Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana/Indianapolis/Assessment

This is the assessment department to WikiProject Indianapolis. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Indianapolis articles. 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 Indianapolis}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Indianapolis articles by quality and Category:Indianapolis articles by importance. The quality and importance ratings described below serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Template

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Indianapolis}} banner on its talk page. As a member of this subproject, you can rate articles within our scope.

Usage

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Please note: This template should be transcluded ({{WikiProject Indianapolis}}) and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the project's talk pages without having to edit thousands of pages.

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Field descriptions

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class
Options are FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, List, Category, Template, and NA (Not available). If blank, this will default as Unassessed.
Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indianapolis Colts/Assessment#Quality scale.
importance
Options are Top, High, Mid, Low, and NA (non-article). If blank, this will default as Unknown importance.
Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indianapolis Colts/Assessment#Importance scale.

Quality scale

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Non-article quality scheme
Label Criteria Examples
List These are the articles that serve as stand-alone tallest buildings, neighborhoods, mayors, etc about Indianapolis. It should not be an article that has an embedded list. List of tallest buildings in Indianapolis, Indianapolis Colts seasons
Category These are categories that contain only articles, templates, images and the like that are related to Indianapolis. They are always found in the category namespace. The importance of this class should always be NA. Category:Indianapolis, Indiana, Category:Buildings and structures in Indianapolis, Indiana
Template These are Indianapolis text-boxes that are placed in the template namespace. It should not be used for transclusions that are placed in any other namespace. The importance of this class should always be NA. Template:Indianapolis, Template:Indianapolis Metro
NA These are non-articles that do not fit in any of the descriptions above. The importance of this class should always be NA. Wikipedia:WikiProject Indianapolis

Importance scale

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The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute 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 Colts (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top The essence of Indianapolis. These are the articles, the city itself, sports teams, colleges in the city, etc. . Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Colts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
High People or events that are notable in a significant and important way within Indianapolis, but may not necessarily be well-known outside it. James Whitcomb Riley, Rupert Boneham
Mid Subject contributes to the total subject of WikiProject Indianapolis. Subject may not necessarily be famous. 300 North Meridian
Low Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within Indianapolis, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Area code 317
NA Subject is a template, category, image or some other non-article page. Template:WikiProject Indianapolis