Quality: FA-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | Start-Class | Stub Class | Unassessed Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Unknown
Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject United States History! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's United States History articles. 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject United States History}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:United States History articles by quality and Category:United States History articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
- Just add {{WikiProject United States History}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
- 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 United States History WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
- 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.
- Where can I get more comments about my article?
- The Status requester can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
- 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 (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!
- How can I keep track of changes in article ratings?
- A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistics may be more accessible.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
Instructions
Quality assessment
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject United States History}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class United States History articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class United States History articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class United States History articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class United States History articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class United States History articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class United States History articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class United States History articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class United States History articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class United States History articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject United States History}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance United States History articles) | Top | |
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance United States History articles) | High | |
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance United States History articles) | Mid | |
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance United States History articles) | Low | |
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance United States History articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance United States History articles) | ??? |
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 U.S. history.
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.
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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.
History of Denver - I've made significant changes to the article over the last few months and would like to get it assessed. Thank you, Killian441 (talk) 23:02, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee - Others have greatly expanded it. I proposed for A-Class, independent evaluations needed here.--Carwil (talk) 19:53, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Participants
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team
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- Dthomsen8 (talk · contribs)
Assessment log
April 18, 2024
Renamed
- Draft:Pottawatomie Park renamed to Pottawatomie Park.
Reassessed
- Avonlea culture (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- 1898 New York gubernatorial election (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1922 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1924 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1926 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1930 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1932 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1934 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1936 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1938 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1940 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1944 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1972 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- 1974 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Enslaved people by state (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:History of Long Island (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:People enslaved in Maryland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
April 17, 2024
Assessed
- Charles Wright (lynching victim) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
April 16, 2024
Assessed
- Category:1813 events in the United States by month (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Alfred M. Coats (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:August 2024 events in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:December 2024 events in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:March 2025 events in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:March 2025 sports events in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:May 2024 sports events in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:October 2024 events in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
April 15, 2024
Renamed
- Draft:Beata (Lenape prophet) renamed to Beata (Lenape prophet).
Reassessed
- 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- A Long Shadow (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- List of people killed during the 2020–23 United States racial unrest (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Tuckahoes and Cohees (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Category:American vaudeville performers (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Cathedral of Saint Joseph (Wheeling, West Virginia) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Saint Charles Catholic Mission Church (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:Boggs Hospital & Sanatorium (talk) removed.
April 14, 2024
Renamed
Reassessed
- Vice Presidency of Joe Biden (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Fort Henry (Pennsylvania) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Historical societies in Tennessee (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- History of antisemitism in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Possession of Elizabeth Knapp (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Vice presidency of Al Gore (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- West Tennessee Historical Society (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 13, 2024
Assessed
- Draft:LGBT history in New Hampshire (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:LGBT history in Vermont (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Reactions to the prosecution of Donald Trump in New York (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
April 12, 2024
Reassessed
- Tuckahoe culture (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Tuckahoes and Cohees (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- ^ For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. However, where quite a number of pictures exist, for instance, the moon landing, FPC attempts to select the best of the ones produced.
- ^ An image has more encyclopedic value (often abbreviated to "EV" or "enc" in discussions) if it contributes strongly to a single article, rather than contributing weakly to many. Adding an image to numerous articles to gain EV is counterproductive and may antagonize both FPC reviewers and article editors.
- ^ While effects such as black and white, sepia, oversaturation, and abnormal angles may be visually pleasing, they often detract from the accurate depiction of the subject.