Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Quality Control
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Table of articles by quality and importance
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| Assessment | Assessed/Total | Percentage | Updated |
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| Quality | 21,926/21,926 | 100% | 21:14, 13 January 2020 (UTC) |
| Importance | 21,926/21,926 | 100% | 21:14, 13 January 2020 (UTC) |
- List of the 500 most popular physics pages, updated monthly.
- Recent changes to those pages
Assessment
- All "top" and "high" importance have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 17:06, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- All FA, GA, A class articles have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 17:06, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- All B class articles have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 04:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- Start-class articles # – C have been re-assessed (by Headbomb only) 05:57, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
- Start-class articles starting with letter B have been re-assessed by TStein 17 June, 2008 and by Headbomb 05:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
- Start-class articles starting with letter D have been re-assessed by TStein 20 June, 2008
- Searched unassessed articles (A-Z) for high and top importance articles. Added a number of high importance and 1 top importance articles using the new criteria. (by TStein only)
- Start class articles of unknown importance (A-E) have been given importance. Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 00:16, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
- Cleared Category:Pages within the scope of WikiProject Physics (WP Astronomy Banner) Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 05:21, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
- Start class articles of unknown importance (A-Z) have been given importance. (Timothy Rias and Headbomb?) (august 2008). (TimothyRias (talk) 09:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC))
Always on-going tasks
- Assess the quality and importance of "unassessed" articles
- Re-assess the quality and importance of "Mid" and "Low" importance articles
Importance scale
Top: Fundamental and famous physics. Any physics article listed in Wikipedia:Vital articles or Wikipedia:Core topics - 1,000.
High: Important or famous. Something an undergraduate physics major could have heard of or studied.
Mid: Cover articles that pretty much only people in the know heard about, while not being over-specialized.
Low: Everything else
People
- Top: People who made fundamental or very famous contributions to physics in general.
- Examples:Einstein (foundation of special and general relativity), Curie (discovery of radioactivity), Bohr (Bohr's model), Rutherford (discovery of the nucleus), Chadwick (discovery of neutron), Feynman (foundation of quantum electrodynamics), Newton (foundation of classical mechanics), Galileo (invention of the telescope, amongst other things) , Copernicus (Copernican model), Kepler (Kepler's Laws), Maxwell (Maxwell's Equations)...
- High: People who made major or famous contributions within their field (usually, but not always, people with effects or experiments named after them).
- Examples: Schottky, Faraday, all physics Nobel Prize laureates (other than those already in "Top") and those who won other Nobel prize that are physics related, ...
- Mid: Generally people who made important contributions to their fields who are recognized within their peers. All physicist who won major prizes or awards besides the Nobel Prize. All physicist who developed or invented widely used techniques within physics.
- Examples: Hartree and Fock (Hartree-Fock method), Robert H. Dicke (lock-in amplifiers), Karl D. Swartzel Jr. (op-amps), ...
Topics
- Top: The Physics article, along with major divisions of theory (e.g., List of basic physics topics) and research:
- Examples: Classical Electrodynamics, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, Optics, Solid State Physics, Condensed matter physics, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics, ...
- Particle constituents of ordinary matter and light: Proton, neutron, electron, subatomic particle, elementary particle, quark and photon
- High: Important topics within "top importance fields":
- Examples:
- Classical Mechanics: torque, Centripetal force, Centrifugal force, Coriolis force, ...
- Classical Electrodynamics: Electric Field, Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force, ...
- Thermodynamics: Pressure, Enthalpy, Fermi-Dirac distribution, Bose-Einstein distribution...
- Solid-state physics: Band theory, Crystallography, Doping, Diode, phonon, ...
- Quantum field theory: Symmetry, Feynman diagrams, CPT invariance, ...
- Physical Constants: Elementary charge, plank's constant, fine-structure constant, speed of light, ...
- Elementary Particles: Leptons, force carriers, hadrons (baryons, mesons), atoms, neutrinos, the individual quarks, antimatter...
- Mid: Subdivisions of "high importance" physics categories:
- Examples:
- Crystallography: Bragg diffraction, Miller indices, Lattice, Reciprocal lattice...
- Optics: Polarization, plane wave, nonlinear optics, Brewster's Angle, ...
- Quantum Electrodynamics: Self-energy, Self-interaction, Yukawa potential,...
- Particle physics: Most hypothetical elementary particles, most composite particles.
- Quasiparticles: magnon, soliton, polaron, polariton, ...
- Low: Further subdivisions of fields, disproved or abandoned theories:
- Examples:
- Particle physics: hypothetical composite particles; hypothetical elementary particle which are not predicted by any currently mainstream theory (e.g. preon).
Experiments
- Top: Famous experiments, first discoveries of major phenomena, first measurements of a fundamental constant (please update experimental physics accordingly).
- Examples: The Cosmic microwave background radiation and its discovery, Cavendish experiment, Rutherford experiment, Stern-Gerlach experiment, Michelson-Morley experiment, double-slit experiment ...
- High: Common undergraduate experiments, or important or famous industry methods:
- Examples: Franck-Hertz experiment, e/m experiment, Czochralski process, ...
- Mid: Typical experiments performed in "mid importance" topics, famous refinements to the measurements of a fundamental constant or properties of a material, well known industry methods:
- Examples:
Theories
- Top: Important and well known theories:
- Examples: Newton's Laws, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Maxwell's equations, Special Relativity, Standard model, Atomic Theory, ...
- High:
- Examples: Ising Model, Band theory, Brownian motion, ...
- Mid:
- Examples: Drude model, Sommerfeld model, Debye model, Einstein model
Equations
- Top: Key equations of top rated theories. Very well known equations.
- Examples: E = mc²
- High: Major or famous equations:
- Examples: Bernoulli's Principle, Archimedes' Principle
- Mid:
- Examples:Drag equation
Institutions
- Top: None
- High: Major or famous institutes and laboratories:
- Examples: LHC, Fermilab, Bell Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...
- Mid:
- Examples:
Publications
- Top: None
- High: Famous landmark papers and publications.
- Examples: Einstein's Annus Mirabilis Papers, Newton's Principia, ...
- Mid:High impact physics journals. Books famous enough to be known by their author only to most of the physics community. Famous popular science publications.
Equipment
- Top: Very important instruments:
- Examples: Laser, spectrograph, ...
- High: Important instruments
- Examples: Multimeter, Cyclotron, Oscilloscope, Scale, ...
- Mid: Important instruments within specialized fields:
- Examples: E-beam, Magnetic sensor, ...
Miscellaneous
- Top: fundamental or very famous physics and physics related topics
- Top: Important atoms:
- Hydrogen atom (simplest), carbon (biochemistry), oxygen (breathing), silicon(electronics), uranium nuclear power
- Top: Top X visited sites
- Examples: Most will also be represented already, but it is a good check
- High: * A list articles
- High: Major or famous phenomena:
- Examples: Ultraviolet catastrophe, Cerenkov radiation, Interference, Why the sky is blue/Rayleigh Scattering, free-fall, refraction, gravitational lenses ...
- High: Common units
- Examples: Those listed in the articles SI base units, SI derived units, and cgs, plus others such as electron volt, ...
- Mid:
- Examples:
Lists
- Top: Lists of "fundamental" stuff:
- Examples:List of physical constants
- List of elementary particles
- List of atoms
- List of quasiparticles
- High: List of physicists.
- High: List of SI, cgs, and non-SI units approved by the BIPM.
- Mid:Lists of "important" stuff:
- Examples:
- List of material-specific constants
- Lists of material-specific properties
- Lists of isotopes by elements
Reviewing Cheatsheet
Reviewing Cheatsheet
- The following highlights current issues. Feel free to either add the issues you've identified, or to strike them as they've been resolved.
WikiProject Physics' Reviewing Cheatsheet
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Article content
- Add/Expand :
- The following sections needs to be expanded/created :
- Lead
- Overview
- References
- Lists
- See also
- Disambiguation :
- The following elements needs to be disambiguated :
- The following pages should redirect here :
- Consider referring these section to a main article :
- The following elements may be too technical for the casual reader, consider defining and explaining them to non-experts:
- Merge/Split :
- Consider merging or splitting these sections with another article, or merging another article's section with this one (give reason):
- Infoboxes and Navboxes :
- The following navboxes and infoboxes could be useful :
- WikiProject Physics templates (browse)
- Physics navboxes (browse)
- {{Nobel Prize in Physics}}
- {{Infobox Scientist}}
- {{Infobox Particle}}
- Update :
- These sections or statements are out of date :
Cleanup, Copyediting, & Formatting
- Cleanup
- Article MoS Compliance :
- Acronyms and abbreviations are spelled out on first use
- Appropriate use of reference templates
- En dashes, em dashes, hyphens, and minus signs are properly used
- External Links
- Images/Diagrams
- Captioned
- Correctly aligned
- Copyediting :
- The following sections needs to be copyedited (give reason) :
- Wikilink :
- The following elements needs to be wikilinked :
- People
- Experiments
- First use of units
- Do not wikilink/autoformat dates and years. Consider placing a link to pages such as 2003 in Physics in the "See Also" section rather than writing "Jimmy Longshort discovered this phenomena on January 15, 2003".
Accuracy & Neutrality
- Verify :
- The following needs to be verified :
- Values of the various constant and measurements
- Factual accuracy
- References
- Name of the article
- Up-to-date-ness
- Problems:
- The following problems have been identified :
Talk page
- Talk Page :
- Please structure and clean up the talk page according to this:
- Archive old and irrelevant discussions
- Consider structuring discussion according to "topics"
- Sort boxes in this order (consider adding them if they aren't there):
- {{skiptotoctalk}}
- {{talkheader}}
- {{ArticleHistory}}
- Wikiprojects (browse to find other relevant projects)
- If there are more than one WikiProject, use {{WikiProjectBanners}} and order them alphabetically within the banner.
- WP 0.5/1.0 Editorial Team,
- WP Echo
- Other boxes
- To do box
- Archive box
- Update importance and rating
Miscellaneous remarks
- Categorize
- Make sure the article is properly categorized :
- Browse Category:Physics, to find other categories
- Do not overcategorize
- Categorize alphabetically
- Copyright :
- The following elements are copyrighted and are not fair use.
- Requests :
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- Miscellaneous remarks :