User:Figureskatingfan/Sandbox 3

Quality scale

Criteria

The following tables summarize the criteria used to assess articles at each level of the quality assessment scale. In addition to the criteria, the tables list the assessment process used at each level, describe the reader's experience at each level, and provide editing suggestions and an example of an article assessed at that level.

Assessment criteria

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article meets all the featured article criteria. The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates.	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.	Tara Lipinski (as of 5 February 2023) [Note: added most recently passed)
FL	The article meets all the featured article list criteria. The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates.	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.	List of career achievements by Yuzuru Hanyu (as of 19 June 2021)
A	The article meets the A-Class criteria. The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by at least three impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class.	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.	Note: The project needs to have a discussion about how we want A-class reviews to be conducted. Do we want a more formal process, like WP Military History (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/A-Class FAQ, with a coordinator, or a less formal one (i.e., passing an article by consensus of three reviewers)? We would need to set up a detailed criteria specific to figure skating articles and lists, including our requirements for sources and tables.
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.	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.	Nathan Chen (as of 25 January 2024)
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.	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.	Fantasy on Ice (as of 19 March 2024)
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.	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.	Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's singles (as of 1 February 2024)
Start	The article is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources.	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.	2013–14 figure skating season (as of 18 January 2024)
Stub	The article 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.	Alana Toktarova (as of 9 February 2024)

A-Class assessment

Figure skating is a highly technical and complicated sport. WikiProject Figure Skating believes that one of the barriers that get in the way of high-quality articles and lists about the sport on Wikipedia is that most featured article/list, good article, peer review, and DYK reviewers know little to nothing about the sport. We believe that setting up our own system of A-Class assessments is a way to solve that problem. We also believe that figure skating articles suffer from the content gap, since the sport is a neglected, "nichy", and obscure topic on Wikipedia, and from the gender gap, since many of its athletes are women. Consequently, we require that reviewers of A-Class figure skating articles and lists must be experts about the sport and how to write about it on Wikipedia.

Process

A-Class may only be assigned following an A-Class review. [Note: Add link when page is created.] A review is closed when at least three (3) reviewers reach consensus that the article or list fulfills the A-Class criteria.

Reviewer requirements

1. Reviewers should be familiar with figure skating as a sport in general.
2. Reviewers should have significantly contributed to at least one GA, A-Class, or FA/FL figure skating article since 2020.
3. Reviewers should be uninvolved with the articles they review; in other words, they have not contributed to the articles or lists being reviewed.
4. Reviewers should also have experience reviewing articles and lists about figure skating.

A-Class criteria

The article or list under review should meet all five A-Class criteria:

• A1. The article/list is consistently referenced with an appropriate citation style, and all claims are verifiable against reputable sources, accurately represent the relevant body of published knowledge, and are supported with specific evidence and external citations as appropriate.
• A2. The article/list is comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral and focused on the main topic; it neglects no major facts or details, presents views fairly and without bias, and does not go into unnecessary detail.
• A3. The article/list has an appropriate structure of hierarchical headings, including a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections, and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents.
• A4. The article/list is written in concise and articulate English; its prose is clear, is in line with style guidelines, and does not require substantial copy-editing to be fully MoS-compliant.
• A5. The article/list contains appropriately licensed supporting visual materials, such as images or diagrams with succinct captions, and other media, where relevant.

A-Class criteria specific to figure skating articles and lists

• The article/list follows WikiProject Figure Skating's MOS/Style sheet, which represents the consensus view of editors interested in maintaining Wikipedia's articles about figure skating, especially the use of specialized terminology and jargon and the use of tables, which documents scores, awards, and standings.
• The article/list correctly uses sections for general articles, articles/lists about rules and elements, and skater biographies; see WP:Manual of Style/Figure skating#Article structure.
• The article/list makes figure skating accessible (as per WP:TECHNICAL and MOS:JARGON) even to the "uninitiated figure skating fan", i.e. those who only watch it every four years during the Winter Olympics. At the same time, we need to clearly describe the complexities of the sport, including its scoring system, elements, history, etc., without sacrificing comprehensiveness and good sources. See WP:Manual of Style/Figure skating#Style guidelines.
• The article/list correctly uses tables, created and developed by members of the Figure Skating WikiProject, that are specific to the sport; see WP:Manual of Style/Figure skating#Tables.
• Wikipedia guidelines regarding biographies and biographies of living persons must be followed.

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