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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Biography. This department focuses on assessing the quality and priority of Wikipedia's biography articles. A quality rating estimates how close an article comes to a professional standard. The priority or importance rating estimates the relative importance of a subject when compared to other biographical articles.; this rating can help project members to prioritise editing work. These quality and priority rating systems were established by the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team, and are customised by WikiProject organisers.
An article's rating is set in the class
parameter of the {{WikiProject Biography}} project banner on the article's talk page. Setting the class
value causes the article to be listed in the corresponding sub-categories under Category:Biography articles by quality, and to lists generated by bots such as.
Frequently asked questions
- How can I request an article assessment?
- Add it to the assessment request queue below. If you'd like someone to write some constructive feedback about the article, you can request a peer review from editors outside WikiProject Biography. At present, WikiProject Biography's peer review is backlogged.
- Who can rate an article?
- Anyone can rate a biographical article, but if you revised an article enough to change its potential rating, or if you have a conflict of interest, someone else should review it. A rating higher than B-class requires a more formal review process.
- What if I disagree with a rating?
- Ask the reviewer what they think the article needs (preferably on the article's talk page). You can also (re)list the article in the assessment request queue, or directly ask a WikiProject Biography member to review it.
- Are the ratings subjective?
- Reviewers are expected to follow Wikipedia's article quality grading criteria.
- How can I begin assessing articles?
- See "How to assess an article" below.
If you have a question not answered here, please feel free to ask on the assessment talk page.
How to assess an article
Read the criteria in the quality scale, and determine which grade best reflects the state of the article. If the quality grade you chose differs from the one on the article's talk page, set the grade by changing the class
parameter for each WikiProject banner, like this:
{{WikiProject Biography |class=Start}}
If the article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography but does not have a {{WikiProject Biography}} banner on its talk page, add the banner.
You can find articles to rate in Category:Unassessed biography articles. This is a list of talk pages that have a banner with an incomplete assessment.
There's more to article assessment than just quality and priority grades. See {{WikiProject Biography}} for complete instructions.
Class parameter
The valid values for
the class
parameter are:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class biography articles)
- FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class biography articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class biography articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class biography articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class biography articles)
- C (adds articles to Category:C-Class biography articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class biography articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class biography articles)
- List (adds articles to Category:List-Class biography articles)
- NA (for pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class biography articles)
- Cat (a more specific class for use on category pages)
- Dab (a more specific class for use on disambiguation pages)
- Redirect (a more specific class for use on redirect pages)
- Template (a more specific class for use on template pages; see example)
Articles without a valid class are listed in Category:Unassessed biography articles. Quality ratings should adhere to the quality scale below.
It is not necessary to add a class
parameter to talk pages that do not correspond to ordinary articles. For categories, disambiguation pages, redirects, etc., the class is implicit.
Priority parameters
{{WikiProject Biography}} has separate priority parameters for specialised sub-projects and work groups.
{{WikiProject Biography}}
-tagged talk pages that have an active general |priority=
or |importance=
parameter should be changed to one or more of |a&e-priority=
, |filmbio-priority=
, |musician-priority=
, |military-priority=
, |peerage-priority=
, |politician-priority=
, |royalty-priority=
, |s&a-priority=
or |sports-priority=
, depending on which work groups the article is tagged for. Please refer to Template:WikiProject Biography/doc for further guidance.
WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers has its own priority scale; please use it. For all other work groups and WikiProjects listed here, use WikiProject Biography's priority scale.
The valid values for all priority parameters are: Top, High, Mid, and Low.
Do not use priority parameters for non-articles (redirects, disambiguation pages, categories, etc.).
Quality scale
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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.
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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. | Mary Shelley (as of March 2019) |
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:
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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. | Timeline of Jane Austen (as of March 2008) |
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. | Milla Jovovich (as of June 2008) |
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:
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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. | Theodore Kaczynski (as of March 2019) |
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
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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. | Roy Lichtenstein (as of March 2019) |
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.
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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 solve cleanup problems. | Mark Gerban (as of March 2019) |
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:
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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. | Samuel Beardsley (as of March 2019) |
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. | Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal (as of March 2019) |
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 mycologists (as of March 2019) |
Priority scale
Priority must be regarded as a relative term. If priority values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project and to the work groups the biography 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).
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | High probability that non-Historians would look this up. Limited to the top 200 biographies. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members. | Albert Einstein |
High | Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin. | Patrick Henry |
Mid | Important in their discipline. | John Seigenthaler, Sr. |
Low | Subject is notable in their main discipline. | Morena Baccarin |
Requesting an assessment
Any user may perform an article assessment. No special permissions or tools are needed, although User:Evad37/rater is a recommended tool. However, if you prefer help from a WikiProject Biography volunteer to rate an article, please feel free to list it below.
