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Automobile
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 3 1 1 6
Good article GA 2 6 11 1 20
B 10 80 186 49 21 346
C 6 64 206 142 22 440
Start 9 91 1088 483 348 2019
Stub 4 26 243 703 2797 3773
List 8 4 21 7 14 54
Assessed 37 268 1753 1396 3204 6658
Unassessed 1 8 12 755 776
Total 37 269 1761 1408 3959 7434

Welcome to the assessment department of the Automobiles WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about automobiles. 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 Automobiles}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Automobile articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents

Frequently asked questions

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 Automobiles 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

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Automobiles}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Automobiles
|class=
|importance=
|attention=
|needs-infobox=
|portal=
|auto=
}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter, note capital letters are essential for proper categories!

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Automobile articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

Articles for which a valid importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Automobile articles. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

  • Articles that require attention should be tagged with: attention=yes
  • Articles that are a selected article at the cars portal should be tagged with: portal=yes
  • Articles that are automatically tagged as stubs with the Kingbotk plugin for AWB should be tagged with: auto=yes

Quality scale

WikiProject article quality grading scheme
Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
Featured article FA  The article has attained featured article status. 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. L'incoronazione di Poppea
(as of December 2009)
A-Class article A  The article is well-organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject, like military history, or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer review may help. Cologne War
(as of October 2009)
Good article GA  The article has attained good article status. Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. 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. Typhoon Elsie (1989)
(as of November 2009)
B-Class article B  The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. 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, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. KV55
(as of November 2009)
C-Class article C  The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup. 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 address cleanup issues. Architecture of Denmark
(as of November 2009)
Start-Class article Start  An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources. Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. Real analysis
(as of November 2006)
Stub-Class article Stub  A very basic description of the topic. Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. Geodia gibberosa
(as of July 2009)
Featured list FL  The article has attained featured list status. 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. Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3)
(as of February 2009)
List-Class article List  Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, 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 aikidoka
(as of June 2007)

Importance scale

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 people reading the articles.

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.

WikiProject article importance scheme
Importance Criteria Example
 Top  Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. Australia
 High  Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. Manchester United F.C.
 Mid  Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. 0.999...
 Low  Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. Chrono Cross
 NA  Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. Category:Palms
 ???  Subject importance has not yet been assessed. n/a

Requesting an assessment

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.

  1. I have done a major rewrite of the Automotive X Prize and believe that it is no longer a "stub". Please advise what needs to be improved if you disagree. --Stephreg (talk) 17:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
  2. I have initiated an entry on Xenophon Huddy, and would like an assessment.Proscriptus (talk) 12:35, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
  3. I have made a major rewrite of the Lamborghini article, and would like to see it go through a peer review in the hopes of bringing it up to good or featured status. AniRaptor2001 (talk) 08:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
  4. I have done a major rewrite of the Suzuki Cervo article, hitherto a "stub". I would like to see it upgraded to GA or at least B quality, and I imagine a review is always helpful.
  5. I have done a major rewrite of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas article, which was 'til recently a Knight who said Ni, and would appreciate and assessment for direction of future improvements. Sahrin (talk) 03:59, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
  6. I completed a major rewrite of the Saturn Ion. I edited and tweaked the various model year sections, and added a new section on the Ion Redline, also adding NHTSA safety numbers and Redline production numbers for each model year. I do not believe that this is a "Start" article anymore and would much appreciate a new assessment and recommendations for improvements. Thank you Darkvette (talk) 20:24, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Assessment log

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. The log is very large and may take some time to load, especially on a dial-up connection so it is no longer substituted. You can see it here: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Automobile articles by quality log.

Worklist

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.



Contact with WP Automobiles
See also: assessed article categories. Last update: January 7, 2010

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