Welcome to the assessment page for WikiProject Science.
FAQs
- What is the purpose of article assessments?
- The assessment system allows a WikiProject to monitor the quality of articles in its subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. The ratings are also used by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content.
- Are these ratings official?
- Not really; these ratings are meant primarily for the internal use of the project, and usually do not imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.
- Who can assess articles?
- In general, anyone can add or change an article's rating. However, the "GA" and "FA" labels should only be used on articles that have been reviewed and are currently designated as good articles or featured articles, respectively. Individual WikiProjects may also have more formal procedures for rating an article, and please note that the WikiProject bears ultimate responsibility for resolving disputes.
- How do I assess an article?
- Consult the quality scale below; once you have chosen the level that seems to be closest to the article, set the class parameter in the WikiProject banner template to the level's name (omitting "Class" from the end). For example, to rate an article as "B-Class", use
|class=B
in the banner. Again, the "FA" and "GA" labels should not be added to articles unless are currently designated as such.
- Someone put a project banner template on an article, but it's not really within the WikiProject'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 article's talk page (or directly with the person who tagged the article).
- What if I don't agree with a rating?
- Feel free to change it—within reason—if you think a different rating is justified; in the case of major disputes, the WikiProject as a whole can discuss the issue and come to a consensus as to the best rating.
- 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!
- 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.
- What if the article is within this project's scope but doesn't have a project banner on its talk page?
- Due to the large number of articles we cover, not all articles within our scope can be tagged. However you can help increase the number of tagged articles by tagging the talk page of any untagged articles within our scope you come across with {{WikiProject Science}}.
How to rate articles
Any member of Wikiproject Science are invited to rate articles for the project. Articles with unassessed quality can be found at Category:Unassessed science articles and articles with unassessed importance ratings can be found at Category:Unknown-importance science articles
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in any of the project banners found on article's talk page:
For example adding {{WikiProject Science|class=B|importance=mid}} produces:
Science NA‑class Mid‑importance | ||||||||||
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An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Science}} 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 science articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class science articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class science articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class science articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class science articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class science articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class science articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class science articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class science articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class science articles) | Category | |
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class science articles) | Disambig | |
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class science articles) | Draft | |
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class science articles) | File | |
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class science articles) | Portal | |
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class science articles) | Project | |
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class science articles) | Redirect | |
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class science articles) | Template | |
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class science articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed science articles) | ??? |
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Science as listed in Core topics - Technology. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance science articles
- High - The article is about the basic technologies and infrastructures or the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Science. Adds articles to Category:High-importance science articles
- Mid - The article is about a topic within Science that may or may not be commonly known outside the Science industry. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance science articles
- Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within Science and is not generally common knowledge outside the Science industry. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance science articles
Quality scale
This table is transcluded here, and is identical to the one at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.
Importance scale
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.
- Ethnomethodology, but it seems that this article has been assessed by proxy already? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AEthnomethodology&diff=286049067&oldid=286027889 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AEthnomethodology&diff=466860886&oldid=448626737
- Science and technology in the Philippines
- Self-assembling peptide
- Draft:THEaiTRE
- Immunologic Constant of Rejection
- Aminopeptidase - I didn't add the content, but would like an assessment; also, there was a plagiarism issue noted in 2020 on the talk page that was never addressed in article. I've added quotation marks around the exact text lifted from the linked abstract of the article (the whole article is linked, but the abstract is what was lifted).OIM20 (talk) 13:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Xylanase - this one was also greatly expanded by a new editor. No issues on the talk page this time, though. OIM20 (talk) 13:59, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- (Your entry here)
Assessments
Use this section for assessment discussions and comments:
Log
April 19, 2024
Renamed
Reassessed
- Cynthia E. Dunbar (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Marga Gual Soler (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- ViewSonic G Tablet (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Draft:Alix Generous (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Grzegorz Mikusiński (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Irfan Rahman (Researcher/Scientist) (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Morrison-Maierle (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- NCSA Brown Dog (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:Dr. Amit Sengupta (talk) removed.
- Draft:European Union Prize for Citizen Science (talk) removed.
- Hybrid material (talk) removed.
- Draft:Porrima (scientific ship) (talk) removed.
April 18, 2024
Reassessed
- Holborn 9100 (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Category:Australia science and nature navigational boxes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Christopher Plenzich (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Dr. Amit Sengupta (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Fausto Calderazzo (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Fijian women scientists (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Gillian M. Horgan (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Higher Education and Scientific Research ministers of Sudan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Kaare Strøm (political scientist) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:New Zealand society and social science templates (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Papua New Guinean women scientists (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Scientists from Ottawa (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Scientists from Saint John, New Brunswick (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Scientists from Winnipeg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Scientists from the Principality of Wallachia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:Ray (mascot) (talk) removed.
- Draft:Stephen O'Rourke (talk) removed.
- Category:Television specials by Rocket Science Laboratories (talk) removed.
April 17, 2024
Reassessed
- Quezon City Science High School (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Category:Fellows of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Scientific societies based in Sudan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Television specials by Rocket Science Laboratories (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:Heinz Walz (talk) removed.
- Draft:Nekton Foundation (talk) removed.
April 16, 2024
Renamed
- List (information) renamed to List.
Reassessed
- Epiphenotyping (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Holborn 9100 (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Rentschler (company) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Draft:Accelerator Contron System (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Gema Revuelta (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- List (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Stephen O'Rourke (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Supermind AI (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- 2020–2024 H5N1 outbreak (talk) removed.
- Draft:Andreas Reif (talk) removed.
- Decenoic acid (talk) removed.
- Eddy break-up model (talk) removed.
- Imidazolidine (data page) (talk) removed.
- Industrial Green Chemistry World (talk) removed.
- Laminar flame speed (talk) removed.
- Liquid Impact Forming (talk) removed.
- Multimedia fugacity model (talk) removed.
- Multivalent battery (talk) removed.
- Draft:National Engineering Day (talk) removed.
- Oil purification (talk) removed.
- Draft:Quantine" and "Hex-Quantine": Unveiling 5th and 6th-Dimensional Relationships (talk) removed.
- Synthesis of bioglass (talk) removed.
April 15, 2024
Renamed
- Solar eclipse of January 27, 632 renamed to Muhammad's eclipse.
Reassessed
- Abarth 124 Spider (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Birmingham Philosophical Institution (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Formal science (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Naming convention (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Visual Installer (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Draft:Magnetic power supply (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Muhammad's eclipse (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 14, 2024
Assessed
- Draft:American Peptide Society (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Commercial EcoRocket (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Jason Moffat (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Materialism controversy (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- 2023 Zaragoza F-18 crash (talk) removed.
- Amai Pakpak Medical Center (talk) removed.
- Draft:David Hernandez (mathematician) (talk) removed.
- Draft:Dr. Anthony K Stevens (talk) removed.
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (talk) removed.
- Midsayap Diagnostic Center and Hospital (talk) removed.
- Draft:Renzo Rosso (Hydrologist) (talk) removed.
April 13, 2024
Renamed
- Draft:Epiphenotyping renamed to Epiphenotyping.
Reassessed
- African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
- Schumacher Menace GTR (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Draft:Hrvoje Kukina (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Latinamerican Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrounautics (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:NAWAREUM (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Science Photo Library (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Wang Chengshu (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Zhihong Deng (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:CEBRA (talk) removed.
- Electron-reservoir complex (talk) removed.
- Hot melt coating (talk) removed.
- Incoloy (talk) removed.
- Interfacial rheology (talk) removed.
- International Conference on Green Chemistry (talk) removed.
- Ion-to-photon detector (talk) removed.
- Keeper (chemistry) (talk) removed.
- Liquid bleach (talk) removed.
- Oil regeneration (talk) removed.
- Powder mixture (talk) removed.
- Sheet explosive (talk) removed.
- Telluride oxide (talk) removed.
- Van Laar equation (talk) removed.