Welcome to the assessment departmentofWikiProject Albums. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's album 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 Albums}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Album articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist (Index · Statistics · Log).
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please place it at the bottom of the section for assessment requests below, using the syntax:
# {{la|ArticleName}} ~~~~
with an edit summary of "Nominating [[ArticleName]]". Please note that articles can only be given a rating up to B-class here. For Good Article class and higher, more formal reviews are needed (see table above for details).
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 {{Album}} banner on its talk page:
This optional parameter records the Project quality assessment rating currently assigned to the particular article on whose talkpage the project banner appears.
If unassigned, or an invalid value is given, the parameter defaults to "unassigned" and the template places the talkpage into Category:Unassessed Album articles.
The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.
Valid values for this parameter, their associated meanings and categories are given in the table below. Values should be typed as shown (e.g. |class=GA ):
| Value | Use for | Adds article to the category | What it looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| For articles | |||
| FA | Featured articles | FA-Class Album articles |  FA
|
| FL | Featured lists | FL-Class Album articles | FL
|
| A | A-class articles | A-Class Album articles |  A
|
| GA | Good articles | GA-Class Album articles |  GA
|
| B | B-class articles | B-Class Album articles | B |
| C | C-class articles | C-Class Album articles | C |
| Start | Start-class articles | Start-Class Album articles | Start |
| Stub | Stub-class articles | Stub-Class Album articles | Stub |
| List | List-class articles | List-Class Album articles | List |
| Future | Articles on future topics, for example an album yet to be released. | Future-Class Album articles | Future |
| For non-article pages | |||
| CategoryorCat | Categories | Category-Class Album articles | Category |
| DisambigorDab | Disambiguation pages | Disambig-Class Album articles | Disambig |
| Draft | Drafts that are part of the project. | Draft-Class Album articles | Draft |
| File | Image, sound, and other media files | File-Class Album articles | File |
| Portal | Pages that are part of the Albums Portal namespace. | Portal-Class Album articles | Portal |
| Project | Pages that are part of WikiProject Albums namespace. | Project-Class Album articles | Project |
| Redirect | Pages that exist only as redirects. | Redirect-Class Album articles | Redirect |
| Template | Templates that are part of the project and portal. | Template-Class Album articles | Template |
| NA | Any other pages that are not articles or where assessment is unnecessary. | NA-Class Album articles | NA |
| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA {{FA-Class}} |
The article has attained Featured article status. This is not assessed by this project; the article must have passed the FA review process.
|
Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Too Much Too Soon (as of June 2020) | ||
| FL {{FL-Class}} |
The article has attained Featured list status. This is not assessed by this project; the article must have passed the FL review process.
|
List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom (as of June 2020) | ||||
| A {{A-Class}} |
Not used by this project | NA | NA | NA | ||
| GA {{GA-Class}} |
The article has attained Good article status. This is not assessed by this project; the article must have passed the GA review process.
|
Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | Some editing by album and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured album article may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (as of June 2020) | ||
| B {{B-Class}} |
The article is mostly complete and without major issues, meeting the six B-Class criteria. It should have all of the C-Class criteria as well as:
|
Most readers should feel satisfied by the content, although it may not satisfy more expert readers. There are no obvious omissions, but also no obvious extraneous information—such as "trivia". The article flows well and logically. | While a few aspects of content and style may need to be addressed, the article overall complies with tone and content guidelines. | Platinum (as of June 2020) | ||
| C {{C-Class}} |
The article is substantial and has some references to reliable sources, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. It should have all the Start-Class criteria as well as:
|
A casual reader should learn something about the album. | Possible subjects to include are the events leading up to its recording, stories of its recording and release, critical reception, reception by fans or its influence in the music world. Alternately, descriptions of the songs and the album in general may be included. | This Is Jan Howard Country (as of June 2020) | ||
| Start {{Start-Class}} |
An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and lacks adequate reliable sources. It should have:
|
Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. | Nadha (as of June 2020) | ||
| Stub {{Stub-Class}} |
A very basic description of the album. Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a title and track listing. | Possibly useful to someone who is not familiar with the album, but may be useless to a reader who is passingly familiar with the album. | Editors should place a stub template at the bottom of the article, just above the categories (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Stub templates and categories). Focus should be on expanding the lead section, adding an infobox, and fleshing out the basic details of the album. | Breaking Sensation (as of June 2020) | ||
| List {{List-Class}} |
Used for stand-alone list articles such as discographies, until such time as they have passed the FL review process and can be marked as Featured lists. | The organization of the list should be logical and useful to the reader. | The list should be organized and follow a logical format. Discography articles should follow the standards of WikiProject Discographies. | List of Excel demos (as of June 2020) |
Note that there was an importance assessment for several years, but this was removed by consensus in early 2023. You may still find talk page tags that include importance=foo, but this is not functional.
To get an article in the scope of WikiProject Albums assessed on quality, you may list a request.
An automatically generated log of assessments is available at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Album articles by quality log. Please don't change anything in the log manually.
List of top articles with the most frequent views, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Popular pages, updated monthly.
