Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/BCAD
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- BCAD is now closed. Your help has been very much appreciated.
- Drive coordinator/s: Roger Davies • Woody • Kyriakos • Blnguyen • Wandalstouring
Welcome to BCAD - the Military history WikiProject initiative for experienced wiki-gnomes to check and evaluate Milhist B-Class articles against the Milhist B-Class criteria.
Important note: Very new editors should be aware that this drive is more complicated than it may appear at first sight. You will need to make many judgement calls, based on a couple of months familiarity with Wikipedia articles. Without this, errors will creep in and you will succeed only in annoying and alienating the many editors who have worked hard on the articles that we are re-assessing. If you have doubts about your experience, try assessing some of the articles at Category:Military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists before signing up for this drive. They will give you a good idea of what to expect.
The drive
editLast year, we changed the B-Class assessment system. We introduced a five-point checklist: each criterion needs to be fulfilled for the article to be promoted. This checklist is an integral part of the display text of the {{WPMILHIST}} template. In summary, these criteria are that the article:
- B1 - is suitably referenced, with inline citations;
- B2 - reasonably covers the topic;
- B3 - has a defined structure, including a lead section;
- B4 - is free from major grammatical errors;
- B5 - contains appropriate supporting graphics, infoboxes, or images.
However, the {{WPMILHIST}} template also enables editors to set articles as B-Class by inserting |class=B and without completing the criteria parameters.
The objective of this drive is to ensure (1) that all five criteria parameters are accurately completed and (2) that articles not fulfilling all five criteria are re-graded to Start- or Stub-class.
The drive will run until all B-Class articles in Worklist A are assessed. We do not expect this to take more than four weeks.
The rewards
editAs a token of our appreciation for your efforts, we will be presenting the awards illustrated below. They will be awarded accumulatively. That is, if you assess 600 articles, you will receive the One Stripe, Two Stripe and Three Stripe awards. These will be awarded automatically at the end of the drive, based on your final tally. The editor with the highest tally overall will also be awarded a Golden Wiki.
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One Stripe (200 articles) -
Two Stripes (400 articles) -
Three Stripes (600 articles) -
Chevrons (1000 articles) -
Golden Wiki First place
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Instructions
edit- For guidance: frequently asked questions
First, open the article's talk page to edit it and go to the {{WPMILHIST|class=B}} tag at the head of the page. This will show you something like this:
{{WPMILHIST |class= <!-- B-Class checklist --> <!-- 1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations. --> |B-Class-1= yes/no <!-- 2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. --> |B-Class-2= yes/no <!-- 3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. --> |B-Class-3= yes/no <!-- 4. It is free from major grammatical errors. --> |B-Class-4= yes/no <!-- 5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. --> |B-Class-5= yes/no }}
If the B-Class criteria text is missing from the talk page (it may have been edited out), simply enter the text above into the Milhist template parameters. You can cut and paste it either from here or from the text displayed by clicking on the "show" button of the Milhist banner.
For an article to be B-Class, all five criteria must be "=yes". If they are not yet set, edit the five criteria parameters to show either yes or no, based on whether each criterion meets the required standard.
You are expected to use your judgement in deciding whether or not a criterion is fulfilled. What, for example, does "reasonably referenced" in criteria B1 mean? In practice, an article with few citations, especially if has an entire section without citations, will usually fail this criterion.
Elsewhere, in B4, you will need to decide what "major grammatical errors" means. Again, in practice, we are looking for reasonably written and clear English. If the text contains many sentence fragments, large numbers of typos, and clearly needs a heavy copy-edit to make sense of it, then fail it. Do not fail it because it mixes American and English spellings, or needs a light copy-edit.
Similarly, in B5, the article is required to have "appropriate supporting materials". In practice, if an article contains no graphic material at all, it will fail the B5 criterion.
In borderline cases, please leave a message either on the talk page of one of the drive coordinators or on the drive's talk page for a second opinion. Similarly, editors who are disagree with your assessment should be asked to contact the drive coordinators or leave a message on the drive's talk page for a second opinion.
Milhist's B-Class criteria differ from those used by some other projects. Where articles are tagged to several projects, base your assessment solely on the Milhist criteria. Do not worry if your re-assessment puts the Milhist assessment out of step with assessments made by other projects.
After you have finished each ten-article sub-section on the worksheet, please mark it completed by adding <s> after the first # and </s> after the tenth entry.
Participants
editPlease add your name below, in alphabetical order, together with a running total (tally) of articles worked on. This tally should include articles that you have evaluated and needed no changes, and those that you re-assessed, and will be the basis for awards. To make it easier to pick up where you leave off, and to avoid edit conflicts, please "adopt a range" in the Worklists below.
