Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League/Assessment

Discussion of "importance" guidelines/metrics

This page was created in anticipation of the addition of "importance" ranking for this project. I've taken the liberty to lay out some guidelines or metrics for inclusion of an article in a particular importance category. The point of this is to avoid having editors arbitrarily assign importance to articles based on their personal biases. The metrics that are currently specified are definitely up for discussion, which began on the project talk page. Please let me know what you think about the appropriateness of the metrics as defined in this article. Thanks. — DeeJayK (talk) 21:08, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Super Bowl MVP?

Should Super Bowl MVP be included as a consideration when assessing the importance of biographic articles? (e.g. add a level of importance for Super Bowl MVPs.) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 13:54, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm not so sure this would add a tremendous amount of value. I'd rather assess a player's importance based on a larger body of work than a single game. I feel like the existing guidelines do just that. — DeeJayK (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Automated assessment of article importance

Hello everyone! I'm currently working on a project with Aaron Halfaker where we are studying how to do automated classification of article importance. In case you're wondering who I am and why I'm the one working on this, I've added a short explanation of that at the end of this post.

One of our project's goals is to make article importance predictions for articles within a specific WikiProject, and we have been making good progress towards that goal. We are now reaching out to a handful of WikiProjects to learn more about how useful and accurate our models are. These projects were chosen because almost all of them mention what the "average Wikipedia reader" is likely to look up as a criteria when determining article importance, a concept that corresponds to our usage of article views as input in our model, and because they have a large number of articles rated as "unknown importance", something we can build tools to assist with. WikiProject National Football League is one of these projects, which is why I'm posting here.

During the past week I have been working on building a model that predicts the importance ratings of articles within the scope of WikiProject National Football League. The model uses data such as number of article views, number of inlinks from other articles (and what proportion of those come from within the WikiProject), as well as information from the clickstream dataset. I have created a page listing almost 100 articles where our model believes the importance rating of a given article should change, you can find that list here: User:SuggestBot/WikiProject National Football League#Candidates for re-rating

We'd love to know whether our predictions are accurate or useful. For instance, you might find that a prediction is not spot on, but enough to warrant changing the rating of a given article (e.g. we might predict Top-importance for an article that should be High-importance, but if it is currently rated Low-importance both cases warrant an update of that rating). If our predictions are wrong, please let us know about that too! There might be aspects of importance that our model does not catch and we want to understand what those are so we can see if there are ways to fix them.

While working on building this model, I also identified many pages within the scope of WikiProject National Football League that appear to need an update of their importance rating. These pages are also listed on the page linked above. For example there are many redirects that do not have an NA ("not an article") rating, and I've updated the rating of some of them. I have also identified some articles that do not appear to have a matching Wikidata item.

As I mentioned in the introduction, in case you’re wondering who I am and why I'm the one working on this: as part of my PhD I studied using machine learning to predict article quality, and I helped develop parts of ORES to enable it to make article quality predictions. Besides doing research I also run SuggestBot, a bot which recommends you articles to edit, currently available in seven languages. Thanks for your time, and I’m looking forward to your thoughts and questions! Regards, Nettrom (talk) 22:55, 10 May 2017 (UTC)