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Welcome to the Assessment Department of the Mining WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to Mining. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the Version 1.0 Editorial Team program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of additional work.
The ratings are set through parameters in the {{WikiProject Mining}} project banner. This causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Mining articles by quality and Mining articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Instructions[edit]
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Mining}} banner on it's talk page. To add an article to the list, simply add the template to the talk page of the article with the following parameters:
{{WikiProject Mining
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Class[edit]
The following system is used by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team for assessing how close we are to a distribution-quality article on a particular topic. The system is based on a letter scheme which reflects how complete the article is, though the content and language quality are also factors.
The quality assessments are mainly performed by members of WikiProject Mining, who tag talk pages of mining related articles. These tags are then collected by a bot, which then generates a series of pages, such as a table, log and statistics.
Once an article reaches the A-Class, it is considered "complete", although obviously edits will continue to be made. Two levels, GA and FA, are not assessments that can be assigned simply by a project member. These refer to external judgments of article quality made at WP:GA and WP:FA. If these tags are desired, and the article meets the criteria (for GA or FA), it must be nominated (for GA or FA) and await comments.
It is vital that people not take these assessments personally. It is understood that we all have different priorities and different opinions about what makes a perfect article. If you contribute a lot of content to an article you may request an independent assessment.
The following values may be used for Class assessments:
- FA - Featured article
- FL - Featured list
- A - A class article
- GA - Good article
- B - B class article
- C - C class article
- Start - Start class article
- Stub - Stub article
- NA - not applicable
If blank, this will default as Unassessed and will be listed in Category:Unassessed Mining articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below. (also found at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment)
Other potential values.
- List - List
- Dab - Disambiguation page
- Template - Template description
- Cat - Category description
Quality scale[edit]
Importance scale[edit]
Importance (i.e. Priority) must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project, i.e. what priority should participants in this project address the articles. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another.
The criteria used for rating an article's importance are not meant to be an absolute 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). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to those in the mining or geology fields, and not otherwise highly linked to by other articles.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
If blank, this will default as Unknown ("???") priority.
Scale[edit]
The importance within Mining articles is based on this scale. The following values may be used for Importance assessments:
Rating | General properties | General examples |
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Top | The article is about one of the core topics of Mining. (This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it forms the basis of all information.) |
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High | The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of the Mining industry. (This article is fairly important to the project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.) |
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Mid | This article is relatively important to the project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas. (The article is about a topic within the field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Mining community.) |
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Low | The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the field of Mining and is not generally common knowledge outside that community or the local mining communities. (This article is of little importance (i.e. low priority) to this project, but it covers a highly specific or specialized area of knowledge, or an obscure piece of trivia.) |
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NA | This page does not need importance assessment |
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??? | This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be assessed. | There should be none of these; please help assess the article. |
Assessment log[edit]
- 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.
May 1, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Crystallex International Corporation (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Mining Innovation Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Pigg's Peak mine (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Inspection générale des carrières (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Los Pelambres mine (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Mukondo mine (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- South Terras mine (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
April 30, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Kibali Gold Mine (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Martinson mine (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Equinox Minerals (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Gold Prospectors Association of America (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Riotinto-Nerva mining basin (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Sunday stone (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 29, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
Assessed[edit]
- Crystallex International Corporation (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Gravel pits of Incheville and Bouvaincourt (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Uranium mining in France (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 28, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Mining in Paraná (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Institute of Quarrying (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 27, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Mining in Luxembourg (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- UraMin (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- El Tío (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Mining folklore (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Mining spirits (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- The State of Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 26, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Martinson mine (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Mineral Exploration Research Centre (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Brazil Iron (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- File:Brazil Iron logo.svg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 25, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- Draft:The Moat Pit at Culross renamed to The Moat Pit at Culross.
Reassessed[edit]
- Vasilievskoye mine (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Zarudenskoye mine (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)