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Quality: FA-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | C-Class | Start-Class | Stub Class | Unassessed Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Unknown
Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject New Zealand! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's New Zealand articles.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject New Zealand}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:New Zealand articles by quality and Category:New Zealand articles by importance.
Frequently asked questions
edit- How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
- Just add {{WikiProject New Zealand}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
- 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 New Zealand WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
- 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.
- Where can I get more comments about my article?
- The peer review department can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
- 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 (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!
- How can I keep track of changes in article ratings?
- A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistical table may be more accessible.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
Instructions
editNew Zealand articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | ||
FA | 1 | 12 | 16 | 27 | 56 | ||
FL | 1 | 1 | 19 | 21 | |||
A | 1 | 11 | 22 | 34 | |||
GA | 10 | 18 | 62 | 241 | 331 | ||
B | 66 | 154 | 300 | 914 | 1,434 | ||
C | 89 | 359 | 1,276 | 4,687 | 6,411 | ||
Start | 3 | 293 | 2,265 | 18,142 | 20,703 | ||
Stub | 698 | 25,528 | 26,226 | ||||
List | 3 | 44 | 327 | 1,971 | 2,345 | ||
Category | 14,255 | 14,255 | |||||
Disambig | 189 | 189 | |||||
File | 361 | 361 | |||||
Portal | 8 | 8 | |||||
Project | 82 | 82 | |||||
Redirect | 2,104 | 2,808 | 4,912 | ||||
Template | 1,817 | 1,817 | |||||
NA | 4 | 10 | 19 | 33 | |||
Draft | 68 | 68 | |||||
Assessed | 172 | 882 | 4,960 | 53,665 | 19,607 | 79,286 | |
Unassessed | 2 | 2 | |||||
Total | 172 | 882 | 4,960 | 53,667 | 19,607 | 79,288 | |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 291,513 | Ω = 5.28 |
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject New Zealand}} project banner on its talk page, and it produces the adjacent table:
- {{WPNZ|class=|importance=}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class New Zealand articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class New Zealand articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class New Zealand articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class New Zealand articles)
- C (adds articles to Category:C-Class New Zealand articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class New Zealand articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class New Zealand articles)
- List (adds articles to Category:List-Class New Zealand articles)
- Disambig (adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class New Zealand articles)
- Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class New Zealand articles)
- NA (for pages, such as redirect pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class New Zealand articles)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed New Zealand articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale above, which is explained in further detail in the table below.
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance New Zealand articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance New Zealand articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance New Zealand articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance New Zealand articles)
The importance parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and should be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.
Quality scale
editClass | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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.
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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. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
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:
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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. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
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. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
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:
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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. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
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
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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. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
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.
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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. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
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:
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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. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
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. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
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 literary movements |
Future | A topic about which details are subject to change often. More detailed criteria
The article covers a future topic of which no broadcast version exists so far and all information is subject to change when new information arises from reliable sources. With multiple reliable sources, there might be information that contradicts other information in the same or other articles. Not all future categories will be rated with "Future" and may be rated like normal.
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Amount of meaningful content varies over time as the projected event draws near. | Material added might be speculation and should be carefully sourced. | Kampala Southern Bypass Highway |
Importance scale
editThe criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of New Zealand.
Importance ratings reflect the perceived importance to WikiProject New Zealand, and often differ from the ratings in other WikiProjects. For example, Daniel Carter Beard is rated Top-importance in WikiProject Scouting, but not rated at all in WikiProject New Zealand (although Daniel Carter's beard potentially might be).
Status | Template | Meaning of Status |
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Top | {{Top-Class}} | This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information. |
High | {{High-Class}} | This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge. |
Mid | {{Mid-Class}} | This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas. |
Low | {{Low-Class}} | This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia. |
None | None | This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed. |
Requesting an assessment
editParticipants
editPlease feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team
- Adabow (talk · contribs)
- Andrensath (talk · contribs)
- Avenue (talk · contribs)
- Ballofstring (talk · contribs)
- Egghead06 (talk · contribs)
- gadfium (talk · contribs)
- J947 (talk · contribs)
- Kiwiz1338 (talk · contribs)
- NealeFamily (talk · contribs)
- Schwede66 (talk · contribs)
- Sir Anon (talk · contribs)
- Te Karere (talk · contribs)
- Wallie (talk · contribs)
- wdd123 (talk · contribs)
- XLerate (talk · contribs)
- Tadyatha (talk · contribs)
- Ambrosia10 (talk · contribs)
Example assessments
editTo assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.
Importance
- {{WikiProject New Zealand|importance=Top}} – to rate an article at Top importance
- {{WikiProject New Zealand|importance=High}} – to rate an article at High importance
- {{WikiProject New Zealand|importance=Mid}} – to rate an article at Mid importance
- {{WikiProject New Zealand|importance=Low}} – to rate an article at Low importance