Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/Assessment
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Welcome to the assessment department of the Minnesota WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the Minnesota, its governments, people, geography, and history. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Minnesota}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Minnesota articles by quality and Category:Minnesota articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Frequently asked questions
- How can I get my article rated?
- Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
- Who can assess articles?
- Any member of the Minnesota WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
- 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.
- Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are, 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!
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Minnesota}} project banner on its talk page:
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The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FL - The article has reached Featured list status; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Minnesota articles
- FA - The article has reached Featured article status; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Minnesota articles
- A - Could be submitted as a Featured article candidatebut probably could use some small updates to make it Featured quality; adds articles to Category:A-Class Minnesota articles
- GA - The article has reached Good article status; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Minnesota articles
- B- Could be submitted as a Good article nominee; probably could use some updates or may lack some features from the Good article criteria, but it presents a good overview of the subject; adds articles to Category:B-Class Minnesota articles
- C - The article has an large amount of content, but lacks information and organization in areas; adds articles to Category:C-Class Minnesota articles
- Start - The article is more than a stub, but may lack some important aspects of the topic's discussion; adds articles to Category:Start-Class Minnesota articles
- Stub - The article is a stub; adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Minnesota articles)
- Needed - The article does not yet exist but has been identified as a subject that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class Minnesota articles
- List - The page is a list; adds articles to Category:List-Class Minnesota articles
- Category - The page is a category; adds articles to Category:Category-Class Minnesota articles
- Disambig - The article is a disambiguation page; adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class Minnesota articles
- Portal - The page is a portal. adds articles to Category:Portal-Class Minnesota articles
- Redirect - The article is a redirect page; adds articles to Category:Redirect-Class Minnesota articles
- Template - The page is a template; adds articles to Category:Template-Class Minnesota articles
- Image - The page is an image.
- NA - For pages, such as templates, redirects, or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Minnesota articles
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Minnesota articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
Quality scale
Importance scale
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 the Minnesota.
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.
Label | Criteria | Examples | ||
Places | Things | People | ||
Top | Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for Minnesota, or is generally notable to people other than students of Minnesota. They define and determine the subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. | Minnesota | University of Minnesota | Prince (musician) |
High | Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the field of Minnesota, but not necessarily outside it. | Bloomington, Minnesota | I-35W Mississippi River bridge | Sunisa Lee |
Mid | Subject contributes to the total subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. | Apple Valley, Minnesota | Breck School | Bob Dylan |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of Minnesota, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. | Climax, Minnesota | Charlemagne Tower | Judy Garland |
Requesting an 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.
- First Avenue (nightclub) Request for B class in advance of seeking peer review. -SusanLesch (talk) 18:14, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
Assessment log
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
May 12, 2025
Renamed
- Louie Varland renamed to Louis Varland.
Reassessed
- 2024 Minnesota House of Representatives District 27B special election (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Black Visions Collective (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Category:Jewish state legislators in Minnesota (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Louis Varland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
May 11, 2025
Removed
- Draft:Set of 16 nesting bowls by Yagi Akira (talk) removed.
May 10, 2025
Assessed
- Head of the Lakes Conference (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- The Hang Ups (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
May 9, 2025
Reassessed
- Alex Bump (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Cows (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Dryden McKay (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- James M. Goodhue (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
- John Roach (bishop) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
- Palisade Rail Bridge (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Draft:Ethan Coen (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Observer Drift (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Peter Wolf Crier (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Roma di Luna (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Tom Leadon (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Tuttle School (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Venia (hardcore band) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
May 8, 2025
Assessed
- File:Flag of Minnesota.svg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as File-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Lake Superior Conference (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Nurses from Minnesota (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- File:Rochester Minnesota Skyline 04.jpg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as File-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
May 7, 2025
Assessed
- Big Stone County Museum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Rochester, Minnesota racial slur video (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Wíčazo Ša Review (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:Tuttle School (talk) removed.
May 6, 2025
Reassessed
- Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Low-Class to Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Dawson Bank Museum (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Riley Tufte (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Arv Hus Museum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Blue Earth County History Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Bruentrup Heritage Farm (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Carlton County History and Heritage Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Giants of the Earth Heritage Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Hoċokata Ti (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- ^ Prose at the Good Article level is not expected to be at a professional level like it is for Featured Articles. Minor grammatical or style issues that do not impact clarity are not prohibitive of GA status.