MyWiki:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Assessment

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How you can help
1. Assess articles that are currently unassessed. You'll find them at Category:Unassessed U.S. Congress articles and/or Category:Unknown-importance U.S. Congress articles and/or Category:Unknown-subject U.S. Congress articles
2. Place `{{WikiProject U.S. Congress}}` on the talk page of articles that don't already have it. And when you do, please complete the assessment.

Welcome to the assessment department of the U.S. Congress WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's United States Congress-related articles, using {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} . 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 U.S. Congress}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of:

which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

The final status box is generated automatically by a bot or manually by this web form.

Popular pages: A bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.

Frequently asked questions

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 Congress 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!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Quality assessment

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

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

FM	(for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class U.S. Congress pages category)	FM
Category	(for categories; adds them to the Category-Class U.S. Congress pages category)	Category
Draft	(for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class U.S. Congress pages category)	Draft
File	(for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class U.S. Congress pages category)	File
Portal	(for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class U.S. Congress pages category)	Portal
Project	(for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class U.S. Congress pages category)	Project
Template	(for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class U.S. Congress 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 U.S. Congress pages category)		Disambig

Quality scale

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed U.S. Congress articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below:

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}}	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}}	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}}	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}}	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.	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: 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.	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

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} project banner on its talk page:

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

Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Core topics about Congress. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main United States Congress article, vital for the understanding of Congress or extremely notable to people outside of the United States. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two members of Congress in a particular field or persons of the greatest historical importance	Ted Stevens
High	Topics that are very notable within Congress, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia.	Mitch McConnell
Mid	Topics that are reasonably notable on a national level within Congress without necessarily being famous or very notable internationally	John Thune
Low	Topics of mostly low-level interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to Congress	Ron Wyden

Subject assessment

When applying the {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} template, editors ought to add a subject. This subject will put that article in a corresponding category as follows:

Subject	Category
person	Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress persons
place	Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress places
thing	Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress things
event	Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress events

Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, list it below.

Assessments to do

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Assessments done

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DONE

Done. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 00:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Overman Committee User:Bsimmons666 - I created this article off of the requested articles page and have added to it significantly. Plenty of sources from old newspaper archives I've dug through, and some book resources from google books. Like User:Therefore above me, I believe it is ready to be graded.
United States House of Representatives elections, 2010 User:CylonCAG - We've significantly changed the article since we were last assessed. I think it should be given another look.