Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Assessment

Comics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	Bottom	NA	???	Total
FA	2	8	17	28				55
FL			3	19	1			23
GA	3	21	91	236	69	3	1	424
B	16	67	128	285	45		11	552
C	30	176	672	2,351	248	1	63	3,541
Start	5	124	970	9,214	829	3	208	11,353
Stub	1	5	171	3,873	546		118	4,714
List		10	168	706	104	254	28	1,270
Draft		2	1	72	14	82		171
Category						6,288		6,288
Disambig				1		117		118
File				5	1	13,725		13,731
Portal						550		550
Project				1		166		167
Redirect		2	35	2,022	347	11,342		13,748
Template				14		817		831
NA				3		1		4
Assessed	57	415	2,256	18,830	2,204	33,349	429	57,540
Unassessed				16	2	4	410	432
Total	57	415	2,256	18,846	2,206	33,353	839	57,972
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 101,717			Ω = 4.93

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

Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | 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 {{Comicsproj}} 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 {{Comicsproj}} 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 assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{Comicsproj}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WP Comics| class=??? }}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Comics articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Comics articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Comics articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Comics articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Comics articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Comics articles)
• List (adds lists to Category:List-Class Comics articles)
• Cat (adds categories to Category:WikiProject Comics categories)
• Template (adds templates to Category:WikiProject Comics templates)
• Disambig (adds disambiguation pages to Category:Disambig-Class Comics articles)
• Future For Future Films (adds articles to Category:Future-Class Comics articles
• NA (for other pages, such as WikiProject pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Comics pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Comics articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

{{WP Comics| importance=??? }}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Comics articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Comics articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Comics articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Comics articles)
• No For templates, categories and disambiguation pages (adds to Category:No-importance Comics articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance 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 by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's 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: well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard; comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; 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; neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; 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; and compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images 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 and uses summary style where appropriate.	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.	Batman
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: 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) statements are sourced where they appear, and they provide inline citations if they contain any of the four kinds of material absolutely required to have citations. (c) 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. (c) Accessibility. It uses proper formating to be accessible to all readers. Bulleted and unbulleted lists and tables are structured correctly. Visual media, if included, utilize alternative (alt) text. 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; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	List of Smallville episodes
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: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. 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 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.	Batman (1989 film)
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 A good article is: Well-written: the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Verifiable with no original research: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose); it contains no original research; and it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. Broad in its coverage: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial 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 media such as images, video, or audio: media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	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.	Alex Raymond
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 The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional. 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 does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, 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. 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 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 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.	2000 AD (comics)
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. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.	Q Force
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.	Action Girl Comics
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 comic books
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 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.	Martha Kent
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:WikiProject Comics
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.	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.

Status	Template	Meaning of Status
Top	{{Top-Class}}	This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High	{{High-Class}}	This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
Mid	{{Mid-Class}}	This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
Low	{{Low-Class}}	This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia.
None	{{No-Class}}	This article is of no importance to this project; it is a disambiguation page; or in a non-article name-space.
None	None	This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.

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.

Add new requests at the bottom.

1. Dork Tower - Just wanted to get an assessment on this article and it's importance as it's currently unrated on both. --Craw-daddy | T | 18:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
2. Various unassessed Marvel articles - I'm planning on keeping this as a running project. BOZ 12:32, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
3. America (Judge Dredd story) - currently rated as a stub, it has just been expanded. Richard75 23:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
4. Steve Roper and Mike Nomad I've greatly expanded content and sources, adding linked new articles on the authors. A new assessment will be appreciated: is it still "Start" class?SteveRoper 04:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
5. Batman: Anarky - currently rated as stub. I've just expanded it.--Cast 02:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
6. George Liquor - No rating or grade. Currently under GA evaluation - Gak Blimby (talk) 17:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
7. Stan Lee Media has just been expanded to fall within the scope of the project. I added the template and gave it a quality assessment myself (not without reasoning) but have no idea what to give it for its importance rating.--Once in a Blue Moon (talk) 06:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
8. The Sandman: The Doll's House I've tooken a personal interest in improving this and would like to see if I could get any support. It may be that those who do most, dream most. (talk) 23:28, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
9. Strangehaven has been expanded a great deal with information on publication history, characters and issues. --Mister Six (talk) 12:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Participants

Active

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

1. ChrisGriswold (talk · contribs)
2. Businessman332211 (talk · contribs)
3. Exvicious (talk · contribs)
4. Fram (talk · contribs)
5. Goldenboy (talk · contribs)
6. Mike1 (talk · contribs)
7. Mrph (talk · contribs)
8. MwNNrules (talk · contribs) I'm not to big on comics, but no one else on the assessment team has done anything for days, so here I am.
9. Rick Norwood (talk · contribs) special interests: comic strips, silver age
10. Hiding (talk · contribs)
11. Maple_Leaf (talk · contribs)
12. Herve661 (talk · contribs) I have good knowledge on Disney comics and could give a help there

Inactive

1. Psyphics (talk · contribs)

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.

Example assessments

To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.

Quality

• {{Comicsproj|class=FA}} - to rate an article at FA-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=A}} - to rate an article at A-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=GA}} - to rate an article at GA-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=B}} - to rate an article at B-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=Start}} - to rate an article at Start-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=Stub}} - to rate an article at Stub-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=List}} - to rate an article at List-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=Cat}} - to rate an article at Cat-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=Template}} - to rate an article at Template-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=Disambig}} - to rate an article at Disambig-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=Future}} - to rate an article at Future-Class
• {{Comicsproj|class=NA}} - to rate an article at NA-Class
• {{Comicsproj}} - to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance

• {{Comicsproj|importance=Top}} - to rate an article at Top importance
• {{Comicsproj|importance=High}} - to rate an article at High importance
• {{Comicsproj|importance=Mid}} - to rate an article at Mid importance
• {{Comicsproj|importance=Low}} - to rate an article at Low importance
• {{Comicsproj|importance=No}} - to rate an article at No importance