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BCAD is now closed. Your help has been very much appreciated.
Welcome to BCAD - the Military history WikiProject initiative for experienced wiki-gnomes to check and evaluate Milhist B-Class articles against the Milhist B-Class criteria.
Important note: Very new editors should be aware that this drive is more complicated than it may appear at first sight. You will need to make many judgement calls, based on a couple of months familiarity with Wikipedia articles. Without this, errors will creep in and you will succeed only in annoying and alienating the many editors who have worked hard on the articles that we are re-assessing. If you have doubts about your experience, try assessing some of the articles at Category:Military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists before signing up for this drive. They will give you a good idea of what to expect.
Last year, we changed the B-Class assessment system. We introduced a five-point checklist: each criterion needs to be fulfilled for the article to be promoted. This checklist is an integral part of the display text of the {{WPMILHIST}} template. In summary, these criteria are that the article:
However, the {{WPMILHIST}} template also enables editors to set articles as B-Class by inserting |class=B and without completing the criteria parameters.
The objective of this drive is to ensure (1) that all five criteria parameters are accurately completed and (2) that articles not fulfilling all five criteria are re-graded to Start- or Stub-class.
The drive will run until all B-Class articles in Worklist A are assessed. We do not expect this to take more than four weeks.
As a token of our appreciation for your efforts, we will be presenting the awards illustrated below. They will be awarded accumulatively. That is, if you assess 600 articles, you will receive the One Stripe, Two Stripe and Three Stripe awards. These will be awarded automatically at the end of the drive, based on your final tally. The editor with the highest tally overall will also be awarded a Golden Wiki.
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First, open the article's talk page to edit it and go to the {{WPMILHIST|class=B}} tag at the head of the page. This will show you something like this:
{{WPMILHIST
|class=
<!-- B-Class checklist -->
<!-- 1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations. -->
|B-Class-1= yes/no
<!-- 2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. -->
|B-Class-2= yes/no
<!-- 3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. -->
|B-Class-3= yes/no
<!-- 4. It is free from major grammatical errors. -->
|B-Class-4= yes/no
<!-- 5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. -->
|B-Class-5= yes/no
}}
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If the B-Class criteria text is missing from the talk page (it may have been edited out), simply enter the text above into the Milhist template parameters. You can cut and paste it either from here or from the text displayed by clicking on the "show" button of the Milhist banner.
For an article to be B-Class, all five criteria must be "=yes". If they are not yet set, edit the five criteria parameters to show either yes or no, based on whether each criterion meets the required standard.
You are expected to use your judgement in deciding whether or not a criterion is fulfilled. What, for example, does "reasonably referenced" in criteria B1 mean? In practice, an article with few citations, especially if has an entire section without citations, will usually fail this criterion.
Elsewhere, in B4, you will need to decide what "major grammatical errors" means. Again, in practice, we are looking for reasonably written and clear English. If the text contains many sentence fragments, large numbers of typos, and clearly needs a heavy copy-edit to make sense of it, then fail it. Do not fail it because it mixes American and English spellings, or needs a light copy-edit.
Similarly, in B5, the article is required to have "appropriate supporting materials". In practice, if an article contains no graphic material at all, it will fail the B5 criterion.
In borderline cases, please leave a message either on the talk page of one of the drive coordinators or on the drive's talk page for a second opinion. Similarly, editors who are disagree with your assessment should be asked to contact the drive coordinators or leave a message on the drive's talk page for a second opinion.
Milhist's B-Class criteria differ from those used by some other projects. Where articles are tagged to several projects, base your assessment solely on the Milhist criteria. Do not worry if your re-assessment puts the Milhist assessment out of step with assessments made by other projects.
After you have finished each ten-article sub-section on the worksheet, please mark it completed by adding <s> after the first # and </s> after the tenth entry.
Please add your name below, in alphabetical order, together with a running total (tally) of articles worked on. This tally should include articles that you have evaluated and needed no changes, and those that you re-assessed, and will be the basis for awards. To make it easier to pick up where you leave off, and to avoid edit conflicts, please "adopt a range" in the Worklists below.
