Template:Grading scheme

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

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)
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:American World War II senior military officials, 1945.JPEG (as of January 2012)
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
Future	A topic about which details are subject to change often. More detailed criteria The article covers a future topic of which no broadcast version exists so far and all information is subject to change when new information arises from reliable sources. With multiple reliable sources, there might be information that contradicts other information in the same or other articles. Not all future categories will be rated with "Future" and may be rated like normal.	Amount of meaningful content varies over time as the projected event draws near.	Material added might be speculation and should be carefully sourced.	Kampala Southern Bypass Highway
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:Software
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.	Apple (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:Musk Lorikeet jul08.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:Science
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 Military history
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.	Wikipedia:5P
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:Martial arts
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.
???	Article quality has not yet been assessed.	Articles for which a valid quality rating has not yet been provided are listed in this category.	A quality parameter should be assigned according to the assessment department of the WikiProject.

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Usage instructions

• The code below is for customizing the template for a specific WikiProject. Fields are optional, and will default to generic examples if left blank.
  • Specifying the Project field will link the class labels to the appropriate quality category in the given project in the format "FA-Class Project articles".
  • Specifying article class examples will display the provided text in the example for the given quality.
  • The rows for Future, Cat, Dab, File, Portal, Project, Redirect, Template, NA, and Unassessed are optional and will not be displayed unless yes is specified for the respective "Future_cat", "Cat_cat", "Dab_cat", "File_cat", "Portal_cat", "Project_cat", "Redirect_cat", "Template_cat", "NA_cat", and "Unassessed_cat" parameters.

Code

Copy and paste:

{{Grading scheme
|Project            = 
|FA_example         = 
|FL_example         = 
|A_example          = 
|GA_example         = 
|B_example          = 
|C_example          = 
|Start_example      = 
|Stub_example       = 
|List_example       = 
|Future_cat         = 
|Future_example     = 
|Cat_cat            = 
|Cat_example        = 
|Dab_cat            = 
|Dab_example        =
|FM_cat             = 
|FM_example         = 
|File_cat           = 
|File_example       = 
|Portal_cat         = 
|Portal_example     = 
|Project_cat        = 
|Project_example    = 
|Redirect_cat       = 
|Redirect_example   = 
|Template_cat       = 
|Template_example   = 
|NA_cat             = 
|NA_example         = 
|Unassessed_cat     =
|Unassessed_example =
}}

See also

Class

• {{Article classification}}
• {{Grading scheme}}
• {{Assessment Class Summary}}
• {{Articles by Quality}}
• {{Class}}

Importance

• {{Article importance}}
• {{Importance scheme}}
• {{Assessment Importance Summary}}
• {{Articles by Importance}}
• {{Importance}}
• {{Importance/colour}}

Hybrid

• {{Articles by Quality and Importance}}
• {{Article by Quality and Importance}}

Others

• {{Articles by Quality Pie Graph}}
• {{Articles by Importance Pie Graph}}
• {{Progression rainbow}}
• {{WikiProject assessment progression}}

For B rating evaluation

Copy and paste:

| B1 <!-- Ref and cites --> = y/n
| B2 <!-- Coverage and accuracy --> = y/n
| B3 <!-- Structure--> = y/n
| B4 <!-- Grammar and style --> = y/n
| B5 <!-- Supporting materials --> = y/n
| B6 <!-- Appropriate and understandable --> = y/n

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