Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Assessment
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| Novel articles |
Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 FA |
4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 16 | ||
| A | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
 GA |
4 | 7 | 23 | 9 | 43 | ||
| B | 61 | 211 | 539 | 103 | 34 | 948 | |
| Start | 30 | 367 | 2376 | 1164 | 125 | 4062 | |
| Stub | 3 | 219 | 4780 | 7959 | 1832 | 14793 | |
| List | 23 | 43 | 10 | 76 | |||
| Assessed | 103 | 811 | 7748 | 9279 | 2001 | 19942 | |
| Unassessed | 2 | 1 | 7 | 182 | 192 | ||
| Total | 103 | 813 | 7749 | 9286 | 2183 | 20134 | |
Welcome to the assessment department of the Novels WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's novel and related 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 {{NovelsWikiProject}} talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Novel articles by quality and Category:Novel articles by importance, which serve as the sources for an automatically generated worklist.
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[edit] Frequently asked questions
- How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
- Just add {{NovelsWikiProject}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
- Someone put a {{NovelsWikiProject}} template on an article, but it's not a novel or related article. What should I do?
- If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the talk page of this department (or directly with the person who tagged the article).
- 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 Novels 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 (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), but it's the best system WP:1.0 have 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 monthly statistics may be more accessible.
- What if I have a question not listed here?
- If your question concerns the article assessment process specifically, please refer to the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can ask them on the main project general forum page, or contact one of the other members directly.
[edit] Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{NovelsWikiProject}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):
- {{NovelsWikiProject| ... | class=??? | importance=??? | ...}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class novel articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class novel articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class novel articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class novel articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class novel articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class novel articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article novel pages)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed novel 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 novel articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance novel articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance novel articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance novel 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
| 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. | Tourette Syndrome (as of July 2007) |
| 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) |
| 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:
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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 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. | Coffee table book (as of July 2005) |
[edit] Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are meant to be an probable indication of how significant the topic is to a reader of literature, and how likely it would be covered in a serious encyclopedia. Hence, for example, Moby-Dick would be ranked higher than an average Anne Rice or Sidney Sheldon novel.
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.
| Label | Criteria | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Top | Subject is a "core" topic for literature. | Lolita The Lord of the Rings Pride and Prejudice War and Peace |
| High | Subject is very notable or significant within its field of literature. | The Name of the Rose Little Women Lucky Jim |
| Mid | Subject is notable or significant within the field of literature (or to a historian), but not necessarily outside it. | Brighton Rock (novel) Rosemary's Baby The Body in the Library CHERUB |
| Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of literature, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of a notable author or other notable subject. | Around The Moon A Fine Night for Dying The Holy |
N.b. Discussion on which articles should be included in the "Top" priority class takes place here, Top priority.
[edit] Requesting an assessment
- See the assessment request archive.
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 at the bottom of the list. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.
To assess an article, simply update the Novels WikiProject template on the article's talk page. Please also strike out the request on this page by using the <s>Strike-through text</s> command and add a rationale for your assessment. Don't forget to sign your username after your comment.
