Wiki143:WikiProject Philosophy/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the Philosophy WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Philosophy 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:Philosophy articles by quality and Category:Philosophy articles by importance.

Current status

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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 Philosophy 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 either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Philosophy articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

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:

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

Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top	The article is one of the core topics about philosophy. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are included as sections of the main Philosophy article.	A reader who is not involved in the philosophy field 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. No biographies of individual philosophers are included at this level.	Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, History of philosophy
class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding philosophy.	A reader who is not involved in the philosophy field will likely recognize the subject matter and have some familiarity with the topic.	Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand philosophy. Articles about individuals known for philosophy by the general public will be rated at this level.	Aristotle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, Applied ethics
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 philosophy.	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 philosophy. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Articles about most significant individuals in the history of philosophy will be rated in this level.	Divine command theory, Embodied cognition, David Lewis, Judith Butler, Hypatia
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 philosophy.	Few readers outside the philosophy field or that are not philosophy students 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 philosophy, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of philosophy.	Cyrenaics, Bohr–Einstein debates, Lambda calculus

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 request an assessment on the project talk page.