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articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 4 4 6 3 17
Featured list FL 1 1
A 1 3 2 6
Good article GA 2 6 19 10 1 38
B 43 162 460 485 13 1163
Start 12 132 883 2407 439 3873
Stub 1 32 333 1671 3164 5201
List 5 59 90 115 269
Assessed 63 344 1762 4666 3733 10568
Unassessed 1 31 3535 3567
Total 63 344 1763 4697 7268 14135


Quality: FA-Class | FL-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | Start-Class | Stub Class | List-Class | Unassessed

Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Bottom | Unknown

Welcome to the wonderful assessment department of WikiProject Comics! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Comics 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{Comicsproj}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Comics articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

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[edit] Frequently asked questions

How do I add an article to the WikiProject? 
Just add {{Comicsproj}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
How can I get my article rated? 
Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles? 
Any editor is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
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.
Where can I get more comments about my article? 
The peer review department can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
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 (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!
How can I keep track of changes in article ratings? 
A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistics may be more accessible.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{Comicsproj}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WP Comics| class=??? }}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

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

{{WP Comics| importance=??? }}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

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.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme
Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Examples
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.
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. List of Smallville episodes
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. *Then:Comics Now:Comics
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.
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.
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.
Stub
{{Stub-Class}}		 The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much 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.
List
{{List-Class}}		 Meets the criteria of a Stand-alone List, which is a page that contains primarily a list. 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 comic books
Redirect
{{Redirect-Class}}		 Any redirect in the article namespace. A redirect takes reader to another article relevant to the article they wanted. Ensure article is still redirect, otherwise re-assess. Rock (comics)
Disambig
{{Disambig-Class}}		 Is any disambiguation page. Serves to distinguish article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic. Pay particular attention to the proper naming of disambiguation articles, they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. America's Best Comics (disambiguation)
Category
{{Cat-Class}}		 Is any category. Categories (along with other features like cross-references, lists, and infoboxes) help users find information, even if they don't know that it exists or what it's called. Be aware not to over-categorise and to be careful of maintaining a neutral point of view when creating or filling categories. Make decisions about the structure of categories and subcategories that make it easy for users to browse through similar articles. Category:Comics stubs
Template
{{Template-Class}}		 Is any type of template. The most common types of template used in the WikiProject are infoboxes and navboxes. Serves different purposes depending upon the type of template. Infoboxes go at the upper right of a page and are a way of providing easy access to important pieces of introductory infomation about the subject. Navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page, and are for the purpose of uniting a group of related articles into an easily accessible format for inclusion on every page listed in the navbox. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. {{Comicsproj}}
Portal
{{Portal-Class}}		 Tagged page is a portal or a sub-page of a portal. The idea of a portal is to help readers and/or editors navigate their way through Wikipedia topic areas through pages similar to the Main Page. In essence, portals are useful entry-points to Wikipedia content. Editors need to ensure the portal is kept updated and displays properly, updating news sections and looking out for red links. Portal:Comics
Image
{{Image-Class}}		 Tagged page is an image. Images are used to help explain articles by providing examples of style, lay-out, logo, or other typical visual aspects. Most comics images are fair use and should be used sparingly. Public domain or Creative Commons / GFDL licensed images can be used more freely. Editors need to ensure that images have correct licenses, fair use rationales (where applicable), and are only used in articles for which they have such rationale. Fair use images should not be used as pure decoration. Category:Comics images
NA
{{NA-Class}}		 Is not an article, and fits no other classification. Probably not useful to any casual reader, these are typically only WikiProject pages. Look out for mis-classified articles. Currently many NA-class articles need to be re-classified. WP:COMICS

[edit] Importance scale

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 Comics.

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
Top {{Top-Class}} This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it provides key information about a major topic that is fundamental to a study of the subject.
High {{High-Class}} This article is very important to the project, as it covers either a general area of knowledge or provides information about a significant topic.
Mid {{Mid-Class}} This article is relatively important to the project, as it provides more specific knowledge of areas that a serious reader would need to understand.
Low {{Low-Class}} This article is significant but has limited importance to the project, as it expands the reader's overall knowledge of the subject into areas of general interest.
Bottom {{Bottom-Class}} This article has no real significance to the project, but it covers additional topics of general or specific interest, some of which could be described as trivia, though all are notable in their own right. Others may be articles of high importance to another project that have an indirect connection with comics. The category was created by the WikiProject to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. In addition it serves to separate trivia from articles of low but significant importance.
No {{No-Class}} Subject is a disambiguation or redirect page, residing in article space but redundant in a print encyclopedia.
NA {{NA-Class}} Used for categories, templates, portal and project pages, separate from article space.

[edit] Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new quality rating for it, please feel free to list it below. To discuss the ratings methods or raise issues with similar articles rated differently, please use the talk page. NOTE: This is only to rate the article on quality - you may or may not get feedback on the article. If you desire a review, use the WP:COMICS peer review process or the regular peer review process. If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> and note your rating here so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!

