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The assessment segment of WikiProject Spaceflight focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Spaceflight and Space Exploration 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.

Progress

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We would like to assess all Spaceflight-related articles for quality as well as importance.

Recent changes

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Targets

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Importance targets
Importance Number
of articles
Top 100
High 500
Mid 2500



Instructions

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Spaceflight}} project banner on its talk page: To assess an article, using the rating scheme described below, fill in the parameters on the Spaceflight banner on the article's talk page:

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Request new assessment

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You can request an article is assessed. If you are not sure what the assessment should be or have recently done work to an article, list the article at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Assessment/Requests, along with what changes have occured since the last assessment and if you wish, quality, importance or both to be reassessed.

Class

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The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Importance

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The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Quality scale

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The criteria for assessing the quality of articles are based based on the assessment standards of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. When the scopes of our project and Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history overlap, their criteria for A and B-Class status should take precedence. Otherwise:

WikiProject Spaceflight prose article grading scheme
Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
File:Featured article star.svg FA Reserved for articles that have received featured article status after community review.
More detailed criteria
The article must meet 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. Hubble Space Telescope
File:Symbol a class.svg A A-Class articles are assessed by two editors within the project to determine that they are close to featured article status. Submit a request for an assessment the same way you would for a B-class article; the only difference is two reviewers will assess it.
More detailed criteria
Articles should be checked against the following criteria:
  1. Well-written: The article is well-written and contains no spelling or grammatical errors, it adheres to the relevant sections of the manual of style
  2. Comprehensive: The article covers every relevant aspect of its subject in sufficient detail, including background information, but is not unnecessarily long due to trivial or irrelevant information
  3. Referencing and citation: The article is supported with inline citations to reliable sources for all claims, and these citations are appropriately formatted
  4. Neutral: The article is accurate and unbiased, none of its content is disputed, and it is not the subject of any edit warring
  5. Structure: The article is well structured, consisting of a lead which summarizes the rest of the article, and a reasonable number of sections containing more detailed information
  6. Media: The article contains images relevant to the illustrate subject, accompanied with captions and alt text

Additionally, the article should meet all B-class criteria

Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. Expert knowledge may be needed to "tweak" the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer-review may help. None
File:Symbol support vote.svg GA Reserved for articles that have received Good article status after community review.
More detailed criteria
The article must meet the good article criteria:{{Wikipedia:Good article criteria}}
Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. 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. CryoSat-2
B The article is mostly complete, without major issues, but requires some further work to reach Good Article standards.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the following criteria:
  1. Referencing and citation: The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. The citations are not just raw URLs
  2. Coverage and accuracy: The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies.
  3. Structure: The article has a defined structure. This should consist of a lead section and appropriately divided sections.
  4. Grammar and style: The article is reasonably well-written. There are no significant errors in spelling or grammar, and no outstanding cleanup issues
  5. Supporting materials: The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. This should include relevant images if any are available, and an infobox if one exists.

