Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Aviation WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's aviation articles. While much of the work is (may in the future be) done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPAVIATION}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Aviation articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. The running totals for aviation assessments are shown in the table below, also found here, and the overall project is found at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index.

Frequently asked questions

See also the general assessment FAQand the project's B-Class assessment & criteria FAQ and A-Class review & criteria FAQ.

1. What is the purpose of the article ratings?

The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content. Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.

2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject?

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

3. Someone put a {{WPAVIATION}} template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do?

Because of the large number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the talk page of this department (or directly with the person who tagged the article).

4. Who can assess articles?

Any member of the Aviation WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.

5. How do I rate an article?

Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.

6. Can I request that someone else rate an article?

Of course; to do so, please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

7. 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.

8. Where can I get more comments about an article?

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

9. 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. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.

10. Aren't the ratings subjective?

Yes, they are somewhat subjective, 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!

11. What if I have a question not listed here?

If your question concerns the article assessment process specifically, please refer to the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page, or contact a project member directly.

Instructions on how to assess an Aviation article

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameters in the {{WPAVIATION}} project banner on its talk page. Stub, Start, and non-article assessments require only the basic parameter; "class=start" (for example). To assess C-class or higher requires the use of the B-Class checklist. (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{WPAVIATION
|class=
}}

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Aviation}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

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

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

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

Quality scale

See:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/A-Class
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/B-Class

Statistics

Current stats

Aviation WikiProject assessment statistics Aviation pages by quality Quality Total FA 147 FL 13 A 63 GA 568 B 4,469 C 9,421 Start 19,686 Stub 16,860 List 2,249 Category 14,350 Disambig 635 File 2,919 Portal 624 Project 118 Redirect 3,312 Template 2,825 NA 128 Assessed 78,387 Unassessed 356 Total 78,743 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 251,880 Ω = 4.92 log • category

Article class Project Aviation Aircraft Airlines Airports Military Aviation Aviation accident Rotorcraft Gliding Defunct Airlines Air sports Biography Aero engine FA 147 19 1 4 193 17 1 1 0 1 81 2 FL 5 0 1 1 8 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 A 23 12 0 0 95 1 2 0 0 0 40 1 GA 150 175 24 56 550 70 1 6 13 2 138 3 B 783 2,143 89 407 3,378 298 129 177 70 44 773 171 C 2805 4,624 224 943 7,994 636 292 398 93 370 1,157 432 Start 10811 5,840 1,081 4,695 12,377 1,009 472 632 762 347 1,999 935 Stub 17340 1,321 1,410 9,111 2,684 175 89 85 546 224 1,368 88 List 1579 444 463 595 613 147 22 13 74 6 105 10 Template 1260 1,243 277 572 819 206 24 10 6 96 22 122 Category 6053 5,555 856 1,543 3,193 1,005 94 100 433 84 488 192 Disambig 511 23 24 468 57 34 1 0 1 1 1 1 File 250 237 1,188 535 573 7 7 0 7 3 29 139 Portal 632 36 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 18 0 Project 45 18 12 6 4 8 1 3 5 1 1 7 Unassessed 356 31 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 Total 78,787 22,250 6,005 19,650 35,326 3,815 1,173 1,447 2,069 1,201 6,491 2,172

Statistics by task force

Aircraft

Aircraft pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	19
A	12
GA	175
B	2,143
C	4,624
Start	5,840
Stub	1,319
List	444
Category	5,555
Disambig	23
File	237
Portal	36
Project	18
Redirect	520
Template	1,243
NA	3
Assessed	22,211
Unassessed	31
Total	22,242
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 62,413			Ω = 4.42

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Aircraft engines

Aircraft engine pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	2
A	1
GA	3
B	171
C	432
Start	935
Stub	88
List	10
Category	192
File	139
Project	7
Redirect	68
Template	122
Assessed	2,170
Unassessed	1
Total	2,171
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,451			Ω = 4.57

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	1
A	2
GA	12
B	129
C	292
Start	472
Stub	89
List	22
Category	94
Disambig	1
File	7
Project	1
Redirect	25
Template	24
NA	1
Assessed	1,172
Total	1,172
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 4,475			Ω = 4.49

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Airlines

Airline pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	1
FL	1
GA	24
B	89
C	224
Start	1,080
Stub	1,410
List	463
Category	856
Disambig	24
File	1,188
Portal	1
Project	12
Redirect	346
Template	277
NA	6
Assessed	6,002
Unassessed	1
Total	6,003
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 15,076			Ω = 5.33

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Defunct Airlines

Defunct Airlines pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FL	1
GA	13
B	70
C	93
Start	762
Stub	546
List	74
Category	433
Disambig	1
File	7
Project	5
Redirect	56
Template	6
Assessed	2,067
Total	2,067
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,694			Ω = 5.18

