Welcome to the assessment department of the Buddhism WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Buddhism related 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 recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Buddhism}} and {{WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism}} project banners. This causes the articles from WikiProject Buddhism to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Buddhism articles by quality and Category:Buddhism 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 Buddhism WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
- 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 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
Quality assessments
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Buddhism}} 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 Buddhism articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Buddhism articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Buddhism articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Buddhism articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Buddhism articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Buddhism articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Buddhism articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Buddhism articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Buddhism 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 Buddhism articles) | Category | |
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Buddhism articles) | Disambig | |
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Buddhism articles) | Draft | |
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Buddhism articles) | File | |
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Buddhism articles) | Portal | |
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Buddhism articles) | Project | |
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Buddhism articles) | Template | |
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Buddhism articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Buddhism articles) | ??? |
After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.
Quality scale
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Buddhism}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Buddhism| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
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The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Buddhism. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Buddhism articles
- High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Buddhism. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Buddhism articles
- Mid - The article is about a topic within the Buddhism field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Buddhism community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Buddhism articles
- Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Buddhism field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Buddhism articles
- Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Buddhism articles.
Importance scale
Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
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Top | The article is one of the core topics about Buddhism. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are included as sections of the main Buddhism article. | A reader who is not involved in the Buddhism field will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. | Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. | Buddhism |
High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Buddhism. | |||
Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of Buddhism. | Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject. | Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Buddhism. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in the history of Buddhism will be rated in this level. | |
Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Buddhism. | Few readers outside the Buddhist studies field or that are not Buddhism students may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. | Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of the Buddhism, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of Buddhism. |
Requesting an assessment
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion or a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.
Assessment log
Buddhism articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
May 4, 2024
Renamed
- Hongaku renamed to Original enlightenment.
Reassessed
- Guifeng Zongmi (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
- Kōen (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Praise of Mahakala (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Shenhui (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Category:Buddhist paramilitary organisations (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Dhammacārī (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Original enlightenment (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
May 3, 2024
Reassessed
- Tongan Daopi (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Tongan Guanzhi (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
May 2, 2024
Renamed
- Udiana (kingdom) renamed to Oddiyana.
Reassessed
- Sudden awakening (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Touzi Yiqing (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Kōen (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Oddiyana (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Draft:Jorge Soto-Andrade (talk) removed.
May 1, 2024
Reassessed
- Bhāviveka (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
- Daisaku Ikeda (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Womb Realm (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Yongming Yanshou (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Yunju Daoying (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Datun Sahib (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Kanzeon-ji (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Kyogaku shiken (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 30, 2024
Reassessed
- Devapāla's Campaigns against Pratiharas (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Sthiramati (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Phật Mẫu Man Nương (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
April 29, 2024
Renamed
- Subitism renamed to Sudden awakening.
Reassessed
- Shōfuku-ji (Fukuoka) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Anne Blackburn (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Sudden awakening (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
April 28, 2024
Assessed
- Devapāla's Campaigns against Pratiharas (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Koyasan Tokyo Betsuin (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Shidō Bu'nan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)