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The assessment department of WikiProject Politics focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's politics articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the Version 1.0 Editorial Team program.
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Politics}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Politics articles by quality and Category:Politics articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. (Index · Statistics · Log)
- Popular pages lists top Politics articles with the most frequent views. It is updated monthly.
Frequently asked questions
- See also the general assessment FAQ
- 1. What is the purpose of the article ratings?
- The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content. Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.
- 2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
- Just add {{WikiProject Politics}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
- 3. Someone put a {{WikiProject Politics}} template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do?
- Because of the large number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the project talk page (or directly with the person who tagged the article).
- 4. Who can assess articles?
- Any member of the Politics WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.
- 5. How do I rate an article?
- Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.
- 6. 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.
- 7. What if I don't agree with a rating?
- You can ask any member of the project to rate the article again. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.
- 8. Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are somewhat subjective, 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!
- 9. What if I have a question not listed here?
- If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page.
Instructions
Quality assessment
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Politics}} 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 politics articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class politics articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class politics articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class politics articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class politics articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class politics articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class politics articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class politics articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class politics articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Quality scale
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Politics}} 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 politics articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance politics articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance politics articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance politics articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance politics articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance politics articles) | ??? |
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 students of Politics.
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.
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Requests for assessment
- Please also check Category:Unassessed politics articles for articles needing 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. For assessment of articles above B class (GA, A, FL or FA) please submit them through the regular process.
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, using the format:
* [[Article title]] - Description ~~~~
- Liberal Party (Bourbon Restoration) Coldstreamer20 (talk) 02:34, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
- John Lewis Voting Rights Act aaronneallucas (talk) 00:31, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera - Inactive Ravioli (talk) 10:57, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
- Shura Council (Yemen) - Requesting check whether this fits and assessment Duonaut (talk | contribs) 22:19, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
- Dictator - The article is really bland/dull, doesn't really provide much in terms of information or history - basically just a slightly more extensive version of a dictionary entry. I propose re-rating as Start instead of C-Class. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amyipdev (talk • contribs) 20:47, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
- Where Is Anne Frank - This article is rated as Start-class, but I've done some heavy expansion and polishing for it and feel that it should at least be C-Class, if not B-Class. IdiosyncraticLawyer (talk) 04:44, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
- Declan Costello CeltBrowne (talk) 17:33, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
- John Lewis Voting Rights Act Expanded significantly from the stub article that it was when it was first assessed a few years ago. Definitely no longer deserving of the start class rating a C-class or B-class rating. aaronneallucas (talk) 21:29, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- Billy Strachan, this article is currently undergoing a FA review. The History Wizard of Cambridge (talk) 19:49, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
- Baldur von Schirach - Leader of the Hitler Youth and Gauleiter of Vienna. I've substantially expanded this article, relying mainly but not entirely on Oliver Rathkolb's biography. Added material, but also added citations for existing content and fixed several errors. cagliost (talk) 12:31, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
- Democratic Movement of Serbia - Serbian opposition coalition between 1992 and 1994. I've significantly expanded the article, previously stub class. --Aleksamil (talk) 10:14, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Handled requests
Articles where an editor has responded to the request for reassessment can be moved here:
- Liberal Party (Bourbon Restoration) Just created this new page, would love a quick peer edit. Make sure there are no spelling mistakes, and rate properly, etc. Cheers! J-Man11 (talk) 18:59, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- Assessed as
: excellent work! You're pretty close to B-class, as well. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 19:19, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- Assessed as
- Day of Infamy speech – Almost completely re-formatted this article. Currently C class. An outside opinion would be appreciated. Also, this is currently a GAN, as I want it to be featured on the main page under DYK section on December 7/8. If anyone could review it there as well, much appreciated! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 10:01, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Kavyansh.Singh: Assessed as
-class—nice work! That's about all I can do from here; this page isn't the place to request a GA reviewer. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 10:06, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Kavyansh.Singh: Assessed as
If a handled request has been in this section for longer than seven days, it can be archived.
Backlogs
Please help to clear any backlogs of unassessed articles in the following categories:
- The current status of Category:Unassessed politics articles = 1,471 articles unassessed. After they have been assessed by class, they are automatically removed from this category.
Statistics
| Daily log of status changes | |
| Current Statistics | |
Log
The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available; due to its size (ca 100 kB), it cannot be transcluded directly.
Popular pages
- Popular pages: List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.
- ^ 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.
