Welcome to the assessment department of the United States Government WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's U.S. Government-related articles. Much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, but 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 United States|USGov=|USGov-importance=}}
talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:United States Government articles by quality and Category:United States Government articles by importance, which serve as the sources for an automatically generated worklist.
Instructions
Quality assessment
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject United States}} 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 Government articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class United States Government articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class United States Government articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class United States Government articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class United States Government articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class United States Government articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class United States Government articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class United States Government articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class United States Government 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}} 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 Government articles) | Top | |
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance United States Government articles) | High | |
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance United States Government articles) | Mid | |
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance United States Government articles) | Low | |
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance United States Government articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance United States Government articles) | ??? |
Quality scale
Importance scale
Statistics
Current status
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 at the bottom of the list. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.
To assess an article, simply update the Novels WikiProject template on the article's talk page. Please also strike out the request on this page by using the <s>Strike-through text</s> command and add a rationale for your assessment. Don't forget to sign your username after your comment using ~~~~.
- This article was very short and limited in scope when it was first created, but I've been doing a lot of work to expand it. It's a pesticide poisoning surveillance program run by NIOSH-CDC. I put it under the US Government and Medicine projects. I've rated it as C-class (to be conservative), and I'm still working on wikilinks and formatting (please let me do this so I can get better at cleaning up articles!), but I'd like someone to go in and assess its quality to either verify it or change it accordingly. Mmagdalene722 (talk) 12:57, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
- The article has been rated as B-class by users in the Medicine project, so I'm going to bump up the rating in the USG box as well. Feel free to change and leave comments regarding rationale. Mmagdalene722 (talk) 19:28, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
- Storm Prediction Center has been in the USGOV project since early 2008, and has yet to receive an assessment. I have made major changes to the article, so now might be a good time to assess it. Ks0stm (T•C•G) 22:13, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- Vehicles of the President of the United States. A new article taking a broad look a presidential transportation.
- Viva América. Kind assess this article. Improvements include: new links to Voice of America, American Forces Network, cultural diplomacy, Good Neighbor Policy and Nelson Rockefeller with references and an infobox. Many thanks in advance - with best wishes 104.207.219.150 (talk) 19:17, 4 October 2018 (UTC)PJ
- Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs - Kindly reassess this article. Since its last assessment in 2012 it has been expanded, embellished with images, photographs and an External Audio box, external reference links, along with additional references from government archives. The article has clearly evolved beyond its initial Stub classification. Many thanks in advance for your thoughtful assistance and best wishes for the continued success of your editorial services on Wikipedia. 160.72.81.86 (talk) 23:13, 9 November 2021 (UTC)GCL
- Welcome.US Requesting an assessment of this new article that I created. CT55555 (talk) 23:30, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- Fugitive Felon Act - Revised significantly today, probably not a stub anymore. Eithersummer (talk) 1:52, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Assessment log
April 26, 2024
Reassessed
- Office of Criminal Investigations (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Arizona prosecution of fake electors (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
April 25, 2024
Reassessed
- 1990 United States Senate election in Arkansas (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from List-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- CIA activities in the Philippines (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Unassessed-Class. (rev · t)
- United States Foreign Service Career Ambassador (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from List-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- List of dictators supported by the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
April 24, 2024
Reassessed
- Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Susanne Steinem Patch (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
April 22, 2024
Assessed
- Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
April 21, 2024
Reassessed
- National Student Association (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- United States ice hockey structure (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Draft:2023–24 House of Representatives legislative coalition (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Assassinated CIA agents (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Category:Murdered CIA agents (talk) removed.
April 20, 2024
Renamed
Assessed
- Jonathan Stoddard (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Office of Financial Markets (U.S.) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- United States Oval Office Address (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-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.