This is a quality rating only. Reviewers usually do not comment on the article. For more detailed feedback, you can request a peer review.
Articles submitted to the list below can be rated up to B-class. For higher assessments, see Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions and Wikipedia:Featured article criteria.
Reviewers: For general assessment instructions, see "How to assess an article" above. After you assess an article, please delete it from the list.
If you checked for B-class readiness, please add a short section titled "B-class review" to the article's talk page. If you do not believe the article meets the criteria for B-class, explain what improvements it needs in order to pass. If it passes, confirm in writing that you checked the article for all B-class criteria, and that it passed.
Requests
Edit this section and add request to the end of the list. Use format of * [[ article name]] brief description. ~~~~
- Ludwik Maurycy Landau Rather sthort, but I think I expanded it with all online sources about the subject. Please let me know what you'd like to see fixed/etc. C-class or B-class? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:06, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
- Shroud (gamer), It seems to have improved overtime and passed the stub stage, well atleast I think so, I feel start class could be justified, but do take a look and tell me what you think. Delta fiver (talk) (UTC)
- Zygmunt Krasiński, this time a longer biography of one of the most famous figures in the Polish literature. I hope it is B-class now. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
- Vedat Türkali, I put a lot of efforts while writing and expanding this article. I sometimes use rater tool, but for this article it shows nothing in place of "class". TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 14:39, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Saad bin Khalid Al Jabry I've been working on this article, correcting errors & trying to expand it and I'll continue to do so - but could it now be considered a start class in its current format? DSQ (talk) 20:22, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
- Tom Hull (critic) - new article. isento (talk) 23:44, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- Kathie Stromile Golden - I was just going back through pages I'd written and was surprised this was considered a stub at the time - Astrophobe (talk) 19:49, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
- Toke Talagi- I've expanded this considerably and bumped it up to C-class based on that, but would like a look at whether it meets criteria for B-class or whether it is worth submitting for a GA review. --IdiotSavant (talk) 03:19, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
- Nackey Loeb - request assessment for new article Bleubsdorf (talk) 12:47, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Statistics
Current status
Biography articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Core | Other | ??? | Total | ||||
FA | 35 | 1,624 | 1,659 | ||||
FL | 196 | 196 | |||||
A | 1 | 121 | 122 | ||||
GA | 41 | 8,213 | 8,254 | ||||
B | 93 | 38,830 | 38,923 | ||||
C | 36 | 165,559 | 165,595 | ||||
Start | 2 | 751,556 | 751,558 | ||||
Stub | 1 | 1,036,421 | 1 | 1,036,423 | |||
List | 7,743 | 7,743 | |||||
Category | 2 | 327,656 | 327,658 | ||||
Disambig | 8,129 | 8,129 | |||||
File | 31,178 | 31,178 | |||||
Project | 207 | 207 | |||||
Redirect | 3 | 43,430 | 43,433 | ||||
Template | 20,340 | 20,340 | |||||
NA | 1,117 | 1,117 | |||||
Assessed | 214 | 2,442,320 | 1 | 2,442,535 | |||
Unassessed | 26,165 | 26,165 | |||||
Total | 214 | 2,468,485 | 1 | 2,468,700 | |||
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,772,034 | Ω = 5.38 |
Assessment log
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality log
Worklist
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
Cleanup listings
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Weekly biography listings here. Please be patient while lists load as there are over 1.6 million articles. Run on Tuesdays, generated by CleanupWorklistBot.
Biography assessment backlog - Call for Volunteers
To help reduce the long-standing backlog of biography articles waiting for assessment, consider adopting your "favorite" alphabet letter and working there. You can click on a letter to be linked directly to it and see how long it is. In the table below, just replace the ★ with your Username. There can be more than one person per letter. Teamwork really helps! We recommend putting a link on your user page or in another easy-to-find location so that you can more easily work on your letter.
Call for Volunteers
WikiProject Biography needs your help!
More than one person can work on the same alphabet letter, so Be bold. |
Rater assessment tool
Fun helping article assessments
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Alphabet | Volunteer |
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A | User:Darwin Naz |
B | User:teblick |
C | ★ |
D | User:Puddleglum2.0 |
E | User:Wizardman |
F | User:AmericanAir88 |
G | ★ |
H | ★ |
I | User:Tcr25 |
J | User:Firstclass306 |
K | User:Lepricavark |
L | ★ |
M | Muhammadahmad79 (talk) |
Alphabet | Volunteer |
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N | ★ |
O | ★ |
P | User:GreatSculptorIthas |
Q | User:Tcr25 |
R | ★ |
S | ★ |
T | User:Yerkes-Dodson |
U | User:Tcr25 |
V | User:Nannochloropsis |
W | User:Nerd1a4i |
X | User:Sbbarker19 |
Y | User:Sbbarker19 |
Z | User:Sbbarker19 |