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FA	A	GA	B	C	Start	Stub	FL	List	Category	Disambig	Draft	File	Portal	Project	Redirect	Template	NA	???	Total
59	0	180	1,169	3,895	10,290	5,997	7	275	1,800	121	140	141	14	82	2,257	347	29	127	26,930

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Physics articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 11 18 22 8 59 FL 2 4 1 7 GA 20 37 55 68 180 B 108 269 443 347 2 1,169 C 102 539 1,285 1,914 55 3,895 Start 432 2,770 6,812 276 10,290 Stub 674 5,274 49 5,997 List 5 25 81 164 275 Category 1,800 1,800 Disambig 121 121 File 141 141 Portal 14 14 Project 82 82 Redirect 1 107 357 1,785 2,250 Template 346 346 NA 2 2 Other 140 140 Assessed 248 1,321 5,441 14,947 4,429 382 26,768 Unassessed 2 125 127 Total 248 1,321 5,441 14,949 4,429 507 26,895 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 106,879 Ω = 4.95

• List of the 500 most popular physics pages, updated monthly.
• Recent changes to those pages

• Assess the quality and importance of "unassessed" articles
• Re-assess the quality and importance of "Mid" and "Low" importance articles

A scale for rating the quality of Wikipedia articles with detailed description can be found at Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment.

• Top: Fundamental and famous physics. Any physics article listed in Wikipedia:Vital articlesorWikipedia:Core topics - 1,000.
• High: Important or famous. Something an undergraduate physics major could have heard of or studied.
• Mid: Cover articles that pretty much only people in the know heard about, while not being over-specialized.
• Low: Everything else

People[edit]

• Top: People who made fundamental or very famous contributions to physics in general.

  Examples: Albert Einstein (foundation of special and general relativity), Marie Curie (discovery of radioactivity), Niels Bohr (Bohr's model), Ernest Rutherford (discovery of the nucleus), James Chadwick (discovery of neutron), Richard Feynman (foundation of quantum electrodynamics), Isaac Newton (foundation of classical mechanics), Galileo Galilei (use of the telescope for astronomy, amongst other things), Nicolaus Copernicus (Copernican model), Johannes Kepler (Kepler's Laws), James Clerk Maxwell (Maxwell's Equations)...

• High: People who made major or famous contributions within their field (usually, but not always, people with effects or experiments named after them).

  Examples: Walter H. Schottky, Michael Faraday, all physics Nobel Prize laureates (other than those already in "Top") and those who won other Nobel prizes that are physics related, ...

• Mid: Generally people who made important contributions to their fields who are recognized by their peers. All physicists who won major prizes or awards besides the Nobel Prize. All physicists who developed or invented widely used techniques within physics.

  Examples: Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock (Hartree–Fock method), Robert H. Dicke (lock-in amplifiers), Karl D. Swartzel Jr. (op-amps), ...

Topics[edit]

• Top: The Physics article, along with major divisions of theory (e.g., List of basic physics topics) and research:

  Examples: Classical electrodynamics, Classical mechanics, Quantum mechanics, General relativity, Optics, Solid state physics, Condensed matter physics, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics, ...

  • Particle constituents of ordinary matter and light: Proton, neutron, electron, subatomic particle, elementary particle, quark and photon

• High: Important topics within "top importance fields":

  Examples:

  • Classical Mechanics: Torque, Centripetal force, Centrifugal force, Coriolis force, ...
  • Classical Electrodynamics: Electric field, Magnetic field, Lorentz force, ...
  • Thermodynamics: Pressure, Enthalpy, Fermi–Dirac distribution, Bose–Einstein distribution...
  • Solid-state physics: Band theory, Crystallography, Doping, Diode, phonon, ...
  • Quantum field theory: Symmetry, Feynman diagrams, CPT invariance, ...
  • Physical Constants: Elementary charge, Planck's constant, fine-structure constant, speed of light, ...
  • Elementary Particles: Leptons, force carriers, hadrons (baryons, mesons), atoms, neutrinos, the individual quarks, antimatter...

• Mid: Subdivisions of "high importance" physics categories:

  Examples:

  • Crystallography: Bragg diffraction, Miller indices, Crystal structure, Reciprocal lattice...
  • Optics: Polarization, plane wave, nonlinear optics, Brewster's angle, ...
  • Quantum Electrodynamics: Self-energy, Self-interaction, Yukawa potential,...
  • Particle physics: Most hypothetical elementary particles, most composite particles.
  • Quasiparticles: magnon, soliton, polaron, polariton, ...

• Low: Further subdivisions of fields, disproved or abandoned theories:

  Examples:

  • Particle physics: hypothetical composite particles; hypothetical elementary particle which are not predicted by any currently mainstream theory (e.g. preon).

Experiments[edit]

• Top: Famous experiments, first discoveries of major phenomena, first measurements of a fundamental constant (please update experimental physics accordingly).

  Examples: The Cosmic microwave background radiation and its discovery, Cavendish experiment, Rutherford experiment, Stern–Gerlach experiment, Michelson–Morley experiment, double-slit experiment ...

• High: Common undergraduate experiments, or important or famous industry methods:

  Examples: Franck–Hertz experiment, e/m experiment, Czochralski process, ...

