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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Biography. This department focuses on assessing the quality and priority of Wikipedia's biography articles. A quality rating estimates how close an article comes to a professional standard. The priority or importance rating estimates the relative importance of a subject when compared to other biographical articles.; this rating can help project members to prioritise editing work. These quality and priority rating systems were established by the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team, and are customised by WikiProject organisers.
An article's rating is set in the class
parameter of the {{WikiProject Biography}} project banner on the article's talk page. Setting the class
value causes the article to be listed in the corresponding sub-categories under Category:Biography articles by quality, and to lists generated by bots such as.
Frequently asked questions
- How can I request an article assessment?
- Add it to the assessment request queue below. If you'd like someone to write some constructive feedback about the article, you can request a peer review from editors outside WikiProject Biography. At present, WikiProject Biography's peer review is backlogged.
- Who can rate an article?
- Anyone can rate a biographical article, but if you revised an article enough to change its potential rating, or if you have a conflict of interest, someone else should review it. A rating higher than B-class requires a more formal review process.
- What if I disagree with a rating?
- Ask the reviewer what they think the article needs (preferably on the article's talk page). You can also (re)list the article in the assessment request queue, or directly ask a WikiProject Biography member to review it.
- Are the ratings subjective?
- Reviewers are expected to follow Wikipedia's article quality grading criteria.
- How can I begin assessing articles?
- See "How to assess an article" below.
If you have a question not answered here, please feel free to ask on the assessment talk page.
How to assess an article
Read the criteria in the quality scale, and determine which grade best reflects the state of the article. If the quality grade you chose differs from the one on the article's talk page, set the grade by changing the class
parameter for each WikiProject banner, like this:
{{WikiProject Biography |class=Start}}
If the article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography but does not have a {{WikiProject Biography}} banner on its talk page, add the banner.
You can find articles to rate in Category:Unassessed biography articles. This is a list of talk pages that have a banner with an incomplete assessment.
There's more to article assessment than just quality and priority grades. See {{WikiProject Biography}} for complete instructions.
Class parameter
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Biography}} project banner on its talk page:
The quality rating should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
It is not necessary to add a class
parameter to talk pages that do not correspond to ordinary articles. For categories, disambiguation pages, redirects, etc., the class is implicit.
Priority parameters
{{WikiProject Biography}} has separate priority parameters for specialised sub-projects and work groups.
{{WikiProject Biography}}
-tagged talk pages that have an active general |priority=
or |importance=
parameter should be changed to one or more of |a&e-priority=
, |filmbio-priority=
, |musician-priority=
, |military-priority=
, |peerage-priority=
, |politician-priority=
, |royalty-priority=
, |s&a-priority=
or |sports-priority=
, depending on which work groups the article is tagged for. Please refer to Template:WikiProject Biography/doc for further guidance.
WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers has its own priority scale; please use it. For all other work groups and WikiProjects listed here, use WikiProject Biography's priority scale.
The valid values for all priority parameters are: Top, High, Mid, and Low.
Articles for each work group and sub-project where the priority has not yet been assessed are found in Category:Unknown-importance biography articles. Do not use priority parameters for non-articles (i.e. redirects, disambiguation pages, categories, etc.).
Quality scale
Priority scale
Priority must be regarded as a relative term. If priority values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project and to the work groups the biography falls under. An article judged to be "Top-importance" in one context may be only "Mid-importance" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority 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).
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | High probability that non-Historians would look this up. Limited to the top 200 biographies. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members. | Albert Einstein |
High | Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin. | Patrick Henry |
Mid | Important in their discipline. | John Seigenthaler, Sr. |
Low | Subject is notable in their main discipline. | Morena Baccarin |
Requesting an assessment
Any user may perform an article assessment. No special permissions or tools are needed, although User:Evad37/rater is a recommended tool. However, if you prefer help from a WikiProject Biography volunteer to rate an article, please feel free to list it below.
This is a quality rating only. Reviewers usually do not comment on the article. For more detailed feedback, you can request a peer review.
Articles submitted to the list below can be rated up to B-class. For higher assessments, see Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions and Wikipedia:Featured article criteria.
Reviewers: For general assessment instructions, see "How to assess an article" above. After you assess an article, please delete it from the list.
If you checked for B-class readiness, please add a short section titled "B-class review" to the article's talk page. If you do not believe the article meets the criteria for B-class, explain what improvements it needs in order to pass. If it passes, confirm in writing that you checked the article for all B-class criteria, and that it passed.
