Wiki143:WikiProject Rome/Assessment

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

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 Rome 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, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

The attention parameter is used to identify articles where immediate attention is needed. It is used in the form:

{{WikiProject Rome|class=|importance=|attention=yes}}

• attention=yes (adds articles to Category:Rome articles needing attention).

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 Rome| ... | 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 - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Rome articles
• High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Rome articles
• Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Rome articles
• Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Rome articles

Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Examples
class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top	Core topics about Rome. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main Rome article, vital for the understanding of Rome or extremely notable to people outside of Rome. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two Italians in a particular field or persons of the greatest historical importance
class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High	Topics that are very notable within Rome, and not unheard of outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia
class="import-mid " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Mid	Topics that are reasonably notable within Rome itself without necessarily being famous or very notable internationally
class="import-low " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Low	Topics of mostly local interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics

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.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Rome/Reassessment}}