Wikipedia:WikiProject Central America/Assessment
Welcome to the assessment department of the Central America WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the Central America, its governments, people, geography, and history. 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 Central America}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Central America articles by quality and Category:Central America articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Central America articles by quality and importance | ||||||||
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Quality | Importance | |||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Other | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 21 | ||
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9 | 11 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 54 | ||
B | 11 | 17 | 26 | 47 | 17 | 4 | 122 | |
C | 3 | 27 | 51 | 148 | 43 | 28 | 300 | |
Start | 9 | 76 | 151 | 667 | 66 | 104 | 1,073 | |
Stub | 1 | 202 | 223 | 1,465 | 144 | 187 | 2,222 | |
List | 2 | 6 | 19 | 51 | 4 | 47 | 27 | 156 |
Category | 1,048 | 3,391 | 4,439 | |||||
File | 36 | 2 | 38 | |||||
Portal | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Template | 1 | 1 | 84 | 259 | 345 | |||
NA | 1 | 13 | 8 | 91 | 65 | 9 | 187 | |
Assessed | 28 | 353 | 491 | 2,509 | 1,242 | 3,987 | 352 | 8,962 |
Unassessed | 1 | 10 | 15 | 26 | ||||
Total | 28 | 353 | 491 | 2,510 | 1,242 | 3,997 | 367 | 8,988 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 20,371 | Ω = 5.37 |
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 Central America 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 {{WikiProject Central America}} 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 Central America articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Central America articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Central America articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Central America articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Central America articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Central America articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Central America articles)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Central America articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality 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. | 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 Central America.
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.
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. | Kindergarten |
High | Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | Factory Acts |
Mid | Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | 0.999... |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | G cell |
NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | Category:Palms |
??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. |
Importance assessment
[edit]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Central America}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Central America| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
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The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Central America. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Central America articles
- High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of the Central America. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Central America articles
- Mid - The article is about a topic within the field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Central American community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Central America articles
- Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the field of Central American studies and is not generally common knowledge outside that community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Central America articles
- Unknown - any article which has not been rated on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Central America articles.
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.
- John Findley Wallace Rami.shareef (talk) 22:04, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
- Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo - has been rated for quality by the Military History project; I would like to see it reevaluated for importance by the Panama project. Matjamoe (talk) 03:29, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
- Not being an expert on the importance of the article, I didn't see fit to up the importance; however, the additions you made in 2012 certainly improved the article, so I went ahead and gave it a "B" class. Mvblair (talk) 16:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
- Gatun Dam - not aware of any changes, but the then-largest earthen dam in the world, creating the then-largest artificial lake in the world, and making the Panama Canal -- this does not to seem to be of low importance to the Panama project. Pleas reevaluate importance. Matjamoe (talk) 03:29, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
- I tend to agree. Mvblair (talk) 16:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
- Luis Guillermo Solís - I changed the article to "high" importance now that he is president elect of CR. Mvblair (talk) 16:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
- Greater Republic of Central America – This is rated as a top importance page for WikiProject Central America. I would like its quality reassessed from a stub to a C or B. Pizzaking13 (talk) 3:53, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
- Chapultepec Peace Accords – This is rated as a high importance page for WikiProject Central America. I would like its quality reassessed from a stub to a C or B. Translated from the corresponding Spanish article. Pizzaking13 (talk) 22:00, 18 August 2020
- Somoza family – I have been developing this stub over the last few weeks and I would like its quality reassessed to a C or B. Lilac Koala (talk) 09:41, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Assessment log
[edit]Central America articles: Index · Statistics · 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.
August 20, 2024
[edit]Assessed
[edit]- Tropical Storm Pilar (2023) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t)
August 19, 2024
[edit]Reassessed
[edit]- Battle of San Salvador (1823) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from GA-Class to Unassessed-Class. (rev · t)
August 15, 2024
[edit]Reassessed
[edit]- Category:Costa Rica-Portugal relations (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:El Salvador-Portugal relations (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Mesoamerica (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
August 14, 2024
[edit]Assessed
[edit]- Category:2024–25 in Honduran football (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t)
August 13, 2024
[edit]Renamed
[edit]- Alex Pineda Chacón renamed to Álex Pineda Chacón.
- Maya city renamed to Mayan cities.
Reassessed
[edit]- Category:CONCACAF U-17 Championship (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Darío Fernández Jaen (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Eugenio Aguilar (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- South and Central American Men's Junior Handball Championship (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
[edit]- Central American Republic (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- El Chombo (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Interamerican Series (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Mayan cities (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t)
- National Border Service (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t)
- Predikador (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Rod Carrillo (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t)
- Álex Pineda Chacón (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-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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