Roller coaster
articles |
Importance |
| Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
None |
Total |
| Quality |
 GA |
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
| B |
1 |
8 |
6 |
2 |
|
17 |
| Start |
14 |
21 |
103 |
5 |
|
143 |
| Stub |
22 |
28 |
422 |
14 |
1 |
487 |
| List |
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
4 |
| Assessed |
37 |
58 |
534 |
22 |
1 |
652 |
| Total |
37 |
58 |
534 |
22 |
1 |
652 |
Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Roller Coasters! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's roller coaster related 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{RollerCoasterProject}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Roller coaster articles by quality and Category:Roller coaster articles by importance.
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Progress
| Date |
Number of articles |
 FA |
GA |
B |
Start |
Stub |
List |
Unassessed |
Total |
| Oct 2007 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
90 |
409 |
0 |
84 |
591 |
| Nov 2007 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
97 |
427 |
2 |
68 |
603 |
| Dec 2007 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
134 |
454 |
3 |
0 |
605 |
| Jan 2008 |
0 |
1 |
15 |
133 |
467 |
4 |
1 |
621 |
| Feb 2008 |
0 |
1 |
15 |
136 |
477 |
4 |
1 |
633 |
| Mar 2008 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
139 |
478 |
4 |
0 |
638 |
| Apr 2008 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
139 |
479 |
4 |
1 |
640 |
| May 2008 |
0 |
1 |
17 |
141 |
487 |
4 |
1 |
651 |
[edit] Frequently asked questions
- How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
- Just add {{RollerCoasterProject}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
- How can I get my article rated?
- Please list it on the WikiProject talk page.
- Who can assess articles?
- Anyone 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.
- Where can I get more comments about my article?
- You can ask on the WikiProject talk page.
- What if I don't agree with a rating?
- You can ask any member of the project to rate the article again or ask on the WikiProject talk page.
- Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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 WikiProject talk page.
[edit] Quality scale
Article progress grading scheme
| Label |
Criteria |
Reader's experience |
Editor's experience |
Examples |
FA
{{FA-Class}} |
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. |
Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. |
No further editing necessary, unless new published information has come to light. |
None |
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 good. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but being a Good article is not a requirement for A-Class. |
Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, 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. |
Speed Monster |
B
{{B-Class}} |
Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, NPOV or 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. |
Kingda Ka |
Start
{{Start-Class}} |
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a table. 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
|
Not useless. Some readers will find what they are looking for, but most will not. Most articles in this category have the look of an article "under construction" and a reader genuinely interested in the topic is likely to seek additional information elsewhere. |
Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article usually isn't even good enough for a cleanup tag: it still needs to be built. |
Thrust Air 2000 |
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 Start-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible. |
May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. |
Any editing or additional material can be helpful. |
Diavlo |
Needed
{{Needed-Class}} |
The article does not exist and needs to be created. |
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[edit] Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, articles with greater popular notability may be rated higher than articles which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to people of a certain geographical area.
If you are unsure, just ask on the talk page. Remember these ratings are to give a brief overview only, so don't worry too much about getting them 'right'.
[edit] Example assessments
To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.
Quality
- {{RollerCoasterProject|class=FA}} - to rate an article at FA-Class
- {{RollerCoasterProject|class=A}} - to rate an article at A-Class
- {{RollerCoasterProject|class=GA}} - to rate an article at GA-Class
- {{RollerCoasterProject|class=B}} - to rate an article at B-Class
- {{RollerCoasterProject|class=Start}} - to rate an article at Start-Class
- {{RollerCoasterProject|class=Stub}} - to rate an article at Stub-Class
- {{RollerCoasterProject}} - to leave the article un-assessed.
Importance
- {{RollerCoasterProject|importance=Top}} - to rate an article at Top importance
- {{RollerCoasterProject|importance=High}} - to rate an article at High importance
- {{RollerCoasterProject|importance=Mid}} - to rate an article at Mid importance
- {{RollerCoasterProject|importance=Low}} - to rate an article at Low importance
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