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Ireland articles		Importance
Ireland articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	5	5	12	7		29
	GA	3	5	21	26		55
	B	31	167	264	312	1	775
	C	1	23	97	206	5	332
	Start	17	307	1676	6889	23	8912
	Stub		32	828	12913	67	13840
	List		10	88	529	9	636
	Assessed	57	549	2986	20882	105	24579
	Unassessed				4	94	98
	Total	57	549	2986	20886	199	24677

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

[edit] Frequently asked questions

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 Ireland 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!
Where do I find a list of new Irish related articles?: A new Ireland Search Results list is produced almost daily and older results (since September 2007) are archived here.

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

[edit] Instructions

[edit] Quality assessments

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

{{WikiProject Ireland|class=???}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:


FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Ireland articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Ireland articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Ireland articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Ireland articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Ireland articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Ireland articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Ireland articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Ireland articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Ireland articles)		List

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:


Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Ireland articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Ireland articles)		Disambig
Image (for images; adds pages to Category:Image-Class Ireland articles)		Image
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Ireland articles)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Ireland articles)		Project
Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Ireland articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Ireland articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Ireland articles)		???

The class parameter should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Ireland articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

When a "yes" is inserted in the "image-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Ireland articles needing images.

When a "yes" is inserted in the "attention'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Ireland articles needing attention.

When a "yes" is inserted in the "infobox-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Ireland articles needing infoboxes.

[edit] Quality scale

WikiProject article quality grading scheme

Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example

FA

The article has attained featured article status.

More detailed criteria

The article meets the featured article criteria:

A featured article exemplifies our very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the requirements for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.

It is—
- (a) well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard;
- (b) comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
- (c) well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature on the topic. Claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported with citations; this requires a "References" section that lists these sources, complemented by inline citations where appropriate;
- (d) neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; and
- (e) stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process.
It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of—
- (a) a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
- (b) appropriate structure: a system of hierarchical section headings and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents; and
- (c) consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes (<ref>Smith 2007, p. 1.</ref>) or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1)—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references; for articles with footnotes, the meta:cite format is recommended.
Images. It has images that follow the image use policy and other media where appropriate, with succinct captions, brief and useful alt text when feasible, and acceptable copyright status. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly.
Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).

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.

L'incoronazione di Poppea
(as of December 2009)

A

The article is well-organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject, like military history, or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class.

More detailed criteria

The article meets the A-Class criteria:

Shortcuts: WP:ACLASS WP:A?

Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:How to write a great article. 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, WikiProject Films).

Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting.

Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer review may help.

Cologne War
(as of October 2009)

GA

The article has attained good article status.

More detailed criteria

The article meets the good article criteria:

Well-written:

(a) the prose is clear and the spelling and grammar are correct; and

(b) it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, jargon, words to avoid, fiction, and list incorporation.
Factually accurate and verifiable:

(a) it provides references to all sources of information in the section(s) dedicated to the attribution of these sources according to the guide to layout;

(b) it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines; and

(c) it contains no original research.
Broad in its coverage:

(a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and

(b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias.
Stable: it does not change significantly from day-to-day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.
Illustrated, if possible, by images:

(a) images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and

(b) images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.

Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia.

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.

Typhoon Elsie (1989)
(as of November 2009)

B

The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.

More detailed criteria

The article meets the six B-Class criteria:

The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. The use of citation templates such as {{cite web}} is not required, but the use of <ref></ref> tags is encouraged.
The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing.
The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind.
The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it certainly need not be "brilliant". The Manual of Style need not be followed rigorously.
The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams and an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content.
The article presents its content in an appropriately accessible way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. Although Wikipedia is more than just a general encyclopedia, the article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.

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, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.

KV55
(as of November 2009)

C

The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.

More detailed criteria
The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective.

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 address cleanup issues.

Architecture of Denmark
(as of November 2009)

Start

An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources.

More detailed criteria

The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas, usually in referencing. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability and BLP, and provide enough sources to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.

Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more.

Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation.

Real analysis
(as of November 2006)

Stub

A very basic description of the topic.

More detailed criteria
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category.

Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition.

Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority.

Geodia gibberosa
(as of July 2009)

FL

The article has attained featured list status.

More detailed criteria

The article meets the featured list criteria:

Prose. It features professional standards of writing.
Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria.
Comprehensiveness.
- (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items.
- (b) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; it is not a content fork, does not largely recreate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article.
Structure. It is easy to navigate through and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities.
Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages.
- (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and it has a minimal proportion of red links.
- (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions and alternative (alt) text if necessary. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly.
Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.

