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The assessment department of WikiProject Germany focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to Germany. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program,

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Germany}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Germany articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 FAQ 2 Assessment instructions 2.1 Quality scale 2.2 Importance scale 3 Statistics 3.1 Current status 3.2 Task force statistics 4 Log 5 Requests for assessment

FAQ

See also the general assessment FAQ.

1. What is the purpose of the article ratings? 

The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content. Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.

2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject? 

Just add {{WikiProject Germany}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.

3. Someone put a {{WikiProject Germany}} template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do? 

Because of the large number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the talk page of this department (or directly with the person who tagged the article).

4. Who can assess articles? 

Any member of the Germany WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.

5. How do I rate an article? 

Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.

6. Can I request that someone else rate an article? 

Of course; to do so, please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

7. Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? 

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.

8. What if I don't agree with a rating? 

You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.

9. Aren't the ratings subjective? 

Yes, they are somewhat subjective, but it's the best system we've been able to devise. If you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

10. What if I have a question not listed here? 

If your question concerns the article assessment process specifically, please refer to the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page.

Assessment instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Germany}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{WikiProject Germany| ... | class=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Germany articles)
• FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class Germany articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Germany articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Germany articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Germany articles)
• C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Germany articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Germany articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Germany articles)
• Needed (for articles that do not yet exist but have been identified as subjects that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class Germany articles)

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

• Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Germany articles)
• Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class Germany articles)
• Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Germany articles)
• List (for unassessed lists; adds pages to Category:List-Class Germany articles)
• NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Germany pages)

Note that lists are assessed using the same scale as other articles; however, they progress towards featured list rather than featured article status.

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Germany 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 either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Germany articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

Quality scale

Class	Criteria	Formal process	Example
FA	Reserved for articles that meet the featured article criteria and have received featured article status after community review.	Featured article candidates	Battle of Edson's Ridge (as of January 2007)
A	Articles here are expected to largely meet the featured article criteria, and must be comprehensive, accurate, well-sourced, and decently-written; however, they may require some further copyediting.	Ask at the project talk page	Operation Linebacker II (as of January 2007)
GA	Reserved for articles that meet the good article criteria and have received good article status.	Good article nominations	15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (as of January 2007)
B	The article meets the following five criteria: It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. It is free from major grammatical errors. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.	May be assigned by any reviewer A checklist is available through {{WikiProject Germany}} to track the criteria (see the project banner instructions for more details); this places the article Category:B-Class Germany articles needing review or Category:Reviewed B-Class Germany articles, depending on how many criteria have been checked	Battle of the Standard (as of February 2007)
C	The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup. The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective.	May be assigned by any reviewer	Exeter Cathedral (as of June 2008)
Start	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element; it has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following: A particularly useful picture or graphic Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic Multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	May be assigned by any reviewer	1st Battalion 2nd Marines (as of January 2007)
Stub	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	May be assigned by any reviewer	16th Infantry Regiment (South Korea) (as of January 2007)

Importance scale

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Germany}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Germany| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Germany articles
• High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Germany articles
• Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Germany articles
• Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Germany articles

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Core topics about Germany. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main Germany article, vital for the understanding of Germany or extremely notable to people outside of Germany. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two Germans in a particular field or persons of the greatest historical importance	Economy of Germany, Konrad Adenauer, Hamburg, Johann Sebastian Bach
High	Topics that are very notable within Germany, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia. This includes cities with a population of more than 100,000	Erfurt, Bertolt Brecht, Federal Court of Justice of Germany, Heinrich Brüning, Cologne Cathedral
Mid	Topics that are reasonably notable on a national level within Germany without necessarily being famous or very notable internationally, including smaller towns	Wolfgang Borchert, Lindau, Elisabeth Church (Marburg)
Low	Topics of mostly local interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to Germany	Forest swastika, Ostkreuz, Deutschhaus Mainz, Werner Teske, German 100th Light Infantry Division

Statistics

Current status

Germany articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	3	15	17	8		43
	A	2	1				3
	GA	4	8	14	7		33
	B	82	193	204	156		635
	C	10	45	95	137		287
	Start	62	377	1864	3722	874	6899
	Stub	1	116	1305	11603	13119	26144
	List		10	26	176	1	213
	Assessed	164	765	3525	15809	13994	34257
	Unassessed					3	3
	Total	164	765	3525	15809	13997	34260

Task force statistics

Mainz task force assessment statistics Mainz articles Importance None Total Quality FA 1 1 B 7 7 C 1 1 Start 115 115 Stub 65 65 Assessed 189 189 Total 189 189 worklist • log • category

WikiProject Munich assessment statistics Munich articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 2 GA 2 1 3 B 15 13 4 3 4 39 C 3 1 1 5 Start 58 26 24 10 33 151 Stub 66 21 57 63 59 266 Assessed 144 60 85 78 99 466 Unassessed 2 1 3 6 Total 146 60 86 78 102 472 worklist • log • category

Log

A full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available; unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.

