Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state)/Assessment
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Welcome to WikiProject New York (state)'s assessment department. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's New York (state) 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 New York (state)}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:New York (state) articles by quality and Category:New York (state) articles by importance.
Frequently asked questions
[edit]- Who can assess articles?
- Any editor is free to add or change the rating of an article, but please follow the quality and importance criteria specified below.
- Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?
- Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, reviewers are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
- Where can I get more comments about my article?
- You may leave a post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York (state) or list it for peer review.
- What if I don't agree with a rating?
- You may contact the editor who reviewed the article and ask them to take another look, or leave a post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York (state).
- Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are, particularly in terms of judging importance. However, the criteria used by WPNY are no more nor no less subjective than those used by any other WikiProject.
- Why does WPNY only tag some New York-related articles, not all of them?
- In the past, some of WPNY's subprojects, particularly WikiProject New York City, had removed the WPNY banner from any and (nearly) all articles within their scope, leaving said articles covered only by the subproject. In 2012, it was decided at the WPNY level to tag articles covered by subprojects based solely on the article's importance to the state, both to avoid the slippery slope of endless article tagging by one parent project after another and to codify when articles should and should not be solely tagged by a subproject. The end result is that the subprojects can maintain articles of local importance while WPNY can focus its efforts on articles of greater importance to the state.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department, or leave a post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York (state).
Instructions
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An article's assessment is generated from the values entered in the {{{class}}} and {{{importance}}} parameters of the {{WikiProject New York (state)}} talk page banner template.
Assessing for quality
[edit]An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject New York (state)}} 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 New York (state) articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class New York (state) articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class New York (state) articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class New York (state) articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class New York (state) articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class New York (state) articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class New York (state) articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class New York (state) articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class New York (state) articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Assessing for importance
[edit]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject New York (state)}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject New York (state)|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 New York (state) articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance New York (state) articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance New York (state) articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance New York (state) articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance New York (state) articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance New York (state) articles) | ??? |
Quality scale
[edit]| Class | 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. | Briarcliff Manor, New York |
| 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 tallest buildings in New York City |
| FM |
Pictures that have attained featured picture status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. More detailed criteria
A featured picture:
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The page contains a featured image, sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:New York Midtown Skyline at night - Jan 2006 edit1.jpg |
| 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 Fort Washington |
| 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. | Albany, New York |
| 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. | New York City |
| 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. | New York (state) |
| 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. | Thomas DiNapoli |
| 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. | 1000 Islands Tower |
| 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 cities in New York |
| Category | Any category falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:New York (state) |
| Disambig | Any disambiguation page falls under this class. | The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. | Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | New York |
| File | Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. | The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:Flag of New York.svg |
| Portal | Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. | Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date. | Portal:New York (state) |
| Project | All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class. | Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development. | Develop these pages into collaborative resources that are useful for improving articles within the project. | Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state) |
| Redirect | Any redirect falls under this class. | The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged with the original article at this location. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that articles are not mis-classified as redirects, and that redirects are not mis-classified as articles. | New York State |
| Template | Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes. | Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. | Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:New York (state) |
Importance scale
[edit]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 military history. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance.
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. Rate international region/country-specific articles from the perspective of someone from that region.
| Importance | Criteria | Examples | Assessment tagging |
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| Top | Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for New York, or is generally notable to the public at large. |
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Articles in this category shall be tagged for WPNY even if they also fall within the scope of one or more of New York's subprojects. |
| High | Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the field of New York, but not necessarily outside it. |
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Articles in this category shall be tagged for WPNY even if they also fall within the scope of one or more of New York's subprojects. |
| Mid | Subject contributes to the total subject of the New York WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. |
Articles to tag for WPNY even if they also fall within the scope of one or more of New York's subprojects:
Articles to tag for WPNY only if they do not fall within the scope of one or more of New York's subprojects:
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Articles in this category shall be tagged for WPNY as noted under "Examples". |
| Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of New York, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. |
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Articles in this category shall be tagged for WPNY only if they do not fall within the scope of one or more of New York's subprojects. |
Assessment Log
[edit]- 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.
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/New York (state) articles by quality log
- ^ For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. However, where quite a number of pictures exist, for instance, the moon landing, FPC attempts to select the best of the ones produced.
- ^ An image has more encyclopedic value (often abbreviated to "EV" or "enc" in discussions) if it contributes strongly to a single article, rather than contributing weakly to many. Adding an image to numerous articles to gain EV is counterproductive and may antagonize both FPC reviewers and article editors.
- ^ While effects such as black and white, sepia, oversaturation, and abnormal angles may be visually pleasing, they often detract from the accurate depiction of the subject.
