Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Science Fiction! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's science fiction related articles. Article ratings are used within the project 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 {{Science Fiction Project}} banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Science fiction articles by quality and Category:Science fiction articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for a worklist for the project.

How can I get my article rated?

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles?

Any member of WikiProject Science Fiction 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?

If you disagree with a rating on an article you created, 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. If you disagree with a rating on an article you did not create, feel free to change it.

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 Science Fiction}} 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 science fiction articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class science fiction articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class science fiction articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class science fiction articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class science fiction articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class science fiction articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class science fiction articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class science fiction articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class science fiction 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 science fiction pages)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class science fiction pages)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class science fiction pages)		Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class science fiction pages)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class science fiction pages)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class science fiction pages)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class science fiction pages)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class science fiction pages)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class science fiction pages)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed science fiction 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 Science Fiction}} 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 science fiction articles)		Top
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance science fiction articles)		High
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance science fiction articles)		Mid
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance science fiction articles)		Low
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance science fiction articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance science fiction 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.

If you assess a requested article, please strike it off so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Comments are not mandatory and any should be left at the article's talk page; the list below will be wiped periodically; if you registered a request below and it has been fulfilled, please consider coming back and removing it from the list yourself.

• Who? (novel). The importance of this Algis Budrys novel cannot overstated. For the moment, a "mid-importance" assessment would be the least we can do. -The Gnome (talk) 12:42, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• George Edgar Slusser still unassessed despite having already been a DYK. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:31, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Rachel Aaron — science fiction and fantasy author. Article was improved while the subject of an AfD. Consensus was to Keep. Scottyoak2 (talk) 18:39, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Void Star: request assessment of this article I have created. Thanks, M.Kayali (talk) 03:19, 3 September 2017 (UTC).[reply]
• Binary stars in fiction: I removed a large amount of fluff and now it may meet the criteria for C-class. The other associated WikiProjects have been notified. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:34, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• America 3000: I'm a student editor and selected this page as my main project. I've made extensive revisions to the article. Prior to my work the article was considered a Stub. I believe it is now at minimum a 'start'. WillKBeatty (talk) 17:40, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• The Colors of Space: I've added a plot summary and 1 link, making it longer than a typical stub. I'd like to know if it can be considered start-class. Thanks, Pastychomper (talk) 12:18, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• The Unbalancing: requesting assessment of this article for the novel The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg. CorundumCat (talk) 13:01, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Science Fiction 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.

• The Keeper (short story) renamed to The Keeper.

• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• The War of the Worlds (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Roddenberry Archive (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• The Keeper (Piper short story) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Balmukund Sharma Bhardwaj (talk) removed.

• Cosmic Commuter (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• The Anomaly renamed to Anomaly.

• Strange New Worlds (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:3 Friends Comics (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Fantaspoa (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• FilmQuest (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• The Anomaly (film) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Laura Lam renamed to L. R. Lam.

• Cyberpunk (album) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from GA-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)

• Dream Factory (short story) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• L. R. Lam (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 renamed to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4.

• Faster-than-light communication (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Glory Lane (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
• Mad scientists in the works of Stanisław Lem (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Robots in the works of Stanisław Lem (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Welcome to Forever (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• File:Phase II Enterprise.jpg (talk) removed.
• File:USS Enterprise (XCV 330).jpg (talk) removed.

• Superluminal communication renamed to Faster-than-light communication.

• Faster-than-light communication (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:No Gods, No Monsters renamed to No Gods, No Monsters.

• Benjanun Sriduangkaew (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Sad Puppies (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
• Ïan Larue (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Gremlins 3 (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Nadia Chonville (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Draft:The Sun Eater (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Conversion reactor (talk) removed.
• Draft:Philidelphia Experiment (talk) removed.
• Spacesuits in fiction (talk) removed.