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Welcome to the assessment department of the Ireland WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to Ireland. 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.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Ireland}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Ireland articles by quality and Category:Ireland articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Frequently asked questions
[edit source]- 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 Ireland WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
- 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.
- 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!
- Where do I find a list of new Irish related articles?
- A new Ireland Search Results list is produced almost daily and older results (since September 2007) are archived here.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
Instructions
[edit source]Quality assessments
[edit source]An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Ireland}} 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 Ireland articles category) |  FA |
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|---|---|---|---|
| FL | (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Ireland articles category) | FL |
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| A | (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Ireland articles category) |  A |
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| GA | (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Ireland articles category) |  GA |
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| B | (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Ireland articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Ireland articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Ireland articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Ireland articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Ireland articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Ireland pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Ireland articles category) | ??? |
For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:
| Category | (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Ireland pages category) | Category | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft | (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Ireland pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Ireland pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Ireland pages category) | Portal | |
| Project | (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Ireland pages category) | Project | |
| Template | (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Ireland 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 Ireland pages category) | Disambig | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redirect | (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Ireland pages category) | Redirect |
After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.
- When a "yes" is inserted in the "image-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ireland.
- When a "yes" is inserted in the "attention'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Ireland articles needing attention.
- When a "yes" is inserted in the "infobox-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Ireland articles needing infoboxes.
Quality scale
[edit source]| 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:{{Wikipedia:Featured article criteria}}
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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:{{Wikipedia: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:
{{Wikipedia:Content assessment/A-Class criteria|raw=yes}} |
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
{{Wikipedia:Good article criteria}}
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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. | Everybody Wants to Rule the World (as of October 2025) |
| 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
{{Wikipedia:Content assessment/B-Class criteria|raw=yes}}
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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. Improve the grammar, spelling, and writing style; decrease the use of jargon. | Gravel (as of January 2006) |
| 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 |
Importance assessment
[edit source]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Ireland}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Ireland| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
| Top |
| High |
| Mid |
| Low |
| ??? |
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Ireland articles
- High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Ireland articles
- Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Ireland articles
- Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Ireland articles
- Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Ireland articles.
Importance scale
[edit source]The assessment team have developed some criteria specific to Irish articles as guidelines for deciding the importance of articles being assessed. Different criteria tables have been created for different topic groups as shown below.
| Label | Criteria | General Irish biographies' | Historic figures, presidents, politicians | Entertainers | Sports people |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High probability that non-Historians would look this up. Limited to the top 5–10 biographies. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Joyce, affected people in many other countries besides Ireland and for several generations. Members should not give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members. | James Joyce | Eamon de Valera | U2 | Barry McGuigan |
| High | Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin. | Robert Boyle | Garrett Fitzgerald | Rory Gallagher | Roy Keane |
| Mid | Important in their discipline. | Bram Stoker | Pat Rabbitte | Neil Jordan | Stephen Roche |
| Low | Subject is notable in their main discipline. | Henry Kelly | Edward Guinness | Ciaran Bourke | Peter Lawrie |
| Label | Criteria | Cities, towns and villages | Mountains, Lakes and Rivers | Roads | Public Transport |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High probability that general readers outside Ireland would look this up. Well known outside the country and important in the life and history of Ireland. Members should not give this rating to any article without first getting Project approval from the other members. | Dublin | River Shannon | The M50 | Ryanair |
| High | Regarded as very important within the country, perhaps not well known abroad.
Counties or County Towns. |
Sligo | Lough Ree | The N7 road | Dublin Bus |
| Mid | Local or regional importance in Ireland. Towns with over 10,000 people which are not officially Cities or County Towns. Lower importance national roads. | Bray | River Suck | The N62 | Luas |
| Low | Towns and villages of importance within a county or even just a locality. Geographical features that would be well known to people with an interest in the topic only. Regional and local roads. | Dungarvan | Sugarloaf (West Wicklow) | The R747 | Abbeyshrule |
Requesting an assessment
[edit source]If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below. Archived requests
- Wren Day - I expanded the article significantly in the past month and around the same time last year. It was last properly assessed at Start-class in 2008. – Asarlaí (talk) 09:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
To-do / plans
[edit source]Now that all articles identified as relevant have been assessed, suggestions for the next works are welcome. I suggest, for example:
- Resolve NA articles with ratings, they should either be stripped out of the project or set to NA / NA status (this group primarily consists of redirects).
- Revisit the question of tabulating Redirect items distinctly, as raised on the Talk page before.
- Review the selection in the Top prio group. I imagine that around 1% of the substantive article base is a good level, and up to 2% would be OK. Right now I see only 1-2 I would not be sure about having in this level, but there may be some more in High which should be considered. We could then also review High. Below that I would not go, leaving Mid and Low to be assigned or reassessed "on the go". SeoR (talk) 10:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
Assessment log
[edit source]| Ireland articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ireland articles by quality log}}