Requests for assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

• Celle Air Base. Article substantially expanded. Should be reassessed. --Ekki01 (talk) 19:19, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Celle Air Base#Assessment, article is now B. Sebastian scha. (talk) 21:28, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

• Four Minutes (2006 film). I created it on July 25th, and It hasn't been assessed yet. I don't mind the wait; do it if anyone has time. :) L337*P4wn 05:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
• Ulrike Meinhof. Has received 2 B-class assessments from other projects. Would prefer a renewed, more through assessment from Germany.Zetetic Apparatchik (talk) 23:09, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
• Sternenfels, significantly increased and deserves upgrading

See Talk:Sternenfels#Assessment, article is now C Sebastian scha. (talk) 10:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

• Karl-Heinz Schnibbe created March 29, requesting assessment.
• Hans-Joachim Marseille has been assessed twice (once by the Aviation workgroup and once by the Military History workgroup) both have assessed the article to be A-class. I feel it should qualify here as well. MisterBee1966 (talk) 16:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
• Reinhard Klimmt has been newly created. I sorted it as stub. Could someone have a look? --Meile 11:14, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
• North Sea has recently been translated from a Feature Article in German wikipedia, as well as the article was nominated for Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive and received a multitude of improvements. It is currently under peer review. SriMesh | talk 04:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
• Richard Wagner has been significantly reworked since its last grading (B-class) and would merit regrading.

  We currently lack a formal A-grading process; and GA is given out by the folks at WP:GA. Kusma (talk) 12:53, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

• Archive for Christian Democratic PolicyxC | ☎ 08:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• Lauterbach, Baden-Württemberg Hans555 16:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
• Cologne Cathedral has had work done on it. I think it is a GA or even an FA. Could someone please take a look. --Amandajm 23:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Romanesque architecture has a lot of material pertinent to Germany. It should be listed as such and also requires assessment.--Amandajm 23:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Jülich Research Centre. This is no stub anymore. --Avatar 21:52, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
• Lauffen am Neckar - Over the past months, I have done the copy edit and translated from the entry in Wiki/de. (The English version was based on this.) I would therefore like to see about getting the note removed. Mikeo1938 13:26, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Lauffen#Revision rated as B class Sebastian scha. (talk) 04:55, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

• Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in Berlin. I completely rewrote it, since the old start class article contained some false information. --Edge (talk) 23:41, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Karl-Liebknecht-Straße#Assessment, article is allready C class. Sebastian scha. (talk) 04:30, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

• New City Hall (Hanover) Please reassess this article. Parts from the German article were recently incorporated. — Tirkfl^talk 10:58, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
• Landungsbrücken Please reassess this article. It was recently translated from the German article. — Tirkfl^talk 09:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
• Arovane 21 January 2008 - I updated this article and I believe it should be rated as start but I can't rate it. Thanks!
• Husum - I worked on this article and think it could be rated as start now.

--87.122.111.39 (talk) 13:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

• Have done some in Lommatzsch. --Askanius (talk) 12:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Lommatzsch#Assessment, article is start class. Sebastian scha. (talk) 04:11, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

• Martin Hoop - Relevance updated with recent historiographic notes and references. Please reassess. Thanks. Bernhard Hoop (talk) 15:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Martin Hoop/Comments, article is B class. Sebastian scha. (talk) 03:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

• Ohorn - I added the pieces of information according to the German wiki- site. Please have a look and reassess. Thanks! Marylicioussunshine

Ohorn done. Assessed as Start.--Boson (talk) 17:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

• Gesine Schwan The article was a typical stub. I introduced sections to motivate further addition of material and added references to the key claims. I think it can well be considered a start class article now. Otherwise, I would be glad to receive suggestions for further improvements on the article talk page. Also the importance of this article might be assessed in few of Schwan's run for the presidency. Thanks. Tomeasy_talk 16:59, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Gesine Schwan#Reassessment, article is B class. Sebastian scha. (talk) 03:30, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

• Expanded Amrum by translating the German article. Please have a look at it. De728631 (talk) 20:02, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Amrum#Assessment, article is start class. Sebastian scha. (talk) 03:18, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Article class C Sebastian scha. (talk) 16:56, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

• Markus Vater Please rate this article. It is not an article at all but a portion of a small, seemingly unremarkable Curriculum Vitae and should not exist if this it he best that can be done, as it is basically a promo.Actio (talk) 15:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion. Sebastian scha. (talk) 03:04, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion was contested Sebastian scha. (talk) 19:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

• Bethmann family – I must admit to being unhappy with the way the article looks, even though it is well on its way to "completion". The main reason being not that there are too few in-line cites and Wikilinks but too many! This has to do with the reason why I joined Wikipedia and started the article in the first place: a rather dubious (in my opinion) author of an even more dubious "book" -- see here for more info (Warning: tedious reading). I felt so driven to close off all avenues this person and others like him could use to rewrite history and peddle their "spot the hidden Jew" porn that I probably went overboard in the direction of verifiability. Any thoughts on how I can improve formatting and ease of reading?--Goodmorningworld (talk) 07:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Bethmann family#Suggestions. Sebastian scha. (talk) 19:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

• Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II) This article was never rated. In fact, it was missing the Project's tag. I'd appreciate an assessment. Thanks Perseus71 (talk) 20:33, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Article is allready rated B-class for all projects. Sebastian scha. (talk) 21:28, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

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