The worklists below include just over 3500 Milhist articles currently assessed as B-Class (Worklist A) and 4000 articles whose B-Class criteria are incomplete (Worklist B). Each worklist range includes 200 articles, divided into 20 sub-sections each of 10 articles. To adopt a range, simply type your name, using the [[User:Your name|Your name]] format. Please do not include graphic versions of your username as they can break the table's formatting.
After you have completed five sub-sections, type "done" in the space provided, and repeat until you have completed the range. Do not use the graphic templates - {{done}}or{{doing}} as they seriously slow down loading the page.
Please do not adopt more than one range at a time. Take on a new range only after you have completed the previous one. If you find yourself unable to complete your range, please let the drive coordinators know so that the remaining articles in the range can be finished by another participant. Your tally will be credited in full for the work done.
Please note that, for B-class, articles must have adequate inline citations. An uncited list of references isn't enough.
The template text has been updated to clarify this.
| Range adopted | Editor's name | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 |
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| 1–200 | SGGH (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 201–400 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 401–600 | Harland1 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 601–800 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 801–1000 | Smsarmad (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 1001–1200 | Milk's Favorite Cookie (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 1201–1400 | Mifter (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 1401–1600 | Legotech (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 1601–1800 | MBK004 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 1801–2000 | jj137 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 2001–2200 | Kyriakos (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 2201–2400 | MBK004 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 2401–2600 | Stormtracker94 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Doing |
| 2601–2800 | Harland1 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 2801–3000 | Cplakidas (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 3001–3200 | Mifter (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 3201–3400 | MBK004 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 3401–3549 | Woody (t c) | Done | Done | Done | N/A |
| Range adopted | Editor's name | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 |
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| 4001–4200 | YellowAssessmentMonkey (t c) aka User:Blnguyen |
Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 4201–4400 | Patar knight (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 4401–4600 | Fattyjwoods (t c) | Doing | |||
| 4601–4800 | Cplakidas (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 4801–5000 | Narson (t c) | Done | Done | ||
| 5001–5200 | Harland1 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 5201–5400 | Gaia Octavia Agrippa (t c) | Done | Doing | ||
| 5401–5600 | Balloonguy (t c) | Done | Doing | ||
| 5601–5800 | Milk's Favorite Cookie (t c) | ||||
| 5801–6000 | glennfcowan (t c) | Done | Doing | ||
| 6001–6200 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 6201–6400 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 6401–6600 | Harland1 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 6601–6800 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 6801–7000 | Oldwildbill (t c) | Doing | |||
| 7001–7200 | Smsarmad (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 7201–7400 | Legotech (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 7401–7600 | Redmarkviolinist (t c) | Done | Doing | ||
| 7601–7800 | MBK004 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 7801–8000 | Flubeca (t c) | ||||
| 8001–8200 | Daniel (t c) | Done | Done | Doing | |
| 8201–8400 | Dreamafter (t c) | Doing | |||
| 8401–8600 | Wandalstouring (t c) | Done | Done | Doing | |
| 8601–8800 | Smsarmad (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 8801–9000 | Kyriakos (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Doing |
| 9001–9200 | Legotech (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 9201–9400 | Smsarmad (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 9401–9600 | Raoulduke47 (t c) | Doing | |||
| 9601–9800 | Smsarmad (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 9801–10000 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 10000–10200 | Harlsbottom (t c) | Doing | |||
| 10201–10400 | Smsarmad (t c) | ||||
| 10401–10600 | Harland1 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 10601–10800 | Harland1 (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 10801–11000 | jwillbur (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 11001–11200 | Legotech (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 11201–11400 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 11401–11600 | Harland1 (t c) | Done | |||
| 11601–11800 | Ed! (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 11801–12000 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 12001–12200 | Legotech (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 12201–11400 | Climie.ca (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 12401–12600 | Ed! (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 12601–12800 | Ed! (t c) | Done | Done | Doing | |
| 12801–13000 | Legotech (t c) | Done | Done | Done | Done |
