Wiki143:WikiProject Arctic/Assessment

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

Frequently asked questions

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 Arctic 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, 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!

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

Instructions

Quality assessments

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

Quality scale

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example

Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the Template:Tl project banner on its talk page:

{{Arctic| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

width=40px class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top

class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High

class="import-mid " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Mid

class="import-low " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Low

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The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Arctic. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Arctic articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Arctic. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Arctic articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the Arctic field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Arctic community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Arctic articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Arctic field and is not generally common knowledge outside the Arctic community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Arctic articles
• Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Arctic articles.

Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience
class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top	The article is one of the core topics about Arctic.	A reader who is not involved in the field of Arctic will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages.
class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Arctic.	A reader who is not involved in the field of Arctic will have a reasonable level of familiarity with the subject matter, but may need clarifications for some of the more technical terminology.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, however with more specificity and technical terms than the Top-importance articles.
class="import-mid " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Mid	The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of Arctic.	Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject.	Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Arctic, such as specific aspects of Arctic. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in Arctic will be rated in this level.
class="import-low " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Low	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Arctic.	Few readers outside the Arctic field or that are not adherents to it may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article.	Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of Arctic, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of Arctic.

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.

Assessment log

Arctic articles: Template:WP1

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

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