Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture/Assessment

Agriculture articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	2	6			11
FL				2			2
GA	6	17	19	52			94
B	5	62	92	182		46	387
C	14	111	219	918		171	1,433
Start	3	69	377	2,799		472	3,720
Stub	3	7	120	2,517		226	2,873
List	2	9	52	207	2	32	304
Category		2		6	2,053		2,061
Disambig		1		1	25		27
File					66		66
Portal					5		5
Project					38		38
Redirect		4	20	156	193		373
Template			1	1	155		157
NA			1		2		3
Other		1			99		100
Assessed	35	284	903	6,847	2,638	947	11,654
Unassessed				1		163	164
Total	35	284	903	6,848	2,638	1,110	11,818
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 42,919			Ω = 5.04

Welcome to the assessment department of the Agriculture WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Agriculture or the people of Agriculture. 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.

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

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 Agriculture WikiProject 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.

Instructions

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Agriculture}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Agriculture|class=???}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Agriculture articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Agriculture articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Agriculture articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Agriculture articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Agriculture articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Agriculture articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Agriculture articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Agriculture articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Agriculture articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Agriculture articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Agriculture articles)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Agriculture articles)		Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Agriculture articles)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Agriculture articles)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Agriculture articles)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Agriculture articles)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Agriculture articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Agriculture articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Agriculture articles)		???

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Agriculture}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Agriculture|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Agriculture articles)		Top
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Agriculture articles)		High
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Agriculture articles)		Mid
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Agriculture articles)		Low
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Agriculture articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Agriculture articles)		???

Quality scale

This WikiProject uses the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment standard quality scale.

WikiProject article quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is: well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard; comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate; neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process; and compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style where appropriate.	Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	Cleopatra (as of June 2018)
FL	The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) statements are sourced where they appear, and they provide inline citations if they contain any of the four kinds of material absolutely required to have citations. (c) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. (c) Accessibility. It uses proper formating to be accessible to all readers. Bulleted and unbulleted lists and tables are structured correctly. Visual media, if included, utilize alternative (alt) text. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.	Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018)
A	The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets the A-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history).	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting.	Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help.	Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014)
GA	The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria A good article is: Well-written: the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Verifiable with no original research: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose); it contains no original research; and it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. Broad in its coverage: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication.	Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing.	Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019)
B	The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher.	A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.	Psychology (as of January 2024)
C	The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.	Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study.	Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems.	Wing (as of June 2018)
Start	An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following: A 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	Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more.	Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.	Ball (as of September 2014)
Stub	A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria.	Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant.	Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014)
List	Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.	There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader.	Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized.	List of literary movements

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 Agriculture.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field.	Kindergarten
High	Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent.	Factory Acts
Mid	Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area.	0.999...
Low	Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article.	G cell
NA	Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc.	Category:Palms
???	Subject importance has not yet been assessed.

We are currently discussing which articles should be counted as being of Top-importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture/Assessment/Top-importance articles.

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.

• Rice production in Bangladesh. After making substantial revisions to this article, I believe this warrants a fresh rating by an independent eye. Bolideleoi (talk) 18:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
• Beekeeping in Ireland -- Bibby (talk) 11:57, 31 October 2020 (UTC) Over the past year plus there has been many improvements and sources added to this wiki page and I feel that a rating of C-Class for Quality Scale for the WikiProject Ireland and WikiProject Agriculture is too low? Or what do you think can be done to improve it? Feedback very appreciated.
• Altai Mountain goat -- HuskyEdits (talk) 13:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC) This article went from one sentence to a mostly complete entry. I think that it should receive a higher quality rating (Start).
• Artificial photosynthesis -- EditSafe (talk) 16:01, 5 March 2017 (UTC) I think that this article should receive an importance rating (low or mid), and should also receive a higher quality rating (B or C).
• American Pekin Duck -- EditSafe (talk) 15:51, 5 March 2017 (UTC) I think that this article is more important than 'low'. I think that the importance is 'mid', because of the popularity of the American Pekin Duck itself, and how much people research about it. I have also seen the Wikipedia article mentioned before on other websites.
• Corporate farming -- Creigpat (talk) 03:08, 7 November 2014 (UTC) I made some big edits to this page that I believe improved its quality beyond the start class. I'm still not certain on the ranking system, so I figured I would get someone else's opinion on the page.

