Wikipedia:WikiProject Arkansas/Assessment
Welcome to the assessment department of the Arkansas WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Arkansas or the people of Arkansas. 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 Arkansas}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Arkansas articles by quality and Category:Arkansas articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
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 Arkansas 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]Fast assessment
[edit]For an easy way to assess WikiProject Arkansas articles:
- Copy the text below and paste it into the bottom of your monobook.js file:
importScript('User:Coffee/arkansas.js');
- Save the new monobook.js page, and
- Completely refresh your browser by bypassing your cache (Firefox: Control-Shift-R / Firefox Mac: Command-Shift-R)
- Done!
Regular assessment
[edit]An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Arkansas}} project banner on its talk page:
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The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- Image
- Template
- Category
- Dab
- Redirect
- NA
- Needed
- Portal
- List
- Stub
- Start
- C
- B
- GA
- A
- FL
- FA
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Arkansas articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
Quality scale
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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. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
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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. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
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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. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
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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. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
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. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
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. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
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. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
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. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
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 literary movements |
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 Arkansas.
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 |
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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. |
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:
- Article on Arkansas congressional candidate and former FEMA Director James Lee Witt may be of interest to this WikiProject. --TommyBoy (talk) 04:12, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
- Still requesting assessment for Conway, Arkansas. After a month I will assess it myself as a B-Class article. Wedgiey1 (talk) 17:31, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Conway, Arkansas I either removed content that had no reference (Conway Twitty bit) or went out and gathered references as needed. I also changed all references to MLA style. Would someone please re-asses? Wedgiey1 (talk) 19:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
- George Howard, Jr. I added an infobox, standardized citations, expanded the introduction and added information to the article.[[D-free]] (talk) 07:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
- Altheimer, Arkansas Expanded article to include history of the town and notable residents, etc.[[D-free]] (talk) 07:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
- Acxiom has no class rating. Wedgiey1 (talk) 21:02, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
- Arkansas Army National Guard Have been expanding the article to include history of all units through the Cold War. Still working but I belive it should rate higher on the Importance Scale Damon.cluck (talk) 04:12, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. I have expanded the article, added citations and references. I believe it should be reassessed.Donner60 (talk) 06:50, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops. I have helped a User to help fix any errors in this article and was wondering if someone could take a look at it to see if it can go from "Class C" to "Class B". Adamdaley (talk) 01:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
- Could someone assess the 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops please? To see if it meets some if not all the "Class B" criteria. Adamdaley (talk) 23:22, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- Ivory Lee Brown. Seeking a new assessment after section on pro career has been expanded to include his time in the World League.[[D-free]] (talk) 22:05, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- I am requesting a new assessment of the following articles to see if they meet the "Class B" Criteria. These articles are included in the Book:Arkansas Confederate Units.
- 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Griffith's)
- 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Lemoyne's)
- 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's)
- 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's)
- 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Dawson's)
- 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Dockery's)
- 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Hardy's)
- 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Craven's)
- 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 25th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 27th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 28th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 29th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 30th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 31st Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- Music_of_Arkansas I have significantly updated and expanded the article to include a more well rounded selection of information. Nightenbelle (talk) 14:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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.
August 19, 2024
[edit]Renamed
[edit]- 2023 Wynne-Parkin tornado renamed to 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado.
Assessed
[edit]- 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
August 17, 2024
[edit]Assessed
[edit]- Category:Chief justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
[edit]August 16, 2024
[edit]Reassessed
[edit]- Rice production in the United States (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
[edit]- 2023 Wynne-Parkin tornado (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
August 15, 2024
[edit]Renamed
[edit]Assessed
[edit]- Category:Secretaries of state of Arkansas (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
[edit]- Category:Secretaries of State of Arkansas (talk) removed.
August 14, 2024
[edit]Reassessed
[edit]- 1966 Cotton Bowl Classic (January) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
[edit]- Draft:Christopher Columbus Danley (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
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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