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The assessment department of the Military history WikiProject focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's military history articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The assessment system used by the Military history WikiProject to rate article quality consists of two parallel quality scales; one scale is used to assess regular prose articles, while the other is used to assess lists and similar non-prose articles. The progression of articles along these scales is described in greater detail below.
Prose article | List article | |||||
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Stub | The first stage of an article's evolution is called a stub. A stub is an extremely short article that provides a basic description of the topic at best; it includes very little meaningful content, and may be little more than a dictionary definition. At this stage, it is often impossible to determine whether the topic should be covered by a prose article or a list, so this assessment level is shared between the two scales. | |||||
Start | List | A stub that undergoes some development will progress to the next stage of article evolution. An article at this stage provides some meaningful content, but is typically incomplete and lacks adequate references, structure, and supporting materials. At this stage, it becomes possible to distinguish between prose articles and lists; depending on its form, an article at this level will be assessed as a Start-Class prose article or a List-Class list. | ||||
C | CL | As the article continues to develop, it will reach the C-Class level. At this stage, the article is reasonably structured and contains substantial content and supporting materials, but may still be incomplete or poorly referenced, but not both. As articles progress to this stage, the assessment process begins to take on a more structured form, and specific criteria are introduced against which articles are rated. | ||||
B | BL | An article that reaches the B-Class level is complete in content and structure, adequately referenced, and includes reasonable supporting materials; overall, it provides a satisfactory encyclopedic presentation of the topic for the average reader, although it might not be written to the standard that would be expected by an expert. Articles at this stage commonly undergo peer review to solicit ideas for further improvement. B-Class is the final assessment level that can be reached without undergoing a formal review process, and is a reasonable goal for newer editors. | ||||
GA | After reaching the B-Class level, an article may be submitted for assessment as a good article. Good articles must meet a set of criteria similar to those required for the B-Class assessment level, and must additionally undergo the formal good article review process. This assessment level is available only for prose articles; no comparable level exists for lists. | |||||
A | AL | A good or B-Class article that has undergone additional improvement may be considered for the A-Class assessment level. An A-Class article presents a complete and thorough encyclopedic treatment of a subject, such as might be written by an expert in the field; the only deficiencies permissible at this level are minor issues of style or language. To receive an A-Class rating, a candidate article must undergo the formal military history A-Class review process. The A-Class rating is the highest assessment level that may be assigned by an individual WikiProject; higher assessment levels are granted only by Wikipedia-wide independent assessment processes. | ||||
FA | FL | The featured article and featured list ratings represent the pinnacle of article evolution and the best that Wikipedia has to offer; an article at this level is professional, outstanding, and represents a definitive source for encyclopedic information. Featured status is assigned only through a thorough independent review process; this process can be grueling for the unprepared, and editors are highly advised to submit articles for A-Class review prior to nominating them for featured status. | ||||
The following tables summarize the criteria used to assess articles at each level of the quality assessment scale. In addition to the criteria, the tables list the assessment process used at each level and provide an example of an article previously assessed at that level.
Class | Criteria | Assessment process | Example | ||
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FA | The article meets all the
featured article criteria.
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Featured article candidacy | USS Chesapeake ( as of October 2021) | ||
A | The article meets all of the
A-Class criteria.
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A-Class review | Spendius ( as of October 2021) | ||
GA | The article meets all of the
good article criteria.
|
Good article review | Punic Wars ( as of October 2021) | ||
B | The article meets all of the
B-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | American Civil War ( as of January 2024) | ||
C | The article meets B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5 of the
B-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | Yellow Turban Rebellion ( as of October 2021) | ||
Start | The article meets the Start-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | Battle of Monnaie ( as of October 2021) | ||
Stub | The article meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Individual review | Geng Yan ( as of October 2021) |
Class | Criteria | Assessment process | Example | ||
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FL | The list meets all the
featured list criteria.
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Featured list candidacy | List of protected cruisers of France ( as of October 2021) | ||
AL | The list meets all of the
A-Class criteria.
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A-Class review | List of Partisan detachments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( as of October 2021) | ||
BL | The list meets all of the
B-Class criteria.