The Shifting Sands — I'm on a roll! Worked on this article just recently, by recreating it from a ReDirect to an article. I've added its Characters, See Also, and External Links Sections, and wrote a plot based on the previous one. It's basically what I've done with the last few articles above. O—— The Unknown Hitchhiker 05:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)- This is still a Start article as of now, but it's growing nicely. It has quite a bit of in-universe information (plot, characters), but it is missing key information (reception, publication history) and references. You may want to look at the novel article template for some ideas of what to research for and add. María (habla conmigo) 21:27, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Return to Del — Still going on. I've added its Characters, See Also, and External Links Sections to it. O—— The Unknown Hitchhiker 01:29, 5 April 2008 (UTC)Celia en el mundo, new article. T.W. (talk) 19:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)War of the Spider Queen - added intro, author info, summaries, character listings, all the references, an infobox, and a few external links. Should be a good start at least.Dark Squall (talk) 05:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)The Immortals (Grey Griffins) Needs to recieve importance level King Rock Go 'Skins! 21:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Society of the Black Wolf Needs to recive assesment King Rock Go 'Skins! 23:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)The Nemesis of Faith New Article Dozenthey (talk) 01:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)Grey Griffins(formerly known as Grey Griffins Series) needs to be re assesd King Rock Go 'Skins! 22:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende. I completely redid the plot, added characters, etc., etc. It should be higher than a start-class now. Bkwrmgrl1 (talk) 16:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)- The assessment has not changed: Start/Mid. The article contains no references and almost no out-of-universe information, both of which are necessary. There are also clean-up tags and an empty section ("Themes & Issues"). You may find Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate helpful for ideas on how to expand, and also look for reliable sources to cite your material. María (habla conmigo) 17:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Loss and Gain New Article. I might add additional references next time I get to the library. Dozenthey (talk) 02:26, 30 April 2008 (UTC)History of Crime Fiction Not mine, but I noticed that it was unrated, but very important to the crime task force. Juru (talk) 04:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Children of God (novel) Am new, made a few additions to this article, wondered if it deserves start class. --Captain-tucker (talk) 01:43, 1 May 2008 (UTC)The Secret Agent Have worked extensively on this article for a short period. I am intending to bring it up to Good article soon, but wish to know if I was on the right lines. Think it's due a re-assessment?--Adasta
16:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Bows Against the Barons - Expanded with additional material and references. Would like a re-assessment? --DanDs (talk) 13:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)My Uncle Napoleon I've extensively worked on this article for the past 2 weeks, and have rewritten many sections, added references and cleared up other sections. Would really like a re assesment to let me know if I'm on the right track to bring it up to GA status. aryonoco (talk) 13:04, 8 May 2008 (UTC)A Meeting at Corvallis -- I haven't done much work on it, but I noticed that it has changed significantly since January 18 when it was rated. -- Imperator3733 (talk) 21:34, 16 May 2008 (UTC)The Protector's War -- Has also had a lot of work done and was only automatically rated. -- Imperator3733 (talk) 21:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Why Didn't They Ask Evans? -- many changes made since last rated.--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 22:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Fly by Night—I'd argue this is at least Start class now. me_and (talk) 15:15, 18 May 2008 (UTC)Verdigris Deep—As above. me_and (talk) 15:46, 18 May 2008 (UTC)The Host -- I've been working on this one, and I think it's no longer a stub. I know it still has work to do, but I wanted a reassessment just to get an idea of where to head with it next. Thanks! DreamHaze (talk) 22:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)The Raw Shark Texts - For some reason, this is considered a stub, which it is clearly not. I guess the person who made changes last never got a reassessment, and I feel it should get one.Nightmare Academy (novel) -- I've created this page about a book with the same title (obviously). I've wrote loads of information into it, and other people have helped along the way. So, I'd be honored to have it assessed. O—— The Unknown Hitchhiker 21:22, 6 June 2008 (UTC)City of the Rats - This one had been reassessed before, and I've got rid of all the things that the assessor didn't like about it. Or at least I think I did. I'd like for it to be assessed, too. O—— The Unknown Hitchhiker 01:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)Suffer the Little Children - a short story by Stephen King. Added a characters section, made a more direct plot section, and redid the lead. Please give constructive criticism. --MwNNrules (talk) 02:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)- This is really still a stub-class, I'm afraid. Everything here is only in-universe and the only reference is the book itself. Because it's a short story, it may be difficult to find reliable, third party sources to flesh out the article with details pertaining to critical reception, etc, but any sort of outside-universe info is pertinent. The citations are also very redundant; cite the book publishing info once and then only refer to the author and page number (example: <ref>King, p. 81</ref>).María (habla conmigo) 15:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Raw counts
| Jun 2006 | Jul 2006 | Aug 2006 | Sep 2006 | Oct 2006 | Nov 2006 | Dec 2006 | Jan 2007 | Feb 2007 | Mar 2007 | Apr 2007 | May 2007 (tba) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA |
8 | 0.37 % | 8 | 0.29 % | 7 | 0.20 % | 6 | 0.14 % | 6 | 0.11 % | 7 | 0.12 % | 7 | 0.10 % | 9 | 0.11 % | 10 | 0.11 % | 10 | 0.10 % | 10 | 0.09 % | ||
| A | 0 | 0.00 % | 0 | 0.00 % | 2 | 0.06 % | 4 | 0.10 % | 4 | 0.07 % | 4 | 0.07 % | 6 | 0.10 % | 5 | 0.06 % | 4 | 0.04 % | 4 | 0.04 % | 4 | 0.03 % | ||
| GA |
0 | 0.00 % | 3 | 0.11 % | 8 | 0.23 % | 7 | 0.17 % | 8 | 0.15 % | 8 | 0.14 % | 8 | 0.11 % | 7 | 0.08 % | 10 | 0.11 % | 10 | 0.10 % | 10 | 0.09 % | ||
| B | 7 | 0.32 % | 82 | 2.96 % | 170 | 4.81 % | 313 | 7.50 % | 398 | 7.44 % | 472 | 8.19 % | 559 | 7.67 % | 718 | 8.59 % | 768 | 8.54 % | 779 | 7.57 % | 810 | 7.00 % | ||
| Start | 32 | 1.46 % | 256 | 9.24 % | 416 | 11.78 % | 712 | 9.97 % | 1011 | 18.91 % | 1190 | 20.66 % | 1499 | 20.57 % | 2167 | 25.92 % | 2474 | 27.50 % | 2558 | 24.86 % | 2868 | 24.79 % | ||
| Stub | 24 | 1.10 % | 353 | 12.74 % | 540 | 15.29 % | 1022 | 24.50 % | 1771 | 33.12 % | 2238 | 38.85 % | 3455 | 47.41 % | 4799 | 57.41 % | 5724 | 63.64 % | 6920 | 67.24 % | 7453 | 64.42 % | ||
| Unassessed | 2114 | 96:75 % | 2069 | 74:76 % | 2388 | 67.63 % | 2108 | 50.53 % | 2049 | 38.32 % | 1842 | 31.97 % | 1753 | 24.06 % | 654 | 7.82 % | 5 | 0.05 % | 9 | 0.09 % | 415 | 3.59 % | ||
| Top | 0 | 19 | 0.69 % | 51 | 1.44 % | 69 | 2.40 % | 73 | 1.37 % | 73 | 1.27 % | 76 | 1.04 % | 81 | 0.97 % | 89 | 0.99 % | 87 | 0.85 % | 90 | 0.78 % | |||
| High | 0 | 105 | 3.79 % | 170 | 4.81 % | 417 | 10.00 % | 551 | 10.30 % | 601 | 10.43 % | 652 | 8.95 % | 712 | 8.52 % | 747 | 8.30 % | 756 | 7.35 % | 777 | 6.72 % | |||
| Mid | 0 | 359 | 12.96 % | 598 | 16.94 % | 1077 | 25.81 % | 1517 | 28.37 % | 2060 | 35.76 % | 3070 | 42.13 % | 4634 | 55.44 % | 5349 | 59.47 % | 5609 | 54.51 % | 6149 | 53.15 % | |||
| Low | 0 | 172 | 6.21 % | 271 | 7.67 % | 440 | 10.55 % | 1000 | 18.70 % | 1181 | 20.50 % | 1734 | 23.80 % | 2272 | 27.18 % | 2802 | 31.15 % | 3413 | 33.17 % | 4132 | 35.71 % | |||
| Total | 2185 | 2771 | 3531 | 4172 | 5347 | 5761 | 7287 | 8359 | 8995 | 10290 | 11570 | |||||||||||||
[edit] Monthly changes
| Jul 2006 | Aug 2006 | Sep 2006 | Oct 2006 | Nov 2006 | Dec 2006 | Jan 2007 | Feb 2007 | Mar 2007 | Apr 2007 | May 2007 (tba) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA |
+0 | 0.00 % | -1 | -12.50 % | -1 | -14.29 % | 0 | 0.00 % | +1 | 16.67 % | 0 | 0.00 % | +2 | 28.57 % | +1 | 11.11 % | 0 | 0.00 % | 0 | 00.00 % | ||
| A | +0 | +2 | +2 | 100.00 % | 0 | 0.00 % | 0 | 0.00 % | +2 | 50.00 % | -1 | -16.67 % | -1 | -20.00 % | 0 | 0.00 % | 0 | 00.00 % | ||||
| GA |
+ 3 | +5 | 166.67 % | -1 | -12.50 % | +1 | 14.29 % | 0 | 0.00 % | 0 | 0.00 % | -1 | -12.50 % | +3 | 42.86 % | 0 | 0.00 % | 0 | 00.00 % | |||
| B | +75 | 1071.43 % | +88 | 107.32 % | +143 | 84.12 % | +85 | 27.16 % | +74 | 18.59 % | +78 | 16.53 % | +159 | 28.44 % | +50 | 6.96 % | +11 | 1.43 % | +31 | 3.98 % | ||
| Start | +224 | 700.00 % | +160 | 62.50 % | +296 | 71.15 % | +299 | 41.99 % | +179 | 17.71 % | +309 | 25.97 % | +668 | 44.56 % | +307 | 14.17 % | +84 | 3.40 % | +310 | 12.19 % | ||
| Stub | +329 | 1370.83 % | +187 | 52.97 % | +482 | 89.26 % | +749 | 73.29 % | +467 | 26.37 % | +1217 | 54.38 % | +1344 | 38.90 % | +925 | 19.27 % | +1196 | 20.89 % | +533 | 07.70 % | ||
| Unassessed | -45 | -2.13 % | +319 | 15.42 % | -280 | -11.73 % | -59 | -2.80 % | -207 | -10.10 % | -89 | -4.83 % | -1099 | -62.69 % | -649 | -99.24 % | +4 | 80.00 % | +406 | 4511.11 % | ||
| Top | +19 | +32 | 168.42 % | +18 | 35.29 % | +4 | 5.80 % | 0 | 0.00 % | +3 | 4.11 % | +5 | 6.58 % | +8 | 9.88 % | -2 | -2.25 % | +3 | 3.45 % | |||
| High | +105 | +65 | 61.90 % | +247 | 145.29 % | +134 | 32.13 % | +50 | 9.07 % | +51 | 4.89 % | +60 | 9.20 % | +35 | 4.92 % | +9 | 1.20 % | +21 | 2.81 % | |||
| Mid | +359 | +239 | 66.57 % | +479 | 80.10 % | +440 | 40.85 % | +543 | 35.79 % | +1010 | 49.03 % | +1564 | 50.94 % | +715 | 15.43 % | +260 | 4.86 % | +540 | 9.63 % | |||
| Low | +172 | +99 | 57.56 % | +169 | 62.36 % | +560 | 127.27 % | +181 | 18.10 % | +553 | 46.82 % | +538 | 31.03 % | +530 | 23.33 % | +611 | 5.84 % | +719 | 21.07 % | |||
| Total | +586 | +26.82 % | +760 | +27.43 % | +641 | +18.15 % | +1175 | +28.16 % | +404 | +3.57 % | +1526 | +26.49 % | +1072 | +14.71 % | +636 | +07.61 % | +1295 | +14.40 % | +1280 | +12.44 % | ||
[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.
