Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Assessment

Comics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	Bottom	None	NA	Total
FA	3	4	9	8				24
FL			1	3				4
A			1					1
GA	2	8	38	68				116
B	11	36	68	52				167
C	34	160	604	1,126	40			1,964
Start	9	152	1,137	8,246	953			10,497
Stub		20	386	6,346	1,045			7,797
List		8	139	497	95			739
Book							20	20
Category							3,159	3,159
Disambig						428		428
File							12,480	12,480
Portal							396	396
Redirect						977	753	1,730
Template							502	502
NA							44	44
Assessed	59	388	2,383	16,346	2,133	1,405	17,354	40,068
Total	59	388	2,383	16,346	2,133	1,405	17,354	40,068

Quality: FA-Class | FL-Class | A-Class | GA-Class | B-Class | C-Class | Start-Class | Stub-Class | List-Class | Unassessed

Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Bottom | No | NA | Unknown

Welcome to the wonderful assessment department of WikiProject Comics! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Comics 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Comics}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Comics articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

How do I add an article to the WikiProject? 

Just add {{WikiProject Comics}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.

How can I get my article rated? 

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles? 

Any editor is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.

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.

Where can I get more comments about my article? 

The peer review department can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.

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 (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!

How can I keep track of changes in article ratings? 

A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistics may be more accessible.

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

Instructions

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Comics}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Comics|class=???}}

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

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Comics articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Comics articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Comics articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Comics articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Comics articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Comics articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Comics articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Comics articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Comics articles)		List

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

Book (for Wikipedia books; adds pages to Category:Book-Class Comics articles)		Book
Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Comics articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Comics articles)		Disambig
File (for files; adds pages to Category:File-Class Comics articles)		File
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Comics articles)		Redirect
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Comics articles)		Portal
Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Comics articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Comics articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Comics articles)		???

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

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

{{WikiProject Comics|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project:

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Comics articles)		Top
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Comics articles)		High
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Comics articles)		Mid
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Comics articles)		Low
Bottom (adds articles to Category:Bottom-importance Comics articles)		Bottom
No (adds articles to Category:No-importance Comics articles)		No
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Comics articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Comics articles		???

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

Quality scale

WikiProject article quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article has attained featured article status. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies our very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is— (a) well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard; (b) comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; (c) well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature. Claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate; (d) neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; and (e) stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of— (a) a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; (b) appropriate structure: a system of hierarchical section headings and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents; and (c) consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes (<ref>Smith 2007, p. 1.</ref>) or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1)—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references; for articles with footnotes, the meta:cite format is recommended. The use of citation templates is not required. Media. It has images and other media where appropriate, with succinct captions, and acceptable copyright status. Images included follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).	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.	Superman
A	The article is well-organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject, like military history, or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets the A-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history).	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.	Batman (1989 film)
GA	The article has attained good article status. More detailed criteria The article meets the good article criteria: A good article is— Well-written: (a) the prose is clear and concise, respects copyright laws, and the spelling and grammar are correct; and (b) it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Factually accurate and verifiable: (a) it provides references to all sources of information in the section(s) dedicated to the attribution of these sources according to the guide to layout; (b) it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines; and (c) it contains no original research. Broad in its coverage: (a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and (b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias, giving due weight to each. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by images: (a) images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and (b) images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	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.	Alex Raymond
B	The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria The article meets the six B-Class criteria: The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. The use of either <ref> tags or citation templates such as {{cite web}} is not required. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it certainly need not be "brilliant". The Manual of Style need not be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams and an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. Although Wikipedia is more than just a general encyclopedia, the article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	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 also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.	Garfield
C	The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective.	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.	2000 AD (comics)
Start	An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and may require further reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. 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 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.	Q Force
Stub	A very basic description of the topic. 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 if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category.	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.	Action Girl Comics
FL	The article has attained featured list status. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.	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 Smallville episodes
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 comic books
Book	A collection of Wikipedia articles arranged as a book (see Wikipedia Books). More detailed criteria Collections typically cover a topic and related subjects. These can be downloaded electronically (in PDF or OpenDocument formats), or ordered in print.	People who would like to read wikipedia offline, or in print.	It is a good idea to team up with a relevant WikiProject to gather feedback on books.	Book:DC Comics
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:Comics stubs
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.	DC Universe (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:John Byrne.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:Comics
Redirect	Any redirect falls under this class.	The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged 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.	Martha Kent
Template	Any template falls under this class. The most common types of template include infoboxes and navboxes.	Different types of template 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:WikiProject Comics
NA	Any non-article page that fits no other classification.	The page contains no article content, and is probably not useful to any casual reader.	Look out for mis-classified articles. Currently many NA-class articles need to be re-classified.	Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates

Importance scale

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 Comics.