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Airports

Airport pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	4
FL	1
GA	56
B	407
C	943
Start	4,694
Stub	9,112
List	595
Category	1,543
Disambig	468
File	535
Portal	1
Project	6
Redirect	688
Template	572
NA	12
Assessed	19,637
Unassessed	6
Total	19,643
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 83,247			Ω = 5.47

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Military aviation

Military aviation pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	193
FL	8
A	95
GA	550
B	3,377
C	7,995
Start	12,376
Stub	2,684
List	613
Category	3,193
Disambig	57
File	573
Project	4
Redirect	2,500
Template	819
Assessed	35,037
Total	35,037
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 121,290			Ω = 4.45

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Gliding

Gliding pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	1
GA	6
B	177
C	398
Start	632
Stub	85
List	13
Category	100
Project	3
Redirect	21
Template	10
Assessed	1,446
Total	1,446
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 5,805			Ω = 4.47

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Accident

Aviation accident pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	17
FL	1
A	1
GA	70
B	298
C	636
Start	1,009
Stub	175
List	147
Category	1,005
Disambig	34
File	7
Portal	4
Project	8
Redirect	166
Template	206
NA	6
Assessed	3,790
Unassessed	24
Total	3,814
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 9,674			Ω = 4.39

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Air sports

Air sports pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	1
FL	2
GA	2
B	44
C	370
Start	347
Stub	224
List	6
Category	84
Disambig	1
File	3
Project	1
Redirect	17
Template	96
NA	1
Assessed	1,199
Total	1,199
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 4,695			Ω = 4.75

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Aerospace biography

Aerospace biography pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	81
FL	3
A	40
GA	138
B	772
C	1,158
Start	1,998
Stub	1,368
List	105
Category	488
Disambig	1
File	29
Portal	18
Project	1
Redirect	262
Template	22
NA	2
Assessed	6,486
Unassessed	2
Total	6,488
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 25,467			Ω = 4.58

• Assessment log
• Worklist

Requesting an assessment

If you submit an article for assessment, please return the favor and assess another one on the list!

• If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.
• Note: This is only to rate the article on quality - you may or may not get feedback on the article. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, or wish to have it classified as an A-Class article, please use the WikiProject Review department instead.
• If you want help improving an article, try the collaboration department and read Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Instructions.

1. Fuji Dream Airlines expanded and completely cited. Please assess for B-class. Aviator006 (talk) 13:48, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
2. Ilyushin Il-18 (1947) expanded and cited, please assess for B-class. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:45, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
3. Tupolev Tu-14 much expanded, please assess for B-class. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:14, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
   • B-Class - well done. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 21:35, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
4. Beja Airbase- expanded and referenced, please asses for B-class. --Eurocopter (talk) 10:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
   • This is my first assessment, so I'd appreciate someone else checking to see if I did it right. Anyway, I've assessed it as C-class - my comments are on the article talk page. Ron2K (talk) 18:16, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

     Ron, don't worry about it. If someone disagrees, they will come by later and demote the article. --Born2flie (talk) 05:14, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

5. Tupolev Tu-80 rewritten, please assess for B-class. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
   • B-class per User:Roger Davies. --Born2flie (talk) 05:09, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
6. Capital Region International Airport is expanded, please assess for B-class. Dj1997 (talk) 16:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
   • Re-assessed as B-class, although I'd like someone else to double-check. Ron2K (talk) 18:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
7. Tupolev Tu-70 rewritten, please assess for B-class. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:38, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
8. Dobrynin VD-4 new article, almost certainly C-class, but I'd like confirmation. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 04:38, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
9. Tupolev Tu-85 rewritten, please assess for B-class. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
10. Vladivostok Air Please assess for B-class, thanks! --76.121.4.143 (talk) 00:46, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

    B-Class -Canglesea (talk) 03:05, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

11. Pier Piccio -- Request reassessment, as previous assessment was based on a rule of thumb contradictory to Wikipedia rules, which state: "There is no numerical requirement for a particular density of citations or for some predetermined number of citations in an article..."
    • C-Class. There are guidelines on how to use inline citations and what constitutes standard appendices to articles. Please review WP:Layout. The article requires a significant copyedit to blend all the facts from different sources into a cohesive article. My preference (not requirement) is to follow the layout in {{Biography}}. I could go on, but the rest is more suited to a peer review and not an assessment. --Born2flie (talk) 23:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
12. Igor Sikorsky (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - I added the B-Class checklist and did a cursory evaluation, but because I am a contributing editor to the article, I'd prefer that someone double checked to make sure I wasn't too lenient. --Born2flie (talk) 04:09, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
13. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport I'm requesting a re-assessment to see how high it can go? Probably C or B level.--76.121.4.143 (talk) 03:48, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

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