Welcome to the assessment department of the Iraq WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Iraq or the people of Iraq. 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 Iraq}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Iraq articles by quality and Category:Iraq 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 Iraq 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 assessment[edit]
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Iraq}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Iraq|class=???}}
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 Iraq articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Iraq articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Iraq articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Iraq articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Iraq articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Iraq articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Iraq articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Iraq articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Iraq articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Quality scale[edit]
Importance assessment[edit]
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Iraq}} 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 Iraq articles) | Top | |
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Iraq articles) | High | |
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Iraq articles) | Mid | |
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Iraq articles) | Low | |
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Iraq articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Iraq articles) | ??? |
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 Iraq.
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.
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.
- Humam Tariq -- I would really appreciate it if this article could be assessed. Hashima20 (talk) 21:47, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
- Abu Hanifa Mosque -- Significant changes were done to the article. It was rebuilt completely, so I hope it gets reassessed fairly. Hashima20 (talk) 20:45, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
- Al-Shaab Stadium is a newly recreated article. It was significantly fixed and lots of photos, videos and references were added to it. I would appreciate it if somebody reviewed it because it hasn't got a quality scale nor an importance scale. Hashima20 (talk) 21:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- Mar Dinkha IV I have made several changes that warrant this article graduating from start class. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:53, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
- Could you take a look at Enûma Eliš, it is listed as B-Class but appears to fail most the B-Class criteria. --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 20:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
- The article on Hammurabi is included in the Iraq project, and I have just completed an article on his son and successor Samsu-iluna. I would like to request that this be considered for inclusion in the Iraq section and that it be assessed for quality and importance. My apologies if I am putting this request in the wrong section, Wikipedia's social structure can be a bit labyrinthine. Zoweee (talk) 23:27, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- I have done some updates on Anbar offensive (2015) and I would like to have a quality and importance assessment.Cotopaxi5897 (talk) 09:36, 14 May 2015 (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 17, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Ubaid period (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Iraq Economic Development Group (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Iraq Freedom Congress (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Shirin Hassani Ramazan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
May 16, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- Imam Ali Shrine bombing renamed to 2003 Imam Ali Shrine bombing.
Reassessed[edit]
- Shield Group Security (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- 2003 Imam Ali Shrine bombing (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 2023 Iraqi Republic Championship (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Nadira Azzouz (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
May 15, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- History of the Ottoman Empire (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Muqtada al-Sadr (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
- Plimpton 322 (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Mid-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Khaled al-Rahal (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Larsa (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Turkish-language Iraqi poets (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
- Category:Iraqi Turkish poets (talk) removed.
May 14, 2024[edit]
Assessed[edit]
- 2015–16 Iraqi Women's Football League (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Gian Marco Chiani (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Mesopotamian mythology/Archive 1 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Top-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Muntadher Saleh (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
- Draft:Fuad Shakir Mustafa (talk) removed.
- Mesopotamian mythology (talk) removed.
May 13, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- Arabian Gulf Cup stampede renamed to 2023 Basra International Stadium stampede.
- Umm Fahad renamed to Death of Umm Fahad.
Reassessed[edit]
- Draft:Sonia Odisho (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Category:1991 Iraqi uprisings (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- 2023 Basra International Stadium stampede (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Death of Umm Fahad (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Military operations of the Libyan civil war (2014–2020) involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Organizations of the 1991 Iraqi uprisings (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:People of the 1991 Iraqi uprisings (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Portrayal of the Islamic State in American media (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Saidsadiq District (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
- Category:1991 uprisings in Iraq (talk) removed.
- Category:Military operations of the Second Libyan Civil War involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (talk) removed.
- Category:Organizations of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq (talk) removed.
- Category:People of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq (talk) removed.
May 12, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- Operation Phase Echo renamed to Gulf War.
Assessed[edit]
- Hanging Gardens (2022 film) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
May 11, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Operation Tidal Wave II (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Category:2007 disestablishments in Iraq (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Iraq and the International Monetary Fund (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Iraqi botanists (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- ^ For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. However, where quite a number of pictures exist, for instance, the moon landing, FPC attempts to select the best of the ones produced.
- ^ An image has more encyclopedic value (often abbreviated to "EV" or "enc" in discussions) if it contributes strongly to a single article, rather than contributing weakly to many. Adding an image to numerous articles to gain EV is counterproductive and may antagonize both FPC reviewers and article editors.
- ^ While effects such as black and white, sepia, oversaturation, and abnormal angles may be visually pleasing, they often detract from the accurate depiction of the subject.