Wikipedia:WikiProject Taxation/Assessment

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Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Instructions 2.1 Quality scale 2.2 Priority scale 2.3 Requesting an assessment 3 Assessment log 4 Worklist

[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 Taxation WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article up to B-Class. GA and FA should follow their defined assessment process. A-Class should receive 3 approval votes from Taxation WikiProject members.

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

An article's assessment is generated from the class and priority parameters in the {{WikiProject Taxation}} project banner on its talk page:

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The following values may be used for the class parameter:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class taxation articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class taxation articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class taxation articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class taxation articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class taxation articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class taxation articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article taxation pages)

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

The following values may be used for the priority parameter:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-priority taxation articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-priority taxation articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-priority taxation articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-priority taxation 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 priority scale below. Note that the priority is used on the workgroup lists only.

The following optional values may be used (see Peer review):

• peer-review=yes
• old-peer-review=yes

[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 necessary, unless new published information has come to light.	FairTax
A {{A-Class}}	Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article as much as the existence of reputable sources allow it. 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 the "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. Editors involved in the writing of an article should not self-assess their article at this level unless it has already achieved GA-Class and has been improved. The best venue for achieving this class is to request a Peer review	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject as much as the existence of reputable sources allow it. 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.	Tax protester constitutional arguments
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.	Accounting period
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.	Tax
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 Queen Elizabeth might cover her personality well, but be weak on back story. 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 NOTE: This is not a negative grade. There are no negative grades in Wikipedia. Having an article on Wikipedia is a passing grade, since it has to pass Notability. This grade is here to alert editors of articles that need some improvement to reach B-class	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 developed enough for a cleanup tag: it still needs to be built.	401(k) plan
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. NOTE: This is not a negative grade. There are no negative grades in Wikipedia. Having an article on Wikipedia is a passing grade, since it has to pass Notability. This grade is here to alert editors of articles that need some improvement to reach Start or B-class	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.	1231 property
Needed {{Needed-Class}}	The article does not exist and needs to be created.

[edit] Priority scale

Priority must be regarded as a relative term. If priority values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority 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).

Article priority grading scheme

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Very high probability that non-accountants would look this up. Limited to the most central tax concepts and the primary tax article for english speaking countries.	Income tax • Taxation in the United Kingdom
High	High probability that non-accountants would look this up. Important international tax concepts or a significant concept for a single country.	Retirement plan • Income taxes in the United States
Mid	Medium probability that non-accountants would look this up. Important tax concepts in an individual country, significant tax legislation, or notable international concepts.	401(k) plan • Tax incidence
Low	Low probability that non-accountants would look this up. Subject is notable within an individual country, minor tax legislation, court cases, tax forms, biographies.	Rabbi trust • Murphy v. IRS

[edit] Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new quality rating for it, please feel free to list it below. NOTE: This is only to rate the article on quality - you may or may not get feedback on the article. If you desire a review, use the peer review process. If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!

Seeking an A-class rating? We suggest you submit it for a Peer Review to allow us more time to respond and review. Be sure to first read what qualifies as an A rating before doing so though.

Add requests to the bottom of this list.

Deferred tax

[edit] Assessment log

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

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Taxation articles by quality log

[edit] Worklist

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

Contact with WP Taxation

• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Taxation articles by quality/1 (443 articles)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Taxation articles by quality/2 (353 articles)

See also: assessed article categories.								Last update: June 11, 2008