FA | A | GA | B | C | Start | Stub | FL | List | Category | Disambig | Draft | FM | File | Portal | Project | Redirect | Template | NA | ??? | Total |
53 | 2 | 328 | 693 | 2,165 | 8,912 | 8,508 | 12 | 349 | 5,552 | 20 | 74 | 34 | 377 | 99 | 54 | 969 | 535 | 14 | 511 | 29,261 |
Welcome to the assessment department of the Massachusetts WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Massachusetts and its governments, people, geography, and history. 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.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|MA=|MA-importance=}}
project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Massachusetts articles by quality and Category:Massachusetts articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist (Index · Statistics · Log).
Frequently asked questions[edit]
- 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 Massachusetts WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
- 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[edit]
Quality assessments[edit]
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject United States}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject United States|class=???|MA=yes}}
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 Massachusetts articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Massachusetts articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Massachusetts articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Massachusetts articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Massachusetts articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Massachusetts articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Massachusetts articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Massachusetts articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Massachusetts articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Importance assessments[edit]
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject United States}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Massachusetts articles) | Top | |
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Massachusetts articles) | High | |
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Massachusetts articles) | Mid | |
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Massachusetts articles) | Low | |
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Massachusetts articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Massachusetts articles) | ??? |
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 the Massachusetts.
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.
Label | Criteria | Examples | ||
Places | Things | People | ||
Top | Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for Massachusetts, or is generally notable to people other than students of Massachusetts. They define and determine the subject of the Massachusetts WikiProject. | Plymouth Colony | Harvard University | |
High | Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the field of Massachusetts, but not necessarily outside it. | Lexington, Massachusetts | Massachusetts General Court | Samuel Adams |
Mid | Subject contributes to the total subject of the Massachusetts WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. | East Boston | Merrimack River | Emily Dickinson |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of Massachusetts, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. | Massachusetts Route 25 | CVS Pharmacy | Stephen Lynch (politician) |
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.
The page for Boston University Tanglewood Institute reads much like an advertisement and may require review.
Request for assessment of Winthrop, Massachusetts due to substantial addition and revision. Jm3106jr (talk) 23:50, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
The article I created on James S. Gracey, a former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant and Massachusetts native may be of interest to this WikiProject.
- Eaglebrook School has been improved dramatically since last assessment --Tony Tan 98 (talk) 02:30, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Please see the S. H. Couch company article. I've expanded it significantly --GanderMusings (talk) 23:16, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Please assess Pollard Memorial Library as I have just created it and it's ready for assessment. --LibraryGurl (talk) 15:54, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Please reassess Six Moon Hill a lot has changed since the assessment was made in 2006.Fothergilla (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Would very much appreciate a reassessment of Battle of Bloody Brook, as it's not a stub anymore. SuperTah (talk) 15:38, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
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 23, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Henry Street salamander tunnels (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
May 22, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Linda Laubenstein (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Tremont Temple (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Bumpy Bumpus (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Henry Street salamander tunnels (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
- Draft:General Catalyst (talk) removed.
May 21, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Harvard–Penn football rivalry (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Long View Farm Studios (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Category:Academics from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Activists from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Artists from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Businesspeople from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Cambridge Hospital (Massachusetts) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Clergy from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Entertainers from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Larry Kessler (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Lawyers from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Mass media people from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:People from Brookline, Massachusetts, by occupation (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Physicians from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Scientists from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Tremont Temple (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Writers from Brookline, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
- Cambridge Hospital (talk) removed.
May 20, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- Long View Farm renamed to Long View Farm Studios.
- Draft:Robbins House (Concord, Massachusetts) renamed to Robbins House (Concord, Massachusetts).
- W.W. Kimball House renamed to W. W. Kimball House.
Reassessed[edit]
- 1901 Boston Marathon (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- History of the Boston Bruins (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Holyoke Saint Patrick's Day Parade (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Long View Farm Studios (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Middlesex Railroad (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- The Kominas (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- W. W. Kimball House (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
May 19, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- 1926–27 Boston Bruins season (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Category:Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Macklin Celebrini (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- The Pequot War (book) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
May 18, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- 102nd Field Artillery Regiment (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- 12th Continental Regiment (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- 26th Tactical Missile Squadron (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- 38th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- 45th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- 51st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Michael Kremer (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Draft:Acquired Taste Comedy (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Kip Tiernan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Metropolitan Railroad (Boston) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:The Art Nouveau Coloring Book: Hats, Cats, & Vintage Romance by Hello Charlie (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Wheeler Farm (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
May 17, 2024[edit]
Assessed[edit]
- Draft:1980–81 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Beaver Pond (Massachusetts) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- FableVision (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Middlesex Jail and House of Correction (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Timeline of Dedham, Massachusetts (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)