Seeking an A-class rating? We suggest you submit it for a Peer Review to allow us more time to respond and review. Be sure to first read what qualifies as an A rating before doing so though.

Past assessments are located here. If you delete a striked-through article from the list, please remember to put it in the archive.

Add new requests at the bottom.

  1. The Sandman: The Doll's House I've tooken a personal interest in improving this and would like to see if I could get any support. It may be that those who do most, dream most. (talk) 23:28, 16 January 2008 (UTC) Okay, rated as start due to length and agree with the mid importance. Hiding T 17:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
  2. Strangehaven has been expanded a great deal with information on publication history, characters and issues. --Mister Six (talk) 12:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  3. Numerous Marvel Comics articles. BOZ (talk) 17:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
  4. Justice League of America (TV movie), recently added to project. Would like an assessment by one of the regulars if it's not much trouble :) Ryan4314 (talk) 06:52, 30 January 2008 (UTC) It's almost B-Class, but the production section needs a little more in it. Hiding T 09:57, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
  5. Awesome Comics. I've edited Rob Liefeld's Awesome Comics considerably, with a lot of information about both the company and it's output, as well as adding a near-complete bibliography. Noticed that there was this "rating" page, so I thought I'd mention it. ntnon (talk) 21:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
  6. The Order of the Stick. Last time this was assessed was before I added sections on Critical Reaction and its use of parody as a form of commentary on roleplaying games, as well as a big pile of inline references, which I'm hoping increased the article's real-world context significantly. --Ig8887 (talk) 17:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  7. Hungarian comics. I created the article not so long ago, and I'm planning on improving it somemore (e.g. adding images), but before that it would be useful to see, where this article is at the moment. Thanks! Zoli79 (talk) 22:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  8. Scrooge McDuck. According to the template on its talk page, the article has not been checked. -- Wikipedical (talk) 01:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
    It has been rated as B. As far as I know, to get a better rating (e.g. Good Article), it has to be nominated first. Zoli79 (talk) 10:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
  9. Checker Book Publishing Group. I haven't done the "Publishing History" yet, but otherwise, this should be a pretty-complete guide to this comics/newsstrip reprinting operation. ntnon (talk) 01:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
  10. Spider-Man: One More Day This article is pretty stable with no major changes occurring. It looks at least B-Class 1. Referencing and citation: Y 2. Coverage and accuracy: Y 3. Structure: Y 4. Grammar: Y 5. Supporting materials: Y. Would like to request a peer review first. Also any thoughts on what needs to be done to obtain a better rating. Stextc (talk) 02:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
  11. Cloak of Levitation — I've extended the article quite a bit(maybe five-fold?!) and added a picture. I know it's no longer a stub, so I'm going to go ahead and remove the stub template. ~ Wakanda's Black Panther!♠/♦ 04:23, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
  12. Jeffrey Brown This article has not yet been rated and I would like it to have at least a quality rating. Mynameisnotpj (talk) 11:26, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

[edit] Active

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team

  1. ChrisGriswold (talk · contribs)
  2. Businessman332211 (talk · contribs)
  3. Exvicious (talk · contribs)
  4. Fram (talk · contribs)
  5. Goldenboy (talk · contribs)
  6. Mike1 (talk · contribs)
  7. Mrph (talk · contribs)
  8. Rick Norwood (talk · contribs) special interests: comic strips, silver age
  9. Hiding (talk · contribs)
  10. Maple_Leaf (talk · contribs)
  11. Herve661 (talk · contribs) I have good knowledge on Disney comics and could give a help there

[edit] Inactive

  1. Psyphics (talk · contribs)

[edit] Log

The log has now grown too large to transclude. Please see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Comics articles by quality log for full details.

[edit] Example assessments

To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.

Quality

  • {{Comicsproj|class=FA}} - to rate an article at FA-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=A}} - to rate an article at A-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=GA}} - to rate an article at GA-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=B}} - to rate an article at B-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=Start}} - to rate an article at Start-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=Stub}} - to rate an article at Stub-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=List}} - to rate an article at List-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=Cat}} - to rate an article at Cat-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=Template}} - to rate an article at Template-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=Disambig}} - to rate an article at Disambig-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=Future}} - to rate an article at Future-Class
  • {{Comicsproj|class=NA}} - to rate an article at NA-Class
  • {{Comicsproj}} - to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance

  • {{Comicsproj|importance=Top}} - to rate an article at Top importance
  • {{Comicsproj|importance=High}} - to rate an article at High importance
  • {{Comicsproj|importance=Mid}} - to rate an article at Mid importance
  • {{Comicsproj|importance=Low}} - to rate an article at Low importance
  • {{Comicsproj|importance=No}} - to rate an article at No importance