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Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject SUNY! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's State University of New York 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 New York|class=|importance=|SUNY=Yes|SUNY-importance=}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:SUNY articles by quality and Category:SUNY articles needing attention. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

When assessing an article for this project, please add the {{WikiProject New York|class=|importance=|SUNY=Yes|SUNY-importance=}} template to the article's talk page as follows:

{{WikiProject New York|class=|importance=|SUNY=Yes|SUNY-importance=}}
  • The class parameter should be chosen from those given in the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale. Note that you should not assign any article GA, A or FA classes arbitrarily. These grades must pass through official Wikipedia channels and undergo a peer review process.
  • The importance parameter should be "High", "Mid", or "Low", depending on how important the article is to understanding the State University of New York as a whole.
  • If the article needs immediate attention due to suspected copyright infringement, vandalism, exposure of personal information, or other urgent issues please add attention=yes
  • If the article has no infobox (and it makes sense to add one), please add infobox=yes
  • If the article has no photo, please add needsphoto=yes

Frequently asked questions

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How can I get my article rated?
As a member of WikiProject SUNY, you can do it yourself. If you're unsure, list it in the requesting an assessment section below.
Who can assess articles?
Any member of WikiProject SUNY is free to add—or change—the rating of an article, but please follow the guidelines.
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.
Where can I get more comments about my article?
Contact Wikipedia:WikiProject SUNY who will handle it or assign the issue to someone. You may also list it for a Peer review.
What if I don't agree with a rating?
Relist it as a request or contact Wikipedia:WikiProject SUNY who will handle it or assign the issue to someone.
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 or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject SUNY.

Instructions

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Assessing for quality

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An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject New York}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

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 SUNY articles)  FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class SUNY articles)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class SUNY articles)  GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class SUNY articles) B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class SUNY articles) C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class SUNY articles) Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class SUNY articles) Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class SUNY articles)  FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class SUNY 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 SUNY articles) Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class SUNY articles) Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class SUNY articles) Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class SUNY articles)  FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class SUNY articles) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class SUNY articles) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class SUNY articles) Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class SUNY articles) Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class SUNY articles) Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class SUNY articles) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed SUNY articles) ???

Assessing for importance

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An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject New York}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject New York|importance=???|SUNY=Yes}}

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 New York articles)  Top 
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance New York articles)  High 
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance New York articles)  Mid 
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance New York articles)  Low 
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance New York articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance New York articles)  ??? 

Quality scale

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Please try to search for examples. Please note that a B-Class article must include at least one reference. Examples from WikiProject SUNY are provided where possible.

Importance scale

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