• Mid: Typical experiments performed in "mid importance" topics, famous refinements to the measurements of a fundamental constant or properties of a material, well known industry methods:

  Examples: Z-scan technique

Theories[edit]

• Top: Important and well known theories:

  Examples: Newton's laws, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Maxwell's equations, Special relativity, Standard Model, Atomic theory, ...

• High:

  Examples: Ising model, Band theory, Brownian motion, ...

• Mid:

  Examples: Drude model, Sommerfeld model, Debye model, Einstein model,

Equations[edit]

• Top: Key equations of top rated theories. Very well known equations.

  Examples: E = mc²

• High: Major or famous equations:

  Examples: Bernoulli's principle, Archimedes' principle

• Mid:

  Examples: Drag equation

Institutions[edit]

• Top:

  Examples: CERN

• High: Major or famous institutes and laboratories:

  Examples: LHC, Fermilab, Bell Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...

• Mid:

  Examples: KEK

Publications[edit]

• Top: None
• High: Famous landmark papers and publications.

  Examples: Einstein's Annus Mirabilis papers, Newton's Principia, ...

• Mid:High impact physics journals. Books famous enough to be known by their author only to most of the physics community. Famous popular science publications.

  Examples: Classical Electrodynamics, Course of Theoretical Physics, Physical Review, A Brief History of Time, The Elegant Universe, ...

Equipment[edit]

• Top: Very important instruments, which entire fields of science are based on:

  Examples: Laser, spectrograph, particle accelerator...

• High: Important instruments

  Examples: Multimeter, Cyclotron, Oscilloscope, Weighing scale, ...

• Mid: Important instruments within specialized fields:

  Examples: E-beam, Magnetic sensor, ...

Miscellaneous[edit]

• Top: Fundamental or very famous physics and physics related topics

  Examples: elementary charge, mass, force, momentum, energy, entropy ...

• Top: Important elements:

  Hydrogen (simplest), carbon (biochemistry), oxygen (breathing), silicon (electronics), uranium (nuclear power) ...

• Top: Top X visited sites

  Examples: Most will also be represented already, but it is a good check

• High: Major or famous phenomena

  Examples: Ultraviolet catastrophe, Cherenkov radiation, Interference, Rayleigh scattering, free-fall, refraction, gravitational lens ...

• High: Common units

  Examples: Those listed in the articles SI base units, SI derived units, and cgs, plus others such as electronvolt, ...

• Mid:

  Examples:

Lists[edit]

• Top: Lists of "fundamental" stuff:

  Examples:

  • List of physical constants
  • List of elementary particles
  • List of atoms
  • List of quasiparticles

• High: List of physicists.
• High: List of SI, cgs, and non-SI units approved by the BIPM.
• Mid: Lists of "important" stuff:

  Examples:

  • List of material-specific constants
  • Lists of material-specific properties
  • Lists of isotopes by elements

Reviewing Cheatsheet[edit]

The following highlights current issues. Feel free to either add the issues you've identified, or to strike them as they've been resolved.

• Add/Expand :

• The following sections needs to be expanded/created :

• Lead
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• References
• Lists
• See also

• Disambiguation :

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• The following pages should redirect here :

• Consider referring these section to a main article :

• The following elements may be too technical for the casual reader, consider defining and explaining them to non-experts:

• Merge/Split :

• Consider merging or splitting these sections with another article, or merging another article's section with this one (give reason):

• Infoboxes and Navboxes :

• The following navboxes and infoboxes could be useful :

• WikiProject Physics templates (browse)
• Physics navboxes (browse)
• {{Nobel Prize in Physics}}
• {{Infobox Scientist}}
• {{Infobox Particle}}

• Update :

• These sections or statements are out of date :

• Cleanup

• Article MoS Compliance :

• Acronyms and abbreviations are spelled out on first use
• Appropriate use of reference templates
• En dashes, em dashes, hyphens, and minus signs are properly used
• External Links
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• Captioned
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• Layout
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• MoS (mathematics) compliance
• Overlink
• See also
• Trivia sections

• Copyediting :

• The following sections needs to be copyedited (give reason) :

• Wikilink :

• The following elements needs to be wikilinked :

• People
• Experiments
• First use of units
• Do not wikilink/autoformat dates and years. Consider placing a link to pages such as 2003 in Physics in the "See Also" section rather than writing "Jimmy Longshort discovered this phenomena on January 15, 2003".

• Verify :

• The following needs to be verified :

• Values of the various constant and measurements
• Factual accuracy
• References
• Name of the article
• Up-to-date-ness

• Problems:

• The following problems have been identified :

• Neutrality is compromised
• Minority views are given too much exposure
• Weasel words and peacock terms
• Editorial feel
• Use of other Wikipedia articles as references

• Talk Page :

• Please structure and clean up the talk page according to this:

• Archive old and irrelevant discussions
• Consider structuring discussion according to "topics"
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• Update importance and rating

• Categorize

• Make sure the article is properly categorized :

• Browse Category:Physics, to find other categories
• Do not overcategorize
• Categorize alphabetically

• Copyright :

• The following elements are copyrighted and are not fair use.

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