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)
• 133,864 February 25, 2007 (-1481)
• 132,583 February 26, 2007 (-1281)
• 131,787 February 27, 2007 (-796)

Instructions on how to assess a Biography article

Never assessed an article before? No problem. Articles should be assessed according to the Quality scale and instructions. In reducing the backlog, you may come across four classes: Stub, Start, B, and A. Most backlogged articles are either Start or Stub. Stubs are small, perhaps less than 1,000 characters. Start articles are usually larger than stubs and have references. B articles have inline citations, infoboxes as appropriate and may or may not be ready for GA review. A articles that have not been reviewed for GA are extremely rare.

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)

• Musicians, T2 (band) - Terell Stafford: link
• Musicians, Terence Blanchard - The Assembly: link

Medium sections (20 to 50 articles)

• Musicians: E Street Band - EdGuy: link
• Musicians: Edith Mathis - Elliot Sharp: link
• Musicians: Elly K - Erik Friedlander: link
• Musicians: Erik Truffaz - Evgeni Kostitsyn: 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 B (about 175): link
• Politics and Government, Alan Tonks through Albert Roy: link -- I'll do this. Real96 23:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• Arts and Entertainment, working backward from Z (but I wander around as well) - Awadewit

~300 Awadewit 19:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

General sections

• All unassessed articles (just start anywhere): link
  • Jreferee
  • Wizardman
  • Ozgod - I will focus on X thru Z. Status: Incomplete
  • "I", 200 done so far – Qxz 09:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Mocko13 - "O" - sorry Oz, did Z and part of Y yesterday
  • GDon4t0- I will do Ga
  • RHB
  • Supergeo
  • mqmpk - I will focus on "W". done 100 so far --Mqmpk 06:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Xevious - I'll focus on Mi for now ...
  • Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 18:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC) - will probably start at the beginning
  • Balloonguy

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.