- Avocado (talk) 0
- Balloonguy (talk) 60
- .Climie.ca (talk) 1750
- Cplakidas (talk) 400
- Daniel (talk) 120
- Dreamafter (talk) 20
- Ed! (talk) 500
- Fattyjwoods (talk) 20
- Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 60
- Glennfcowan (talk) 50
- .Harland1 (talk) 1150
- jj137 (talk) 200
- jwillbur (talk) 200
- Kyriakos (talk) 350
- .Legotech (talk) 1200
- MBK004 (talk) 600
- Mifter (talk) 400
- Milk's Favorite Cookie (talk) 220
- Narson (talk) 50
- Oldwildbill (talk) 40
- Patar knight (talk) 200
- Raoulduke47 (talk) 30
- Redmarkviolinist (talk) 200
- Rockfall (talk) 100
- SGGH (talk) 200
- .Smsarmad (talk) 1050
- Sniperz11 (talk) 100
- SoLando (talk) 70
- Stormtracker94 (talk) 163
- Wandalstouring (talk) 0
- WBOSITG (talk) 50
- Woody (talk) 80
- YellowAssessmentMonkey (talk) 200
- Currently inactive
Worklists
editThe worklists below include just over 3500 Milhist articles currently assessed as B-Class (Worklist A) and 4000 articles whose B-Class criteria are incomplete (Worklist B). Each worklist range includes 200 articles, divided into 20 sub-sections each of 10 articles. To adopt a range, simply type your name, using the [[User:Your name|Your name]] format. Please do not include graphic versions of your username as they can break the table's formatting.
After you have completed five sub-sections, type "done" in the space provided, and repeat until you have completed the range. Do not use the graphic templates - {{done}} or {{doing}} as they seriously slow down loading the page.
Please do not adopt more than one range at a time. Take on a new range only after you have completed the previous one. If you find yourself unable to complete your range, please let the drive coordinators know so that the remaining articles in the range can be finished by another participant. Your tally will be credited in full for the work done.
The template text has been updated to clarify this.
Worklist A Range adopted Editor's name 50 100 150 200 1–200 SGGH (t c) Done Done Done Done 201–400 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 401–600 Harland1 (t c) Done Done Done Done 601–800 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 801–1000 Smsarmad (t c) Done Done Done Done 1001–1200 Milk's Favorite Cookie (t c) Done Done Done Done 1201–1400 Mifter (t c) Done Done Done Done 1401–1600 Legotech (t c) Done Done Done Done 1601–1800 MBK004 (t c) Done Done Done Done 1801–2000 jj137 (t c) Done Done Done Done 2001–2200 Kyriakos (t c) Done Done Done Done 2201–2400 MBK004 (t c) Done Done Done Done 2401–2600 Stormtracker94 (t c) Done Done Done Doing 2601–2800 Harland1 (t c) Done Done Done Done 2801–3000 Cplakidas (t c) Done Done Done Done 3001–3200 Mifter (t c) Done Done Done Done 3201–3400 MBK004 (t c) Done Done Done Done 3401–3549 Woody (t c) Done Done Done N/A
Worklist B Range adopted Editor's name 50 100 150 200 4001–4200 YellowAssessmentMonkey (t c)
aka User:BlnguyenDone Done Done Done 4201–4400 Patar knight (t c) Done Done Done Done 4401–4600 Fattyjwoods (t c) Doing 4601–4800 Cplakidas (t c) Done Done Done Done 4801–5000 Narson (t c) Done Done 5001–5200 Harland1 (t c) Done Done Done Done 5201–5400 Gaia Octavia Agrippa (t c) Done Doing 5401–5600 Balloonguy (t c) Done Doing 5601–5800 Milk's Favorite Cookie (t c) 5801–6000 glennfcowan (t c) Done Doing 6001–6200 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 6201–6400 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 6401–6600 Harland1 (t c) Done Done Done Done 6601–6800 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 6801–7000 Oldwildbill (t c) Doing 7001–7200 Smsarmad (t c) Done Done Done Done 7201–7400 Legotech (t c) Done Done Done Done 7401–7600 Redmarkviolinist (t c) Done Doing 7601–7800 MBK004 (t c) Done Done Done Done 7801–8000 Flubeca (t c) 8001–8200 Daniel (t c) Done Done Doing 8201–8400 Dreamafter (t c) Doing 8401–8600 Wandalstouring (t c) Done Done Doing 8601–8800 Smsarmad (t c) Done Done Done Done 8801–9000 Kyriakos (t c) Done Done Done Doing 9001–9200 Legotech (t c) Done Done Done Done 9201–9400 Smsarmad (t c) Done Done Done Done 9401–9600 Raoulduke47 (t c) Doing 9601–9800 Smsarmad (t c) Done Done Done Done 9801–10000 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 10000–10200 Harlsbottom (t c) Doing 10201–10400 Smsarmad (t c) 10401–10600 Harland1 (t c) Done Done Done Done 10601–10800 Harland1 (t c) Done Done Done Done 10801–11000 jwillbur (t c) Done Done Done Done 11001–11200 Legotech (t c) Done Done Done Done 11201–11400 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 11401–11600 Harland1 (t c) Done 11601–11800 Ed! (t c) Done Done Done Done 11801–12000 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 12001–12200 Legotech (t c) Done Done Done Done 12201–11400 Climie.ca (t c) Done Done Done Done 12401–12600 Ed! (t c) Done Done Done Done 12601–12800 Ed! (t c) Done Done Doing 12801–13000 Legotech (t c) Done Done Done Done