Additionally, that the article should meet all the C class criteria

No reader should be 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, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the manual of style. Jules Verne ATV
C The article meets B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5 of the B-Class criteria.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the following criteria:
  1. Referencing and citation: The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. The citations are not just raw URLs
  2. Coverage and accuracy: The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. Some aspects, particularly the background, may still be covered in less detail than would be desirable, however no critical information should be absent.
  3. Structure: The article has a defined structure. This should consist of a lead section and appropriately divided sections.
  4. Grammar and style: The article is reasonably well-written. There are no significant errors in spelling or grammar, and no outstanding cleanup issues
  5. Supporting materials: The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. This should include relevant images if any are available, and an infobox if one exists.
  6. Accessibility: The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way although it should not be "dumbed down". Technical terms should be explained or at least linked.
 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 address cleanup issues. Eugene Cernan
Start The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, may lack one or more key elements, and may require serious cleanup. It should have at least one serious element of content, and should not meet the definition of a stub.
More detailed criteria
The article has a usable amount of good content, but it is weak in many areas, usually in referencing. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability and BLP, and provide enough sources to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.
Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. Sputnik 2
Stub The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information which will require a large amount of work to achieve recognition. It meets the general definition of a Stub.
More detailed criteria
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.
Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. International Designator
List article grading scheme
Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
File:Featured article star.svg FL Reserved for articles that have received featured article status after community review.
More detailed criteria
The article must meet 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. List of ISS spacewalks
List Meets the criteria of a Stand-alone List, 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 space agencies
Classes for pages that are not articles
Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
Category Any category falls under this class. Categories (along with other features like cross-references, lists, and infoboxes) help users find information, even if they don't know that it exists or what it's called. Be aware not to over-categorise and to be careful of maintaining a neutral point of view when creating or filling categories. Make decisions about the structure of categories and subcategories that make it easy for users to browse through similar articles. Category:Russian cosmonauts
Disambig Any disambiguation page falls under this class. Serves to distinguish article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic. Pay particular attention to the proper naming of disambiguation articles, they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. Mercury 1
File Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. Images are used to help explain articles by providing examples of style, lay-out, logo, or other typical visual aspects. Many images are fair use and should be used sparingly. Public domain or Creative Commons / GFDL licensed images can be used more freely. Editors need to ensure that images have correct licenses, fair use rationales (where applicable), and are only used in articles for which they have such rationale. Fair use images should not be used as pure decoration. Image:Apollo 11 bootprint.jpg
Portal Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. Portals are useful entry-points to Wikipedia content. Editors need to ensure the portal is kept updated and displays properly, updating news sections and looking out for red links. Portal:Spaceflight
Project All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class. Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development, and are probably not useful to readers. Develop these pages into collaborative resources useful for improving articles within the project. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight
Redirect Any redirect in the article namespace falls under this class. A redirect takes reader to another article relevant to the article they wanted. Ensure article is still redirect, otherwise re-assess. HEASARC
(as of December 2010)
Template Is any type of template. The most common types of template used in the WikiProject are infoboxes and navboxes. Serves different purposes depending upon the type of template. Infoboxes go at the upper right of a page and are a way of providing easy access to important pieces of introductory infomation about the subject. Navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page, and are for the purpose of uniting a group of related articles into an easily accessible format for inclusion on every page listed in the navbox. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. Template:Shenzhou program
NA Is not an article, and fits no other classification. Probably not useful to any casual reader, these are typically only WikiProject pages. Look out for mis-classified articles. Currently many NA-class articles need to be re-classified. None

Importance scale

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The articles are rated for their importance to spaceflight. When making importance assessments, it may be helpful to ask, "How important would it be for the topic of spaceflight to include this article in an abridged version of the encyclopedia?"

Three different ways of expressing the priority of articles are currently used.

  1. The importance, significance and depth of the topic within its particular field or subject.
  2. The extent of the topic's impact, usually in the sense of "impact beyond its particular field", but it is also used to express global impact, and impact through history.
  3. The bottom line: how important is it for an encyclopaedia to have an article on the given topic?

These are often different ways of saying the same thing, but the current WP 1.0 summary table mixes the three approaches: Top priority is described using method 3, High and Mid priority using method 1, and Low priority using method 2.

The table below of possible spaceflight importance levels provides more detail on the meaning of the individual levels, as well as examples.


Spaceflight article importance rating scheme
Priority Description Concepts Spaceflights and spacecraft People Other
Top An absolute "must-have" spaceflight article. Top 5–10 conceptual articles Top 10–20 individual spaceflights, and top 5–10 spacecraft types Top 5–10 key historical figures, astronauts who achieved significant firsts Major space agencies
High Very much needed, even vital, spaceflight articles. Main concepts and components of spaceflight High-profile single spaceflights, highly-used "series" spacecraft Astronauts of above-average notability; including Vostok cosmonauts and Mercury Seven, people who have flown beyond Earth orbit
Mid Adds further depth, but not vital to spaceflight. Most well-known concepts and components of spaceflight Most non-routine spaceflights, most crewed spaceflights All professional astronauts who took part in a spaceflight, and aren't high or top importance
Low Not at all essential, or can be covered adequately by other articles. Most spacecraft subsystems Routine spaceflights, many non-unique spacecraft Professional astronauts who have not taken part in a spaceflight, most people not crucially related to spaceflight. Cancelled missions
(None) This rating is not used. There is a Category:Unknown-importance spaceflight articles for articles which have a spaceflight rating, but no importance level: editors should feel free either to assign an importance level (Low-Priority or higher) or remove the spaceflight banner from these articles, if they are outside the project's scope.
  • Comment: Some articles are not relevant enough to the spaceflight project to need a rating.

Requests for assessment

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