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Individual review | List of British colours lost in battle ( as of October 2021) | ||
CL | The list meets B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5 of the
B-Class criteria.
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Individual review | List of participants in the Nine Years' War ( as of October 2021) | ||
List | The list meets the List-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | Atlanta campaign Confederate order of battle, second phase ( as of October 2021) | ||
Stub | The list meets none of the List-Class criteria. | Individual review | List of supercavitating torpedoes ( as of October 2021) |
This section describes the different processes used to assess the quality of military history articles.
The individual review process is used for all assessment activities up to and including the B-Class level. In this process, any editor may review an article against the listed criteria and assign the corresponding quality rating themselves.
Article authors are free to assess their own articles under this process. However, by convention, the final assessment for a B-Class rating is typically left to an independent editor; requests for an independent assessment may be made at the assessment request page.
The peer review process is not used to evaluate an article for a particular assessment level directly; rather, it is a forum where article authors can solicit ideas for further improvements. Peer review is most often requested when an article is at the C-Class or B-Class level; articles at lower levels are typically so incomplete that a meaningful review is impossible, while articles at higher levels go through more formal review processes.
By convention, military history articles are typically listed in the history section of the main peer review request page; however, articles may be listed in other sections if their primary topic lies in another field.
The good article nomination process is an independent review mechanism through which an article receives a "good article" quality rating. The process involves a detailed review of the article by an independent examiner, who determines whether the article meets the good article criteria.
Full instructions for requesting a good article review are provided on the good article review page.
The military history A-Class review process is the most thorough and demanding assessment of article quality done by the Military history WikiProject. An article that undergoes this process must be reviewed by at least three independent examiners, each of whom must agree that the article meets all of the A-Class criteria.
Full instructions for requesting an A-Class review are provided on the A-Class review page.
The featured article candidacy and featured list candidacy processes are an independent, Wikipedia-wide quality assessment mechanism; these processes are the only way an article can receive a "featured" quality rating. The process involves a comprehensive review of the article by multiple independent examiners, all of whom must agree that the article meets the featured article or list criteria.
Full instructions for submitting a featured article or list candidacy are provided on the corresponding candidacy page. Editors are advised to carefully review the submission instructions; failing to follow them correctly may cause the submission to be rejected.
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{ WPMILHIST}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:
The class parameter should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
The following classes may be used for non-article pages; many are automatically generated by the template when it is placed on a page of the corresponding type:
Henry Biard • Battle of Saipan • Fort Corcoran • Sihanouk Trail • Battle of La Haye-du-Puits • Battle of Tinian • Henry Macandrew • Boot Monument • HMS Sardonyx (1919)
Editors can self-assess articles against the five B-class criteria (FAQ) up to and including C-Class. If you have made significant improvements to an article against one or more of B-class criteria and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below, specifying which criteria you have worked on. If you feel unable to assess against one or more of the B-class criteria, please say so when posting. Requests for formal A-Class review should be made at the review department. Please consider entering articles you have improved in the military history article writing contest.
Experienced assessors are encouraged to take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators#AutoCheck report for April and check a few of ≈ B-Class assessments. Feel free to downgrade them if you consider they don't meet one or more the criteria. Please also delete any that you have checked. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Assessment, whose articles often overlap with military history topics.
Please also check the military history assessment backlog for articles needing assessment.
Please help to clear any backlogs of unassessed articles in the following categories:
Articles | Lists | ||
---|---|---|---|
FA | 1,439 | FL | 151 |
A | 670 | AL | 36 |
GA | 5,405 | ||
B | 20,473 | BL | 332 |
C | 63,548 | CL | 997 |
Start | 106,407 | List | 4,021 |
Stub | 27,091 | ||
Total | 225,033 | Total | 5,537 |
Other pages | |||
Category | 45,923 | ||
Disambig | 2,340 | ||
Draft | 357 | ||
File | 4,555 | ||
Portal | 13 | ||
Project | 201 | ||
Redirect | 22,652 | ||
SIA | 5,720 | ||
Template | 8,165 | ||
User | 113 | ||
Total | 90,039 | ||
Unassessed | 5 | ||
Statistics | |||
ω | 1,046,797 | Ω | 4.54 |
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Main page | Discussion |
News & open tasks | Academy | Assessment |
A-Class review | Contest | Awards | Members |
The assessment department of the Military history WikiProject focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's military history articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The assessment system used by the Military history WikiProject to rate article quality consists of two parallel quality scales; one scale is used to assess regular prose articles, while the other is used to assess lists and similar non-prose articles. The progression of articles along these scales is described in greater detail below.
