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

After assessing an article's quality, 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 Western Asia}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Western Asia| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

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

Unassessed. I ahve made the article taking stringent precautions so as to adhere to the best practices. I wish to see the article being given a FA rating, It has all the information needed in a precise manner and mantains neutrality. However I wish to see if others feel the same! --Pranav (talk) 14:07, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

• Ayioi Omoloyites, Nicosia renamed to Agioi Omologites, Nicosia.

• Hamza of Ramadan (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
• King Hussein Business Park (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Origins of agriculture in West Asia (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Agioi Omologites, Nicosia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Arts in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Books critical of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Broadcasting in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Buildings and structures in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Censorship in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Cinema of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Culture of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Deaf culture in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Defunct mass media in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Defunct newspapers published in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Defunct political parties in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Defunct radio stations in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Documentary films about Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Emirati industrial engineers (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Entertainment in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Films about the Israel Defense Forces (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Films set in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Historiography of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:History books about Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israel in fiction (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israeli award winners (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israeli awards (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israeli cuisine (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israeli mass media people (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israeli television people (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Israeli television shows (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Madad Chobanov (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Mass media companies of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Musicals set in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Novels set in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:People executed by the Fatimid Caliphate (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:People from the Fatimid Caliphate (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Political history of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Prisoners and detainees of the Fatimid Caliphate (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Propaganda in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Religion in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Sabaean colonization of Africa (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Sharhabil Ya'fur (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Society of Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Songs about Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Sports television in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Television channels in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Television news in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Television organizations in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Television shows filmed in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Television shows set in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Turkologists (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Video games set in Acre, Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Video games set in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Video games set in Jerusalem (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Works about Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Works set in Israel (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Origins of agriculture in the Near East renamed to Origins of agriculture in West Asia.

• Khasab (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Madha (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Kaak el Abbas (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Origins of agriculture in West Asia (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:1989 in Syrian sport (talk) removed.
• Dema Wa Thaieen (talk) removed.

• Abbasid Revolution (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
• Fatima Abou Gahas (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Bethany J. Walker (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

• Abbasid revolution renamed to Abbasid Revolution.
• Origins of agriculture in West Asia renamed to Origins of agriculture in the Near East.

• Abbasid Revolution (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:Historical events in Lebanon (talk) removed.
• Category:Historical events in Saudi Arabia (talk) removed.
• Category:Mines in Cyprus (talk) removed.