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.

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it provides key information about a major topic that is fundamental to a study of the subject.	Comics
High	This article is very important to the project, as it covers either a general area of knowledge or provides information about a significant topic.	DC Universe
Mid	This article is relatively important to the project, as it provides more specific knowledge of areas that a serious reader would need to understand.	Alley Oop
Low	This article is significant but has limited importance to the project, as it expands the reader's overall knowledge of the subject into areas of general interest.	Academy Comics
Bottom	This article has no real significance to the project, but it covers additional topics of general or specific interest, some of which could be described as trivia, though all are notable in their own right. Others may be articles of high importance to another project that have an indirect connection with comics. The category was created by the WikiProject to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. In addition it serves to separate trivia from articles of low but significant importance.	Armorhide
No	Subject is a disambiguation or redirect page, residing in article space but redundant in a print encyclopedia.	Elite (comics)
NA	Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc.	Category:Comics
???	Subject importance has not yet been assessed.	???

Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new quality rating for it, please feel free to list it below. To discuss the ratings methods or raise issues with similar articles rated differently, please use the talk page. NOTE: This is only to rate the article on quality - you may or may not get feedback on the article. If you desire a review, use the WP:COMICS peer review process or the regular peer review process. If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> and note your rating here so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!

Seeking an A-class rating? We suggest you submit it for a Peer Review to allow us more time to respond and review. Be sure to first read what qualifies as an A rating before doing so though.

Past assessments are located here. If you delete a striked-through article from the list, please remember to put it in the archive.

Add new requests at the bottom.

1. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, as of 04 January 2011.
2. Tintin in the Congo, as of 09 January 2011.
3. Nocturne (comics)
4. Constantine (film) - Requesting re-assessment of this article currently rated as C-Class. Any tips on raising it's status further would be appreciated. Thanks. ⒺⓋⒾⓁⒼⓄⒽⒶⓃ② 17:10, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
5. Hellblazer- Really just want to see if what I've done is an improvement or a ruination, and what needs done further to get it even further. Cheers Bennydigital (talk) 16:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
6. Weathercraft by Jim Woodring (looking to get it bumped up at least to a B-rating) Acidtoyman (talk) 04:39, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
7. Paying For It by Chester Brown Acidtoyman (talk) 07:48, 5 May 2011 (UTC) Requesting re-assessment (currently a C; now much improved) CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 12:24, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
8. Alexander George Gurney as of 9 July 2011 149.171.155.146 (talk) 12:49, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
9. Bluey and Curley as of 9 July 2011 149.171.155.146 (talk) 12:49, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
10. Norman Hetherington as of 16 July 2011 149.171.155.146 (talk) 04:16, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
11. Small Saves as of 22 Oct 2011 Requesting reassessment Dkendr (talk) 02:44, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
12. Denis Gifford Requesting re-assessment of article currently ranked as C-class in Wikiproject comics, but B-class as Wikiproject biography. talk 22:28, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
13. Judge Dredd This article has changed quite a bit since it was rated C-class. Hoping for a B. Richard75 (talk) 23:18, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Incorrectly assessed pages

Category:Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Comics articles and Category:Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Comics articles list pages which have been incorrectly assessed. Reasons for this include:

• Invoked review parameter when the associated subpage doesn't exist, or missing review parameter it when it does
• Invalid combination of review status and assessment class
• Link to a portal subpage that doesn't exist
• Use of a deprecated parameter (e.g. portal)
• Assessed as NA-importance when the page is in the article namespace
  • Disambig and Redirect articles should be rated as No for importance
• Assessed as No-importance when the page is not in the article namespace
  • Templates, Categories, Images and Portals should be rated as NA for importance
• Assessed as having an importance when the page is not in the article namespace
• Use of a deprecated parameter (e.g. image)
  • Future class has been deprecated

Participants

Active

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team

1. Homoaffectional (talk · contribs) special interests: obscure & recurring characters, LGBT characters in comics

Inactive

1. Emperor (talk · contribs) special interests: British comics as well as US work by British comics creators. Will do B-class assessments on request
2. Fortdj33 (talk · contribs) special interests: Marvel titles (mainly Avengers), and toy tie-in such as G.I. Joe and Transformers
3. Fram (talk · contribs)
4. Hiding (talk · contribs)
5. Luminum (talk · contribs) special interests: LGBT characters in comics, minor characters, X-Men franchise

Log

The log has now grown too large to transclude. Please see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Comics articles by quality log for full details.