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

Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Requesting an assessment 3 Instructions 3.1 Quality scale 3.2 Importance scale 3.3 Importance standards 4 Assessment Team 4.1 New members 5 Example assessments 6 Log 7 Workgroup-level statistics

[edit] Frequently asked questions

How do I add an article to the WikiProject? 

Just add {{WP India}} 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 member of the India WikiProject is free to add a rating to an article if they wish. However, the Assessment Team (from this department) may overrule the rating of an article if they see fit.

What if I don't agree with a rating given by some other member? 

You can then list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. It is most likely to be assessed by someone from this department.

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!

Did the reviewer leave any comments? 

If the reviewer had a left a comment, a link, "(see comments)" will show up on the project banner, that will take you to the sub-page containing the comments.

Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? 

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, you may not receive detailed comments in all instances. If this is the case, you might ask the person who assessed the article if you have any particular questions; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.

To what extent will the Assessment Dept. give feedback on an article after grading it? 

If you wish, the Assessment Dept. (for WikiProject India) will keep giving feedback until the Assessment Dept. believes that the article in question is at least; slightly above a "B" grade. After reaching this stage, the Assessment Team are likely to recommend that your article be peer-reviewed.

Why peer-review? How does it work? 

The peer review department conduct a more thorough examination (and review) of articles, and their services are best utilised when the Assessment Dept. believes that the article is ready to be analyzed in "an extremely critical way" (prior to being nominated to a GA, A, or FA status article). Of course, you may submit/nominate an article for review at the peer review department at any time you wish.

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.

How do this all work? 

See Using the bot and WikiProject Council Guide.

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

[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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead. Completed requests are usually placed in the archive .

Please place new requests in the format - # [[article name]] -- ~~~~. New requests may please be added at the bottom of the list. Place requests from here onwards:

[edit] Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WP India}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{WP India| ... | class=??? | importance=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class India articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class India articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class India articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class India articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class India articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class India articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article India pages)

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

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance India articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance India articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance India articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance India articles)

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

Please note that the WikiProject India Assessment Department is in the process of updating the grading scheme, so changes may occur to the criteria and examples - the assessment department apologizes for an inconvenience caused, and endeavours to complete this task as soon as possible. Upon completion of updating, the main member of the assessment department will remove this notice.

Class	Criteria	Formal process	Example
FA	Reserved for articles that meet the featured article criteria and have received featured article status after community review.	Featured article candidates	Tourette Syndrome (as of July 2007)
FL	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured lists" status, and meet the current criteria for featured lists.	Featured list candidates	FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008)
A	Reserved for articles that have received A-class status after review by the assessment department. Such articles are required to be passed as a good article, and are expected to have largely met the featured article criteria, and must be comprehensive, accurate, well-sourced, and decently-written; however, they may require some further fine-tuning in certain aspects.	Requests for assessment by the department. NOTE: may need to be a former feature article candidate, prior to the department making a decision on whether to grant an article this grade.	Durian (as of March 2007)
GA	Reserved for articles that meet the good article criteria and have received good article status.	Good article nominations	International Space Station (as of February 2007)
B	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.	May be assigned by any reviewer	Jammu and Kashmir (as of October 2007) has a lot of helpful material but needs more prose content and references.
Start	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 the following: 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 a particularly useful picture or graphic (optional)	May be assigned by any reviewer	Roman Catholicism in India (as of October 2007)
Stub	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.	May be assigned by any reviewer	Real analysis (as of November 2006)
List	Should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately organized. May be assigned by any reviewer only for pages that begin with the name "List of" (like in the example). If an article is felt to be an exception to this rule, a request for assessment by the department must be made in order for it to be allowed.	See criteria.	List of aikidoka (as of June 2007)

[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 India.

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 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.

[edit] Importance standards

• States - Generally classed as top importance.
• Capital cities - Generally classed as top to high importance.
• National Parks - Generally classed an high to mid importance.
• Cities - Generally classed as mid to low importance.
• Places - Generally classed as mid to low importance.
• Schools - Generally classed as mid to low importance.

[edit] Assessment Team

The list of members below make up the WikiProject India Assessment team. Members of the team who are bolded (below) are currently the main, active member(s) of the assessment team - they are most likely to assess articles, so please direct any enquiries regarding assessment or the assessment department towards them.

1. Ganeshk (talk · contribs)
2. Mspraveen (talk · contribs)
3. Ncmvocalist (talk · contribs) - currently, main member of assessment team
4. Pruthvi.vallabh (talk · contribs)
5. Tinucherian (talk · contribs)

[edit] New members

If you would like to join the assessment team, please add your name below.

1. Kensplanet (talk · contribs) peer-reviewer, but relatively inexperienced here at assessment department.
2. Dwaipayanc (talk · contribs)
3. GDibyendu (talk · contribs) I am new in WP, I want to concentrate on marking stub and start, as of now.
4. StewieGriffin! (talk · contribs)

[edit] Example assessments

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

Quality

• {{WP India|class=FA}} - to rate an article at FA-Class
• {{WP India|class=A}} - to rate an article at A-Class
• {{WP India|class=GA}} - to rate an article at GA-Class
• {{WP India|class=B}} - to rate an article at B-Class
• {{WP India|class=Start}} - to rate an article at Start-Class
• {{WP India|class=Stub}} - to rate an article at Stub-Class
• {{WP India}} - to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance

• {{WP India|importance=Top}} - to rate an article at Top importance
• {{WP India|importance=High}} - to rate an article at High importance
• {{WP India|importance=Mid}} - to rate an article at Mid importance
• {{WP India|importance=Low}} - to rate an article at Low importance

[edit] Log

The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here. Unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.

[edit] Workgroup-level statistics

Protected areas of India articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 GA 1 1 2 B 1 6 3 8 18 Start 4 10 38 52 Stub 1 6 7 145 159 Assessed 1 13 19 7 192 232 Unassessed 118 118 Total 1 13 19 7 310 350	Indian states articles Importance High None Total Quality FA 6 6 B 24 24 Start 1 28 29 Stub 11 11 Assessed 1 69 70 Total 1 69 70
Andhra Pradesh articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality GA 2 2 B 1 5 6 Start 4 6 1 53 64 Stub 2 2 12 34 1388 1438 Assessed 2 6 19 35 1448 1510 Unassessed 6 6 Total 2 6 19 35 1454 1516	Goa articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality B 1 2 3 Start 2 5 7 Stub 2 2 3 3 76 86 Assessed 2 3 5 3 83 96 Total 2 3 5 3 83 96
Gujarat articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 2 2 GA 1 1 B 1 1 2 2 6 Start 2 1 1 2 27 33 Stub 3 8 13 410 434 Assessed 3 5 11 15 442 476 Unassessed 11 11 Total 3 5 11 15 453 487	Himachal Pradesh articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 GA 1 1 B 3 2 3 8 Start 4 7 11 1 19 42 Stub 3 6 175 184 Assessed 7 9 14 7 199 236 Unassessed 1 1 34 36 Total 7 10 15 7 233 272
Karnataka articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 11 14 A 2 2 GA 2 2 B 3 2 1 40 46 Start 3 6 12 4 238 263 Stub 1 9 13 1087 1110 Assessed 6 12 22 17 1380 1437 Unassessed 891 891 Total 6 12 22 17 2271 2328	Kerala articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 2 4 A 1 1 1 3 GA 2 1 3 B 4 10 5 37 56 Start 4 64 46 46 224 384 Stub 1 22 47 296 1153 1519 Assessed 10 98 101 344 1416 1969 Unassessed 1125 1125 Total 10 98 101 344 2541 3094
Maharashtra articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 2 3 B 1 2 2 10 15 Start 1 2 8 27 38 Stub 1 5 15 48 788 857 List 4 4 Assessed 2 9 19 56 831 917 Unassessed 12 12 Total 2 9 19 56 843 929	Punjab articles Importance Top Mid None Total Quality B 3 3 Start 1 1 Assessed 3 1 4 Unassessed 1 1 2 Total 3 2 1 6
Tamil Nadu articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 5 5 A 1 1 2 GA 8 8 B 2 3 71 76 Start 2 2 21 8 565 598 Stub 1 5 21 48 2335 2410 List 7 7 Assessed 3 9 46 56 2992 3106 Unassessed 716 716 Total 3 9 46 56 3708 3822	West Bengal articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 9 9 B 3 2 16 21 Start 2 7 18 13 79 119 Stub 2 1 16 59 334 412 Assessed 7 10 34 72 438 561 Unassessed 1 6 7 Total 7 10 35 72 444 568

Indian cities articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 10 11 FL 1 1 A 1 1 GA 1 1 B 1 4 42 47 Start 1 6 22 22 232 283 Stub 1 2 30 88 1043 1164 Assessed 3 9 56 110 1330 1508 Unassessed 1 406 407 Total 3 9 56 111 1736 1915

Chennai articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 B 1 13 14 Start 2 3 75 80 Stub 7 7 4 202 220 List 3 3 Assessed 2 9 10 4 293 318 Unassessed 91 91 Total 2 9 10 4 384 409

Indian politics articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 4 4 GA 1 2 3 B 4 1 69 74 Start 16 5 7 3 234 265 Stub 62 6 22 45 1388 1523 Assessed 83 11 29 49 1697 1869 Unassessed 1 478 479 Total 84 11 29 49 2175 2348

Indian districts articles Importance Top High Low None Total Quality FL 1 1 A 1 1 B 4 10 14 Start 6 1 65 72 Stub 10 6 2 511 529 Assessed 20 7 2 588 617 Unassessed 57 57 Total 20 7 2 645 674

Indian history articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 2 19 24 A 1 1 2 GA 1 3 4 B 4 6 2 116 128 Start 7 28 20 427 482 Stub 3 17 31 830 881 List 6 6 Assessed 4 21 47 53 1402 1527 Unassessed 330 330 Total 4 21 47 53 1732 1857

Indian military history articles Importance None Total Quality FA 3 3 GA 3 3 B 50 50 Start 411 411 Stub 300 300 Assessed 767 767 Total 767 767

Indian cinema articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 2 1 3 A 1 1 GA 1 4 6 11 B 2 7 6 5 39 59 Start 9 15 64 637 725 Stub 1 13 40 1115 2241 3410 List 507 507 Assessed 3 31 63 1188 3431 4716 Unassessed 2 1 3 111 117 Total 3 33 64 1191 3542 4833	Indian television articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality B 1 1 2 Start 2 7 4 7 4 24 Stub 8 22 11 23 15 79 Assessed 11 29 15 30 20 105 Total 11 29 15 30 20 105
Indian literature articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality B 1 4 1 5 11 Start 1 7 10 2 52 72 Stub 1 2 15 33 80 131 Assessed 3 13 25 36 137 214 Unassessed 1 56 57 Total 3 14 25 36 193 271	Classical Tamil articles Importance None Total Quality FA 2 2 Start 2 2 Stub 2 2 Assessed 6 6 Total 6 6

Indian Christianity work group articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality GA 1 2 3 B 6 5 8 6 1 26 Start 5 13 12 21 121 172 Stub 2 1 7 82 155 247 List 1 6 4 11 Assessed 14 20 33 115 277 459 Total 14 20 33 115 277 459