Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Assessment
Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Schools! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's School 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 recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
If you have just rated an article, please leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPSchools}}
project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories.
Frequently asked questions
- How can I get my article rated?
- Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
- Who can assess articles?
- Any member of the Schools WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. However, please review WP:COI before rating an article you are heavily involved in.
- 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, 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!
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 {{WPSchools}}
project banner on its talk page:
{{WPSchools |class= |importance= }}
If the article already has an infobox, add the line: needs-infobox=no. By adding "info=<text of assessment>" this template will generates a boilerplate assessment text.
Process
- Become familiar with the quality scale and importance scale as listed below.
- Then for each review:
- Tag an article related to this project (or look at a tagged article).
- Read the article and analyze it.
- Place your assessment in the
{{WPSchools}}
banner on the articles talk page (according to the scales below). - Unless the reasoning for an assessment is self-evident, such as assessing a very short article as Stub-class and Low-importance, please place a summary of your assessment on the article's talk page. This should include a rationale for your choice of ratings, and possibly suggestions for future contributors on how to improve the article's quality rating. If the assessment is likely to be controversial you may wish to leave a note about it on the main project talk page.
Quality scale
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WPSchools}} project banner on its talk page: {{WPSchools|class=???}}
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 school articles) | ![]() |
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A (adds articles to Category:A-Class school articles) | ![]() |
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GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class school articles) | ![]() |
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B (adds articles to Category:B-Class school articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class school articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class school articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class school articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class school articles) | ![]() |
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List (adds articles to Category:List-Class school articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Note: You should not assign any GA, A, FA or FL grades arbitrarily. These grades must pass through official Wikipedia channels and undergo a peer review process.
Examples
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Examples | ||||
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The article has obtained Featured article status.
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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. |
Plano Senior High School (as of July 2008) | ||||
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The article has obtained Featured list status.
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List of schools in Northland, New Zealand (as of June 2008) | ||||||
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The article is well organized and is essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere, as described here.
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Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer-review may help. | Lethbridge Collegiate Institute (as of June 2008) | ||||
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The article has obtained Good article status.
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | 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. | Aquinas College, Perth (as of July 2008) | ||||
B |
The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach Good Article standards. B-Class articles should meet the six B-Class criteria:
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No reader should be 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, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the manual of style. | Institut Le Rosey (as of July 2008) | ||||
C |
The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.
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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 address cleanup issues. | Northwood School (Durban North, South Africa) (as of July 2008) | ||||
Start |
An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources.
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Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. | Black Forest Academy (as of July 2008) | ||||
Stub |
A very basic description of the topic.
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Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. | The Grange School, Aylesbury (as of July 2008) |
Importance scale
School articles are rated on this importance scale. Importance must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project and to the work groups the School falls under. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority 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). Importance assessments, especially of schools in the higher categories, are frequently reassessed and may go up or down in order to retain an appropriate balance within each country and within all the categories. Assessors are not experts on the schools in every country of the world, and will only make assessments based on the content of the existing article. Assessors can also check viewing stats for school articles using the Wikipedia stats tool, though stats will only be used in combination with other factors.
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High |
Mid |
Low |
NA |
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The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance school articles.
- High - adds articles to Category:High-importance school articles.
- Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance school articles.
- Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance school articles.
- NA - Non-article, adds to Category:NA-importance school articles. All categories, disambiguation pages, files, portals, project pages, and templates should be given this value.
- ??? - If left blank, the article will be added by default to Category:Unknown-importance school articles.
Article importance standards
Assessments should not, in general, leave this field blank. This guide acts as a general standard by which to measure WikiProject:Schools articles
- Top-importance - It is expected that at least one article from each country should be in this category. Countries with higher populations will necessarily have more schools of top importance. Top importance schools will usually have a long list of notable international alumni or important national alumni (eg, prime ministers, presidents, senior royalty, Nobel prize winners). They will often have received substantial national or international media coverage as evidenced by inclusion in TV programmes, books, e.t.c. They will be the most notable schools in their particular country, and they are also likely to have articles in foreign-language Wikis.
- High-importance - Such schools will usually have a long list of notable alumni. They are often amongst the oldest or highest performing schools in their particular country. They will have received substantial media coverage and multiple sources will be available to aid the expansion of the article. Schools which feature in other encyclopedias such as Microsoft Encarta or Encylopedia Britannica are included in this category if they are not already of top importance.
- Mid-importance - Such schools will have a few elements of more general national interest (e.g. a few particularly noteworthy and important alumni or significant awards).
- Low-importance - Low importance schools are of vital interest to their communities but have no national or international recognition or importance. Nearly all primary/elementary schools and middle schools will fall into this category, as will the majority of high/secondary schools.
- ??? - This is the default setting and should also be used for articles which have been assessed but have not had their importance established.
