ohio articles which may need to be assessed.

[edit] Article Assessment Log

Ohio 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.


Archive 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.


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