Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora/Assessment
In order to better focus our efforts towards improving and maintaining Wikipedia articles related to persons of the African diaspora, WikiProject African diaspora is participating in article assessment. These article ratings not only identify topics in need of further work, but they also help us recognize excellent contributions. Parameters in the {{WikiProject African diaspora}} project banner define the rating of the article and place it in the appropriate sub-category of Category:African diaspora articles by quality and Category:African diaspora articles by importance.
How to assess
An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject African diaspora}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.
The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA | (for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class African diaspora articles category) |  FA |
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| FL | (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class African diaspora articles category) | FL |
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| A | (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class African diaspora articles category) |  A |
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| GA | (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class African diaspora articles category) |  GA |
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| B | (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class African diaspora articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class African diaspora articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class African diaspora articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class African diaspora articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class African diaspora articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class African diaspora pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed African diaspora articles category) | ??? |
For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:
| FM | (for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class African diaspora pages category) | FM |
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| Category | (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class African diaspora pages category) | Category | |
| Draft | (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class African diaspora pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class African diaspora pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class African diaspora pages category) | Portal | |
| Project | (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class African diaspora pages category) | Project | |
| Template | (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class African diaspora pages category) | Template |
The following non-standard assessment grades for mainspace content may be used at a WikiProject's discretion:
| Disambig | (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class African diaspora pages category) | Disambig | |
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| Redirect | (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class African diaspora pages category) | Redirect |
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject African diaspora}} 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 African diaspora articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance African diaspora articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance African diaspora articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance African diaspora articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance African diaspora articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance African diaspora articles) | ??? |
Statistics
Quality scale
WikiProject African diaspora uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.
Importance scale
African diaspora articles are rated on this importance scale. Importance must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority 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).