THC Science

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Biota of Great Britain and Ireland! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles. The article ratings are used to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles by quality and Category:Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles by importance.

Frequently asked questions[edit]

How do I add an article to the WikiProject?: Just add {{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
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 Biota of Great Britain and Ireland WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
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.
Where can I get more comments about my article?: The Status requester can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
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 (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!
How can I keep track of changes in article ratings?: There is an overview at the statistics page, though there is no accurate way to keep track yet.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Instructions[edit]

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland| ... | class=??? | importance=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Biota of Great Britain and Ireland pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Quality scale[edit]

Importance scale[edit]

The criteria used for rating article importance 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). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of India.

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.

Status	Template	Meaning of Status
Top	{{Top-Class}}	This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High	{{High-Class}}	This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
Mid	{{Mid-Class}}	This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
Low	{{Low-Class}}	This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia.
None	None	This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.

Importance standards[edit]

To be filled later

Requesting an assessment[edit]

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 are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.

Example assessments[edit]

To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.

Quality

{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=FA}} - to rate an article at FA-Class
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=A}} - to rate an article at A-Class
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=GA}} - to rate an article at GA-Class
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=B}} - to rate an article at B-Class
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=Start}} - to rate an article at Start-Class
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=Stub}} - to rate an article at Stub-Class
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland}} - to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance

{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|importance=Top}} - to rate an article at Top importance
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|importance=High}} - to rate an article at High importance
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|importance=Mid}} - to rate an article at Mid importance
{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|importance=Low}} - to rate an article at Low importance

Quality and Importance

{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=FA|importance=Top}} - to rate an article at FA-Class and Top importance