MyWiki:WikiProject Rocketry/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Rocketry! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Rocketry 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. To assess an article, using the rating scheme described below, fill in the parameters on the {{WikiProject Rocketry}} banner on the article's talk page:

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Instructions

Quality scale

The scale for assessments is defined at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. Articles are divided into the following categories.

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.	Space Shuttle
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 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
File:Featured article star.svg FM	Pictures that have attained featured picture status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. More detailed criteria {{Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria}}	The page contains a featured image, sound clip or other media-related content.	Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited.	File:STS120LaunchHiRes-edit1.jpg
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.	Arrow (Israeli missile)
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.	Black Arrow
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.	Falcon 9
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.	Kennedy Space Center
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.	Hermann Oberth
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.	Satellite Launch Vehicle
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 Long March launches
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:Individual rocket vehicles
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.	Military spacecraft
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:Apollo 11 launch.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:Rocketry
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 Rocketry
Redirect	Any redirect falls under this class.	The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged with the original article at this location.	Editor involvement is essential to ensure that articles are not mis-classified as redirects, and that redirects are not mis-classified as articles.	Rocket science
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:US launch systems
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.

Importance scale

The 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 rocketry students.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

General

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.	Kindergarten
High	Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent.	Factory Acts
Mid	Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area.	0.999...
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.	G cell
Bottom	Subject is of the lowest level of relevance or significance to its field of study.	International Cricket (video game)

People

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	People who made fundamental or very famous contributions to rocketry in general.	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
High	People who made major or famous contributions within their field.	Wernher von Braun
Mid	People who made important contributions to their fields and gained recognition by their peers.	Günter Wendt
Low	Most people related to rocketry who meet the minimum notability guidelines.	?

Rockets

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Rockets used for first national orbital launches or other major firsts. Rocket Families	Saturn V Atlas (rocket family)
High	Rockets used for first national spaceflight. Human-rated rockets. Super-heavy lift launch vehicles.	RTV-G-4 Bumper Soyuz-FG Falcon Heavy
Mid	Rockets used for more than 10 orbital launches. Sounding rockets & ballistic missiles used for more than 100 spaceflights. Planned rockets that have not flown yet.	Kosmos-3M Black Brant Vulcan Centaur
Low	Rockets used for 1–10 orbital launches. Sounding rockets & ballistic missiles used for 1–100 spaceflights.	Delta III Rohini (rocket family)
Bottom	Sounding rockets & ballistic missiles incapable of reaching space. Proposed/Canceled rockets which would have been capable of reaching space.	UGM-133 Trident II Aquarius (rocket)

Rocket engines

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Rocket engines used for the rockets with top importance.	Rocketdyne F-1
High	Rocket engines used for the rockets with high importance.	RD-107
Mid	Rocket engines used for the rockets with mid importance.	Rutherford (rocket engine)
Low	Rocket engines used for the rockets with low importance.	?
Bottom	Rocket engines used for the rockets with bottom importance. Rocket engines currently not used on any rockets.	? J-2X

Rocket stages

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	No such importance is used for rocket stages, except the solid rocket boosters used for the rockets with top importance.	Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster
High	Rocket stages used for the rockets with top importance. Rocket stages used for multiple rockets.	S-IC
Mid	Rocket stages used for the rockets with high importance.	Common Booster Core
Low	Rocket stages used for the rockets with mid or low importance.	?
Bottom	Rocket stages used for the rockets with bottom importance. Rocket stages currently not used on any rockets. Proposed rocket stages	? ?

Spaceports

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	The spaceport article and major spaceports.	Baikonur Cosmodrome
High	Orbital launch sites. Landing sites or pads used for the rockets with top importance.	Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 Landing Zones 1 and 2
Mid	Orbital launch pads. Landing sites or pads used for the rockets with high importance.	Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ?
Low	Suborbital spaceflight launch sites and pads. Landing sites or pads used for the rockets with mid or low importance.	Andøya Space Center ?
Bottom	Launch sites not used for spaceflight. Proposed launch sites which would have been used for spaceflight.	Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 1 Sutherland spaceport

Topics

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Topics of fundamental importance to rocketry.	Rocket
High	Important topics of widespread interest in rocketry.	Multistage rocket
Mid	Topics which may be taught to rocketry students but are not otherwise widely known.	Range safety
Low	Specialist topics only of interest to a small field of rocket scientists.	Oberth effect
Bottom	Fringe theories about rocketry.	Pendulum rocket fallacy

Topic scale

This is a unique assessment scale used in this WikiProject. It attempts to categorise articles related to rocketry by topics. Although the possible topics are four, an article can be categorised into other topics as well.

Topic	Criteria	Example
Biography	Any biography articles.	Robert H. Goddard
Rocket	Any articles that describe a rocket or a family of rockets.	Falcon 9
Rocket engine	Any articles that describe a rocket engine.	Rocketdyne F-1
Spaceport	Any articles that describe a spaceport, launch site, launch pad, etc.	Baikonur Cosmodrome

Requesting an assessment

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. Please note that an importance rating may not be given in some cases if the reviewer is unfamiliar with the subject.

If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!

• Ariane 6 SkywalkerPL (talk) 10:14, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
• BFR (rocket) Can we discuss the "top" importance for a rocket where just a few components of a future first prototype have been built so far? --mfb (talk) 22:41, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Quality log

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