Prose article | List article | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stub | The first stage of an article's evolution is called a stub. A stub is an extremely short article that provides a basic description of the topic at best; it includes very little meaningful content, and may be little more than a dictionary definition. At this stage, it is often impossible to determine whether the topic should be covered by a prose article or a list, so this assessment level is shared between the two scales. | |||||
Start | List | A stub that undergoes some development will progress to the next stage of article evolution. An article at this stage provides some meaningful content, but is typically incomplete and lacks adequate references, structure, and supporting materials. At this stage, it becomes possible to distinguish between prose articles and lists; depending on its form, an article at this level will be assessed as a Start-Class prose article or a List-Class list. | ||||
C | CL | As the article continues to develop, it will reach the C-Class level. At this stage, the article is reasonably structured and contains substantial content and supporting materials, but may still be incomplete or poorly referenced, but not both. As articles progress to this stage, the assessment process begins to take on a more structured form, and specific criteria are introduced against which articles are rated. | ||||
B | BL | An article that reaches the B-Class level is complete in content and structure, adequately referenced, and includes reasonable supporting materials; overall, it provides a satisfactory encyclopedic presentation of the topic for the average reader, although it might not be written to the standard that would be expected by an expert. Articles at this stage commonly undergo peer review to solicit ideas for further improvement. B-Class is the final assessment level that can be reached without undergoing a formal review process, and is a reasonable goal for newer editors. | ||||
GA | After reaching the B-Class level, an article may be submitted for assessment as a good article. Good articles must meet a set of criteria similar to those required for the B-Class assessment level, and must additionally undergo the formal good article review process. This assessment level is available only for prose articles; no comparable level exists for lists. | |||||
A | AL | A good or B-Class article that has undergone additional improvement may be considered for the A-Class assessment level. An A-Class article presents a complete and thorough encyclopedic treatment of a subject, such as might be written by an expert in the field; the only deficiencies permissible at this level are minor issues of style or language. To receive an A-Class rating, a candidate article must undergo the formal military history A-Class review process. The A-Class rating is the highest assessment level that may be assigned by an individual WikiProject; higher assessment levels are granted only by Wikipedia-wide independent assessment processes. | ||||
FA | FL | The featured article and featured list ratings represent the pinnacle of article evolution and the best that Wikipedia has to offer; an article at this level is professional, outstanding, and represents a definitive source for encyclopedic information. Featured status is assigned only through a thorough independent review process; this process can be grueling for the unprepared, and editors are highly advised to submit articles for A-Class review prior to nominating them for featured status. | ||||
The following tables summarize the criteria used to assess articles at each level of the quality assessment scale. In addition to the criteria, the tables list the assessment process used at each level and provide an example of an article previously assessed at that level.
Class | Criteria | Assessment process | Example | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
FA | The article meets all the
featured article criteria.
|
Featured article candidacy | USS Chesapeake ( as of October 2021) | ||
A | The article meets all of the
A-Class criteria.
|
A-Class review | Spendius ( as of October 2021) | ||
GA | The article meets all of the
good article criteria.
|
Good article review | Punic Wars ( as of October 2021) | ||
B | The article meets all of the
B-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | American Civil War ( as of January 2024) | ||
C | The article meets B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5 of the
B-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | Yellow Turban Rebellion ( as of October 2021) | ||
Start | The article meets the Start-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | Battle of Monnaie ( as of October 2021) | ||
Stub | The article meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Individual review | Geng Yan ( as of October 2021) |
Class | Criteria | Assessment process | Example | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
FL | The list meets all the
featured list criteria.
|
Featured list candidacy | List of protected cruisers of France ( as of October 2021) | ||
AL | The list meets all of the
A-Class criteria.
|
A-Class review | List of Partisan detachments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( as of October 2021) | ||
BL | The list meets all of the
B-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | List of British colours lost in battle ( as of October 2021) | ||
CL | The list meets B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5 of the
B-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | List of participants in the Nine Years' War ( as of October 2021) | ||
List | The list meets the List-Class criteria.
|
Individual review | Atlanta campaign Confederate order of battle, second phase ( as of October 2021) | ||
Stub | The list meets none of the List-Class criteria. | Individual review | List of supercavitating torpedoes ( as of October 2021) |
This section describes the different processes used to assess the quality of military history articles.