 Not done Still has too few sources. TheMagikCow (talk) 09:32, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

• Ancon_(sheep) -- Jaydubya93 (talk) 02:47, 8 March 2014 (UTC) I would like to request an upgrade from Stub class to Start or C class. While I would be the first one to point out that a fair amount of additional work is needed, I have doubled the size of the article and increased the references from one to six citations (all from academic journals). Due to the extinct status of this animal, images are proving difficult and may not be possible in the short term. That said, additional expansion is under way and an extra page or so of solid, relevant content should be no problem.

 Done Upgraded to Start TheMagikCow (talk) 17:11, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

• International Food Policy Research Institute -- ND Eowyn (talk) 06:34, 1 May 2012 (UTC) This has been improved and may qualify for a different quality ranking.
• International Livestock Research Institute -- ND Purplecherry (talk) 14:21, 19 November 2021 (UTC) This article may qualify for a different quality ranking.
• Otto Frederick Hunziker. On 7 Jul 08, Tpbradbury upgraded the quality scale rating to B-Class, consistent with other WikiProjects. The article has since been listed as a good article under the good article criteria. On 11 Sep 08, the article was upgraded from B to GA quality status for all applicable WikiProjects. I would be interested in any further assessment to A Class or comments regarding possible changes to further progress. More importantly, I would be very interested in a reassessment of the importance rating for this project. The importance rating has remained stuck at low. I am not sure if this is the default setting and the article is awaiting a manual review. Or are dairy issues deemed of low importance generally in the overall agriculture scheme? Given the significant overall impact of O F Hunziker on large segments of the agricultural community, the article appears to warrant a medium - if not high - importance rating. A reassessment and any assessment comments would be greatly appreciated.--Rpclod (talk) 03:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done Looks like this went to GA-class on September 11, 2008. BlindEagle^{talk~contribs} 19:16, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

• Polypay -- Performed an overhaul of the article by taking out some cases of lifting from other cites, improved references, added pictures, extra information and links Pschloss (talk) 21:08, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
• Zebra chip -- this potato disease article is new and unassessed; it may be featured within the next 48 hours on the main page in DYK?. CB (ö) 04:42, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 Done BlindEagle^{talk~contribs} 19:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

• Mechanical pest control -- Should be B-class now.--Deathlaser (talk) 17:24, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
• Limousin (cattle)-- Should be more than start class Finnegas (talk) 20:04, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

 Done GAN TheMagikCow (talk) 09:28, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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.

June 30, 2024

Reassessed

• Naktuinbouw (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
• Telangana Sheep Distribution scheme (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

• Draft:Bantu (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• ISO 11783 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Joe Henson (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• NCK (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

June 29, 2024

Reassessed

• Domestic Muscovy duck (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

• Harold Tempany (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Intake (land) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Suguna Holdings (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

Removed

• Draft:Taro pests and diseases (talk) removed.

June 28, 2024

Renamed

• Hassaku orange renamed to Hassaku.
• Kawachi Bankan renamed to Kawachi bankan.

Reassessed

• Domestic Muscovy duck (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
• Domestic duck (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Thomas-Everard family (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

• Agrosuper (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Hassaku (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Kawachi bankan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Romulus Zăroni (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Walter Enwezor (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

June 27, 2024

Reassessed

• Siciliano Indigeno (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

• Soil aeration (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

June 26, 2024

Reassessed

• Farm (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Horticulture (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

Removed

• Draft:Eranipatti (talk) removed.

June 25, 2024

Reassessed

• Vital Farms (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

• Category:Agriculture ministers of Malawi (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Draft:April ting (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Domestic Duck (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as High-Class. (rev · t)
• Hot Springs Conference (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

June 24, 2024

Renamed

• ADM (company) renamed to Archer Daniels Midland.

Reassessed

• Foreign Market Development Program (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Wesseler (Altenberge) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

• Archer Daniels Midland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Cremo (company) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Oishii (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

Worklist

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