Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lebanon/Assessment
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editI'm posting here to get everyone's opinion on what grading scheme for assessment we should follow. I think it's best to use the conventional grade scheme for article quality and the importance scale used by the Wikipedia Release Version team and WikiProject Canada respectively (both shown below). What do you think?
Proposed grading scheme
editClass | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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
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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.
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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:
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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 |
Proposed importance scale
editWe will of course have to make some modifications to this scale (e.g. replacing Canada with Lebanon).
Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
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Top | The article is one of the core topics about Canada. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are listed on {{Canada topics}} | A reader who is not involved in Canada will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. | Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. | Canada, Provinces and territories of Canada |
High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding specific topics about Canada or general topics about parts of Canada | Most readers will have some knowledge of the subject | Articles at this level cover particular issues related to Canada, specific terms are used to detail the topic | British Columbia, Prime Minister of Canada |
Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in Canada. | Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject | Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Canada. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. | Jasper National Park, Flag of the Governor General of Canada |
Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Canada, but may cover topics related to Canada. | Few readers outside of Canada or that are not within the local area of the article's topic may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. | Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of Canada, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. | Villages of Alberta, Canada's grand railway hotels |
LestatdeLioncourt talk 14:16, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Wow, this is great. I think it would be a great resource and help focus our efforts. --Xtcrider 18:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- nice work lioncourt, it will surely help us expand and improve lebanese related articles. Fedayee 19:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks even though I can't take credit for this work :). But it is essential for us to start assessing articles in order to determine which ones need more care and have a more well-defined scope of operation. I will be working on the main assessment page this week. I hope you can all join with the assessment efforts. And please call me Lestat. LestatdeLioncourt talk 19:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- These are great! I think they'll be really useful for helping us focus our attention on where it's needed most. — George Saliba [talk] 23:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Super!... Great Start, LeStat... I am still unfamiliar with things like classes, etc... When I have time, I will catch up. One thing I want to mention is that many articles about Lebanon specifically need Lebanese Editors who are a native speakers of Lebanese and have "accurate" familarity with Lebanon. I am not sure how to incorporate this yet... Lcnj 08:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- Just a quick remark, I think that's a very good work Lestat, these categories and grading scheme are suitable. for the moment, i'm little bit 'overbooked' and far away from home, i'll 'study' in detail what you've proposed in a week. Captainm 11:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Added assessment to template
editI've added the assessment (rating and importance) to the WikiProject Lebanon Template. Please take a look. — George Saliba [talk] 10:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- I've filled in Lebanon's values (GA and top) on the Lebanon talk page as an example of what it looks like. — George Saliba [talk] 10:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- I've added the categories automatically generated by the template to the page. While these categories don't exist (as nobody has written any text on the pages yet), they are still functional and correctly list articles with that tag. The largest of the categories right now are obviously unassessed Lebanon articles and unknown-importance Lebanon articles. If someone wants to write some text on these category pages explaining what they are and how people can help I think that would be useful. — George Saliba [talk] 11:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hats off to you George! Spectacular work~ I'll see what help I can give you with these categories. Adding just a sentence or two to each would be sufficient I think, so it shouldn't be too much trouble. —LestatdeLioncourt 14:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC)