Wikipedia:WikiProject European history/Assessment

One of the main tasks of the WikiProject European history is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's European history articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{eurohist}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:European history articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.

How to assess

An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject European history}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA	(for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class European history articles category)	FA
FL	(for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class European history articles category)	FL
A	(for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class European history articles category)	A
GA	(for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class European history articles category)	GA
B	(for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class European history articles category)	B
C	(for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class European history articles category)	C
Start	(for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class European history articles category)	Start
Stub	(for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class European history articles category)	Stub
List	(for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class European history articles category)	List
NA	(for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class European history pages category)	NA
???	(articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed European history articles category)	???

For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:

Category	(for categories; adds them to the Category-Class European history pages category)	Category
Draft	(for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class European history pages category)	Draft
File	(for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class European history pages category)	File
Portal	(for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class European history pages category)	Portal
Project	(for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class European history pages category)	Project
Template	(for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class European history pages category)	Template

The following non-standard assessment grades for mainspace content may be used at a WikiProject's discretion:

Disambig	(for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class European history pages category)		Disambig
Redirect	(for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class European history pages category)		Redirect

European history articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		15	22	43			80
FL			1	3		2	6
A	1	3	5	1			10
GA	16	34	53	72			175
B	76	174	194	339		130	913
C	64	238	323	686		249	1,560
Start	15	102	228	1,625	1	453	2,424
Stub			11	409		143	563
List	2	20	33	150	2	146	353
Category					7,883		7,883
Disambig					22		22
File					18		18
Portal					2		2
Project					10		10
Redirect			5	41	141		187
Template					73		73
NA					1		1
Other					40		40
Assessed	174	586	875	3,369	8,193	1,123	14,320
Unassessed						14	14
Total	174	586	875	3,369	8,193	1,137	14,334
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 24,832			Ω = 4.34

Quality scale

WikiProject European history uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.

Class	Criteria	Formal process	Example
FA	Reserved for articles that meet the featured article criteria and have received featured article status after community review.	Featured article candidates	Battle of Edson's Ridge (as of January 2007)
A	Reserved for articles that have received A-Class status after review by the project. Such articles are expected to largely meet the featured article criteria, and must be comprehensive, accurate, well-sourced, and decently-written; however, they may require some further copyediting.	A-Class review	Operation Linebacker II (as of January 2007)
GA	Reserved for articles that meet the good article criteria and have received good article status.	Good article nominations	15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (as of January 2007)
B	The article meets the following five criteria: It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. It is free from major grammatical errors. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. It is written from a neutral point of view.	May be assigned by any reviewer	Battle of the Standard (as of February 2007)
Start	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element; it 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	May be assigned by any reviewer	1st Battalion 2nd Marines (as of January 2007)
Stub	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much 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.	May be assigned by any reviewer	16th Infantry Regiment (South Korea) (as of January 2007)