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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Comics! Here's what you need to know:
Each article in this project should have a quality rating and an importance rating. The quality rating is an estimate of how good the article is at describing its subject, looking at whether it covers the subject thoroughly, whether it is sourced by reliable sources, and so on. The importance rating is an estimate of how important the article is to the project, that is, how many readers might be interested and how core it is to understanding the subject of comics.
The ratings for each page appear on its Talk page in the {{WikiProject Comics}} project banner. This allows automatic analysis in tools like the WP 1.0 tool and places articles in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Comics articles by quality and Category:Comics articles by importance.
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Comics}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Comics|class=???}}
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 Comics articles) | ![]() |
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A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Comics articles) | ![]() |
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GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Comics articles) | ![]() |
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B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Comics articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Comics articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Comics articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Comics articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Comics articles) | ![]() |
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List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Comics 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 Comics articles) | Category | |
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Comics articles) | Disambig | |
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Comics articles) | Draft | |
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Comics articles) | File | |
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Comics articles) | Portal | |
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Comics articles) | Project | |
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Comics articles) | Redirect | |
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Comics articles) | Template | |
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Comics articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Comics articles) | ??? |
The scale for assessments is defined at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. Articles are divided into the following categories.
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
Afeatured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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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. | Tintin in Tibet |
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The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of Smallville episodes |
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The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
Agood article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Alex Raymond |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Garfield |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | 2000 AD (comics) |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Q Force |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Action Girl Comics |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone listorset index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of comic books |
Category | Any category falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:Comics stubs |
Disambig | Any disambiguation page falls under this class. | The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. | Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | DC Universe (disambiguation) |
File | Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. | The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:John Byrne.JPG |
Portal | Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. | Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date. | Portal:Comics |
Project | All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class. | Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development. | Develop these pages into collaborative resources that are useful for improving articles within the project. | Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Marvel Comics work group |
Redirect | Any redirect falls under this class. | The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged with the original article at this location. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that articles are not mis-classified as redirects, and that redirects are not mis-classified as articles. | Martha Kent |
Template | Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes. | Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. | Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:WikiProject Comics |
NA | Any non-article page that fits no other classification. | The page contains no article content. | Look out for misclassified articles. Currently, many NA-class articles may need to be re-classified. | Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates |
These criteria apply to general-content articles. The manual of Style guide provides additional sorts of content and formatting should be provided for certain articles.
Each comics-related article has its assessment included within the {{WikiProject Comics}} template, such as {{WikiProject Comics|class=B}}. This provides automatic categorization within Category:Comics articles by quality. Note that the class parameter is case-specific; see the template's documentation for more information.
If you want an article's quality rating assessed or reassessed, especially if it's one you worked on, please add it to the list below.
If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> and note your rating here so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!
Past assessments are located on this page. If you delete a striked-through article from the list, please remember to put it in the archive.
Add new requests at the bottom.
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Comics}} 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 Comics articles) | Top | |
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Comics articles) | High | |
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Comics articles) | Mid | |
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Comics articles) | Low | |
Bottom (adds articles to Category:Bottom-importance Comics articles) | Bottom | |
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Comics articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Comics articles) | ??? |
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 Comics.
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 a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it provides key information about a major topic that is fundamental to a study of the subject. | Comics |
High | This article is very important to the project, as it covers either a general area of knowledge or provides information about a significant topic. | DC Universe |
Mid | This article is relatively important to the project, as it provides more specific knowledge of areas that a serious reader would need to understand. | Alley Oop |
Low | This article is significant but has limited importance to the project, as it expands the reader's overall knowledge of the subject into areas of general interest. | Sigil_(comics) |
Bottom | This article has no real significance to the project, but it covers additional topics of general or specific interest, some of which could be described as trivia, though all are notable in their own right. Others may be articles of high importance to another project that have an indirect connection with comics. The category was created by the WikiProject to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. In addition it serves to separate trivia from articles of low but significant importance. | Avengers: Age of Ultron (soundtrack) |
NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | Category:Comics |
??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. | ??? |
If you want an article's importance rating assessed or reassessed, especially if it's one you worked on, please add it to the list below.
If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> and note your rating here so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!
Past assessments are located on this page. If you delete a striked-through article from the list, please remember to put it in the archive.
Add new requests at the bottom.
There are some automatic systems that try to identify incorrectly assessed pages. Category:Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Comics articles and Category:Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Comics articles output lists of these pages. Reasons for this include:
As of 14 July 2024, there are 21,935 articles within the scope of WikiProject Comics, of which 79 are featured. This makes up 0.33% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.73% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 58,051 pages in the project.
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