Welcome to the assessment department of the District of Columbia WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's District of Columbia 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 United States|DC=yes}} banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:District of Columbia articles by quality and Category:District of Columbia 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 District of Columbia 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 United States}} 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 District of Columbia articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class District of Columbia articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class District of Columbia articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class District of Columbia articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class District of Columbia articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class District of Columbia articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class District of Columbia articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class District of Columbia articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class District of Columbia 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 District of Columbia pages)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class District of Columbia pages)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class District of Columbia pages)		Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class District of Columbia pages)		FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class District of Columbia pages)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class District of Columbia pages)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class District of Columbia pages)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class District of Columbia pages)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class District of Columbia pages)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class District of Columbia pages)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed District of Columbia 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 United States}} 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):

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 James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue
• National Mall
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• Phi Beta Sigma
• Maine Avenue Fish Market
• Hains Point
• American Legion Freedom Bell
• Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water
• Gail Cobb
• Edmund Burke School

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

• Potomac River (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:The West Wing images (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Statue of Edmund Burke (Washington, D.C.) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• American Criminal Law Review (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)

• Ella Payne Moran (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Presidential portraits of George W. and Laura Bush renamed to Official White House portraits of George W. and Laura Bush.

• Statue of John Witherspoon (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)

• Ella Payne Moran (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Official White House portraits of Laura and George W. Bush (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Soyica Colbert (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Edmund Burke (Thomas) renamed to Statue of Edmund Burke (Washington, D.C.).

• File:Esther Bubley - An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar.jpg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as FM-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Legacy on Ice (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Statue of Edmund Burke (Washington, D.C.) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (Washington, D.C.) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)