Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Mountains. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about mountains. 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 Mountains}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Mountain articles by quality and Category:Mountain articles by importance.
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 Mountains WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
- 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.
Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Mountains}} or {{Mountain}} project banner on its talk page:
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The following values may be used for the class parameter. The value is not case-sensitive so for example, Start or start can be used.
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Mountain articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Mountain articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Mountain articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Mountain articles)
- C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Mountain articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Mountain articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Mountain articles)
- List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Mountain articles)
- Disambig or Dab (adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class Mountain articles)
- Category (adds articles to Category:Category-Class Mountain articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Mountain articles)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Mountain articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
Quality scale
Importance scale
An article's importance assessment is shown by the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Mountains}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Mountains| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
Status | Category | Meaning of Status |
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Top | Category:Top-importance Mountain articles | This article is of the utmost importance to this project. Globally important mountains such as the highest peaks of major ranges, or generally high or prominent in their continent (so all of the Seven Summits or Seven Second Summits) or otherwise internationally notable or renowned peaks for climbing, cultural or historic reasons. Major ranges of the world (sub ranges only included when particularly noteworthy and usually only if parent is not included). Other core mountain topics. |
High | Category:High-importance Mountain articles | This article is fairly important to this project. Mountains which are the high points of lesser ranges; additional major summits of major ranges or geographic areas; country high points (not listed as Top importance but that are proper mountains (roughly at least 1000m high, 300m prominence)); other peaks notable for climbing, cultural or historic reasons for a more specialized or regional audience. Significant mountain ranges, sub ranges of major world ranges. |
Mid | Category:Mid-importance Mountain articles | This article is relatively important to this project. Significant peaks in mountain ranges generally fall into this class, as do well known minor peaks, and high points of countries which are not proper mountains. Other topics likely to be of some important to specialist readers. |
Low | Category:Low-importance Mountain articles | The mountain/peak is typically not well known even among mountaineers and is not a significant summit within its mountain range (if contained in such). Other topics likely to be of limited interest even to specialist readers. |
NA | Category:NA-importance Mountain articles | This article has no importance (as it pertains to article improvement) and is typically used for categories and disambiguation pages. |
None | None | This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed. |
The criteria used for rating article importance 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). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of mountains.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to several audiences — but which are of high notability to particular, material audiences — should still be highly rated.
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.
- Simcoe Mountains
- Tibesti Mountains
- Appalachian Mountains
- Mount Oglethorpe
- Hightower Bald
- Springer Mountain
- Taburno Camposauro
- Ben Lomond Tasmania
- Mont Buet - Wrote a full entry on Mont Buet, focusing on the history of the first ascents and scientific expeditions. There are a few mistakes on the French page which need to be corrected (such as the date of the first ascent, the altitude etc.). Hist Facts (talk) 13:13, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Assessment log
Mountain articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
March 5, 2025
Renamed
- Monte Tabor (Recanati) renamed to Monte Tabor.
Reassessed
- Canigó (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Karma Paul (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Boreas Mountain (New York) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Monte Tabor (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Mount Foweraker (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Mount Guinevere (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Mount Stewart (New Zealand) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Boreas Mountain (talk) removed.
March 4, 2025
Reassessed
Assessed
- Falling Mountain (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
March 3, 2025
Renamed
- Montane ecosystems renamed to Montane ecosystem.
Assessed
- Montane ecosystem (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Mount Wilson (New Zealand) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
March 2, 2025
Renamed
- Al-Joufa Mountain renamed to Jabal Joufeh.
- Big Indian Mountain (New York) renamed to Big Indian Mountain.
- Gordon's Knob renamed to Gordons Knob.
Reassessed
- Hualca Hualca (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Big Indian Mountain (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Gordons Knob (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Jabal Joufeh (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Mount Scott (New Zealand) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
March 1, 2025
Assessed
- Mount Davie (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
February 28, 2025
Renamed
- Draft:Asad Ali Memon renamed to Asad Ali Memon.
Assessed
- Dun Fiunary (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Glentanner Peak (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Mauka Atua (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
February 27, 2025
Reassessed
- Jabal Ferwa (Asir) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Jabal Haraz (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Mount Oates (New Zealand) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Taiaha Peak (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:Umesh Zirpe (talk) removed.