Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome/Assessment

The Curation and Assessment department assesses the quality of Wikipedia's classical Greece and Rome articles. Article quality ratings are used within Wikipedia, and this WikiProject, to recognise excellent contributions, identify topics in need of further work, and support the external Version 1.0 Editorial Team program.

1. What is the purpose of the article ratings?

The rating system allows us to monitor the quality of articles in our area, and prioritise editor time for working on these articles. It is also used by the Wikipedia 1.0 program for static releases of Wikipedia content. These ratings are intended for internal use within the project, and do not necessarily constitute an official rating in any meaningful sense.

2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject?

Just add {{Classical Greece and Rome}} to the top of the article's talk page.

3. Who can assess articles?

Any editor or member of the WikiProject, is free to add or change the rating of an article between stub, start, C and B classes. Editors do not need to be professional classicists nor members of this WikiProject to assess articles within this range of classes. However, quality assignments higher than B-class cannot be made outside of the formal review process; this is because the GA, A, and FA-class designations require significant attention to detail and consensus.

4. How do I rate an article?

Select from the quality scale, after reviewing in detail, the level that best matches the state of the article. Then follow the #Assessment instructions to convey the rating onto the article, through the article's talk page project banner. Remember that quality ratings above B-class cannot be made unilaterally.

5. Can I request that someone else rate an article?

Absolutely. Simply list it at #Requests for assessment below.

6. Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we may be unable to leave a detailed rationale. 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. If you require written, detailed feedback on your article, you may like to consider using peer review.

7. What if I don't agree with a rating?

List it at #Requests for assessment and someone else will evaluate the article. Or, ask the original reviewer or any other member of the project to re-rate the article.

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!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the Talk page.

As do most WikiProjects, we assess our articles for Quality and Importance. Quality designations are made according to a set of generally-accepted criteria, which are summarised below. Lower quality designations are conferred by individual project members. Higher quality designations are conferred once the article has passed a peer review by a group of Classics editors (for A-class status) or the relevant Wikipedia-wide assessment systems (for GA-class or FA-class status).

Requests for assessment of an article into B-class or any lower rank may be made at #Requests for assessment. You should not assess an article you have made substantial contributions to, because – self-evidently – it is less likely you will be able to fairly and accurately judge your own work.

It is vital that people do not take these assessments personally. We each have our own opinions of the priorities of the objective criteria for a perfect article. Different projects may use their own variation of the criteria more tuned for the subject area.

Assessments of importance do not, and should not, reflect the importance of the subject within academia or classical studies, but rather its importance to an average reader with no background in the subject.

Articles that are unassessed are automatically indexed at Category:Unassessed Classical Greece and Rome articles. In addition, any editor may explicitly, directly request assessment of their classics article by a project member.

• Requests for assessment of an article that you expect to be assessed into the Stub, Start, C, or B classes can be listed in this section.
• Requests for assessment of an article into the GA or FA classes should be listed, respectively, at Good article candidates (GAC) and Featured article candidates (FAC) respectively; if those processes confer their associated designation onto your article, you may then update the article's talk page banner with the new class.
• If you wish your article to be assessed against the A class criteria, please list it at WT:CGR for assessment.

Old requests for assessment can be browsed in the page history.

Request quality and importance assessment

• Dominus (title)
• Cloaca Maxima
• Marcus Junius Brutus Ifly6 (talk) 01:03, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Libius Severus | Winthrop23 (talk) 13:23, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Apollo and Daphne I have done a bit of an overhaul on the page, removing a lot of "book report" styling and opinions and trying to make it more about the story than our interpretation of it's meaning. --Lindsey40186 (talk) 14:13, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Battle of Cynoscephalae | CommissarDoggo (talk) 03:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Quintus Sertorius | Harren the Red (talk) 01:21, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire has been extensively revised by multiple editors. It now combines the articles that preceded it into a single overall discussion of the topic. Its importance should be reassessed imo. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:08, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jenhawk777: The article is already B class. Are you asking for this WikiProject's A-class review or will you be submitting this to WP:GA? Chris Troutman (talk) 20:35, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Troutman It is the importance level rating that I was asking about. I would like to take it GA but am a little afraid. On the talk page, it says it is of mid-importance to classical Greece and Rome. The second paragraph of the article quotes Adam Schor saying that the question covered in this article has, "more than any other, shadowed the study of late Roman history". I think that would make it more than mid-importance. Just my opinion of course, but I thought it appropriate to ask someone in the field.Jenhawk777 (talk) 18:47, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As described above, A-Class status is conferred on an article by recommendation of at least two reviewers. Reviewers are usually members of the WikiProject. Any editor may propose an article for A-Class review, which is conducted on the project talk page, WT:CGR. Recommendations for promotion must exceed recommendations against promotion by a margin of at least 2:1; unanimous recommendations are preferred. Reviewers must read the article in its entirety, scrutinise its contents carefully and in detail, and thoughtfully compare the article to the A-Class assessment criteria. Reviewers are expected to post their assessment, with complete comments and an explanation, onto the review page; they are also expected to afford the nominator an appropriate period of time in which to address rectifiable concerns. Reviews will be closed by an uninvolved project member after a suitable period of time; in the case of successful nominations, A-Class status will be conferred onto the article at this time.

A-Class reviews are conducted using {{WPCGR A-Class review}}. To start a new A-Class review with the template automatically filled in, click the button below:

Nominate your article for A-Class status

The following task queues are backlogged and require the attention of experienced, knowledgeable Wikipedians. Tasks in the queue do not need to be cleared by a project member or somebody with knowledge in Classics, though help is readily available to Wikipedians with expertise that does not extend to Ancient Greece and Rome who require it.

Backlog!Need assessed by quality

239 articles in total

Backlog!Need assessed by importance

1,667 articles in total

Backlog!WikiWork Ω rating held under 5.0

Currently rated 5.07