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This is the assessment department to the Los Angeles Rams WikiProject. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Los Angeles Rams 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.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Los Angeles Rams}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Los Angeles Rams articles by quality, Category:Los Angeles Rams articles by importance, and Category:Los Angeles Rams articles needing attention. The quality and importance ratings described below were adopted from the St. Louis Cardinals WikiProject and serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Template

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Los Angeles Rams}} banner on its talk page. As a member of this subproject, you can rate articles within our scope.

Usage

Please note: This template should be transcluded {{WikiProject Los Angeles Rams}} and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the project's talk pages without having to edit hundreds of pages.

{{WikiProject Los Angeles Rams
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Field descriptions

class

Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Los Angeles Rams/Assessment#Quality scale.

Options are FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, FL, List, Category, Disambig, Draft, File, Portal, Project, Template, and NA (Not available). If blank, this will default as Unassessed.

importance

Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Los Angeles Rams/Assessment#Importance scale.

Options are Top, High, Mid, Low, and NA (non-article). If blank, this will default as Unknown importance.

attention

Answer yes if the page needs immediate attention; otherwise leave blank.

listas

For sorting talk pages, e.g., by last name: Doe, John.

Instructions

Quality assessment

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

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

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

Quality scale

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
File:Featured article star.svg 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}}	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.	Category:FA-Class Los Angeles Rams articles
File:Featured article star.svg 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}}	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 Los Angeles Rams head coaches
File:Symbol a class.svg 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.	Category:A-Class Los Angeles Rams articles
File:Symbol support vote.svg 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}}	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.	Billy Cannon
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}}	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.	1989–90 NFL playoffs
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.	Angel Stadium
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.	2014 St. Louis Rams season
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.	2010 St. Louis Rams season
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 Los Angeles Rams players
Category	Any category falls under this class.	Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area.	Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized.	Category:St. Louis Rams
Disambig	Any disambiguation page falls under this class.	The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title.	Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title.	Tony Banks
File	Any page in the file namespace falls under this class.	The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content.	Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited.	File:1945 NFL Championship Game.jpg
Portal	Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class.	Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics.	Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date.	Portal:American football
Project	All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class.	Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development.	Develop these pages into collaborative resources that are useful for improving articles within the project.	Wikipedia:WikiProject Los Angeles Rams
Template	Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes.	Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles.	Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information.	Template:Los Angeles Rams 2020 draft navbox
NA	Any non-article page that fits no other classification.	The page contains no article content.	Look out for misclassified articles. Currently, many NA-class articles may need to be re-classified.	Final play of Super Bowl XXXIV

Importance assessment

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

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

Importance scale

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute 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 Rams (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field.	Angel Stadium, Deacon Jones, Super Bowl XXXIV, Edward Jones Dome
High	Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent.	History of the St. Louis Rams, Henry Ellard, 1989–90 NFL playoffs, Roman Gabriel
Mid	Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area.	Ernie Conwell
Low	Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article.	Dieter Brock
NA	Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc.	Category:Los Angeles Rams coaches
???	Subject importance has not yet been assessed.	Category:Unknown-importance Los Angeles Rams articles

Assessment log

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Los Angeles Rams articles by quality log}}