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Welcome to the assessment department of the West Virginia WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about West Virginia or the people of West Virginia. 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 West Virginia}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:West Virginia 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 West Virginia 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]This template categorizes pages using assessment grades and importance through built-in transclusion. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject West Virginia|class=???|importance=???}} banner on its talk page. This template should be transcluded 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.
Other parameters
[edit source]- attention=yes — the article needs immediate attention
- reassess=yes — request a reassessment for this article
- merge=yes — the article is a candidate for merge action with one or more other articles
- needs-infobox=yes — the article needs an infobox (places in category only)
- peer-review=yes — request a peer review for this article
- old-peer-review=yes — peer review is complete and archived
Class values
[edit source]The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class West Virginia articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class West Virginia articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class West Virginia articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class West Virginia articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class West Virginia articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class West Virginia articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article West Virginia pages)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed West Virginia articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
Quality scale
[edit source]| 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}}
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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. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
| 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}}
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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 dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
| 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. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
| 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}}
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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. | 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}}
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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. | 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.
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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. | 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:
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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. | 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
[edit source]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject West Virginia}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject West Virginia| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
| Top |
| High |
| Mid |
| Low |
| ??? |
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance West Virginia articles
- High - adds articles to Category:High-importance West Virginia articles
- Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance West Virginia articles
- Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance West Virginia articles
Importance scale
[edit source]| Label | Criteria | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Top | Core topics about West Virginia. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main West Virginia article, vital for the understanding of West Virginia or extremely notable to people outside of West Virginia. This category should stay limited to approximately 75 articles. Biographies should be limited to persons of the greatest historical importance. | |
| High | Topics that are very notable within West Virginia, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia. | |
| Mid | Topics that are reasonably notable on a local level within West Virginia without necessarily being famous or very notable outside of West Virginia. | |
| Low | Topics of mostly local 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 West Virginia. |
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.
- Henry M. Mathews - Newtack101 (talk) 22:35, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
- West Virginia State Community and Technical College
- Stonewall Jackson High School (Kanawha County, West Virginia)
- Charleston High School
- Rivesville, West Virginia
- Wheeling Jesuit University
- Alma Grace McDonough Health and Recreation Center
- Elakala Falls
- Morgan Morgan If this was a horse, I would have shot it, someone please look at thisCoal town guy (talk) 22:58, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
- Harriet C. Babbitt - Article I previously created on Charleston, West Virginia native attorney and diplomat may be of interest to this WikiProject. --TommyBoy (talk) 10:49, 23 December 2014 (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/West Virginia articles by quality log}}
Worklist
[edit source]- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/West Virginia articles by quality}}