Wikipedia:WikiProject St. Louis Rams/Assessment

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This page documents a guideline on articles and non-articles related to the St. Louis Rams WikiProject. While it is not policy, editors are strongly advised to follow it. As the occasional exception may arise, it should be approached with common sense. When editing this page, please ensure that your revision reflects consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

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This is the assessment department to the St. Louis Rams WikiProject. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's St. Louis Rams 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 recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{St. Louis Rams project}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:St. Louis Rams articles by quality, Category:St. Louis Rams articles by importance, and Category:St. Louis Rams articles needing attention,. The quality and importance ratings described below were adopted from the St. Louis Cardinals WikiProject and serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 Template 1.1 Usage 1.2 Field descriptions 2 Quality scale 3 Importance scale

[edit] Template

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{St. Louis Rams project}} banner on its talk page. As a member of this subproject, you can rate articles within our scope.

[edit] Usage

Please note: This template should be transcluded ({{St. Louis Rams project}}) and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the project's talk pages without having to edit thousands of pages.

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[edit] Field descriptions

class 

Options are FA, FL, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, List, Category, Template, Image, and NA (Not available). If blank, this will default as Unassessed.

Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject St. Louis Rams/Assessment#Quality scale.

importance 

Options are Top, High, Mid, Low, and NA (non-article). If blank, this will default as Unknown importance.

Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject St. Louis Rams/Assessment#Importance scale.

nested 

Answer yes if the template is to be placed inside another template's shell.

small 

Answer yes if the template is to be placed flushed to the right of the talk page in smaller text.

attention 

Answer yes if the page needs immediate attention; otherwise leave blank.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]

Label	Criterion	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 June 2008)
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: 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.	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 extensive 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)

Non-article quality scheme

Label	Criteria	Examples
List	These are the articles that serve as stand-alone lists of players, statistics, seasons, etc about the St. Louis Rams. It should not be an article that has an embedded list.	List of St. Louis Rams players, List of St. Louis Rams first-round draft picks
Category	These are categories that contain only articles, templates, images and the like that are related to the St. Louis Rams. They are always found in the category namespace. The importance of this class should always be NA.	Category:St. Louis Rams templates, Category:St. Louis Rams
Template	These are St. Louis Rams related text-boxes that are placed in the template namespace. It should not be used for transclusions that are placed in any other namespace. The importance of this class should always be NA.	Template:St. Louis Rams roster, Template:Super Bowl XXXIV
Image	These are images that are related to the St. Louis Rams. These are always found in the image namespace. The importance of this class should always be NA.	Image:Jack5-1.jpg
NA	These are non-articles that do not fit in any of the descriptions above. The importance of this class should always be NA.	Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League/St. Louis Rams subproject

[edit] Importance scale

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute 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 Rams (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).

Article importance grading scheme

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	The essence of the St. Louis Rams. These are the articles about Rams Hall of Famers, Super Bowl & NFL Championship appearances, stadiums, etc. .	St. Louis Rams, Deacon Jones, Super Bowl XXXIV, Edward Jones Dome
High	People or events that are notable in a significant and important way within Rams football, but may not necessarily be well-known outside it. Think fan-favorites and players who spent a noteable amount of time with the club.	Henry Ellard, NFL playoffs, 1989-90, Roman Gabriel
Mid	Subject contributes to the total subject of WikiProject St. Louis Rams. Subject may not necessarily be famous. Think players who spent a short amount of time with the club.	Ernie Conwell
Low	Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within Rams football, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic.	Dieter Brock
NA	Subject is a template, category, image or some other non-article page.	Template:St. Louis Rams project‎