Wikipedia:WikiProject North Macedonia/Assessment
Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject North Macedonia! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to North Macedonia. The article ratings are 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 {{WPMKD}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:North Macedonia articles by quality and Category:North Macedonia articles by importance.
Frequently asked questions
[edit]- How can I get my article rated?
- As a member of WikiProject North Macedonia, you can do it yourself. If you're unsure, list it in the section for assessment requests below.
- Who can assess articles?
- Any member of WikiProject North Macedonia 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.
- Where can I get more comments about my article?
- Contact any member of the project who will handle it or assign the issue to someone.
- What if I don't agree with a rating?
- Re-list it as a request below.
- Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, and no. The importance ratings) are more or less subjective, because they are decided by the user rating the article, 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! The quality ratings, however, are more objective, because the FA-class and GA-class articles are reviewed by a group of neutral editors.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department, or to contact any other member of the project.
Instructions
[edit]Quality assessments
[edit]An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject North Macedonia}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.
The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA | (for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class North Macedonia articles category) |  FA |
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| FL | (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class North Macedonia articles category) | FL |
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| A | (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class North Macedonia articles category) |  A |
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| GA | (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class North Macedonia articles category) |  GA |
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| B | (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class North Macedonia articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class North Macedonia articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class North Macedonia articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class North Macedonia articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class North Macedonia articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class North Macedonia pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed North Macedonia articles category) | ??? |
For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:
| Category | (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class North Macedonia pages category) | Category | |
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| Draft | (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class North Macedonia pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class North Macedonia pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class North Macedonia pages category) | Portal | |
| Template | (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class North Macedonia pages category) | Template |
The following non-standard assessment grades for mainspace content may be used at a WikiProject's discretion:
| Disambig | (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class North Macedonia pages category) | Disambig |
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Importance assessments
[edit]The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
| Top |
| High |
| Mid |
| Low |
| ??? |
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance North Macedonia articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance North Macedonia articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance North Macedonia articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance North Macedonia articles)
- If there is no class defined, three question marks (???) will appear by default
Articles for which a valid importance rating is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance North Macedonia articles. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.
Note: This parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases.
Quality scale
[edit]| 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. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
| 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 dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
| 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. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
| 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. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
| 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. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
| 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. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
| 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. Improve the grammar, spelling, and writing style; decrease the use of jargon. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
| 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. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
| 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 literary movements |
Importance scale
[edit]| Label | Criteria | Examples |
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| Top | Subject is a "core" topic for North Macedonia, or is generally notable to people other than those studying North Macedonia for academic purposes. | North Macedonia |
| High | Subject is notable or significant within the field of North Macedonia, but not necessarily outside it. | Greater Skopje |
| Mid | Subject is not extremely notable or significant within the field of North Macedonia, but may have comprehensive coverage of its own. | Lake Ohrid |
| Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of North Macedonia, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. | Mariovo |
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 military history. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance.
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]It is vital that people not take these assessments personally. It is understood that we all have different priorities and different opinions about what makes a perfect article. It is proposed that coordinator who performs a complete assessment on each page on that list every three months. If you contribute a lot of content to an article you may request an independent assessment.
Newly Identified articles
[edit]For articles newly identified as within the scope of the project please add this template to the article's talk page:
| Placed on the article's talk page | Generates | |||||||||||||
| {{WPMKD}} |
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Reassessment
[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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.
- ^ Prose at the Good Article level is not expected to be at a professional level like it is for Featured Articles. Minor grammatical or style issues that do not impact clarity are not prohibitive of GA status.