Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Assessment

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Maryland
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 4 3 2 9
Featured list FL 1 2 1 2 6
A-Class article A 1 1
Good article GA 2 3 7 4 16
B 17 30 47 21 28 143
C 4 8 5 12 29
Start 19 179 508 526 210 1442
Stub 1 214 336 748 951 2250
List 3 3 13 14 16 49
Assessed 41 438 920 1321 1225 3945
Unassessed 1 1 227 229
Total 42 438 920 1322 1452 4174

Welcome to the assessment department of the Maryland WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Maryland or the people of Maryland. 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 Maryland}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Maryland articles by quality and Category:Maryland articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

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[edit] Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated? 
Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles? 
Any member of the Maryland WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
What if I don't agree with a rating? 
You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
Aren't the ratings subjective? 
Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Maryland}} project banner on its talk page:

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The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Maryland articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

[edit] Quality scale

WikiProject article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]
Label Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
Featured article FA
{{FA-Class}}		 The article has attained Featured article status. 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. Tourette Syndrome
(as of June 2008)
Featured list FL
{{FL-Class}}		 The article has attained Featured list status. FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
(as of January 2008)
A-Class article A
{{A-Class}}		 The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer-review may help. Durian
(as of March 2007)
Good article GA
{{GA-Class}}		 The article has attained Good article status. Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. 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. International Space Station
(as of February 2007)
B
{{B-Class}}		 The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach Good Article standards. B-Class articles should meet the six B-Class criteria. No reader should be 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, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the manual of style and related style guidelines. Jammu and Kashmir
(as of October 2007)
C
{{C-Class}}		 The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup. 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 address cleanup issues. Exeter Cathedral
(as of June 2008)
Start
{{Start-Class}}		 An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources. Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. Real analysis
(as of November 2006)
Stub
{{Stub-Class}}		 A very basic description of the topic. Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. Coffee table book
(as of July 2005)


[edit] Importance scale

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 Maryland.

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.

Status Template Meaning of Status
Top {{Top-Class}} This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High {{High-Class}} This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
Mid {{Mid-Class}} This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
Low {{Low-Class}} This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia.
None None This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.

We are currently discussing which articles should be counted as being of Top-importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Assessment/Top-importance articles.

[edit] Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

  • Otho Holland Williams, requesting an assessment. I have just created this article because it was one of the requested articles. Please review it and give it an importance rating. I think that it meets the B-class or even the Good Article rating, but see what you think--(Wikipedian1234 (talk) 22:06, 13 April 2008 (UTC))
  • Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, request re-assessment as I disagree with the recent stub-class designation. No rating comments were left, so it is difficult to address the rater's specific rationale. The article does "have a meaningful amount of good content", including WP:RS inline citations, is properly wikified per MoS, and "has at least one element of gathered materials" in the form of "useful pictures", ie, meets Start-class criteria, I think. JGHowes talk - 19:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Annotated Code of Maryland, requesting re-assessment as to importance only. I agree that it is a stub, but as to its importance, come on now, it's the state's legal code. You pay taxes because the Code requires you to. The Code authorizes the public schools to give diplomas; in fact, it authorizes the very existence of public schools. It also governs the issuance and revocation of your driver's license. You drive on the right side of the road, and not the left, because the Code says so. The Code also specifies what is or is not a crime, it defines the penalties, and the courts decide cases based on it. Doesn't sound like a topic of low importance to me. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 19:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Hagerstown, Maryland was initially rated "start" class shortly after it was listed as part of the wikiproject. Given the extensive coverage of its history, transportation, culture and economy I would contend that it is much closer to "B" class or higher. It is one of the most improved Western Maryland articles since the fleshing out of it from the original census info stub and has a dedicated team of editors working on it.--RosicrucianTalk 22:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Loyola College in Maryland with the name change, along with various others, a lot has been shifting around on the Loyola wiki article. Please help form a concrete article on one of Maryland's elite schools. The rankings for this article are terrible compared to those written for schools of similar caliber.There is much work to be done. Thanks Interzil (talk) 02:43, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Shrine of St. Anthony, requesting an assessment. I recently created the page, would like to get a first assessment. Be gentle, it's my first new article. Marauder40 (talk) 18:24, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Otho Holland Williams, I just rewrote the entire article as the previous version was littered with incorrect statements and grammatical errors. --dashiellx (talk) 18:53, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment log

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.

Archive This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record.

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