Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West/Assessment

Assessment at WikiProject American Old West is conducted on two separate levels. First the article is assessed for its "class." Stub, start, B, C, GA, or FA? Class helps keep track of where we are and where we should go. The second criterion an article is assessed on is its importance to the project. A table below helps explain. First, the article subject's historical value is assessed. Mid-level importance articles have some significance, but not as much as top level articles. Top level importance articles are articles that are important to include in an encyclopedia. The lowest assessment is for little-known, interesting pieces of trivia relating to the American Old West.

Assessment instructions

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Quality

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An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject United States}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

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 American Old West articles)   FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class American Old West articles)   A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class American Old West articles)   GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class American Old West articles) B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class American Old West articles) C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class American Old West articles) Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class American Old West articles) Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class American Old West articles)   FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class American Old West 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 American Old West articles) Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class American Old West articles) Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class American Old West articles) Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class American Old West articles)   FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class American Old West articles) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class American Old West articles) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class American Old West articles) Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class American Old West articles) Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class American Old West articles) Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class American Old West articles) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed American Old West articles) ???
Quality scale
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Importance

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

{{WikiProject United States|importance=???|Oldwest-importance=yes}}

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