Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Tag & Assess 2008 is now live.

Drive coordinator/s: Roger Davies (talk)

Welcome to Tag & Assess 2008! Here's what it's all about. The Military history WikiProject has about 60,000 stub and start articles, built up over the last few years. The time has come for comprehensive housekeeping and that's what this drive is all about. The drive will run from 24 April to 4 July 2008, and its purpose is three-fold:

1. to ensure that all the articles are within our scope;
2. to ensure that they are all correctly tagged for task forces;
3. and to ensure that they are all correctly assessed for class.

You join up by (i) adding your name to the participants' list and (ii) adopting one of the ranges of 200 articles in the worklists below. You then work through the range, tagging and assessing, following the instructions below. Each range is broken down into bite-sized sub-sections of ten articles each, so it's easy to keep track of where you are. At first, it will take about a minute to check each article but – with a bit of practice and growing familiarity with the parameters – most people get much faster than that. Please don't forget to tidy up as you go, removing any unused template parameters from the worklist and replacing long forms with short forms where appropriate.

If you have any queries about scope, class or task forces, please raise them in the doubts and questions section of the talk page. Alternatively, leave a message on the talk page of one of the drive coordinators.

As with the last drive, we'll be running a workshop immediately after this ends to seek improvement. The link will be posted on the drive closing notice.

The rewards

As a token of our appreciation for your efforts, we will be presenting service awards and barnstars based on the number of articles you work through. The awards are cumulative. For example, tagging 2000 articles entitles you to One Stripe, Two Stripe and Three Stripe service awards plus the Tireless Contributor Barnstar and the Chevrons. To add a bit of friendly competition, the three editors who tag and assess the most articles by 4 July 2008 will be awarded bronze, silver and gold wikis. The drive coordinators will administer awards and by default will post them on your talk page within a few days of the end of the drive. If you'd like yours earlier, as you earn them, please indicate this by putting an ampersand (&) before your name in the participants list.

One Stripe (200 articles) Two Stripes (400 articles) Three Stripes (600 articles) Tireless Contributor Barnstar (1000 articles) Chevrons (2000 articles) Working Man's Barnstar (3000 articles) Barnstar of Diligence (4000 articles) Third place overall Second place overall First place overall

Instructions

C-Class: The consensus of the discussion on the military history project talkpage is to not adopt C-Class. Please do not assess any article under our scope with C-Class.

For each article:

• Read the article. Then:

1. Check that it's within the Milhist scope.
2. Check that the class is correctly assessed.
3. Add any missing Task Force parameters.

• NB: Do not tag or assess redirects.

Completed ranges

• After completing each 10-article range, either strike through the article name (with "<s>" and "</s>") or add "Done, ~~~~" at the foot of the section.

Scope questions

• See scope guidelines.

Assessment help

• For general assessment help, see assessment FAQ.
• For the formal Stub, Start-class and B-Class criteria, see the Milhist quality scale.
• For specific B-class questions, see the B-class checklist FAQ.
• The template nows accepts B-Class short forms – "b1=y" / "B2=N" etc – as well as the long form "B-Class-1=yes".
• If all five B-class parameters are "Yes", the template automatically sets "class=B".
• For Stubs, the template no longer displays the B-class checklist. To display the checklist (for instance, to reclassify a Stub as B-Class) just change to article class from "Stub" to "Start" or "B-Class" and press "Preview". The checklist will appear in the template ready for cutting and pasting into the article.

Task forces

• For speed, and ease of cutting and pasting, open the complete list of task forces in a new tab. Select the task force/s you want and paste them into the article's talk page.
• Task forces can be assigned using the long form ("Fooish-task-force=yes") or the short form ("Fooish=y"), completely interchangeably.
• The template now accepts "Yes" / "yes" / "Y" / "y".
• To avoid clutter, remove any unused template parameters from the talk page before saving.

Sample parameter strings

• Before tagging and assessing: {{WPMILHIST|class=start|US-task-force=yes}}
• After (short form): {{WPMILHIST|class=B|b1=y|b2=y|B3=Y|b4=yes|b5=y|US=y|WWII=y|Aviation=y}}
• After (long form): {{WPMILHIST|class=B|B-class-1=yes |B-class-2=yes |B-class-3=yes |B-class-4=yes |B-class-5=yes |US-task-force=yes |WWII-task-force=yes |Aviation-task-force=yes}}

Participants

Please add your name below, in alphabetical order, using the {{User0|"Your name"}} template. Then add a running total (tally) of articles worked on. This tally should include articles that you have evaluated and needed no changes, as well as those that you have re-assessed. It will be the basis for awards. To make it easier to pick up where you leave off, and to avoid edit conflicts, please "adopt a range" in the Worklists below.

