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Welcome to the assessment department of the U.S. Congress WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's United States Congress-related articles, using {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} . 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 U.S. Congress}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of:
which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
The final status box is generated automatically by a bot or manually by this web form.
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 Congress 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.
Quality assessment
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject U.S. Congress|class=???}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Quality scale
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed U.S. Congress articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below:
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject U.S. Congress|importance=???}}
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):
Importance scale
Label
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Criteria
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Examples
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Top
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Core topics about Congress. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main United States Congress article, vital for the understanding of Congress or extremely notable to people outside of the United States. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two members of Congress in a particular field or persons of the greatest historical importance
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Ted Stevens
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High
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Topics that are very notable within Congress, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia.
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Mitch McConnell
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Mid
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Topics that are reasonably notable on a national level within Congress without necessarily being famous or very notable internationally
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Ron Wyden
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Low
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Topics of mostly low-level interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to Congress
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John Thune
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Subject assessment
When applying the {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} template, editors ought to add a subject. This subject will put that article in a corresponding category as follows:
{{WikiProject U.S. Congress | subject=}}
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, list it below.
Assessments to do
Assessments done
- Overman Committee User:Bsimmons666 - I created this article off of the requested articles page and have added to it significantly. Plenty of sources from old newspaper archives I've dug through, and some book resources from google books. Like User:Therefore above me, I believe it is ready to be graded.
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2010 User:CylonCAG - We've significantly changed the article since we were last assessed. I think it should be given another look.
- Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution --ClemsonChuck (talk) 05:14, 9 July 2009 (UTC) - This page has not yet received any assessments. I've made significant improvements to the section concerning Court Rulings with the correct legal citations. It details the different of opinions on how significantly this Amendment should effect the distribution of power between Congress and the states when it comes to making laws concerning alcohol. Luckily, unlike other parts of the Constitution, this Amendment has produced a history of Supreme Court decisions which is long enough to provide meaningful interpretation, but not so long that it becomes the subject of its own legal practice or law school curriculum.[reply]
- John Jenrette- upgraded to Start-class --TommyBoy (talk) 20:22, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Stephen Lynch (politician)- Article was previously assessed as GA-class by another user. --TommyBoy (talk) 20:22, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Peter T. King, Stephen Fincher, and Quico Canseco articles have been assessed. --TommyBoy (talk) 03:09, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Champ Clark - Article assessed as Stub. --TommyBoy (talk) 06:57, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Tim Penny - Article assessed as Start-class by another user. --TommyBoy (talk) 20:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Nicholas Mavroules - Upgraded to Start-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 17:07, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Bill Nelson - Upgraded to C-class --TommyBoy (talk) 04:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Rick Crawford (politician) - Upgraded to Start-classs --TommyBoy (talk) 23:32, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Tulsi Gabbard: I significantly improved this article and tried my hand at initially assessing it. I'm not too sure about its importance, because Gabbard has drawn international attention (especially from India) because she'll be the first Hindu Congresswoman, but other than that she's more of domestic interest. Sumana Harihareswara 18:11, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Done Assessed as "B-Class; Mid-Importance; Person"—GoldRingChip 02:04, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Request an assessment on Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012. Article has been rewritten and is basically a new article.Casprings (talk) 03:21, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Done Assessed as "C-Class; Low-Importance; Events"—GoldRingChip 02:04, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Tim Wirth - Assessed as Start-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 04:12, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Debbie Dingell - Upgraded to C-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 22:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Frank J. Larkin - Assessed as Stub. --TommyBoy (talk) 23:23, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- John Salazar - Assessed as Start-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 23:23, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- United States Congress Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies - Assessed as Start-class.--TommyBoy (talk) 01:18, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Lyman K. Bass - Upgraded to Start-class.--TommyBoy (talk) 01:18, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
General rules
- Ordinal Congresses (1st Congress … 112 Congress) should be assessed:
- class=list | importance=high | subject=event.
Assessment log
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