Wikipedia:WikiProject ROMacedonia/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject Republic of Macedonia! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to the Republic of Macedonia. The article ratings are 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 {{WPMKD}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Republic of Macedonia articles by quality and Category:Republic of Macedonia articles by importance.

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[edit] Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated? 
As a member of the WikiProject Republic of Macedonia, you can do it yourself. If you're unsure, list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles? 
Any member of the WikiProject Republic of Macedonia 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.
Where can I get more comments about my article? 
Contact any member of the project who will handle it or assign the issue to someone.
What if I don't agree with a rating? 
Re-list it as a request below.
Aren't the ratings subjective? 
Yes, and no. The importance ratings) are more or less subjective, because they are decided by the user rating the article, 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! The quality ratings, however, are more objective, because the FA-class and GA-class articles are reviewed by a group of neutral editors.

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

[edit] Instructions

[edit] Quality assessments

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

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

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


Template
Disambig
Category
List
NA

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

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

[edit] Importance assessments

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:


Top
High
Mid
Low
???

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

Note: This parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases.

[edit] Quality scale

Further information: Template:Grading scheme
Article quality grading scheme
Label Explanation Examples
Featured article FA Article is a featured article on Wikipedia. Macedonia (terminology)
...
A Article is considered great and has probably been peer-reviewed. None yet
...
Good article GA Article has been designated Good Article status. None yet
...
B Article is fairly good, but lacking in one or two areas. Macedonian language
...
Start Article is lacking in a few or several areas. None yet
...
Stub Article is a stub. Kežovica

[edit] Importance scale

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top Subject is a "core" topic for the Republic of Macedonia, or is generally notable to people other than those studying the Republic of Macedonia for academic purposes. Republic of Macedonia
...
High Subject is notable or significant within the field of the Republic of Macedonia, but not necessarily outside it. Greater Skopje
...
Mid Subject is not extremely notable or significant within the field of the Republic of Macedonia, but may have comprehensive coverage of its own. Lake Ohrid
...
Low Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of the Republic of Macedonia, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Mariovo
...

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 military history. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance.

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.

[edit] Requesting an assessment

It is vital that people not take these assessments personally. It is understood that we all have different priorities and different opinions about what makes a perfect article. It is proposed that coordinator who performs a complete assessment on each page on that list every three months. If you contribute a lot of content to an article you may request an independent assessment.

[edit] Newly Identified articles

For articles newly identified as within the scope of the project please add this template to the article's talk page:

Placed on the article's talk page Generates
{{WPMKD}}
WikiProject Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia Portal
This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Republic of Macedonia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Republic of Macedonia-related topics. Please visit the project page if you would like to participate. Happy editing!
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[edit] Reassessment

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.

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