1. Avocado (talk) - don't have much time, but I'll do a few here and there.
2. Bedford (talk) - 80 (I think I've done something like this before ;) )
3. belril (talk)
4. Buckshot06 (talk) - at least one range..
5. Burzmali (talk)
6. Canglesea (talk) - Count me in
7. captstoner (talk) - I'll try some as i get spare time
8. Climie.ca (talk) 60. Slow start due to homework. We'll get our butt in gear tomorrow.
9. Cromdog (talk) - 10
10. Dashiellx (talk) - 150
11. Ed! (talk)
12. Epbr123 (talk) 100
13. Fattyjwoods (talk) YAY! 200. My eyes are killing me though, Ive been staring at the computer for like 2 hours.
14. Flubeca (talk)
15. Fusionmix (talk) - Never done this before...willing to give it a try though.
16. Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk)
17. Gimme danger (talk) - Can't start until mid-June; Wikipedia will not cause me to fail out of college. (I hope. :-) )
18. Green451 (talk)
19. Harland1 (talk) 100
20. Hossen27 (talk)
21. JEB90 (talk)
22. Legotech (talk) - What am I getting myself into this time :)
23. Maralia (talk)
24. MBK004 (talk)
25. Mifter (talk)
26. Milk's Favorite Cookie (talk)
27. Mooseberry (talk) I'll do my best.
28. Ouro (talk) - I hope I find some time. I'll adopt a range in a while.
29. Outdawg (talk) - I'm busy, but I'll make time
30. Patar knight (talk)
31. Paragon12321 (talk) - I don't have a life anyway...
32. Parsecboy (talk)
33. Red4tribe (talk)
34. Redmarkviolinist (talk) - Lets Go! About 200 articles tagged before this.
35. Rosiestep (talk)
36. Stormtracker94 (talk) Bring it on!
37. SFGiants (talk) - I'll do anything.
38. TomStar81 (talk) - I'm in, I will adopt a range after I clear finals week.
39. Judgesurreal777 (talk) - Sounds like fun LOL

Worklists

Worklist A: 1–10,000

Range adopted	Editor's name	50	100	150	200
1–200	Dashiellx (t c)	Done	Done	Done	Doing...
201–400	Buckshot06 (t c)
401–600	Gaia Octavia Agrippa (t c)	doing
601–800	Milk's Favorite Cookie (t c)
801–1000	Epbr123 (t c)	Done	Done
1001–1200	Canglesea (t c)	Doing...
1201–1400	Fusionmix (t c)	Doing...
1401–1600	Redmarkviolinist (t c)	Done	Done	Done	Done
1601–1800	Harland1 (t c)	Done	Done	Doing...
1801–2000	Outdawg (t c)	Done	Done	Doing...
2001–2200	Legotech (t c)
2201–2400	Stormtracker94 (t c)
2401–2600	Climie.ca (t c)	Done	Doing...	Doing...
2601–2800	Paragon12321 (t c)
2801–3000	Avocado (t c)
3001–3200	Mifter (t c)
3201–3400	Green451 (t c)
3401–3600	Parsecboy (t c)	Done
3601–3800	Ed! (t c)
3801–4000	belril (t c)
4001–4200	Hossen27 (t c)	Done	Doing...
4201–4400	Judgesurreal777 (t c)
4401–4600	Patar knight (t c)
4601–4800	Rosiestep (t c)
4801–5000	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
5001–5200	Cromdog (t c)
5201–5400	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
5401–5600	Maralia (t c)	Done	Done	Done	Done
5601–5800	Maralia (t c)	Doing
5801–6000	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
6001–6200	JEB90 (t c)
6201–6400	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
6401–6600	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
6601–6800	Ultraexactzz (t c)
6801–7000	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
7001–7200	Bedford (t c)	Done	Doing...
7201–7400	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
7401–7600	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
7601–7800	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
7801–8000	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
8001–8200	MBK004 (t c)
8201–8400	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
8401–8600	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
8601–8800	Burzmali (t c)	Doing...
8801–9000	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
9001–9200	Redmarkviolinist (t c)	Done	Done	Doing...
9201–9400	Fattyjwoods (t c)	Doing...
9401–9600	Fattyjwoods (t c)	Done	Done	Done	Done
9601–9800	Redmarkviolinist (t c)	Done	Done	Done	Done
9801–10000	SFGiants (t c)

Worklist B: 10,001–20,000

Range adopted	Editor's name	50	100	150	200
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10201–10400	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
10401–10600	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
10601–10800	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
10801–11000	[[User: | ]] ([[User talk: |t]] c)
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