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.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3)
(as of February 2009)

List Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, 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 aikidoka
(as of June 2007)

[edit] Importance assessment

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

{{WikiProject Ireland| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Ireland articles
High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Ireland articles
Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Ireland articles
Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Ireland articles
Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Ireland articles.

[edit] Importance scale

The assessment team have developed some criteria specific to Irish articles as guidelines for deciding the importance of articles being assessed. Different criteria tables have been created for different topic groups as shown below.

**Article importance grading scheme guidelines**
Label	Criteria	General Irish biographies'	Historic figures, presidents, politicians	Entertainers	Sports people
Top	High probability that non-Historians would look this up. Limited to the top 5–10 biographies. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Joyce, affected people in many other countries besides Ireland and for several generations. Members should not give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.	James Joyce	Eamon de Valera	U2	Barry McGuigan
High	Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin.	Robert Boyle	Garrett Fitzgerald	Rory Gallagher	Roy Keane
Mid	Important in their discipline.	Bram Stoker	Pat Rabbitte	Neil Jordan	Stephen Roche
Low	Subject is notable in their main discipline.	Henry Kelly	Edward Guinness	Ciaran Bourke	Peter Lawrie

**Article importance grading scheme guidelines**
Label	Criteria	Cities, towns and villages	Mountains, Lakes and Rivers	Roads	Public Transport
Top	High probability that general readers outside Ireland would look this up. Well known outside the country and important in the life and history of Ireland. Members should not give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.	Dublin	River Shannon	The M50	Ryanair
High	Regarded as very important within the country, perhaps not well known abroad. Counties or County Towns.	Sligo	Lough Ree	The N7 road	Dublin Bus
Mid	Local or regional importance in Ireland. Towns with over 10,000 people which are not officially Cities or County Towns. Lower importance national roads.	Bray	River Suck	The N62	Luas
Low	Towns and villages of importance within a county or even just a locality. Geographical features that would be well known to people with an interest in the topic only. Regional and local roads.	Dungarvan	Sugarloaf, west Wicklow	The R747	Abbeyshrule

[edit] Requesting an 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.

Archived requests

Tiocfaidh ár lá: expanded from a (pretty awful) stub by User:Jnestorius. It's a short article, but essentially complete and very well referenced. Scolaire (talk) 08:49, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Updated it to C-class as it does seems well referenced now. ww2censor (talk) 03:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Shankill Butchers - has been awaiting reassessment since Sep. 2008. Billsmith60 (talk) 21:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

This was assessed as a start-class high but I don't think the importance has been that great over generation, so I an reducing the importance to mid but the article's quality is better than a start, so the new rating wil be C/mid. ww2censor (talk) 03:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Tony O'Malley. Current start-class and low importance. Submitted for peer review and change in statuses. RogerZoel (talk) 11:38, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

The current start-class/low-importance seems about right. The article has a few references but no inline citations to confirm statements in the prose. If you add at least one per paragraph it could easily rise to a C-class article; more than that needs some significant expansion. The references all look like biographical but I would have expected some critical commentary about his art. ww2censor (talk) 03:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

That probably would be left up to someone else to do (I actually forgot about this request). Roger Zoel (talk) 23:27, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Mountjoy Square was rated as "low importance" and "stub". I think stub could probably be upgraded now. As for the importance, it's a pretty historic place (see the article), but that's a little more complex to judge. (talk) 12:51, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Buntús Cainte was rated as "stub". I've expanded the article - I'd be interested to see how it assessed now. I've no idea how "important" it is, or even how one would assess such a thing, so I'll not comment on that. Jack of Many (talk) 21:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I've changed the rating to Start as it clearly isn't a stub any more. I'd still appreciate some input on the assessment though. Feel free to chip in on the article's discussion page with advice re: citations and otherwise improving the quality. Jack of Many (talk) 22:16, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Eamonn Burns

Cycling Ireland I've upgraded from Stub to C. Quite a bit of material added with citations, but still quite some way to go. I also think it should be upgraded in importance from Low to Mid. Stephen Roche is considered Mid since he is notable in his discipline, surely the same should apply to this organization. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 18:54, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment log

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Contents

[edit] Frequently asked questions

[edit] Instructions

[edit] Quality assessments

[edit] Quality scale

[edit] Importance assessment

[edit] Importance scale

[edit] Requesting an assessment

[edit] Assessment log

[edit] December 8, 2009

[edit] December 4, 2009

[edit] November 29, 2009

[edit] November 24, 2009

[edit] November 19, 2009

[edit] November 14, 2009

[edit] November 10, 2009

[edit] November 6, 2009

[edit] October 29, 2009

[edit] October 25, 2009

[edit] October 19, 2009

[edit] October 15, 2009