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Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject New Brunswick! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's New Brunswick articles.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{NewBrunswickProject}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:New Brunswick articles by quality, Category:New Brunswick articles by importance, Category:New Brunswick articles needing attention.

Frequently asked questions

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: How can I get my article rated?
: As a member of the WikiProject New Brunswick, you can do it yourself. If you are unsure, list it in the requesting an assessment section below.
: Who can assess articles?
: Any member of WikiProject New Brunswick is free to add or change the rating of an article, but please follow the guidelines.
: Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?
: Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that (might) 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.
: Where can I get more comments about my article?
: You could list it for a Peer review.
: What if I don't agree with a rating?
: Let us know on the project talk page.
: Aren't the ratings subjective?
: Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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.

Instructions

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{NewBrunswickProject}} project banner on its talk page. You can learn the syntax by looking at the talk pages in edit mode and by reading the info below.

This is the rating syntax (ratings and dates are samples, change to what applies to the article in question):

{{NewBrunswickProject}}
  • displays the default banner, showing the project info and only ??? for the quality and importance parameters.
{{NewBrunswickProject|class=FA|importance=Top}}
  • all assessed articles should have quality and importance filled in. Leaving the other parameters off does not hurt anything.
{{NewBrunswickProject|class=Start|importance=Mid|attention=yes}}
  • if an article needs immediate attention, add the attention tag and please leave talk notes as to why. "yes" is the only valid parameter here. If it doesn't need attention, leave the parameter off.

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class and/or importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed New Brunswick articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Quality scale

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Note: A B-class article should have at least one reference.

Importance scale

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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 residents of New Brunswick. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance.

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for New Brunswick, or is generally notable to people other than residents of New Brunswick. They define and determine the subject of the New Brunswick WikiProject. New Brunswick
High Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the field of New Brunswick, but not necessarily outside it. Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
Mid Subject contributes to the total subject of the New Brunswick WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. Bouctouche, New Brunswick
Low Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of New Brunswick and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Aberdeen Cultural Centre
Bottom Subject has no real importance to New Brunswick, but may have significance within other fields. Subject may have an indirect connection to New Brunswick. Category was created by the WikiProject Cricket to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. ???
None Subject has no importance. ???
NA Subject has not been and remains to be assessed. ???

Requesting an assessment or re-assessment

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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.

  1. Add articles here! Newest requests on the BOTTOM
  2. [[Like this]] and put "(re-)assessment request" in your edit summary of this assessment page, leave reasons if a reassessment.