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Welcome to the assessment department of the Russia WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Russia. 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 Russia}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Russia articles by quality, 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 Russia WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
- 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!
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 assessment
[edit source]An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Russia}} 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 Russia articles category) |  FA |
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| FL | (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Russia articles category) | FL |
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| A | (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Russia articles category) |  A |
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| GA | (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Russia articles category) |  GA |
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| B | (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Russia articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Russia articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Russia articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Russia articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Russia articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Russia pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Russia articles category) | ??? |
For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:
| FM | (for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class Russia pages category) | FM |
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| Category | (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Russia pages category) | Category | |
| Draft | (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Russia pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Russia pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Russia pages category) | Portal | |
| Project | (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Russia pages category) | Project | |
| Template | (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Russia 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 Russia pages category) | Disambig | |
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| Redirect | (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Russia pages category) | Redirect |
Quality scale
[edit source]| Class | 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:{{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. | National Anthem of Russia |
| 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 battlecruisers of Russia |
| 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}}
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The page contains a featured image, sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:Su-27 on landing.jpg |
| 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. | Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 |
| 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. | Mir |
| 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. | History of Russia |
| 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. | Alexander I of Russia |
| 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. | Agin-Buryat Okrug |
| 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. | Law enforcement in Russia |
| 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 cultural icons of Russia |
| 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:Russia |
| 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. | Elizabeth of Russia (disambiguation) |
| 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:Flag of Russia.svg |
| 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:Russia |
| 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 Russia |
| 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. | Korolyov cross |
| 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:Russia topics |
| 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. | N/A |
Importance assessment
[edit source]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Russia}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Russia|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 Russia articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Russia articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Russia articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Russia articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Russia articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Russia articles) | ??? |
Importance scale
[edit source]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 students of Russia.
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.
| Importance | Criteria | Example |
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| Top | Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. | Russia, Soviet Union, Moscow |
| High | Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | 1812 Overture, Anadyr River |
| Mid | Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | 35th Army (Russia) |
| 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. | Administrative divisions of Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug |
| NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | Category:Russia |
| ??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. | ??? |
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.
- Oleg Bezuglov The article was assessed shortly after it was created and its rating doesn't reflect the substantial expansion, revision and citation that was done afterwards. Would you be so kind to reassess it? --Fiddler11 03:50, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
- Yarovaya Law
- European University at Saint Petersburg has been substantially reworked. Would be nice if a worded assessment could be given on the talk page as well, so that problematic points can easily be identified.
- You are probably thinking about a peer review, not an assessment. Assessment is merely an identification of the article's class/importance for a certain WikiProject.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 15, 2010; 15:40 (UTC)
- Reassessment request for Luzhniki disaster from C-class to B-class article. --Potorochin (talk) 01:05, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Reassessment requested for Genrikh Lyushkov -- Julius177 (talk) 14:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Reassessment requested for Saint Petersburg Mining Institute -- Kbog 00:11, 18 September 2012
- Reassessment requested for Voina -- Voina has become more prominent in light of the Pussy Riot case. Request upgrade from Low to Mid importance. MaxBrowne (talk) 12:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Judiciary of Russia because it has been substantially expanded from a Start-Class article, and it is listed as a Top-importance article. It is relatively complete and well organized, but details of the more obscure parts such as the lower courts, which regular people deal with, is a difficult topic for which few good English sources (and possibly even Russian) are available. I note that, in my opinion, it is as complete (if not more, e.g. administration) as the Russian language version, but has better citations. Int21h (talk) 22:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
- Battle of Prokhorovka – a B-class assessment for this article. EyeTruth (talk) 23:18, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
- Assessment requested for Golovnin Incident. This article has been written as part of an educational assignment and, as the course's mentoring Wikipedian, I hope it is considered useful. Thank you! Spinster (talk) 06:57, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- Assessment requested for Robert Conquest and The Harvest of Sorrow. I believe the arguments in there are of great importance for Russia's history. -- Flushout1999 (talk) 13:50, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
- The article on Grigori Rasputin has been changed substantially since 2013. Could someone take a look? Taksen (talk) 18:32, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
- The article on National Guard of Russia has beeen expanded from its assessment in April 2016. Could someone take a look?--Mach1988 (talk) 21:15, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
- Yelnya Offensive -- please assess after expansion. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:12, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
- Boris Saltykov — please assess. Romanov loyalist (talk) 03:24, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
- Georgy Khizha — please assess. Romanov loyalist (talk) 03:24, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
- Mikhail Poltoranin — please assess. Romanov loyalist (talk) 03:24, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
- Alexander Kazakov (politician) — please assess. Romanov loyalist (talk) 03:24, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
- Reassess 1991 Russian presidential election SecretName101 (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- Reassess Boris Yeltsin 1991 presidential campaign SecretName101 (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- Reassess 1996 Russian presidential election SecretName101 (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- Reassess Boris Yeltsin 1996 presidential campaign SecretName101 (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- Assess Xerox Affair SecretName101 (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- Reassess Petrine Baroque Kmitchell2015 (talk) 23:48, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Reassess Alfa-Bank, currently "class=Stub". X1\ (talk) 01:14, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Selenga is currently rated as a Stub class article. However, it has changed substantially since the articles conception, and could be classed as a Class C article now. If possible, could someone conduct a reassessment? --SakuraGinger (talk) 01:21, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Embassy of Australia in Moscow has been significantly changed and I believe it to be a higher class than a stub. If someone could conduct a reassessment that would be great. Thanks. -- (talk) 9 December 2020
- Military commissariat has significantly changed and should be reassessed. I think it is higher class than a stub. If someone could reassess the article that would be perfect! Jijiathome (talk) 22:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Waste management in Russia has received substantial updates (as part of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment it seems too!). If someone could re-assess the current stub-class assignment for this article, that'd be great. Cheers! SweetYears69 (talk) 07:11, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
- Bublichki (song) just graduated from draft, needs assessment. Lkb335 (talk) 18:00, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
- Gulag: A History Has received substantial updates (went from a ~300 word count to nearly 2000. Would be grateful if anyone could reassess. Thank you! User:Kingmarly3 (talk) 5:29, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- Peterhof (Novgorod), it's a few months old, hasn't been assessed yet. JaikeV (talk) 08:31, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
- LOT Polish Airlines Flight 232 was just accepted from draft a few days ago. Would be grateful if anyone could assess it, thanks! User:RandomGuy3114 (talk) 11:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC+7)
- List of families included in Velvet Book requesting to assess this one. There was a link to a Russian version of this from Velvet Book, thought I'd create one on the English version of encyclopedia. Aeon Sentinel (talk) 02:07, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Ildar Khanov Visual arts in Russia task force article request. Aeon Sentinel (talk) 23:04, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
- Cossack raids - I made significant changes here and would like to request a possible re-assessment. StephanSnow (talk) 11:15, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Russian Union of Journalists Aeon Sentinel (talk) 14:55, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
Assessment log
[edit source]- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Russia articles by quality log}}