The individual review process is used for all assessment activities up to and including the B-Class level. In this process, any editor may review an article against the listed criteria and assign the corresponding quality rating themselves.
Article authors are free to assess their own articles under this process. However, by convention, the final assessment for a B-Class rating is typically left to an independent editor; requests for an independent assessment may be made at the assessment request page.
The peer review process is not used to evaluate an article for a particular assessment level directly; rather, it is a forum where article authors can solicit ideas for further improvements. Peer review is most often requested when an article is at the C-Class or B-Class level; articles at lower levels are typically so incomplete that a meaningful review is impossible, while articles at higher levels go through more formal review processes.
By convention, military history articles are typically listed in the history section of the main peer review request page; however, articles may be listed in other sections if their primary topic lies in another field.
The good article nomination process is an independent review mechanism through which an article receives a "good article" quality rating. The process involves a detailed review of the article by an independent examiner, who determines whether the article meets the good article criteria.
Full instructions for requesting a good article review are provided on the good article review page.
The military history A-Class review process is the most thorough and demanding assessment of article quality done by the Military history WikiProject. An article that undergoes this process must be reviewed by at least three independent examiners, each of whom must agree that the article meets all of the A-Class criteria.
Full instructions for requesting an A-Class review are provided on the A-Class review page.
The featured article candidacy and featured list candidacy processes are an independent, Wikipedia-wide quality assessment mechanism; these processes are the only way an article can receive a "featured" quality rating. The process involves a comprehensive review of the article by multiple independent examiners, all of whom must agree that the article meets the featured article or list criteria.
Full instructions for submitting a featured article or list candidacy are provided on the corresponding candidacy page. Editors are advised to carefully review the submission instructions; failing to follow them correctly may cause the submission to be rejected.
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{ WPMILHIST}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:
The class parameter should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
The following classes may be used for non-article pages; many are automatically generated by the template when it is placed on a page of the corresponding type:
Henry Biard • Battle of Saipan • Fort Corcoran • Sihanouk Trail • Battle of La Haye-du-Puits • Battle of Tinian • Henry Macandrew • Boot Monument • HMS Sardonyx (1919)
Editors can self-assess articles against the five B-class criteria (FAQ) up to and including C-Class. If you have made significant improvements to an article against one or more of B-class criteria and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below, specifying which criteria you have worked on. If you feel unable to assess against one or more of the B-class criteria, please say so when posting. Requests for formal A-Class review should be made at the review department. Please consider entering articles you have improved in the military history article writing contest.
Experienced assessors are encouraged to take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators#AutoCheck report for April and check a few of ≈ B-Class assessments. Feel free to downgrade them if you consider they don't meet one or more the criteria. Please also delete any that you have checked. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Assessment, whose articles often overlap with military history topics.
Please also check the military history assessment backlog for articles needing assessment.
Please help to clear any backlogs of unassessed articles in the following categories:
Articles | Lists | ||
---|---|---|---|
FA | 1,439 | FL | 151 |
A | 670 | AL | 36 |
GA | 5,405 | ||
B | 20,473 | BL | 332 |
C | 63,548 | CL | 997 |
Start | 106,407 | List | 4,021 |
Stub | 27,091 | ||
Total | 225,033 | Total | 5,537 |
Other pages | |||
Category | 45,923 | ||
Disambig | 2,340 | ||
Draft | 357 | ||
File | 4,555 | ||
Portal | 13 | ||
Project | 201 | ||
Redirect | 22,652 | ||
SIA | 5,720 | ||
Template | 8,165 | ||
User | 113 | ||
Total | 90,039 | ||
Unassessed | 5 | ||
Statistics | |||
ω | 1,046,797 | Ω | 4.54 |
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