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Welcome to the assessment department of the Doctor Who WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Doctor Who articles. 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 Doctor Who}} talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Doctor Who articles by quality and Category:Doctor Who articles by importance, which serve as the sources for an automatically generated worklist.

A committee is being formed to help with the assessment of Doctor Who related articles.

Contents 1 Instructions 2 Quality scale 3 Importance scale 4 Assessment committee

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Assessment:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Find all images related to Doctor Who and add them to the project. {{WikiProject Doctor Who|class=Image}} Find any disambiguation pages with two or more Doctor Who articles on them and add them to the project. {{WikiProject Doctor Who|class=Disambig}} Find any redirect pages to Doctor Who articles and add them to the project. {{WikiProject Doctor Who|class=Redirect}}

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Doctor Who}} project banner:

{{WikiProject Doctor Who|class=|importance=|other variable=}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Class	Category	Importance	Pages	Notes
FA	FA-Class Doctor Who articles		9
FL	FL-Class Doctor Who articles		2
A	A-Class Doctor Who articles		3
GA	GA-Class Doctor Who articles		14
B	B-Class Doctor Who articles		117
Start	Start-Class Doctor Who articles		532
List	List-Class Doctor Who articles		45
Stub	Stub-Class Doctor Who articles		694	Make sure {{DoctorWho-stub}} is on the article page.
Needed	Needed-Class Doctor Who articles		0
Disambig	Disambig-Class Doctor Who articles		7
Redirect	Redirect-Class Doctor Who articles		35
Category	Category-Class Doctor Who articles		157
Image	Image-Class Doctor Who articles		129
Template	Template-Class Doctor Who articles		83
NA	NA-Class Doctor Who articles		16
none	Unassessed-Class Doctor Who articles		0	Articles for which a valid class is not provided.
Total Doctor Who articles			1,843

Classes should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

• Top (adds articles to Top-importance Doctor Who articles)
• High (adds articles to High-importance Doctor Who articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Mid-importance Doctor Who articles)
• Low (adds articles to Low-importance Doctor Who articles)

Articles for which a valid importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Doctor Who articles. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
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.	Doctor Who
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 Doctor Who serials
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.	History of Doctor Who
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.	Time Lord
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.	Companion
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.	K-9
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.	Anti-time
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 Doctor Who items
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.	Doctor Who
Disambig {{Dab-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.	Crane (martial arts) (as of June 2007)
Category {{Cat-Class}}	Is any category.			Doctor Who
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 or a Portal.	Look out for mis-classified articles. Currently many NA-class articles need to be re-classified.	WikiProject Doctor Who

[edit] Importance scale

Article importance grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top {{Top-Class}}	Doctor Who; Spin-off television series - Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, K-9, K-9 and Company; Doctor and the leads from the spin-off television series	Doctor Who
High {{High-Class}}	Multi-serial (ie. Trial of a Time Lord) and multi-episode articles including episode lists; The Doctor's by regeneration articles; Companions from Doctor Who and regular characters from the spin-off television series	The Trial of a Time Lord
Mid {{Mid-Class}}	Serials and episodes; Recurring characters	An Unearthly Child
Low {{Low-Class}}	Actors and other personnel - there are two other projects that we share those with: WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers and WikiProject Biography; Any article with questionable canonicity (books and audio plays) and anything not mentioned above.	Blinovitch Limitation Effect

[edit] Assessment committee

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