Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Assessment

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The History Assessment Department

Working Groups at WikiProject History:

Assessment · Collaboration · Review · Outreach · Task forces

WikiProject History

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ParticipantsEdit

Current active members:

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Quality statisticsEdit

History articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA	4	9	20	32		223		288
FL		2	3	3		4		12
A			2	1		4		7
GA	5	18	69	128		717	30	967
B	33	132	164	374	4	1,571	214	2,492
C	57	190	354	1,066	2	3,003	404	5,076
Start	14	131	374	2,528	21	9,888	1,234	14,190
Stub		21	82	2,391	121	5,583	1,609	9,807
List	2	52	176	2,003	215	1,511	604	4,563
Category		2	1	1	14,166	4,157		18,327
Disambig				1	36	32		69
File					26	27		53
Portal					371	11		382
Project					21	14		35
Redirect			4	14	335			353
Template		1	2	3	428	164		598
NA				1	2	506		509
Other			1		260		1	262
Assessed	115	558	1,252	8,546	16,008	27,415	4,096	57,990
Unassessed				9		17	865	891
Total	115	558	1,252	8,555	16,008	27,432	4,961	58,881
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 159,572			Ω = 4.86

NotesEdit

Please feel free to leave any notes at all in this section, regarding articles to be assessed, items to discuss, tasks to be done, or anything else.

please add your signature to any items that you add or any other text that you add on this page. that makes it much easier for active members of this project to help each other, to work on common projects and to assist each other. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 15:49, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Tasks, items, notes, comments or questionsEdit

Kevin M. Kruse - The article is currently ranked Stub-class, I expanded it a bit. Could it be reassessed? Isi96 (talk) 04:16, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Popular pagesEdit

There is a list of list of popular pages, ordered by number of views, a bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.

TemplateEdit

WikiProject History

(Rated Project-class)

History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the subject of History on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
Project	This article has been rated as Project-Class on the project's quality scale.

This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

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UsageEdit

The following is the full syntax used for placing this template on a talk page:

{{WikiProject History
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|attention=
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|needs-infobox=
|small=
|Contemporary History=
|Contemporary history-importance=
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ParametersEdit

class – a rating of the article's quality; see the quality scale for more details.
importance – a rating of the article's quality; see the importance scale for more details.
attention – "yes" if the article is extremely low quality and requires the attention of experienced editors.
auto – used by bots if the article has been assessed automatically
needs-infobox – "yes" if the article requires an infobox
small – "yes" if the banner should be rendered in its miniature size; this should be used sparingly and only on crowded talk pages for the time being.
Contemporary History – "yes" if the Contemporary History task force applies
- Contemporary history-importance – see "importance" parameter above

Quality scaleEdit

Featured articlesEdit

Reserved for articles that meet the featured article criteria and have received featured article status after community review

Featured articles are selected at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates

A-ClassEdit

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.

A-Class articles are selected by the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review#A-Class Review.

Good articlesEdit

Reserved for articles that meet the good article criteria and have received good article status.

Good articles are selected at Wikipedia:Good article nominations.

B-ClassEdit

The article meets the following six 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

Start ClassEdit

Start class article have a few paragraphs that provide all the key points but may not cover all aspects of the subject. These articles usually have an image or infobox to support the text.

Start-class articles are selected by individual assessors.

Stub ClassEdit

Stubs are very short articles which offer a quick description of the subject

Stub articles are selected by individual assessors

Importance scaleEdit

Need	The article's priority or importance, regardless of its quality
Top	Subject is a must-have for a good encyclopedia
High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
Mid	Subject fills in more minor details
Low	Subject is mainly of specialist interest.