Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Assessment

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WikiProject Cities
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 8 18 13 23 5 67
A 1 1 1 1 4
Good article GA 2 16 19 17 5 59
B 96 149 176 191 29 641
Start 77 52 195 2145 108 2577
Stub 27 14 280 3150 154 3625
List 1 4 12 2 19
Assessed 211 250 688 5539 304 6992
Unassessed 1 1 3 1 4347 4353
Total 212 251 691 5540 4651 11345

Welcome to the assessment department of the Cities WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to cities. 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 {{WPCities}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:WikiProject Cities articles by quality and Category:WikiProject Cities 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 Cities WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? 
Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
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

[edit] Quality assessments

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WPCities}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WPCities| ... | class=??? | ...}}
Featured article FA
A
Good article GA
B
Start
Stub
???
Needed

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:


Template
Disambig
Category
NA

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

  • Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class WikiProject Cities articles)
  • Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class WikiProject Cities articles)
  • Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class WikiProject Cities articles)
  • NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article WikiProject Cities pages)

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

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Cities articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]
Label Criterion Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Featured article FA
{{FA-Class}}		 Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. Tourette Syndrome (as of June 2008)
Featured list FL
{{FL-Class}}		 Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured lists" status, and meet the current criteria for featured lists. Definitive. Outstanding, thorough list; a great source for encyclopedic information. No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008)
A
{{A-Class}}		 Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard. Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points. Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage. Durian (as of March 2007)
Good article GA
{{GA-Class}}		 The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise acceptable. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class. Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, or excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job. Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time. International Space Station (as of February 2007)
B
{{B-Class}}		 Commonly the highest article grade that is assigned outside a more formal review process. Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a comprehensive article. Nonetheless, it has some gaps or missing elements or references, needs editing for language usage or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles. Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work. Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with. Jammu and Kashmir (as of October 2007) has a lot of helpful material but needs more prose content and references.
Start
{{Start-Class}}		 The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following:
  • a particularly useful picture or graphic
  • multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
  • a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
  • multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
 Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded. Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage. Real analysis (as of November 2006)
Stub
{{Stub-Class}}		 The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need extensive work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible. Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. Any editing or additional material can be helpful. Coffee table book (as of July 2005)


[edit] Importance assessment

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

{{WPCities| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top
High
Mid
Low
???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

[edit] Priority scale

Label Criteria Examples
Top National capital. Ottawa, Washington, D.C.
High State/Provincial/Regional capital or extensive international recognition. Any city with a population over 700,000. Toronto, Austin, Texas
Mid A population greater than or equal to 200,000, but not a capital. International news coverage by at least two media agencies of an event or disaster. Hamilton, Ontario
Low A population less than 200,000 with no international news coverage by multiple news agencies of any event or disaster. Burlington, Ontario, Ocala, Florida

[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.

Requested assessments

  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands - It is currently rated as a B-class article, but the article has much improved since. I would suggest a higher rating for this article. Massimo Catarinella (talk) 17:41, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Burlington, Massachusetts - Town northeast of Boston, expanded article to add local facts, good start.
  • Zurich - The city of Zurich has not yet been assigned a rating. It is state capital of the canton of Zurich. It is the biggest city in Switzerland (though population is below 700 000) Ibmflorian (talk) 00:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Nagpur - In Feb and early March I have done major revamping on this page. I have nothing more to add till I get some more good information. Please assess this article till then so that I can continue working on it. --gppande «talk» 14:41, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Ho Chi Minh City - Please take a look, and tell how to improve this article. Thank you Magnifier (talk) 00:26, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Budapest - Please take a look at it, got a complete rehaul. Gregorik 12:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Rotterdam, Netherlands - Noticed it doesn't have a rating yet, while it's one of the most important cities of the Netherlands. Clint.hotvedt 13:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Yellowknife, Northwest Territories - Would it be possible to have an initial assessment done? Thanks -YK Timestalk 23:58, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Novi Sad - I need a list of thing what I need to add to this article to be a good article. --Göran Smith 01:38, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Peer Review would probably be a better place for this. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 20:06, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Norfolk, Virginia - Another look at the rating would be greatly appreciated. Chrisfortier 14:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Morden, Manitoba - Just finished an overhaul of the site, would appreciate a reassessment. 704jaffer (talk) 16:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Villa Rica, Georgia - This is a request for an increase in the Importance assessment from Low to Mid. The Villa Rica Explosion which occurred on December 5, 1957, was covered extensively in the press. A Google News Archive Search shows 43 articles still available about the event. I will also request a Quality assessment at some point in the near future but feel free to review my work so far.
  • Plymouth, England is currently rated as a start-class. I believe it has improved a lot since then and the assessment had no comments. Bsrboy (talk) 20:43, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Caldas da Rainha is unassessed. --Nricardo (talk) 01:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Ivybridge has had some major work done to it. Bsrboy (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Split didn't receive a rating. --DIREKTOR (TALK) 23:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Dresden did not receive a quality rating yet. I assessed the importance to high due to Dresden is a german capital. Geo-Loge (talk) 08:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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