Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia/American Samoa work group/Assessment

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

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 American Samoa 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!

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

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Polynesia}} 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 American Samoa articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class American Samoa articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class American Samoa articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class American Samoa articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class American Samoa articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class American Samoa articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class American Samoa articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class American Samoa articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class American Samoa articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class American Samoa pages)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class American Samoa pages)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class American Samoa pages)		Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class American Samoa pages)		FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class American Samoa pages)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class American Samoa pages)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class American Samoa pages)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class American Samoa pages)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class American Samoa pages)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class American Samoa pages)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed American Samoa articles)		???

After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Polynesia}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Polynesia | ... |importance= ??? | ... |AS-importance= ??? }}

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of American Samoa. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance American Samoa articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of American Samoa. Adds articles to Category:High-importance American Samoa articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the American Samoa field that may or may not be commonly known outside the American Samoa community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance American Samoa articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the American Samoa field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance American Samoa articles
• Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance American Samoa articles.

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.

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

There were no logs for this project from May 4, 2025 - May 11, 2025.