Wikipedia:WikiProject Pink Floyd/Assessment
Welcome to the assessment department of the Pink Floyd WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Pink Floyd 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 {{WPFloyd}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Pink Floyd articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
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Frequently asked questions
[edit]- 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 Pink Floyd 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.
Instructions
[edit]An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WPFloyd}} project banner on its talk page:
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The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- Category (adds articles to Category:Category-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- Disambig (adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- File (adds articles to Category:File-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- Redirect (adds articles to Category:Redirect-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class Pink Floyd articles)
- NA (for pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Pink Floyd articles)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Pink Floyd articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Pink Floyd articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Pink Floyd articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Pink Floyd articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Pink Floyd articles)
The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.
Quality scale
[edit]Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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. | The Dark Side of the Moon (as of September 2009) |
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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. | n/a |
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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. | n/a |
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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. | Meddle (as of September 2009) |
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. | The Dark Side of the Moon Live (as of October 2006) |
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. | Pink Floyd bootleg recordings (as of September 2010) |
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. | Why Pink Floyd...? (as of May 2012) |
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. | Blackhill Enterprises (as of May 2012) |
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 Syd Barrett songs (as of July 2012) |
Importance
[edit]Importance must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project. An article judged to be "Top-importance" in one context may be only "Mid-importance" in another. 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).
Consider a hierarchy such as History -> History of Europe -> History of Poland -> Polish kings and queens. An article labeled as "Top-importance" for the subject of history would probably warrant inclusion in V0.5, V1.0 and other releases. A "Top-importance" article for the history of Poland would be a reasonable candidate for inclusion, but most "Top-importance" articles on Polish kings & queens would probably not be included in early releases. Nevertheless such ranking within a subject area is very helpful in deciding which articles are included first as the scope of the Wikipedia 1.0 project expands. Quality articles which are not considered to be on topics important enough for inclusion on V0.5 will be held in a held nominations page, ready for inclusion as the scope expands.
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia. High probability that non-Floyd fans would look this up. | Main article, The Dark Side of the Moon, Live performances, The Wall, Group members, |
High | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to the encyclopaedia. Subject is notable or significant within the fan community, but not necessarily outside it | Majority of the studio albums, Another Brick in the Wall, various DSotM articles |
Mid | Subject fills in more minor details, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. | Publius Enigma |
Low | Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial. | Sigma 6 |
Requesting an assessment
[edit]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.
- Add articles here!
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.
There were no logs for this project from August 22, 2024 - August 29, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 22, 2024 - August 29, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 22, 2024 - August 29, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 22, 2024 - August 29, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 22, 2024 - August 29, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 22, 2024 - August 29, 2024.
Worklist
[edit]- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
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