Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles/Assessment
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Turtle articles by quality statistics (Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Turtle articles by quality statistics)
Instructions
When {{WikiProject Turtles|class=Start|importance=Low|needs-photo=Yes}} is placed at the top of a talk page, it yields the following banner:
Turtles (inactive) | ||||
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The following parameters are used to assess specific needs for individual articles and are used in the form:
- {{WikiProject Turtles|class=Start|importance=Low|needs-taxobox=|...}}
- needs-taxobox=yes (adds articles to Category:Turtle articles needing a taxobox
- needs-photo=yes (adds articles to Category:Turtle articles needing photos
- attention=yes (adds articles to Category:Turtle articles needing attention) for cases where immediate attention is
needed.
- small=yes makes WikiProject Turtles banner smaller horizontally.
Quality scale
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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FA | The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Hawksbill sea turtle |
FL | The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of Testudines families |
A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | ? |
GA | The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Galapagos tortoise |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Green turtle |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Spotted turtle |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Brown roofed turtle |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Ringed map turtle |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of turtles of Africa |
Importance scale
--------Type of article-------- | Monthly views range |
Example | Turtle project Importance |
Approx number of articles |
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Order | Any | Turtle | Top | 1 |
Suborder or superfamily | 1000+ | Cryptodira | Top | 3 |
Suborder or superfamily | 0+ | Testudinoidea | High | ~7 |
Family, subfamily, genus or mix | 5000+ | Tortoise | Top | 3 |
Family, subfamily, genus or mix | 1000+ | Cheloniidae | High | 8 |
Family, subfamily, genus or mix | 0+ | Staurotypinae | Mid | ~110 |
Species, subspecies or hybrids | 10000+ | Diamondback terrapin | Top | 7 |
Species, subspecies or hybrids | 1000+ | Yellow-bellied slider | High | ~20 |
Species, subspecies or hybrids | 500+ | Arakan forest turtle | Mid | ~120 |
Species, subspecies or hybrids | 0+ | Yunnan box turtle | Low | ~360 |
Other none culture turtle articles1 | 10000+ | None | High | 0 |
Other none culture turtle articles1 | 1000+ | Turtle excluder device | Mid | ~3 |
Other none culture turtle articles1 | 0+ | Turtle racing | Low | ~10 |
1 - Articles about turtles in culture are not currently within scope of the WikiProject Turtles and are therefore not suitable to have a project tag, such articles may include List of fictional turtles, The Tortoise and the Hare, World Turtle Day. Articles about non fictional turtles in general. e.g. Turtling (hunting), Turtle racing, Turtle soup are within scope.
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 herpetology.
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.
Assessment classes
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Turtles}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.
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 turtle articles) | FA | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class turtle articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class turtle articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class turtle articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class turtle articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class turtle articles) | Stub |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed turtle articles) | ??? |
If the parameter is omitted entirely, the article will be added to Category:Unknown-importance turtle articles. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance turtle articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance turtle articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance turtle articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance turtle articles)
- NA (used in cases where the page being tagged is a template, category, or disambiguation page; rates it as "NA-importance" and doesn't add it to a category)