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Libraries articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	8			9
FL		1	2	6			9
FM					17		17
GA	1	3	10	40			54
B	4	16	54	202		8	284
C	12	37	150	994		28	1,221
Start	7	57	384	3,929		66	4,443
Stub		12	74	2,358		43	2,487
List	4	5	57	366		6	438
Category					2,668		2,668
Disambig					17		17
File					42		42
Project					25		25
Redirect		4	62	127	333		526
Template					104		104
Other					25		25
Assessed	28	135	794	8,030	3,231	151	12,369
Unassessed				3		23	26
Total	28	135	794	8,033	3,231	174	12,395
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 43,237			Ω = 5.06

Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject Libraries. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Libraries 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.

Category:Libraries articles by quality serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Libraries}} project banner. Filling in a rating in the class parameter of the {{WikiProject Libraries}} template on the talk page of an article causes the name of that article to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Libraries articles by quality.

The following system is based on the general criteria for assessing how close we are to a distribution-quality article on a particular topic. The system is based on a letter scheme which reflects principally how complete the article is, though the content and language quality are also factors. Once an article reaches the A-Class, it is considered "complete", although edits will continue to be made.

Frequently asked questions

How can I get an article rated?

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles?

Any member of the Libraries WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.

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.

Assessment instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Libraries}} project banner on the article's talk page. Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Libraries articles. At present, there are many articles that need assessment (e.g., that need to have a class inserted in the class parameter of the {{WikiProject Libraries}} template).

WikiProject Libraries articles to be assessed have some aspects of the {{WikiProject Libraries}} template on their talk page, but the template may be incomplete. Select an article from the list at Category:Unassessed Libraries articles. Then, look over the article in anticipation of filling out the parameters of the {{WikiProject Libraries}} template. Finally, add in the proper parameters for both quality and importance to the talk page template, as outlined below.

Quality assessment

An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Libraries}} 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 Libraries articles category)		FA
FL	(for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Libraries articles category)		FL
A	(for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Libraries articles category)		A
GA	(for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Libraries articles category)		GA
B	(for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Libraries articles category)		B
C	(for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Libraries articles category)		C
Start	(for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Libraries articles category)		Start
Stub	(for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Libraries articles category)		Stub
List	(for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Libraries articles category)		List
NA	(for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Libraries pages category)		NA
???	(articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Libraries articles category)		???

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

FM	(for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class Libraries pages category)		FM
Category	(for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Libraries pages category)		Category
Draft	(for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Libraries pages category)		Draft
File	(for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Libraries pages category)		File
Portal	(for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Libraries pages category)		Portal
Project	(for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Libraries pages category)		Project
Template	(for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Libraries 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 Libraries pages category)		Disambig
Redirect	(for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Libraries pages category)		Redirect

Quality scale

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is: well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard; comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate; neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process; and compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style where appropriate.	Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	Literary Hall (as of October 2017)
FL	The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) statements are sourced where they appear, and they provide inline citations if they contain any of the four kinds of material absolutely required to have citations. (c) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists and includes at minimum eight items; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. (c) Accessibility. It uses proper formating to be accessible to all readers. Bulleted and unbulleted lists and tables are structured correctly. Visual media, if included, utilize alternative (alt) text. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.	Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	National Film Registry (as of October 2017)
A	The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets the A-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history).	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting.	Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help.	Currently none (as of October 2017)
GA	The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria A good article is: Well-written: the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Verifiable with no original research: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose); it contains no original research; and it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. Broad in its coverage: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication.	Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing.	Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (as of October 2017)
B	The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher.	A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.	Google Play (as of October 2017)
C	The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.	Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study.	Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems.	Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (as of October 2017)
Start	An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following: A 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	Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more.	Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Improve the grammar, spelling, and writing style; decrease the use of jargon.	Bach Archive (as of October 2017)
Stub	A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria.	Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant.	Robertson Library (as of October 2017)
List	Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.	There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader.	Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized.	List of Carnegie libraries in Pennsylvania (as of October 2017)

Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Libraries}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Libraries|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Libraries articles)		Top
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Libraries articles)		High
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Libraries articles)		Mid
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Libraries articles)		Low
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Libraries articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Libraries articles)		???

Assessment request

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new quality rating for it, please feel free to list it below. Note: This is only to rate the article on quality - you may or may not get feedback on the article. If you desire a review, use the Assessment page to request one. If you assess an article, please remove it so that other editors will not waste time reviewing the same articles. Thanks!

Articles submitted here will not be rated above 'B'; see Wikipedia:Good articles and Wikipedia:Featured articles for higher assessments.

Edit this section and place request here:

1. Petworth Neighborhood Library - I've expanded this stub-class article and would love to get feedback on its progress, Bleubsdorf (talk) 12:35, 28 June 2020 (UTC) -->

@Bleubsdorf: Looks real nice, great job. I've changed the listing to C class. The only thing I'll say is that it might look better to expand on each of those short sentences in the history section so it doesn't read like bullet points. Also, since it's on the NRHP you might be able to add another infobox for it on that page. Check out Template:Infobox NRHP. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 13:23, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

1. UK Web Archive Requesting a reassessment for this article, as it was recently moved and updated. Thanks Timeousbeastie (talk) 20:46, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
2. Thinkalazhcha Nishchayam - Requesting an assessment for this article which was created by me.Sonal Mathew (talk) 20:23, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
3. Anna Ben, Antony Varghese, Nimisha Sajayan, Sunny Wayne, Kaanekkaane - Requesting a reassessment for all these articles as I don't agree with the present assessment given for them. Moreover many updates were made to these articles after their assessment.Sonal Mathew (talk) 20:23, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Cleanup listing

Current cleanup listings can be found here.

Assessment log

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

Assessment log - click on "show" to the right to expand

May 13, 2025 Reassessed Horicon Public Library (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Northern Beaches Libraries (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Draft:Wm K Kohrs Memorial Library (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Removed Draft:Hivzi Sylejmani Library (talk) removed. May 12, 2025 Reassessed Hegel-Archiv (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Marion Bacon (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) May 11, 2025 Assessed Marion Bacon (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) May 10, 2025 Assessed Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Removed Draft:NAppGUI (talk) removed. May 9, 2025 Renamed Fudaishi renamed to Fu Dashi. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums renamed to North East Museums. Assessed Fu Dashi (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) North East Museums (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as List-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) May 8, 2025 Renamed Public Archives and Records Office (Prince Edward Island) renamed to Public Archives and Records Office. Assessed Public Archives and Records Office (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Category:WikiProject Libraries navigational boxes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Removed Category:WikiProject Libraries navboxes (talk) removed. May 7, 2025 Assessed List of Memory of the World Documentary Heritage in the Philippines (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as List-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)