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One of the main tasks of the WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's SFBA articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{SFBAProject}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:SFBA articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles asessed.

[edit] How to assess

An article's assessment is generated on its talkpage from the class parameter in {{SFBAProject}}, the WikiProject's banner. To add the banner, add the following to its talkpage:

{{SFBAProject|class=|importance=}}

To add an assessment, simply fill in the class parameter with the appropriate letters. The following values may be used:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed SFBA articles. The criteria for the different classes is below.

SFBA
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2 2 6
A 1 1 2
Good article GA 2 9 8 1 1 21
B 19 73 101 52 31 276
Start 7 109 324 441 296 1177
Stub 1 48 184 911 656 1800
List 1 13 19 8 41
Assessed 31 243 633 1424 992 3323
Unassessed 1 5 6
Total 31 243 633 1425 997 3329

[edit] Quality scale

WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.

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. 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] 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, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of hagiography. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance. Note also that in cases where an article is covered by other WikiProjects in addition to than this one, the importance rating for that article may be different for this project than it is for the other projects.

This is a work in progress, please make modifications and discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for SFBA, is widely famous woldwide and/or generally notable to people other than students of SFBA. This includes counties; 3 largest cities; main subject articles (SFBA history, geography, climate, economy, etc.); universities (over some level of size or other ranking); iconic structures and major geographic features; and critical or defining events and persons. San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Jose, California, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
High Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the SFBA, and known and/or notable to specialized audiences outside it. This includes county seats (not already in the Top list); cities of particular importance or populations above 80,000 to 100,000; most remaining accredited four-year colleges (with some ranking criteria); major parks and other significant protected areas; the most prominent local companies and institutions; natural and geographic features of local significance; iconic buildings; regional governments; the most significant SFBA historical, cultural, musical or artistic figures and movements Año Nuevo State Reserve, Berkeley, California, Leland Stanford, Jack London, Apple Computer, Grateful Dead, Beat Generation
Mid Subject contributes significantly to the total subject of the SFBA WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. This includes significant cities and towns; recognized neighborhoods of San Francisco; special districts; community colleges; school districts; subject articles of the form "Eduction in Foo;" Census Designated Places; notable aspects of natural history; major media; significant or large companies and organizations; notable aspects of cultural history, such as SFBA-based art movements; most biographies of important SFBA historical, cultural, and scientific figures, including the most notable SFBA bands Atherton, California, Bay Area Figurative Movement, De Anza College, Alice Eastwood, Dorothea Lange, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California,
Low Subject is notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia but primarily of specialized or local interest, not particularly well known or significant, or included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. This includes most high schools; most buildings; most neighborhoods outside of San Francisco; lesser-known natural areas, such as county open spaces; minor geographic features and aspects of natural history (such as endemic plant and animal species); most companies, organizations, and structures; biographies of less well-known Bay Area people, including most local bands 16th Street Mission (BART station), Dogtown (Oakland, California), JP MorganChase Building, Rigo 23, San Francisco garter snake