Requests
Edit this section and add request to the end of the list. Use format of * [[ article name]] brief description. ~~~~
- Presidency of Ram Nath Kovind - This article has been expanded, unnecessary images are removed, Sources are fixed, and the data is summarized. Any Copyright Violation is Unlikely (according to this -[1]) Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 06:24, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
- Adam Naruszewicz - I expanded this recently, I think it may be a bit short of GA. Comments appreciated. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:59, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Jurina Matsui - This article was assessed as Start in 2013. I overhauled and basically rewrote everything and fixed all citations so it meets Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Yolo4A4Lo (talk) 14:07, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- Sean Baker (filmmaker) - this "stub" has been expanded significantly since its last assessment. This director's films have received Oscar nominations (one for Willem Dafoe who is of a different generation than the director) and he has received several other high awards, one presented by John Waters who is also of a different generation. His films are regularly accepted at Cannes and lots of other international film festivals, including at the Mumbai International Film Festival where he was president of the jury. Kire1975 (talk) 07:40, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- Alden Whitman — Stub now vastly expanded, broadly sourced, and linked into the biographic tissue of Wikipedia by dint of Whitman's profession: obituarist. Unendin (talk) 04:32, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thomas Savage (bishop) article on 16th century Archbishop of York largely expanded and no longer start class. Best regards, Grosseteste (talk) 18:49, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
- Savage family New article, Best regards Grosseteste (talk) 16:12, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
- George Fenneman- this "stub" has been expanded significantly since its last assessment.WmArbaugh (talk) 22:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
- John Savage (soldier) Assessed B by Military history but in need of biography assessment. Best Regards, Grosseteste (talk) 20:39, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- Shafqat Amanat Ali ― Significant changes and improvements have been made. Previously rated C-class, requesting review for B-class ― it appears to meet all the criteria now. Also requesting a new IMPORTANCE assessment for this article. Currently marked Low-importance for "WikiProject Musicians" and "WikiProject Pakistan" ― requesting review for Mid-importance. Currently UNASSESSED for WikiProject Biography -- requesting review for Mid-importance. Thank you so much for your time and effort. Priyanka2330 (talk) 21:40, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
- Carl Wiman - Major revamp. Added life story and achievements. ViriatoLusitano (talk) 20:58, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- Jalal al-Din Mangburni - Expanded significantly since rated C-class. Previously, only two of his battles were presented briefly whereas now 4-5 different battles are given with citations, legacy and assessment are added as well as different phases of his life. Worthy of re-evaluation --81.213.215.83 (talk) 03:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
- Zvi Koretz This was created by myself recently. I feel it merits at least a c rating based on the amount of citing and quality but I would love for it to be reviewed and hopefully garner B status if the reviewer thinks that the article is deserving. 00:19, 10 January 2022 (UTC)Bgrus22 (talk)
- Alexander Tahy: Assessed B Class by WP MilHist...but is it B Class to the Military Biographers?Georgejdorner (talk) 04:39, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
- Kgalema Motlanthe: Major revamp of this page, for a former South African president. I don't think it's start-class anymore. Jlalbion (talk) 10:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- John Kerry: This page was never assessed for B-class status and from what I've seen it checks all the boxes for a B-class article. elijahpepe@wikipedia 05:44, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
- Dušan Matić – Major expansion. Previously Stub-class. Aleksamil (talk) 13:56, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hassan II of Morocco – I have been working on this article for much of my spare time, I'd appreciate a reassessment of it. MakhzenHuman (talk) 00:21, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Roy S. Durstine: I created this article about one of the founders of a famous advertising agency, and I self-evaluated as Start-class, but I've now looked at every source I can find, and I think the article now says essentially everything that it can absent a new set of sources. Some comments on the sources I looked at in the talk page. 121a0012 (talk) 03:41, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- Matthew Daniels was overhauled from a promotional puff page to one detailing the source of the subject's notability — activism against gay marriage in the US — that the previous article had assiduously avoided. WhinyTheYounger (WtY)(talk, contribs) 13:25, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
- Kyrie Irving - The page was last assessed in early 2015. Since then it has been greatly exapanded and improved upon as he is one of the bigger names in the NBA. -- Zoo (talk) 02:03, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
- Devlet Bahçeli Considerably expanded and detailed via translations of the Turkish version of the article.Benlittlewiki (talk) 03:56, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Sanju Samson I have been working in this article for while and has expanded it considerably. I recently found out about the working of quality scales on articles and believes that this article has the potential to be a B-class article. CRICKETMANIAC303 (talk) 13:27, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
- Amanda Swisten I have significantly expanded upon this article by adding new information, new sections and images to the original stub. Can this article be ranked as B class article? Recapbean (talk) 14:19, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen I have significantly expanded this article to the original stub. I would appreciate a re-evaluation. Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 22:15, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Statistics
Current status
Assessment log
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality log
Worklist
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Cleanup listings
Weekly biography listings here. Please be patient while lists load as there are over 1.6 million articles. Run on Tuesdays, generated by CleanupWorklistBot.
Biography assessment backlog - Call for Volunteers
To help reduce the long-standing backlog of biography articles waiting for assessment, consider adopting your "favorite" alphabet letter and working there. You can click on a letter to be linked directly to it and see how long it is. In the table below, just replace the ★ with your Username. There can be more than one person per letter. Teamwork really helps! We recommend putting a link on your user page or in another easy-to-find location so that you can more easily work on your letter.
Call for Volunteers
WikiProject Biography needs your help!
More than one person can work on the same alphabet letter, so Be bold. |
Rater assessment tool
Fun helping article assessments
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A | User:Darwin Naz, User:Adavidb |
B | User:Adavidb |
C | ★ |
D | User:Puddleglum2.0 |
E | User:Wizardman |
F | User:AmericanAir88 |
G | ★ |
H | User:Tcr25 |
I | User:Tcr25 |
J | User:Firstclass306 |
K | User:Lepricavark |
L | ★ |
M | ★ |
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N | ★ |
O | ★ |
P | User:GreatSculptorIthas |
Q | User:Tcr25 |
R | ★ |
S | User:Sahaib3005 |
T | User:Yerkes-Dodson, User:Majavah |
U | User:Tcr25 |
V | User:Nannochloropsis |
W | User:Nerd1a4i |
X | User:Sbbarker19 |
Y | User:Sbbarker19 |
Z | User:Sbbarker19 |