Welcome to the assessment department of the Western Asia WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Western Asia related articles. 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 Western Asia}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Western Asia articles by quality and Category:Western Asia articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
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 Western Asia WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
- 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.
- 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 Western Asia}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Western Asia|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 Western Asia articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Western Asia articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Western Asia articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Western Asia articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Western Asia articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Western Asia articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Western Asia articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Western Asia articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Western Asia articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.
Quality scale[edit]
Importance assessment[edit]
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Western Asia}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Western Asia| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
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The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Western Asia. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Western Asia articles
- High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Western Asia. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Western Asia articles
- Mid - The article is about a topic within the Western Asia field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Western Asia community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Western Asia articles
- Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Western Asia field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Western Asia articles
- Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Western Asia articles.
Importance scale[edit]
Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
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Top | The article is one of the core topics about Western Asia. | A reader who is not involved in the Western Asia field will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. | Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. | |
High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Western Asia. | |||
Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of Western Asia. | Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject. | Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Western Asia. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in the history of Western Asia will be rated in this level. | |
Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Western Asia. | Few readers outside the Western Asia field or that are not Western Asia students may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. | Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of Western Asia, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most infrastructure of Western Asia. |
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.
Royal Oman Police[edit]
Unassessed. I ahve made the article taking stringent precautions so as to adhere to the best practices. I wish to see the article being given a FA rating, It has all the information needed in a precise manner and mantains neutrality. However I wish to see if others feel the same! --Pranav (talk) 14:07, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Assessment log[edit]
Iran articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
May 29, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Dar al-Hajar (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Buthaina bint Taimur (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Sean Semple (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
May 28, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- Agal (accessory) renamed to Egel.
Assessed[edit]
- Egel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Gulf War memorials (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
May 27, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- The Heights Tower renamed to DAMAC Tower.
Reassessed[edit]
- Boules at the 2018 Mediterranean Games (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- List of bazaars and souks (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- West–Eastern Divan Orchestra (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Capture of the Grand Mughal Fleet (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- DAMAC Tower (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Nikos Petridis (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Standard Swahili language (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
May 26, 2024[edit]
Assessed[edit]
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Middle East Technical University alumni (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Middle Eastern portals (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
- Category:Middle Eastern people by ethnic or national origin (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of African descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Algerian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of American descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Armenian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Asian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Australian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Canadian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Circassian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Egyptian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Ethiopian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of European descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of French descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Greek descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Indian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Iranian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Iraqi descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Israeli descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Jewish descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Jordanian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Kuwaiti descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Lebanese descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Moroccan descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of New Zealand descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of North American descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Oceanian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Pakistani descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Russian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Saudi Arabian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of South American descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Spanish descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Sudanese descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Syrian descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Turkish descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Uruguayan descent (talk) removed.
- Category:Middle Eastern people of Yemeni descent (talk) removed.
May 25, 2024[edit]
Renamed[edit]
- List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East renamed to List of largest metropolitan areas in the Middle East.
Reassessed[edit]
- Colleges of Applied Sciences, Oman (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Ibrict (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- List of largest metropolitan areas in the Middle East (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as List-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
Removed[edit]
- Category:Arab diaspora in the Middle East (talk) removed.
May 24, 2024[edit]
Reassessed[edit]
- Higher College of Technology (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed[edit]
- Eurasian blue tit (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Shadhavar (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
May 23, 2024[edit]
Assessed[edit]
- Cattle egret (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as FA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Palestine sunbird (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Use of mass media by the Islamic State (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)