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The assessment department of St. Louis Cardinals focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's St. Louis Cardinals-related 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 Baseball|class=|importance=|cardinals=|cardinals-importance=}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:St. Louis Cardinals articles by quality and Category:St. Louis Cardinals articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist (Index · Statistics · Log).

Article assessment

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Baseball|cardinals=yes}} project banner on its talk page, and the table above displays these results. As a member of this project, you can rate articles within our scope. It's easy to learn the syntax by looking at the talk pages in edit mode and by reading the info below, adapted from WikiProject Baseball's Assessment page:.

This is the rating syntax (ratings and dates are samples, change to what applies to the article in question):

{{WikiProject Baseball|cardinals=yes}}
  • displays the default banner, showing the project info and only ??? for the quality and importance parameters.
{{WikiProject Baseball|cardinals=yes|class=Stub|cardinals-importance=Low}}
  • all assessed articles should have quality and importance filled in. Leaving the other parameters off does not hurt anything.
{{WikiProject Baseball|cardinals=yes|class=Start|cardinals-importance=Mid|attention=yes}}
  • if an article needs immediate attention, add the attention tag and please leave talk notes as to why. "yes" is the only valid parameter here. If it doesn't need attention, leave the parameter off.
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Quality assessment

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An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Baseball}} 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 St. Louis Cardinals articles)  FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles)  GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles)  FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles)  FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) File
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class St. Louis Cardinals articles) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed St. Louis Cardinals articles) ???

Importance assessment

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An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Baseball}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Baseball|importance=???|cardinals-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 St. Louis Cardinals articles)  Top 
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance St. Louis Cardinals articles)  High 
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance St. Louis Cardinals articles)  Mid 
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance St. Louis Cardinals articles)  Low 
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance St. Louis Cardinals articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance St. Louis Cardinals articles)  ??? 

Grading scheme

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Quality scale

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Importance scale

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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 St. Louis Cardinals.

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.

Assessment statistics

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.