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Assessment

WikiProject Strategy games

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Strategy games! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles related to strategy games. 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.

Strategy game articles		Importance
Strategy game articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	3		4	1		8
	A		1	2			3
	GA	2	1	4	6		13
	B	5	17	29	28	15	94
	Start	7	8	52	222	82	371
	Stub		2	13	188	32	235
	List			2	3	1	6
	Assessed	17	29	106	448	130	730
	Unassessed					405	405
	Total	17	29	106	448	535	1135

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{SGamesproj}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Strategy game articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] Frequently asked questions

How do I add an article to the WikiProject?: Just add {{SGamesproj}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
How can I get my article rated?: Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles?: Any member of WikiProject Strategy games 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 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] 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.

[edit] New requests

Please place new requests (in the format, # [[article name]] -- ~~~~) at the bottom of the list.

Eastern Front (computer game) -- Maury 21:54, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

replied on talk page.--Clyde (talk) 21:18, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I have rated it as start class. - G 1 ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 02:00, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I disagree with the rating. What now? Maury 19:49, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Well perhaps it would be best if you specified why on the thread we have going on the talk page.--Clyde (talk) 19:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Weird, I didn't see the edit. Comments there. Maury 21:13, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
DVONN -- Xander July 31, 2007

Looked over. Many problems still, and maybe a B if strategy is trimmed and referenced and rules are clarified.--Clyde (talk) 19:31, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Sarah Kerrigan -- Sabre 15:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

B seems to be fitting, as GA is the next step.--CM (talk) 03:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
StarCraft: Brood War -- Sabre 15:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Again, B seems to be fitting, as GA is the next step (I'm sorry I forgot to mention this; I looked it over a while ago).--CM (talk) 03:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
SpellForce 2: Dragon Storm please note, some edits were made when i had my old account SKYNET X1000 -- SKYNET X7000

Start class; needs some more information and refs.--CM (talk) 02:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Understood, I'll find more info and refs, thanks though for uploading an image of the game itself. -- SKYNET X7000 (talk) 08:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Let me know if you have any more questions. I also added headings for stuff you might want to add info for (I have a bunch of websites on my userpage as well if you run out of resources).--CM (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Space Hulk (computer game) -- Jappalang (talk) 00:09, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I moved it up to B for both VG and SG. I think its close to GA with only small problems left to fix: making references in numerical order, a little heavy on British reviews (which is understandable I suppose), and overuse of Amiga and Gamebytes. On a side note, I was preparing to grant Descent: FreeSpace GA, a fine article (now its a COI I think). This is one of the finest researched old VG articles I've seen, although I'm not in much of a place to comment on comprehensiveness (never heard of the game) or prose (few problems from what I saw).--CM (talk) 03:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I have rearranged the references to be more progressive in enumeration order. I agree Game Bytes (the only English review of the PC version I could find) and three Amiga magazines were used heavily as references but these were the more comprehensive reviews compared to the rest. Jappalang (talk) 08:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots Hello32020 (talk) 16:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Fragile Allegiance -- Archangel Lucifer (talk) 03:39, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{SGamesproj}} template banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).

{{WikiProject Strategy games| ... | class=??? | importance=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class strategy game articles)
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class strategy game articles)
GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class strategy game articles)
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class strategy game articles)
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class strategy game articles)
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class strategy game articles)

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

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-priority strategy game articles)
High (adds articles to Category:High-priority strategy game articles)
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-priority strategy game articles)
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-priority strategy game articles)
None (adds articles to Category:Unknown-priority strategy game articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

[edit] Quality scale

**Article progress grading scheme**
Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
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 is necessary unless new published information has come to light; but further improvements to the text are often possible.	Chess
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 "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. 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.
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 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, 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.	Risk (game)
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, 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.	Rise of Nations
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 such as a standard infobox. 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.	Enemy Nations
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.	3D Tetris

[edit] Importance scale

Status	Template	Meaning of Status
Top	{{Top-Class}}	This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High	{{High-Class}}	This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
Mid	{{Mid-Class}}	This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
Low	{{Low-Class}}	This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia.
None	None	This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.