Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department! assesses the quality and importance of cat-related articles. The article ratings recognize excellent contributions and identifying topics that would benefit from further work. The ratings are recorded through the parameters in the {{WikiProject Cats}} project banner, which also lists the articles in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Cats articles by quality and Category:Cats articles by importance.

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 Cats WikiProject 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.

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!

An article's assessment is generated from the class= and importance= parameters in the {{WikiProject Cats}} project banner on the article's Talk page, as shown below as if in Edit mode:

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One of the following values must be used for the class= parameter:

• FA (adds the Featured Article to Category:FA-Class Cats articles)
• FL (adds the Featured List to Category:FL-Class Cats articles)
• FM (adds the Featured Image to Category:FM-Class Cats articles)
• GA (adds the article to Category:GA-Class Cats articles)
• B (adds the article to Category:B-Class Cats articles)
• C (adds the article to Category:C-Class Cats articles)
• Start (adds the article to Category:Start-Class Cats articles)
• Stub (adds the article to Category:Stub-Class Cats articles)
• List (adds the article to Category:List-Class Cats articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary.)

Articles that have been quality assessed, reassessed or removed can be found listed under Cats articles by quality log

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

One of the following values must be used for the importance= parameter:

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.

To improve an assessment above B class, the evaluation needs to be done through set channels. Information on the Good Article (GA class) is here, and Featured Articles (FA class) is here.

• Please place your requests here