Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment/Assessment Drive/June—September 2007

Welcome to WikiProject Biography's one-month assessment drive. We have a backlog of 135,345 unassessed biography articles as of February 24, 2007, but will be working to whittle that down a little at a time. Every great journey starts with a single step. And we would love to have your help and you will be generously rewarded for your efforts by this drive's awards committee!

This month long assessment drive will continue through March 24, 2007. Please take the time to sign up for a section of unassessed articles from the list at the bottom of this page. To sign up, simply add your signature (by adding three consecutive tildas, which are these ~~~) below the section of articles that you are volunteering to do. Then, make sure to complete your assessments by the end of the month.

Progress on reducing backlog

135,345 February 24, 2007 (Start)

Instructions on how to assess a Biography article

Never assessed an article before? No problem. Article's should be assessed according to the Quality scale. However, in reducing the backlog, there may be three class qualities that you may come across: B, Start, and Stub.

Most backloged articles are either Start or Stub. Stubs are small, perhaps less than 1,000 characters and Start articles are larger than stubs. Articles B or higher should be assessed as B during this drive since no article can be rated GA or higher without going through the Good Article nomination process.

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WPBiography}} project banner on the article's talk page. Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed biography articles.

Using the link for the section of articles you've signed up for or any of those listed in Category:Unassessed biography articles, click on a link for an article, which will take you to the article's talk page. Then, look over the article in anticipation of filling out the parameters of the {{WPBiography}} template. Once you have decided what you want to rate it, click back to the talk page.

Biography articles to be assessed have some aspects of the {{WPBiography}} template on their talk page, but the template may be incomplete. Below is a WPBiography template with all the answers that you will need for most situations. Replace the {{WPBiography}} template on the article talk page with the following:

{{WPBiography
|living = yes no
|class = B, Start, Stub
|needs-infobox = yes
|activepol = yes <!-- Active politician -->
|a&e-work-group = yes <!-- Arts and Entertainment -->
|politician-work-group = yes <!-- Politics and Government -->
|military-work-group = yes
|sports-work-group = yes <!-- Sports and Games -->
|s&a-work-group = yes <!-- Science and Academia -->
|musician-work-group = yes
|listas = 
|needs-photo = yes
}}

As noted, the above {{WPBiography}} template has all the answers that you will need for most situations. Given the importance of WP:BLP, the living parameter should be identified as "yes" or "no" rather than deleted if the answer is "no". As for the remaining parameters (except the listas parameter), if the answer is "no" that parameter should be deleted. After addressing the yes/no parameters, fill in the listas parameter (e.g., last name, first name), then save. And, you are done! You can read more about each parameter at {{WPBiography}}.

Further questions? Feel free to ask them on the discussion page.

Sections of unassessed articles

Small sections (fewer than 20 articles)

• Military, all articles beginning with the letter D: linkCarom 21:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC) - Completed
• Politics and Government, Alaa Al-Tamimi through Alan Cranston: link
• Sports and Games, all articles beginning with the Letter A: link -Thereen 03:20, 15 February 2007 (UTC) - Completed

Medium sections (20 to 50 articles)

• Military, all articles beginning with the Letter A: link - Mocko13 19:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC) - Completed
• Military, all articles beginning with the Letter C: link - Carom 18:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC) - Completed
• Military, all articles beginning with the Letter E: link
• Politics and Government, Alan Davies (politician) through Alan Thornett: link
• Sports and Games, all articles beginning with the Letter B: link
• Arts and Entertainment, all articles beginning with the Letter A: link

Large sections (more than 50 articles)

• Arts and Entertainment, all articles beginning with the Letter B: link
• Musicians, all articles beginning with the Letter A: link
• Musicians, all articles beginning with the Letter B (about 200): link
• Politics and Government, Alan Tonks through Albert Roy: link
• Sports and Games, all articles: link

General sections

• All unassessed articles (just start anywhere): link
  • Jreferee
  • Wizardman
  • Ozgod - I will focus on X thru Z. Status: Incomplete

Awards

For participating in this drive, you will be awarded one or more awards by the drive's awards committee: Mocko13, Ozgod, and Jreferee.

Schedule

The following milestone schedule lists an approximate number of biographies to qualify for a particular award category:

• Assess 3,000+ biographies: Wikipedia:Barnstars
• Assess 1,000+ biographies: Wikipedia:WikiProject awards
• Assess 500+ to 1,000+ biographies: Wikipedia:Other awards
• Assess 200+ biographies: Wikipedia:Personal user awards

Nominations

To receive an award, please include your name and the number of biographies you have assessed as part of this drive. Please keep a running total next to your name. Awards may be given by the drive's awards committee during and after this drive after you reach each milestone in the above schedule.

• Jreferee - ~ 200 biographies assessed
• Wizardman - pre-assessment drive, between 1200-1400 articles assessed. (received award already)