School age
School ages are considered in relative terms within countries. For example a school founded in the eighteenth century is often young in European terms. For further reference see:
- Category:Educational institutions by year of establishment
- List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom
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Assessment requests
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. If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Old and fulfilled requests are periodically removed from the list.
Please note: If you aim for an article to be promoted to GA, A, or FA class, please consider requesting a peer review as well so the article can be exposed to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors. This section is also not intended to replace Wikipedia:Good article nominations and Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.
Add requests to the bottom of this list, please also sign your request by adding four tildes (~~~~):
Hutchinson Central Technical High School - Fixed many issues on this page, can can someone WP:PR and grade it? --Wolfnix • Talk • 22:28, 10 September 2010 (UTC)Assessed on 7 September 2010 by me. CT Cooper · talk 16:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)Buffalo Public Schools -- School Dist. Never graded --Wolfnix • Talk • 22:28, 10 September 2010 (UTC)Given C-class User:Mailman9, with comments added by me. CT Cooper · talk 16:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)Rashtriya Indian Military College RahulChoudhary 10:21, 17 September 2010 (UTC)Given B / High by User:Mailman9, but re-assessed to C-class with comments added by me. CT Cooper · talk 16:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)Palisade High School After extensive edits I have bumped the article to B, however I believe it deserves a GA status, if someone could verify this.Mailman9 (talk) 03:57, 1 October 2010 (UTC)Unilaterally given GA-class by User:Mailman9, re-assessed as C-class. CT Cooper · talk 16:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)Magna Vista High School (Virginia) Bestofluck (talk) 22:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC)Assessed; no change from previous assessment of Start and Low. LonelyBeacon (talk) 04:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)Humboldt Senior High School - I WANNA MAKE THIS A GA. Crunk Cup (talk) 01:41, 20 October 2010 (UTC)Pushed assessment to (C/Mid). Referencing is pretty good ... more specific notes at the talk page. LonelyBeacon (talk) 04:41, 26 November 2010 (UTC)Benedictine Military School- A large section on JROTC and it's instructors has recently been added. I would like a review as soon as your able. Also, we have many state and nationally-known alumni, so I believe on the importance scale we should be Mid-Level. Thank you, very respectfully GeorgiaDixie.Assessed to remain Start/Low. Virtually no referencing. I would like a different editor with experience to look at the JROTC section, as I am certain it needs to be trimmed considerably. I have considerably more written comments/suggestions at the talk page. LonelyBeacon (talk) 06:01, 26 November 2010 (UTC)Maney Hill Primary School - I want somebody to @#!*% the quality of this article, to verify that it's currently stub-class. Traya101 (talk) 10:15, 28 October 2010 (UTC)Assessed Stub and Low; the only references were from the school itself, so I am not sure that the subject of this article even meets WP:N. LonelyBeacon (talk) 04:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)Cheyenne Central High School - I'd like an assessment of this article so I can determine what I need to find and add next. CEHS (talk) 20:26, 4 November 2010 (UTC)Start/Low article has sufficient length and the start of referencing to get pushed up from "stub". LonelyBeacon (talk) 04:47, 27 November 2010 (UTC)Richmond Secondary School - Significant changes have been made. Please re-assess. Suggestions for further improvements would be greatly appreciated. Pniema (talk) 07:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)Moved from Start/Low to C/Low. LonelyBeacon (talk) 00:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)- Geelong High School - looking for an updated rating for this school to hopefully bring it up to B-class. The history among other sections have been greatly expanded. Joker264 (talk) 23:58, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Freedom High School(Orlando, Florida)- I would like someone to CHECK the quality of this article. I have added a lot to it and would like more suggestions for further improvement. Please and thank you! 97.102.164.33 (talk) 18:19, 13 December 2010 (UTC)Assessed Start/Low Joker264 (talk) 12:24, 15 December 2010 (UTC)University Liggett School: I have edited this article and think that it should be C-class now. Thanks! MathMaven (talk | edits) 01:35, 14 December 2010 (UTC)Assessed. Start/Low -- Joker264 (talk) 12:29, 15 December 2010 (UTC)- Tucker Middle School: Can someone please rate this. It has been rated by wikipedia s a start.-PsiΨ (talk) 01:57, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Assessment summaries
Up until February 2010 assessment summaries were placed in this section. However, to make assessing articles easier this practice has ended with old assessments now archived. At present assessments should be placed on the respective article's talk page (see #Process).
Article completions
There is a backlog of 2,000 articles with no assessment at all at Category:Unassessed school articles, which has held at around this number since December 2009, and the same can be said of the 13,000 page backlog of articles missing importance assessments at Category:Unknown-importance school articles. Last verified: CT Cooper · talk 12:18, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Assessment team
An alphabetical list of those of us who are active within the Assesssment Department of WikiProject Schools: